It's Alive!

One of the reasons I chose this novel is because it relates to the historical events that I have learnt in socials. I have to say that the book did not disappoint me. The facts that I have learnt from boring textbooks seem to come alive with the vivid descriptions in the novel. It is as if the author has added blood and pulse to a once dead corpse of nothingness. The one thing that really stands out to me is when the author talks about the U-Boat, which should be familiar to those who took socials 11 and have learnt about World War 2. Unlike the textbook, who blatantly states that the U-Boat sank many enemy ships, the novel describes these U-Boats as “great iron fishes that patrol the North Atlantic” (184). Then the ship will be ripped apart by firing torpedoes and “men struggle in the freezing water before drowning” (184). To me, that sounds like a pretty striking description, much better than the socials textbook. It is clear that  I would prefer a novel to a textbook any day.