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The Savage is about loss and griief anger and healing, and about stories: why we tell them, why they matter, and how they impact our lives
Blue Baker's father dies unexpectably of a heart attack.,so his school counselor tells him to write down his thoughts and feelings to help deal with the pain. 'I did try for a while, but it just seemed stupid, and it even made me feel worse,' so another idea presents itself to him. Without fully comprehending why, Blue starts writing about a savage kid who lives on his own in the nearby Burgess Woods. When Blue is bullied by a boy named Hopper he writes about the savage seeing and despising the kid. When Blue is with his little sister he writes passages where they interact with The Savage, if only from a distance. Yet as Blue writes more and more, he comes to feel that the Savage is more than just words on a page., and the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur
' The Savage ' could be classified as an illustrated novel or even in part a graphic novel. The pictures and the words are interacting continuously and are fully reliant on each other. This book is mysterious, magical and mesmerizing crossing from reality to fantasy . Almond skillfully melds both text and color to captivate the reader. He also exposes the emotions which are hdden in all of us such as wildness, savagery and fear, but he also has a way of suggesting deep and sentimental feelings in just a few words. The author seems to know how to approach a younger audience in dealing with feelings of grief and loss.
' He crowched down and licked the blud form his hands.....and gript his nife and watched.' When Blue wrties the story , his mispelling s add flavro and meaning to the text. A feature I feel will captivate the young reader
