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"The Twenty-One Balloons is about a schoolteacher named Professor William Waterman Sherman. Professor Sherman lives in San Francisco. The year is 1883. Mr. Sherman is bored, and decides to quit teaching so he can live in a hot air balloon for a whole year.
He had a humongous hot air balloon made, and a giant bamboo basket for him to live in. Unfortunately, three weeks into his voyage, something happens and he is stranded on an “uninhabitable” island. This island is the island of Krakotoa, which is between the islands of Sumatra and Java, islands of Indonesia. Krakotoa is said to be uninhabited because of an active volcano, which had erupted some years before.
It turns out that Krakatoa is actualy inhabited, by 20 families consisting of 1 father, 1 mother, 1 son, and 1 daughter. They are all very wealthy, because there are diamond mines with diamonds the size of base balls in abundance. The inhabitants of Krakatoa run restaurants, too."
Illusen, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of story
- 19th century
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Age 11-14
Exploring into the wild
Yes
kind of story
- stranded on island
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- teacher
Age:
- 60's-90's
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Profession/status:
- slave
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 9 (quite a lot)
Air?
Yes
Air:
- ballooning
Island?
Yes
Island:
- Pacific Islands
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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