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1/26/16 How does your writer begin the tour of the storyworld?The writer tells you about all the characters and their history except for the main character's name. The author starts the story off with the character in court fighting for their business not to be taken over by someone else. Then they go from the mansion to a new slightly smaller house, because of news crew and poparotise. They had to move, because the properties wanted stories on what it was like living in the compound underground.
1/27/16 What point of view is your novel written in?First Person
Why do you think this writer chose this pattern point of view?
I think the author knew it would be easier for her to write and us to understand this type of story in first person. After there is dialogue, The main character Eli always gives an explanation of the dialogue. He always talks about it and reflects on what they just talked about.
1/28/16 What mood does a writer establish in any given scene?One mood was and agitated or an angry mood.
How does he or she establish that mood?
The writer makes the main character have these emotions and it sort of transfers over to the reader.
Why does a writer choose a particular mood for a scene.
The writer needed to get anger out in a scene where he thought it was necessary. The characters anger was bottled up for six years. The writer had to express that at one point.
1/28/16 What mood does the author establish in any given scene?
The author established the mood suspense in one scene.
How does he or she establish that mood?
S.A. Bodeen establishes the mood through an action when he writes that Eli stole a USB drive from Rex Yanakis and we wonder what is on the drive that Rex has been trying to hide.
Why does a writer choose a particular mood for a scene?
A writer chooses a particular mood for a scene because they want the reader to feel something and wonder how that mood will affect the book later on.
1/29/16What is the tone of the speaker in a particular passage?
The subject in this passage is Eli talking to Verity and being dishonest. The tone is dishonesty.
How does the writer establish this tone?
The writer establishes this tone by writing that Eli was very dishonest and all of what he said was not true.
Why is it important to understand this tone?
It is important to understand the tone because if we don’t we won’t know what the reader is feeling in a specific passage.
1/29/16 What is the tone of the speaker in a particular passage?On page 70 Eli has a very caring tone. He has a calm voice and is buying everybody chocolates, because he wants to . The tone would be calm, relaxed, carrying.
How does the writer establish this tone?
The writer has a very different thinking in this part of the book. The writer set a calm mood, at Costco. Then the writer started to make it sad by Eli remembering what life used to be like for him. Eli realizes it will never be the same. Then Eli buys chocolate for everyone, because he does not want to lose them. He thinks by doing this his family will know that he cares for them. Just because of a box of chocolates.
Why is it important to understand to understand the tone?
You don't have any emotion towards the book, if you don't understand the author's tone.
2/1/16What parts of your story determine its genre?
My story is Sci Fi. There are plague outbreaks. There is chaos everywhere. There is time travel and advanced technology.
What makes your book fit its genre?
My book has outbreaks of deadly disease and time travel. Chaos everywhere. It adds a Sci Fi feel.
What is real and what is fiction in your book?
In my book the government helps the people. The military and police help. The setting takes place on earth, just in the future. Again there are outbreaks. There is time travel. These things can't happen. At least not in 2016.
2/1/16 What parts of your story determine its genre?
The part where Eli sees the article saying “Prepping for Doomsday: Be one of the survivors.” because that shows it is in the future which is sci-fi
What makes your book fit its genre?
Eli and his family were stuck in an underground bunker for a long time.
Doomsday is coming.
What is real and what is fiction in your book?
REAL: Costco, the aquarium, disease that makes people look older then they are.
FICTION: Doomsday coming, families living in undergroun
2/2/16Describe a part of your novel that is left ambiguous. Describe what is ambiguous and why you think the writer left this part unclear.
A part that is ambiguous is how Rex kept the kids in the underground compound for 6 years and Rex or the author never said why they were forced to go into the underground compound. I think they left this part unclear so the reader has couple of options on why Rex could of done that.
the part that i found ambiguous was Phil's disappearance and the lack of surprise Eli's mother shows.
2/3/16Where in time does the story world exist?
It exists in about the year 2017.
Where in the universe does the story world exist?
On earth. They live in Washington, Seattle.
What is the history of my story world?
It is basically the same as ours except this family lived underground for 6 years and lives in mansion and is basically off the “radar”.
How did it come to this moment?
They were underground for 6 years and now they must hide from the news and stay hidden until it blows over. This one person is looking for them and has found them. He is following them, but Eli only knows and he doesn't know why, for now.
What does the world look like physically and geographically?
The world is the same except for the part when they were underground for 6 years. And then they live in a mansion. But the world is basically the same as ours.
What specific sets will host the action?
The aquarium, Costco, the house, the progeria institute, the yk studios, Eli's room, and maybe the SUV that the family owns. Also the stadium that they were at. Maybe the compound.
Eli is faced with the choice of helping his sister who wants to find her real parents or his brother who points out that it will hurt their mother.
Eli chose to help his sister and betraying his brother.
The consequences of this decision is he risks losing his brothers trust but building a better relationship with his sister.
Eli chose to help his sister and betraying his brother.
The consequences of this decision is he risks losing his brothers trust but building a better relationship with his sister.
2/3/16Choices: Trust Rex Yanakis or Don’t
Decisions: They decide to trust him.
Consequences: They are locked in the underground compound for a couple years.
2/8/16What does a decision your character makes reveal to you about him or her?
They decide to stay hidden from the public and the media. This shows that they want a private life and they are very secretive about it. Maybe they will come around to telling some people.
2/8/16When Rex decides to trap his family in the compound it shows that he is manipulative and selfish it shows this because he tricked his family into thinking that there were nukes landing near where they lived so that they would go into the compound with him.
How does my novel end.
It ends with Rex Yankis de ageing to the point where he's deflated and dying in the explosion while Eli, Lexie, and Eddy get away on a jet with tony piloting the jet
is it a good ending.
the ending is a resolved ending but the narrator also talks about what happens after the book ends and i think that’s why I don’t like it.
It ends with Rex Yankis de ageing to the point where he's deflated and dying in the explosion while Eli, Lexie, and Eddy get away on a jet with tony piloting the jet
is it a good ending.
the ending is a resolved ending but the narrator also talks about what happens after the book ends and i think that’s why I don’t like it.
3/1/16How does your novel end?
My novel ends with Eli just barely
making it off the island that he explodes. Right after he “deflated his father with what was supposed make him young again. After that Eli the main character just says that tony/phil are still a family friend. And basically says that they tell mom some stuff but not everything.
I liked the way the writer ended it, he ended and that was it. There was no room for ambiguity. That was the end. I think the author did a good job ending it.
3/1/16I did not like the book because there was not a lot of things going on in the beginning or middle of the book. During the ending the book reached its climax but still wasn't that interesting. Also, the ending didn't conclude the book in a good way and was a wasn't interesting. The ending also was a big cliff-hanger because S.A. Bodeen didn't tell us what happened when the main character got home from his evil Dad's island.
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