The Highest Tide is a novel written by Jim Lynch. This book
is his first novel that he has written. Highest Tide , became a bestseller in
the United Kingdom after the coming-of-age story was featured on a television
show in England. Other books that Lynch has written includes: Border Songs,
From May to September and Truth Like the Sun. The main theme of “The Highest
Tide is that change happens in the world and we can't doing anything but accept
and cope with it. As the story goes more deep into the plot, Miles faces many
new changes mentally and physically. Many new things fallout of place and
spirals out of control, but in the end everything falls into the right places.
Finding creatures of myth, crushing on the girl next door and facing his
parent’s falling relationship, Miles must accept it all to move forward.
The story is about a boy named Miles O’Malley. He lives with
both his parents and is the biggest fan of Rachel Carson. He's specializes in
sea life and even though he knows a lot, he doesn't know everything there is to
the deep sea. One moonlit night, Miles goes out to hunt little sea creatures,
such as shells, crabs and starfish but what happens next, turns his world
upside down as he finds a certain mythical creature only founded in the sea.
His parents are obviously unhappy with each other and are unaware of both his
secret life on the Sound and his knowledge. He has a huge crush on Angie
Stegner, the older girl next door who has always babysat him. Angie, though, is
living life on the edge, is the lead singer and songwriter of her own band, and
is supposed to go off to college in the fall. Florence lives two doors down.
She's an old woman and a local psychic who gets almost all her predictions
wrong. She's suffering from Parkinson's disease and is in increasingly failing
health. She may have to move to an assisted living facility. Miles spends more
and more time stopping by her house, tending to her needs and checking out the
books piled everywhere in her home. She tells Miles of an unusually high tide
coming in September, even though Miles knows the tide charts predict no such
thing. One day there is an earthquake close to where Florence lives. Even
though she predicted it years ago, why did it happen now? People get injured
but not a single person gets seriously hurt. When Miles is questions by the
media, he tells them “maybe the earth is trying to tell us something?” If the
earth is really trying to tell us something, then why send a creature that
doesn't belong in the Sound and why the high tides and fearful earthquakes?
Seeing new things and experiencing life, Miles starts to see the world and what
is in it.
I think that this book was a really good book. With the sea
life concept, it feels like going back to the ocean with my family and plunging
into the deep blue sea. The great use of metaphors and words, allows imagery to
take take over the reader’s mind. Showing the wonders of life, along with
the secret life of the sea is a refreshing novel for many readers. The Highest
Tide offered a specific setting about a boy who goes out again and again to
sea. He sees things and notice brings people don't usually take interest I.
A wonderful and complete story, which is what every reader is looking
for. If you enjoy the sea or learning about the secret life of world,
then I would recommend this book above all.
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