A Memoir by Bill Bryson: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is about his childhood life in the eastern reign of America 1950’s era. He channels his experiences through his eyes in Des Moines, Iowa about his imagination with superpowers, friendships with new people throughout the years and family trials. In the book he talks about events that changed history and all types of new inventions that come out during his adulthood, more in the fourteenth chapter of the book, but he shines the problems of America as thou it’s just a small nuisance in Iowa.
During his childhood, Bryson soon discovered that his parents can’t be his biological family and that he’s not from earth but a distant planet called planet electro because of what he found in his house. It was a sweater with a golden thunderbolt and no one in the family knew about it and assumed he was sent to earth by king Volton. Now with this new discovery he spent all his time zapping morons and shooting his thunder vision at people, mostly women’s clothing, that he’s been perfecting for years with his very …show more content…
The author’s purpose for writing his book was to bring readers to a time when things were simple and people interacted with each other not by phones but to chat face to face. It show the 1950’s as a time when things in the world were very different from today and what’s the readers to have a different perspective in someone’s life that enjoyed it and was scary of things that may happen. The most interesting thing I learned from the book is everyone has a story to tell but not can recall into a story like bill Bryson. I find it interesting is books are about things, other people’s problems and many more but not many can write a book about the 50’s with great