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Today, you'll be doing another Captain Nobody question.
1. Please open your book to the Literature section, and write today's day and date. The title is Captain Nobody Sample Question and Answer (3).
2. Copy the question and answer given below, and highlight as shown.
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Question 3
‘Good values bring positive effects.’
How far is this true in the novel you have
read? Support your answer with evidence from the text.
Answer
The novel I have studied is Captain Nobody by Dean Pitchford. This story
is about Newton (Newt) Newman, who is a quiet, often-ignored 10-year-old boy
who lives with his busy parents and football star brother, Chris. He loves his
family very much and is a responsible and caring person. On Halloween, Newt’s
best friends JJ and Cecil show prove their friendship by helping him make a
costume, and he calls himself Captain Nobody. He becomes a superhero who does
many brave things until his town acknowledges him as a courageous superhero.
There are many good values
that bring positive effects
in this story.
One good value is friendship. Newt is worried
about his brother Chris, who fell into a coma as a result of his injuries
during the Big Tackle incident of the Big Game. His friends, JJ and Cecil, come
to visit him to cheer him up. They bring him a CD each as a present. They tell
him how Chris’ football teammates took revenge on Reggie Ratner, who is accused
of injuring Chris, by vandalising his house and car. JJ and Cecil come back
later in the evening to take Newt trick-or-treating with them, but Newt doesn’t
have his Halloween costume ready, and doesn’t feel like celebrating Halloween.
JJ and Cecil help him turn Chris’ old clothes into a superhero costume. Newt
ends up going out with his friends, and he calls himself Captain Nobody. JJ and Cecil are good friends
who care for Newt, and as
a result, Newt doesn’t feel so sad and worried anymore, and Captain Nobody is
created.
Another good value is responsibility. Captain
Nobody is given Ferocious the Ferret to take care of. On the way home from
school, Ricky Ratner and his friends corner Captain Nobody, JJ, and Cecil to
threaten Newt into telling everyone that his cousin Reggie was not responsible
for causing Chris Newman’s coma. JJ and Cecil try to defend Newt. They stand
protectively beside him when he is surrounded by Ricky’s friends. When Ricky’s
friends try to yank the cage away from Captain Nobody, the cage door opens and
Ferocious manages to escape its cage. It runs to a busy highway. Captain Nobody
runs after the ferret, waving his arms to make traffic stop. The vehicles stop
and a section of the highway becomes clear, just in time for an airplane to
make an emergency landing. Captain Nobody manages to rescue the ferret and
saves the passengers on the airplane. Captain Nobody is responsible to rescue Ferocious the
Ferret, and the
positive effect is he manages to save the passengers on the airplane.
The third good value is bravery. Newt happens to
see a television showing news that Reggie Ratner has climbed the Appleton Water
Tower and is about to commit suicide. It is said that Reggie is feeling
depressed because everyone blames him for causing Chris Newman’s coma. Even
though he doesn’t want to be Captain Nobody anymore, Newt knows that he has to
rescue Reggie Ratner because he knows Reggie wasn’t the one who caused Chris’
coma. JJ and Cecil sneak out of school together with Newt, who quickly put on the
Captain Nobody costume once more. At the water tower, his friends distract the
police officer so that Captain Nobody could get to the ladder leading to the
top of the water tower. Captain Nobody is afraid of heights, but he doesn’t
want Reggie to jump off the tower, so he climbs the rusty ladder until he gets
to the roof. There, he learns that Reggie wasn’t about to jump off. The older
boy actually climbed the water tower to spray graffiti there, but his foot is
now stuck in the rotten wood. Captain Nobody helps to free Reggie’s foot and
helps him climb down the water tower. Captain Nobody, JJ, and Cecil become
heroes in the eyes of the town for the daring and successful rescue. Captain Nobody has the positive
value of bravery, which brings the positive effect of rescuing Reggie Ratner and making
Captain Nobody and his friends heroes in the town.
In conclusion, the story has the good values of friendship,
responsibility, and bravery, which bring many positive effects.
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