The Canadian author earned a devoted cult following in the 1980s for his ability to capture the quirkiness of young adulthood in comic novels where offbeat protagonists-from the rebellious private-school students of the Macdonald Hall series and the hyperactive teen drummer Bugs Potter to the luckless Raymond Jardine of A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag and the “Attack Jelly”-selling entrepreneur of No Coins, Please-caused chaos all around them, resulting in exploding limousines, flooded summer camps, FBI raids and an army of Manchurian Bush Hamsters emerging from beneath a school’s football bleachers during the big game. Much like Rudy, I stick to my morals, and I can always find clever ways to avoid things.Īll in all, I recommend this book to any teenager up for a good laugh.Gordon Korman penned his first children’s book, This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall!, as a writing assignment in middle school-and has been publishing continuously ever since. In a sense I like to be rebellious and do things on my own. I am very stubborn when it comes to things like camp, and doing things with my parents. I think I can relate to this book because I am much like Rudy.
I didn't think Rudy would end up playing baseball and being good at it. The counselor says, "Rudy, I though you couldn't play baseball." He replies simply, "I never said I couldn't, I said I don't." When I first read this, I was caught by mistake as well. He simply answers "I don't do baseball." Despite his answer, later on in the summer, Rudy finally agrees to play, and immediately uncovers his obvious natural talent at the sport.
In the novel, a counselor asks Rudy if he plays baseball. Second, Gordon Korman showed me, especially in I Want To Go Home, that words can be easily mistaken and the way you say something can be skewed by one or two words. As a teenager myself, it's as if I can feel everything that he is describing, almost as if I"m in the book. Korman's style of writing really ensnares the personality it is attempting to write about. The descriptions are detailed, and put in a way that a teenager can relate to them. This had a unique impact on me in a few ways.įirst, Gordon Korman's novel made me feel like I had been to the camp before. Rudy is a wonder at all sports, a genius, and can even dance up a storm. Unfortunately, their attempts are useless. Throughout the novel, different counselors and campers try different methods to get Rudy into the spirit and not sulking the whole day. This book is about a teenager named Rudy who is forced to go to camp, and simply put, wants to go home. The book I chose that had a significant impact on me was a novel from the mind of Gordon Korman, entitled I Want To Go Home.
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