Plague(Gone #4)-Analysis Prompt

Analysis Prompts

1.       Analyze the way in which the author characterizes the narrator for the audience.  As the narrator tells the story, offer evidence which would support the narrator as being a reliable source of information.  If the narrator would be an unreliable source of information, offer evidence to support this from the text. Then, evaluate the audience’s relationship to the narrator.  Does the author successfully build a relationship with the reader, so that the reader is supporting the narrator throughout the text?  Why or why not?

The author does not have one narrator for the books, but many.  He uses all the characters as narrators to get the reader more involved in everything and to let the reader know what more than one person is thinking. I think that using multiple narrators makes the book more interesting and reliable of the information because it lets you know multiple characters perspectives.  I think that the reader can build a relationship with more characters since the books provide more opinions and stories in using the multiple narrator set-up. When the reader is learning about all the characters it gives them a choice of whom to support in the book, they may like some chacaters and not others.  It gives the reader more choice and I think it also gives the reader a better understanding of what is going on in the book.  He is a quote from when Edilio is the narrator, "He turned and ran, and fell down the steps. Heaving with sobs, blinded by rain and tears he ran for Clifftop." This lets you know how Edilio was feeling and the next quote is what Diana is feeling about Caine another narrator and chacater. "And Caine was definetly a  strong protector. It would take a suicidal guy to cross him."  This is what Diana is doing at the same time as Edilio runs. This gives you a broder understandign of the events taking place in different characters lives.

Plague(Gone #4)-Theme and Summary

Theme and Summary Prompt

1.       What does the work tell us about the relationship of people to nature?

The series Gone tells us that people need nature to survive.  In the Gone series there is no weather and things in nature are changing.  When one of the characters makes a cloud and it starts to rain the people of the town stare at first and then come with bowls to fill up with water.  A quote for this is "On the street below, other kids were comign out of their homes, carrying bowls and buckets. They advanced with wanderign eyes, edging toward the rain curtain as it edged toward them."  They characters also rely on nature for food. They plant crops and fruit in gardens and fish in the water.  This is how they get all their food since everything else ran out in the beginning of the FAYZ. These things show that people rely on nature.

Plague (Gone #4)- Blogging Prompts

  Characters Prompts

5. Similar to your narrative, choose a moment from your book that epitomizes the personality of

the main character.  Describe the scene, and explain what it says about your character.

"Orc wasn't drunk. Not drunk enough to ignore the sound of that stupid girl's voice.That took a pretty good drunk and right now he was only drunk enough that he didn't want to get up off the couch."

  In the scene Orc is drinking beer and laying on the couch, supposedly watching over the Drake/Brittney creature.  He does not want to hear the cries of Brittney so he wants to get drunk but he also doesn't want to get up off of the couch. This explains how Orc is because Orc is usually drunk and doesn't care much about what he is doing.  This says that Orc is lazy and doesn't care much about anything.

Theme of The Swimming Contest

In war, one must not lose their humanity and individuality.  This is because you could lose something important to you.

Gone series-characters

Sam is one of the main characters in the Gone series.  Sam does not want to take on responsibility or control when FAYZ first starts.  Sam ends up taking control of the FAYZ because he has the power to shoot light from his hands and is the guy everyone looks to for help. Sam develops rivalry between himself and Caine, Caine has powers where he move things without touching them and can throw people across a room when he is not near them. Caine runs the Coates school and is very scary in the powers that he has. Sam also forms rivalry with Drake. Drake has a hand that is a whip and loves to see people hurt and would kill anybody that gets in his way for fun. Sam protects himself and Perdido Beach from Caine and Drake. Sam develops in the series because he takes control over everything but when some of the responsibility is taken off his shoulders he starts to fall apart. Sam taking control helps the plot because he has to try and figure out how to feed people, how to keep them safe, and how to keep Perdido Beach from turning on each other. With each new hardship Sam turns more into a man, learns how to deal with bad things, and learns to take control when he needs too. But others seem to get in his way, such as Astrid, Sam's girlfriend. She does not want Sam to kill people, she wants to have rules and make sure that not just Sam has power. Sam realizes that he needed the responsibility to keep himself together.  Sam develops from a guy who hides in the background and tries not to get noticed to being the one with the responsibility and control.  

Hunger (Gone #2) -Reading Skills

In Hunger it says, "There was no one. And things wouldn't be okay.  It was all coming apart. He imagined himself facing a tribunal. Stone faces glaring at him. Accusations. You let them starve, Sam. You let normals turn against freaks."  I can relate this to Mocking Jay because Katniss feels that nothing will ever be okay again once she kills the president.  She doesn't know what to do but sit in her cell and wait for orders.  She also thinks she will be killed because she killed the president.  I wonder if Sam, the character from Hunger, will sit around or if he will carry on and try to make things better.

A poem by Bradley Westler helps describe how it may feel to have things coming apart called Things Will Get Better. Here is part of the poem.

So take the good inside, and take things day by day
Things will get better, as we move, along life's weary way
We all are special don't forget, we need this to believeThat one day things will shine for us, just close your eyes and dream 

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/things-will-get-better/

Hunger (Gone #2)-book recommendation

I recommend the series Gone because it keeps you interested with twists and turns. I love the Gone series so far because of plot twists, characterization, and cliff-hangers.  In Gone everyone over the age of 14 disappears in Perdido Beach, California where there once was a nuclear explosion.  The twon had a nickname-Fallout Alley. The FAYZ (Fallout Alley Youth Zone)is what kids start to call this new world. There is a wall that lets nothing in and nothing out. The kids must find a way to survive and they need someone to take control, but some kids have delvoped crazy powers that can kill. They also must try and find a way to stay in the FAYZ because when you turn 15 you disappear too, unless you find away to stay. In the second book, Hunger, they must find a way to feed everyone while a battle is forming between kids with powers and kids that are normal. This book also has twists in it. I would consider this book a mountion plot because of all the suspense.