Dead End in Norvelt is a fantastic book written by Jack Gantos. I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to a friend to read. Dead End in Norvelt is a book full of emotions told through the perspective of a young boy.
Dead End in Norvelt takes place in the summer of 1962, in Norvelt, Pennsylvania. Norvelt, Pennsylvania is a small town where everyone knows everyone. Word gets around quick in Norvelt. This book is told in the perspective of a young, twelve year-old boy. It is told in first person point of view. I know this because the book uses words such as I and me.
There are several important characters in this book, but I am going to tell you about the two most important ones; the protagonist and the antagonist. In this book Jack Gantos is the protagonist. This story is told in his perspective. Jack is a twelve year-old boy who gets nosebleeds… a lot. Jack’s dad was in war and he brought home some things he was fortunate enough to find. Jack finds these things interesting and loves to play with them,…show more content… Jack has cool, but weird neighbors. Jack’s summer vacation abruptly gets ruined when he accidentally fires his dad’s Japanese sniper rifle at the tv screen, and his mom grounds him for the entire summer. How do you accidentally fire a sniper rifle? Good question. Jack didn’t know the rifle was loaded. Now, the only time that Jack gets to leave the house is when Miss Volker, the town’s medical examiner and obituary writer, needs help writing the obituaries of Norvelt because of her arthritis. Later in the book Miss Volker does “surgery” on Jack’s nose to fix his spontaneous nosebleeding every time he gets scared or too excited. Later in the story Jack finds himself in a little bit of a conflict or mystery. Jack still doesn’t know who loaded the sniper rifle that he accidentally fired, and who is killing off all the elderly Norvelt
