Zathura

So I didn't know when I picked this book out, that it was in a way a continuation of Jumanji. I remember seeing that movie for the first time in the theaters. I was so scared. I didn't like all the animals running a muck. I fortunately liked this book at my age now than I liked the Jumanji movie when I was younger.
In this book, instead of animals, the boys endure things like meteor showers, no gravity, and crazy robots. It is also a good story about brothers and their relationship. In the beginning they were fighting and on each other's nerves and in the end they became closer through playing this game.
Our in class discussions have made me think about different things I have been reading. In this book I noticed that even though the pictures are done in pencil and are in black and white, you can tell the boys are Caucasian. They live in a nice house and in a nice neighborhood. They are also dressed nicely. I have been thinking about this a lot lately in how our perception of what is normal is really shaped by all of these things and subtle messages. No where in the text does it say that the boys are white or that they have a nice house or anything like that but the illustrations depict that. It makes me wonder now if that really is true for the majority of children in this world. I really liked the book and the illustrations but it just made me wonder a bit. I think this is a great book for the science fiction genre as well.