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The title of my book is,The Bomb by Theodore Taylor. There are two main characters in my book. The first character is, Sorry Rinamu. He is caring because he is going to try to stop the American Soldiers from dropping the first “test bomb”. He is smart because when he hears that the Americans are going to drop a test bomb, he knows that when they leave and then come back the island and the water will be poisoned and filled with nuclear waste. The American Soldiers are evil because they aren’t being honest about the bomb. They are sorta caring because they told them to move from the island. The setting of my story takes place on Bikini Atoll Island. My book takes place in several different years such as 1933, 1942, 1944, and 1946. The

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