I enjoyed Touch the Dragon, and throughout made little connection with Karen's realisations, observation, and experiences comparing them with my own life of travels. Karen also taught me new things of Thailand that I never knew before dealing with geography, culture and religion like about the head being the holy part of your body. I found that interesting.
I enjoyed the book Touch the Dragon due to Karen's description of the landscape and culture. When I started reading the book, I was very eager to find out about Karen's surroundings, because for me, it is that element of a book that allows me to connect with the main character and imagine myself in the story. Karen's descriptions like on page 70, when she is talking about men with machine guns get on the bus as she is heading to Phuket. This reminded me of the time when I lived in Tobago and because they where having problems in Trinidad with a thing called the Koo (political thing) everybody had to be in there houses by 6:00pm if not there wore police and military men out with guns and bats. Trinidad and Tobago are two countries together so if one country is having problems the other one has to follow even i
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Also the time when ants where crawling all over everything. There seemed to be an ever-present sense that the book had been perfected a little too much. Another experience that she encountered was when it was raining and a lot of frogs and toads came indoors. A thousand black-haired children are singing in the fields of Nareerat. In Tobago, there was a lizard that would just sit on a tree all day. Karen's trip to the market is one of my favourites. So it would still have a teenager connection like "Go Ask Alice" and should have not perfected it much. These experiences with "foreign" creatures reminded me of my own. If Karen didn't take five years and four countries to create and edit the book I think maybe then the reader would have, even more of a connection to Touch the Dragon. Well any ways the point is my family and I where out after 6:00pm because we had wanted to see something I can't remember what it was, but a military man had seen us walking down the street so he had stopped us. In addition, I think it would be a great book for exchange program co-ordinators and the exchange people them self. I was most defently shaking that’s for sher but my dad who is very good talker had said some stuff to the military man and all he said was, ok hurry and get inside your home.
Overall, I think it was a very good book, and suitable for all ages.
Approximate Word count =
1040
Approximate Pages =
4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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