LIT 219 Chapter Notes - Chapter The Man Who Walked Between The Towers: Mordicai Gerstein, Caldecott Medal, Philippe Petit
10 Mar 2018
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Secondary character(s): philippe"s friends, his the police, the judge. Title: the man who walked between the towers. Summary: philippe petit tied a tightrope across the twin towers in new york city and became. Format/special features: the front cover of the text there is a caldecott medal award. You see what you can assume to be philippe"s foot on a tightrope. He is walking between two very large and tall buildings over top of a busy street. If you open up the cover and look at both the front and back covers together, you get a panoramic view of philippe walking across a tightrope to another building. There is a very similar, more zoomed out version of this picture within the text. More special features include the pull-out pages within the text. Cultural anxieties/cultural values: though the book was not published until 2003, philippe"s story takes place in 1974.
