Book Review of "Code Talker: A novel about the Navajo marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
1. Bibliography Bruchac, J. 2005. Code talker: A novel about the Navajo marines of World War Two . Dial Books. ISBN: 9780803729216 2. Plot Summary We begin with Ned Begay who is six years old and is taken from his family to the Rehoboth Mission boarding school in New Mexico. Here he is taught to abandon his traditions and values and take to the American life and is taught English. When he was a teenager the US military started looking for Navajo children to recruit for the fight in WWII. They are using their language as a code to talk between forces because of the difficulty translating the language. Ned and other code talkers start their journey in Hawaii for training and then get sent to the Solomon Islands for their first experience with combat. As the battles continue Ned talks about how important the code talkers prove themselves to be. When the war is over, even with all their ...