In Harm’s Way by Doug Stanaton pgs. 188 to end

This book, In Harm’s Way had good and bad parts to it. Obviously, the worst part of this book is when the ship sinks. It makes you feel so much emotion of despair and misery. You feel so hopeless for them and wish you could help the poor sailors. I also did not like the part when you just read endless pages of them sitting in the water. All the author talks about is one by one them both giving up and committing suicide or getting eaten by a shark and it is horrible to read. The good part of the book was when rescue came. You could almost feel how happy those people where to be saved. It’s amazing to read all the emotions they felt and what they were going through. Some even committed suicide again because they were so delirious they were convinced the US Navy was the Japanese in disguise. It was sad and happy all at the same time. The only other bad thing about this book was the ending. It was dull and not very well written. All the author wrote about was how the survivors were trying to clear the Captain’s name. I wish he would have put in a quote or something that sums up what they felt, something creative but other than that this book was very good and educating. To learn more about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis click here http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/indianapolis.htm.

2 comments October 25, 2009