The Watch That Ends the Night by Allan Wolf

Very enthusiastically recommended.Įxhaustively researched, The Watch That Ends the Night vividly limns the naivete, the disbelief, and finally the hopelessness of the ship’s crew and passengers. Buy Book: The Watch That Ends The Night (Allan Wolf) in Singapore,Singapore. The strength of the effect is astonishing given that the ship sank nearly one hundred years ago and has been the stuff of legend ever since. The resulting record of the brief voyage gives readers an emotional punch. with its cargo of human hearts,' the characters take turns relating their stories even as disaster engulfs them. From their embarkation on the 'great floating city. Library Media Connection (highly recommended) This is a well-detailed and historically accurate portrayal of the events and brings the feelings and emotions of the characters alive. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Wolf allows readers to experience the tragedy from all decks. The themes of natural disaster, technology, social class, survival, and death all play out here. Wolf's novel in verse gives voice, through first-person accounts, to a cross section of passengers and crew on the Titanic: how they boarded, why they're there, and how they face the disaster. Historical fiction, as its name implies, is a hybrid of literary and informational text. A lyrical, monumental work of fact and imagination that reads like an oral history revved up by the drama of the event. The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic provides a sampling of mentor texts for poetry, while also offering the content and specialized vocabulary that is the hallmark of informational text. Wolf brings the history and, more importantly, the human scale of the event to life by giving voice to the players themselves.

Twenty-four voices-of passengers, rats and even the iceberg-evoke the human tragedy of the ill-fated voyage.

Wolf's carefully crafted characters evolve as the voyage slides to its icy conclusion readers may be surprised by the potency of the final impact. Wolf constructs a richly textured novel in verse that recreates the Titanic's ill-fated journey, predominantly through the voices of her passengers. Wolf leaves no emotion unplumbed, no area of research uninvestigated, and his voices are so authentic they hurt.

The Watch That Ends the Night by Allan Wolf