Book Review 2

Book Read: Leon and the Champion Chip
(No book summary this time, just follow the link)

Anyway, this book taught me a really valuable lesson: If you want to achieve something, you have to work for it. Alternatively, I could say that I learnt that if you work for something, you will get it. But that is not really a lesson, no?
In this book, there was one rather obvious instance of the main character- Leon- working hard for something. When Leon wanted to get back at a bully for the years of suffering, he worked for it, doing odd jobs to earn money so as to get the object that he require to retaliate. That told me that only through hard work can something be achieved.

I have chosen a rather odd word to describe the main character: potato.
Questions must be popping up in your mind, questions like: "What kind of adjective is that?" Well, for one, there is no requirement stating that the word must be an adjective. A noun seems more appropriate, seeing that one single character cannot be described with a adjective.
A potato, despite its normal appearance, is something extremely special, seeing that it can be a kind of food, energy source for non-living things (see Homemade Cells) and many more. Similarly, Leon seems to be a normal boy, but he has an extraordinary life.
Also, Leon is rather "addicted" to potato chips, which is -as you know- made of potatoes.
In the story, Leon and his classmates also spent an entire year learning about potato chips (potato again), this says that there is much not known to a majority of people about potato chips and potatoes. Leon, too, has a secret that only few know of.
Potato chips are also thought of as unhealthy and bad. However, it has been proven otherwise with the experimental results at the end of the book. Leon was also thought of as a poor student (in Leon and the Spitting Image) but in the end, the teacher(s) found out that he was not actually a poor student.
Finally, potatoes are just awesome, and so is Leon. This may seem rather weird a reason, but its the truth.

Now, I shall rewrite the part of the story about the Chip-off from Leon's point of view.
This chip is blistered and hand sliced. I can eliminate most of the chips from the choices, now I just have to find a match in my notebook. I checked through my notebook. Bad luck, there was no match. I panicked, but quickly got myself together. I took a bite from the chip, it was unlike what I have tasted before. I decided it was a chip I had missed: A Rhode Island Monk Chip or a Tierra del Fuego. Putting my trust in my luck, I flipped a coin. The coin landed out of reach. I flipped another, the coin revealed my choice- a Tierra del Fuego. I shouted out my answer, realising three seconds later that it was the wrong one.
Alphonse Cipollini had to guess the chip that I couldn't. His answer was a Rhode Island Monk Chip. I prayed hard that his answer was wrong. Bad Luck again. "The Chippopotamus" has claimed his sixth gold at the annual Chip-Off. I felt down, upset. All that effort gone to waste. I couldn't get the gold, I couldn't get the one thousand buck in prize money. There was no way I could survive Lumpkin's assaults any longer.
-End of Rewrite-