Reader Response
The book I am responding to is a biography on Albert Einstein by Frieda Wishinsky. I have read 122 out of 122 pages. The text is non-fiction. Albert’s point of view is shown in the text. The pictures were about Albert and his family. Some of them were about other people like Isaac Newton and Adolf Hitler as they are mentioned in some parts of thee text. The chapter titles and heading helped because they like summarized the main idea in just a few words.
Retell
The title of this text says to me that it talks about or explains what happened to Albert Einstein. The text is really like a summary about Albert’s life. It talks about his childhood all the way to the day he died. My favourite part of this text is when Albert finally won the noble prize award because he had many opportunities to win it. He won the noble prize award for physics. What I want to remember from this text is if it wasn’t for Albert we wouldn’t have known that much about light and how it travels. We also wouldn’t understand the expansion of the universe or how matter behaves in the universe.
Relate
This text makes me think about how the world would be like if it wasn’t for Albert Einstein’s work and intelligence. We would probably know a lot less about how the universe and how light is. Albert’s work also helped us build more high-tech items. I am different from Albert because he is more devoted to his studies and tries to solve different kind of problems that no one else solved. I just try to finish what I’m suppost to do like homework or something like that. He even finished all the questions in his textbooks before his class even tried to.
Reflect
I think the illustrations really helped me understand a few things about his work and it also helped me see how they looked. I think this text was an effective piece of writing because it wasn’t just stuffed with lies or just randomness put together. It was effective because it actually talked about the main points of Albert’s life from his childhood all the way to his death. After reading the first chapter I felt a bit bored about his biography but as I kept reading I started to understand him more and how his life went on. I admire him because he was a big help to peoples intelligence and figured out stuff that no one else in his time could. I think a more effective ending to the text would have been to explain the aftermath of his death instead of ending it by explaining the stuff he did in his life. The author probably should have talked more about what people did with all his experiments and all of his work.
By: Brandon Peters
