No Talking Book Report

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When I was in third grade, my favorite book was a short novel called No Talking by Andrew Clements. I would read It over and over, cover to cover. I must have read that little 200 page book over 30 times. No Talking is about a fifth grader who is inspired by the actions of Mahatma Gandhi to not talk all day at school, he soon gets into a fight with another girl in his class and he makes the claim that girls always talk more than boys, which of course leads to a wager. David bets Lydia that the boys can refrain from talking for two days and Lydia bets that the girls will say less illegal words than the boys. In the following days they face all sorts of trials and tribulations related to their efforts to not talk and in the end, as you might …show more content…
Now I'm not sure this book exactly falls under the category of "great literature" and I have read countless literary masterpieces since third grade, and I could have easily chosen to write about Austen's Pride and Prejudice or Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, but for some reason this trivial little book about action through non-action has stuck with me more than any other. And maybe it was just my innocence at the time when I read it or the sheer amount of time I spent with my eyes glued to the frayed pages of Clements' novel but I think there is something to be said for the simplicity of the message. Years later, my personal philosophies about peaceful coexistence and nonviolence, I believe, all stem from this one little book that taught me that you don't have to have the loudest voice to have the most important message. As a little kid who loved to read and still lived in the pretend worlds I created for my dolls and imaginary friends, this book made me realize that my life didn’t have to be defined by the things that I said and that instead I could lead by example. Implementing what I believed into what I did on a daily basis gave me an entirely different perspective on others and just like the cheesy ending to No Talking, allowed me to develop a greater sense of compassion and
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