Theme

Alex changes in this book by experiencing his friends death.That death really changed the whole trip because Alex thought it was going to be all fun and games because he was going to china but he didn't know the crisis that was going on in china.They took that trip for granted and they would have never expected that to happen.The theme for this book is never take anything for granted.

Respond to Reading

The quote in my independent reading book is "never underestimate anything".....because Alex Jackson and his father think that the trip to china is going to be all fun and games but really they experience a lot of horror and death because Alex experiences his friend killed.This can relate to lifestyle because there's a lot of people out there that underestimate a lot of things and when it comes down to it, it gets harder and they don't expect what happens to them.