Jaws

Kris Chenchop

By Peter Benchley

I read Jaws. I started reading it on the 27th of August and I finished reading it on the 30th of August. This story is set in Amity near New York, about thirty years ago.

The main character is Jaws, a shark. I think it is a dangerous animal. It is distinguished by canine teeth.

The story tells about the shark. A woman goes swimming in the sea, in the evening. The shark carried the woman away in its mouth. It came up out of the water and then went under again. The woman felt something hit her right leg. She put her hand into the water and tried to find her foot. Then she cried out. On the second day, Hendricks Brody and Cassidy saw the woman's body on the Beach. The next few days were hot, and summer visitors from New York began arriving in Amity. More people were going to the beach. The shark attacked people again. People were running away from the sea because the shark was very dangerous. Now two people had died.

Quint and Hooper put a cage overboard. Then the shark did not turn. It hit the cage and made a hole in it, and Hooper fell back! When the shark was a metre from the boat, Quint stood and watched the shark and used a gun to shoot it and the shark died! The shark slowly fell back below the surface of the water, down and down, out of the light.

I rate this book as exciting. This book has some pictures. They let me understand more things, so it was interesting. This is a good book! I hope other students will read it!