What does the book do well? What doesn’t it do well? What message about the past is the writer trying to tell us? What does the book tell us about how people saw the world when it was written?

Aloha Betrayed Book Review

Book Review Assignment Sheet
This is a REVIEW not a report. Do not simply provide a summary, but provide your own analysis of the book. Focus on one or two things about the reading that piqued your interest, raised questions, etc., and use those as a jumping off point for ANALYZING the text. You should provide, at most, one short paragraph of summary; the rest should be analysis of the book itself and how it can be used both to tell history or as a part of history itself. You can also provide support for your argument with more in depth discussions of certain sections of the text.
You are allowed a bit more leeway than a formal paper because this is more of a personal response or reflection type of writing, but these responses must still demonstrate that you have done the reading and that you have THOUGHT about what you read and understand the readings. These are some example questions that can help you identify what to include in your review:
What does the book do well? What doesn’t it do well?
What message about the past is the writer trying to tell us?
What does the book tell us about how people saw the world when it was written?
Did you see any problems or weaknesses in the text.?
What questions were raised as you read the text?
As part of this you should do some quick research on the book’s author(s), and how their identity might affect the book’s portrayals as well.
YOU SHOULD HAVE A THESIS STATEMENT. You should be making some sort of argument in this thing, either about what the book did well, what it missed, what its most important themes are, etc. Your analysis of the book should support the thesis.
At the end of the day, it is a review. So the most important things are who would benefit from or enjoy reading this book and why, and who would not.