Reviewed by Joel
This book starts out in Buxton, Canada, a town of freed slaves. Elijah is eleven,, but his mother says he is “fra-gile”. During this book, the reader enjoys words like “horrorific”, “terrorific”, and “fra-gile”, and sees them a lot. Buxton is a town for freed and escaped slaves, and the settlement is very wild throughout the story. The main event of this wonderful tale is when someone steals a man’s gold that he saved to buy the rest of his family out of freedom. Elijah is sent on a quest to America to find the thief, and retrieve it.
In this story, I really liked the way of the ex-slaves talked, because it felt realistic. I also enjoyed the understanding of the slave family in the end, because I feel that Christopher Paul Curtis does a good job with making the reader feel emotions here. The mother slave knows that escape isn’t possible, so she keeps Elijah from making a terrible decision.
I liked almost all of the book, but the parts I didn’t like were first of all, I read the book jacket, so I knew that the gold would be stolen and Elijah would go to America, (which I keep hitting myself in the head for!!) and I also predicted that the preacher would be the one to steal the gold. I think the author may have tried to make the readers predict this.
These are a bunch of random thoughts, and for that I am sorry, but I thoroughly and immensely enjoyed Elijah Of Buxton and I am sure you will also.
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