Overall Analysis
I
thought that this book was going to be packed full of adventure and that it was
going to be a constant run from the cops. I enjoyed reading the book very much,
but it was a little repetitive. All the author seemed to talk about was women
and faking checks. The book was very informative on the author’s life. The
title of the book gives an exact idea to what the books is about, a man faking
checks, flying around the world, and running away from the FBI. This book was a
little difficult to read because the author does use some outdated terms as
well as airplane and check vocabulary. He tends to go into depth with some of
the ideas presented in the book that may not be known to many people. My first
impression changed a little bit because I was expecting the book to be really
action packed and not as repetitive.
This book would be considered a nonfiction prose because it tells the true story of Frank Abagnale Jr. and how he conned the world out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The character is the book, Frank Abagnale Jr. The general idea that I received from the book was that the author was affected by his parents’ divorce and his dad losing all his money. I believe that his dad losing his money set a predecessor for the author to go through with his scams to make money and not to be like his father. The setting of this book varies in so many different places since his flies to other cities and countries. The main settings would have to be Los Angeles, New York, and France. Those were the main cities in which the author’s scams took place or he was arrested. The time frame during which the book took place would be in the 1950s. Another literary technique used in this book was point of view. The point of view would be first-person because Frank is telling his story of when he was a sixteen year old and how he almost became a millionaire before the age of twenty-one. The style and language of the book is current for the 1950s. The author calls women and himself foxes. Women in the sense of beauty and himself because he was being hunted. He refers to the FBI as hounds because of them hunting him.
The book has been enhanced by seeing the movie. The movie was a great film filled with action. I judged the book mainly on what I read. There wasn’t anything else for me to judge the book off of. I have seen the movie, but that was a while ago. I agree with some of the aspects in this book. The author at one point tried to tell the love of his life that he was a fraud. I believe he did the right thing, but I disagree with his criminal activity. I think he would have been better off going to college and making something of himself right after high school. My enjoyment decreased a little just because of the repetitiveness. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the story, but not to people who are slow readers or who hate to read.
The work did seem very vivid and alive because the author gave so much feeling and detail into his biography. Knowledge of what the author went through does enhance the way I feel about this book and how I felt reading it. The book represents the period in which it was set because of the lack of security. In the world we live in now, no one could pass through the airport or fake checks as easily as the author did. He made it look like a piece of cake and that was due to the lack of security in the 1950s in America.
This book would be considered a nonfiction prose because it tells the true story of Frank Abagnale Jr. and how he conned the world out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The character is the book, Frank Abagnale Jr. The general idea that I received from the book was that the author was affected by his parents’ divorce and his dad losing all his money. I believe that his dad losing his money set a predecessor for the author to go through with his scams to make money and not to be like his father. The setting of this book varies in so many different places since his flies to other cities and countries. The main settings would have to be Los Angeles, New York, and France. Those were the main cities in which the author’s scams took place or he was arrested. The time frame during which the book took place would be in the 1950s. Another literary technique used in this book was point of view. The point of view would be first-person because Frank is telling his story of when he was a sixteen year old and how he almost became a millionaire before the age of twenty-one. The style and language of the book is current for the 1950s. The author calls women and himself foxes. Women in the sense of beauty and himself because he was being hunted. He refers to the FBI as hounds because of them hunting him.
The book has been enhanced by seeing the movie. The movie was a great film filled with action. I judged the book mainly on what I read. There wasn’t anything else for me to judge the book off of. I have seen the movie, but that was a while ago. I agree with some of the aspects in this book. The author at one point tried to tell the love of his life that he was a fraud. I believe he did the right thing, but I disagree with his criminal activity. I think he would have been better off going to college and making something of himself right after high school. My enjoyment decreased a little just because of the repetitiveness. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the story, but not to people who are slow readers or who hate to read.
The work did seem very vivid and alive because the author gave so much feeling and detail into his biography. Knowledge of what the author went through does enhance the way I feel about this book and how I felt reading it. The book represents the period in which it was set because of the lack of security. In the world we live in now, no one could pass through the airport or fake checks as easily as the author did. He made it look like a piece of cake and that was due to the lack of security in the 1950s in America.