It's thought provoking tale about homelessness, preconceptions and society's priorities. I recommend this book for readers nine and older. A reader's world should involve more than sports stats, wizard schools and wimpy kids. Draw a map showing Claire’s route home and the people that she met along the way. How far might she have travelled? Try some role-play activities involving Claire. Can you interview her to find out how she felt at different points in the story? Could you find out why she gave so many different reasons for hurting her knee? Interspersed in his own narrative of the practicalities of his life and his reflections upon it is a narrative of Great Blasket Island, once a self-sufficient island but now deserted with the advent of modern technology. The island stands as a mute symbol of a former way of life. Way home follows a young boy called Shane and a stray cat that Shane has decided to home. During their journey home, Shane and the cat experience many dangerous encounters such as a gang of lads and a dog. Throughout this book, Shane is always telling the cat that they are close to home so the reader is left guessing as to where Shane lives. This provides children with the opportunity to imagine where Shane lives and what it looks like. When we find out where Shane lives, it is on the streets covered with newspapers and Shane's drawings of cats. Although Shane has very little, he wants to give everything he can to make sure that the cat has everything that he needs.

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First of all, Mark Boyle's world view is the antithesis of my own. The Way Home was a free book on Audible read by an Irish voice I could understand. I was interested in the author's views on industrialization and technology and their influence on nations, communities, families, and individuals today. This book was easy to listen to and was almost poetical. It reminds me of On Walden Pond by Thoreau. I admire Boyle's willingness to put into practice the principles he taught for many years. There are many of his generation and younger who also have chosen to become more self-reliant and less dependent on technology. Boyle has taken it to the extreme. Despite all that Boyle has forsaken during this record of his first year of living off the grid, I don't believe he's found true reconciliation or lasting peace. He does not recognize the Great Creator and sees only the creation. Duration This unit will represent around three to four weeks' work in literacy/English classes. Reading the text could be undertaken in modelled and shared reading sessions by the teacher and independently by the students.

Većina nas knjigoljubaca želi da ima neku kućicu u prirodi, gdje ćemo moći, stalno ili povremeno da uživamo u miru i tišini. Mark Boyle je čovjek koji živi takvim životom u brvnari koju je izgradio na malom domaćinstvu u Istočnom Galway-u u Irskoj. Samo je on otišao u malo ekstremnijem pravcu za većinu ljudi. Naime, Mark Boyle se odrekao tehnologije. Ne koristi ni telefon, ni veš mašinu, ni računar, pa čak ni upaljač. Zapravo on i nema struje. Čovjek se vratio par vijekova u nazad i živi život zajedno sa prirodom. Prije odluke o ovakvom životu je živio 3 godine bez novca o čemu je napisao knjigu "The Moneyless Man". Ovo nije knjiga o pukom preživljavanju. Boyle piše o mnogim temama, ljudskim odnostima, prirodi, ekonomiji i raznim životnim situacijama. This is a book about trying to live, as far as is possible and practicable, without modern technology - including no internet. Yet every time I've tried to write about it, the review is partly about … things people say on the internet. But the internet is the main venue for environmental and political commentary now, so maybe that's not as ridiculous as it seems. From the title, you may have guessed that the author wrote this entire book in longhand using pencil and paper! Mark Boyle left the business world, built a cabin in rural Ireland, and disconnected from technology. I half expected to be preached at, but instead this is an honest account of his ongoing struggle with how far he can realize his goal. For example, he had an internal debate about putting a patch on his rubber tire on his bicycle, knowing that rubber comes from a great distance, and wondered whether he would be more true to himself if he abandoned his bicycle and walked instead. (He did patch the tire).

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One has the sense in reading this work that the author does find many of these things, most essentially how his life is intimately connected with the world around him, whether it is the stand of spruce nearby, or the pike he holds in his hand after catching it, that gives up its life to sustain his. He eyes his growing woodpile and food put up for the winter and realizes that these things represent his ability to live into another growing season. He explores the complexities of simplicity, and the complexities we avoid in our technologically simplified lives.On the journey home, the duo walks past a pampered feline in a window. As Shane gazes in, he says, "[T]hat cat's a loser. Eats fancy mince, no kidding. Heaps of it....Disgusting. And get that collar. What a joke!" They see an auto showroom, lights shining brightly on red Jags. Wrong color, Shane claims as he fights off a sense of awe. Being close in age to Boyle, I get the impression he was, in writing this book, working towards principles that were held as admirable not very long ago and which our generation (late Gen X to Xennials) absorbed in our teens and twenties. But there have been shifts in the last two or three years, which Boyle will inevitably be unaware of, because part of his project is eschewing social media - and some of those have been accelerated since March, just after the book was published.