Book Response

Some people think that they can do everything all by themselves. But they are wrong. Many times in your life you will find that you need other people's help to achieve what you want to achieve. Then when you look back at the event you may find that without other people's help, without teamwork, you would have failed. Teamwork wins in most scenerios. Teamwork wins wars, it wins fights, it wins practically everything.

In the book, The Mysterious Benedict Society and The Perilous Journey, there are four main characters, Reynie, Sticky, Constance, and Kate. These children are on a quest to save their namesake, Mr. Benedict from his evil twin brother, Mr. Curtain. I think that these children represent teamwork, because throughout the entire book they always use their combined efforts, and skills to win their fights.

Teamwork usually wins because no, one person can see a problem from all points of view, and seeing a problem that way is often the key to solving it. For example, when they were in the library reading Mr. Benedict's dead parents' letters, to discover where Mr Benedict was, the children used teamwork. Sticky speed-read the papers, and Constance, Kate, and Reynie used their highly developed brains to interpret the information.

In the book, the point of the children working together was not only to save Mr. Benedict, although they didn't know it at the time, but while they were working together, they were also bonding together. They were creating an unbreakable relationship.All of the children had been friendless until they met each other, but by the end of the book, they all knew that they were now life time friends.

Workng together is a very powerful tool, and it has many uses. In their case it bonded the Mysterious Bendict Society together. But it also helped them acheive a nearly impossible quest. People who think they can be a one man team, and do it all themselves are stupid, and won't go very far. But those who work together, can, and will achieve great things.