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The Survivor<\/span>, a book written by Robb White, is a fictional story about World War II.\u00a0 The main character of the book is Adam Land, a litenaut in the navy who is also a pilot, but embarks on a dangerous mission with the marines.<\/p>\n At the beginning of the book, Adam is a carefree navy pilot, who constantly disobeys orders, in order to have more fun.\u00a0 All this changes though, when \u201cthe man in charge\u201d orders him confined to his quarters.\u00a0 Only a few days later though, he is sent to get a lot of gear and weaponry from a nearby station and that very night, he is shipped out to a marine base on Pearl Harbor, whose inhabitants are going an on mission to a Japanese-held Island.\u00a0 Adam still clings onto the hope that there had been some mistake, since he had never been in a fight and didn\u2019t even know how to shoot a gun.\u00a0 However, after Adam befriends a marine named Jason, they are all put on a submarine to make the long voyage to their destination, all 92 marines, and Adam.\u00a0 On the long terrible voyage, Adam becomes friends with two more marines, who ware known as Guns and the Rebel. \u00a0At the end of the journey, as the boat starts to surface to let the troops off at the island, they are sunk in 600 feet of water when they hit a mine.\u00a0 The boat starts to fill with water, and all seems lost until Adam comes up with an idea.<\/p>\n Adam remembered learning from his schooling that no matter how deep you are, if you continuously let air out of your mouth, slowly exhaling, and let your head back, you will not drown and will surface.\u00a0 Despite this hope that they could survive, only 4 marines, including Guns, the Rebel, and Jason, decided to risk it.\u00a0 About half-way up, the other marine panicked and his lung burst, since he held his breath.\u00a0 The other four men made it though, and all they had to do was get to shore, but there were monstrous waves blocking their way.\u00a0 Once again Adam came up with a plan to stay on top of the wave and curl yourself into a ball on the way down.\u00a0 Using this tactic, they all got ashore, alive.<\/p>\n Right away Japanese discovered them, but the marines managed to kill the three sentries which had spied them.\u00a0 Since they had to kill the sentries, other Japanese were now aware of their presence, so, sick, exhausted, wounded and hunted, the marines were near death.\u00a0 After awhile, the Japanese gave up the search, so the marines could at least catch a nap and be a little safer.\u00a0 One day, their chance of escape came.\u00a0 An admiral in the Japanese army had come, so a parade was being held in his honor, but the admiral had come in a plane!\u00a0 They then put their plan into action.\u00a0 All four men dressed in old Japanese ceremonial masks they had found, and walked in to the middle of the parade.\u00a0 The parade stopped when Adam motioned it to, and all four men climbed on the tank.\u00a0 Once inside the marines killed the soldiers inside, and Jason took control of the tank.\u00a0 Jason drove the tank right to the plane, and while moving Adam jumped into the plane.\u00a0 However, what they didn\u2019t know was that a pilot was in the plane.\u00a0 And when he saw Adam, he shot him, straight in the shoulder.\u00a0 Once the tank was parked the three marines quickly got into the plane, and they killed the pilot who was ready to kill Adam.\u00a0 Mortally wounded, Adam told Jason how to fly the plane, so they could get back to Pearl Harbor.\u00a0 Sadly, Guns stayed behind to work the tank to distract the Japanese so his comrades could escape.\u00a0 As soon as Adam and his friends made it to Pearl Harbor, he died, saddening the rebel, but most of all Jason, but Adam died saving his friends, and he died a marine.<\/p>\n Robb White did an excellent job with this book.\u00a0 Written in 1964, this book gives an excellent picture of what World War II was like.\u00a0 Not pleasant, like we all know.\u00a0 White teaches us a valuable lesson; sometimes bravery is needed for survival and to do what\u2019s right.\u00a0 Bravery sometimes doesn\u2019t mean risking your life for someone else\u2019s but sometimes bravery can be standing up to someone who is doing something wrong, even if it makes you lose friends or makes people dislike you.\u00a0 White also teaches us that the biggest acts of bravery usually come from people who are afraid and scared but brave by doing the right thing anyways.\u00a0 White also teaches an actual lesson about surviving underwater.\u00a0 I never k knew that if you constantly let out small breaths, you would survive under great depths of water.\u00a0 It has been awhile since I learned something like that from a book.\u00a0 The Survivor was a great book, and one I will remember for the lessons it taught and for being an action-packed, fun-to-read book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Survivor, a book written by Robb White, is a fictional story about World War II.\u00a0 The main character of the book is Adam Land, a litenaut in the navy who is also a pilot, but embarks on a dangerous mission with the marines. 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