Bang. Bang. Bang. This is the beginning of a reboot. Wren, our main character, was shot 3 times and was dead for 178 minutes until she rebooted. She had the KDH virus which causes the dead children to come back alive with better reflexes. The longer they are dead the less human they come back as. Wren has been dead for one of the longest amounts of time which makes her deadly as she is put into the HARC program as a bounty hunter/ soldier. Then Callum comes in as a new recruit and has one of the lowest times making his reflexes a lot slower being more human-like. She decides to train him. Something is wrong with under 60 second reboots when her roommate acts crazed. She is also faced with the order of killing Callum when he hadn't improved enough or she would be killed. She can’t bring herself to kill him. She decides that she won’t be following these orders. Amy Tintera, the author, grew up in Texas which also happens to be where her story takes place. Brilliantly, she took what she knew about growing up in Texas to improve upon her setting in creating this story. Which includes Austin, Texas divided by the rich side and the slums. Tintera also has a degree in journalism and film which may help with all the action that this book portrays. …show more content…
What makes this plot so chilling is that death isn’t concrete in this society. The KDH virus is responsible for that which is also scary because the people don’t always know who has the virus until they do “die” and reboot again. This being a dystopian type book looks into very drastic future possibilities. Even thinking that death could possibly be changed as a result of a virus is terrifying. It changes the rules of death which also changes the qualities and rules of being human. This book also challenges how emotions make us human. Emotion overcomes this oppressive institution that Wren lives in. Emotion is
1) The story takes place in Pinedale, Florida. Where a HIV-positive Pinedale High School student named Alejandro Crusan or Alex for short, was attacked while in his car. A witness named Daria Bickell says that she was a student from the same school, name Clinton Cole at the crime scene.
The things that happen to McCandless at the end make me cringe every time I read it. There is just something about a person grasping for help just to receive none. Krakauer also lets some of the people from the story know when he interviews them. They often have very sad reactions that stir emotions. He specifically describes how McCandless’ mother reacts saying “As she studies the pictures, she breaks down from time to time, weeping as only a mother who has outlived a child can weep, betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure. Such bereavement, witnessed at close range, makes even the most eloquent apologia for high-risk activities ring fatuous and hollow.” (Krakauer 132) Another approach Krakauer takes that makes me feel a bit emotionally unstable is when he talks about his dad and his relationship with him. A lot of the ways he portrays his dad remind me a lot of how my dad is. It gives and deep connection to what I am reading. Also the entire story is sad due to how he starts off by spoiling to you that he dies and then he starts skipping around. The skipping around kind of helps make you forget that you just found out that he died in the end. It makes you cheer for him even though you know he is going to die. A good emotional quote from him is “Some people feel like they don 't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
In his article “Gun debate? What gun debate?” Mark O 'Mara discuses the controversial issue of gun control. O’Mara takes the tragic school shooting in Oregon as an opportunity to voice his opinion on the debate of guns. He clearly states his position and explains that gun violence has increased enormously because of the lack of command by the government and support from the public to speak out against it. O’Mara claims the issue is no longer a debate because it is so evident that guns have become a significant problem in this country and therefore actions must be taken to control and govern gun laws. In his article he attempts to raise awareness to the severity of the issue and tries to persuade his readers to take a stance against gun violence
“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments, not because of biological differences among people themselves.”(Diamond 25) This statement is the thesis for Jared Diamond’s book Guns Germs and Steel the Fates of Human Societies.
Bowling for Columbine (2002) which was directed, produced and written by Michael Moore, was an instant commercial and critical success. Grossing over fifty million dollars and winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the film became well recognised and distributed. Nonetheless, the film’s controversial approach to the subject matter of the United States’ gun culture had influenced many to support the anti-gun argument and many outside of the United States to become critical of America’s gun laws.
The Ethics of Gun Control The phrase "Gun Control" means different things to different people. One bumper sticker states that "Gun Control means hitting your target." However one defines gun control, the mere mention of it brings controversy.
Thirdly, the setting of the story is set in Salinas, California. Ironically, the author was born in Salinas. It is the time of the Great Depression and middle-class has been hit hard. The story begins in Weed, a California mining town.
In the last book, the story mainly took place in the outer provinces, which are inspired by southern Utah. Ally Condie grew up in southern Utah so she knew what it looked like and what it felt like to be there. Her dad also worked in the canyons as a federal magistrate, so she had lots of experience of the canyon. She says that she'd hide in the crevices of the walls so she made the characters of the book do the same. In this book, one of the main settings is in the urban cities. Ally says that most of them are just cities that she made up but one of them named Camas is based on Idaho Falls which she says has a beautiful river running through the middle of
The characters are impacted by the setting sharply because it both closes and opens possibilities as the story moves forward. At first, the setting is in Sylvan, South Carolina. The author describes Sylvan simply by stating, “…population 3,100. Peach stands and Baptist churches, that sums it up.” Clearly the setting here is not exactly note-worthy; however, quite a few events happen. Lily, the main character, lives with her father T-Ray and her opportunities are
The play is set in, and only in, a kitchen of the mother of the two brothers. Lee, the older of the two, is roughly in his early forties, and is more of a nomadic alcoholic like their father. Austin is in his early thirties, and is an ivy-league graduate who writes screenplays. Austin is more temperate in the first half of the play; Lee is a partially to completely drunk mooch throughout. As the play begins, Austin is writing a script as his brother, Lee, is pestering him about different odds and ends to catch up on things since they last met. Lee talks about his life in the desert and the money he could make if he only wanted to. The reader can see Austin, the play’s protagonist, portraying humility, kindness, and diligence as he puts up with his brother’s conversation, and even shows charity when he offers Lee some money.
George Saunders, a writer with a particular inclination in modern America, carefully depicts the newly-emerged working class of America and its poor living condition in his literary works. By blending fact with fiction, Saunders intentionally chooses to expose the working class’s hardship, which greatly caused by poverty and illiteracy, through a satirical approach to criticize realistic contemporary situations. In his short story “Sea Oak,” the narrator Thomas who works at a strip club and his elder aunt Bernie who works at Drugtown for minimum are the only two contributors to their impoverished family. Thus, this family of six, including two babies, is only capable to afford a ragged house at Sea Oak,
Gun control is a highly controversial topic in today’s world where the fight is between the liberal and the conservatives. Many people believe that guns should be banned due to many recent massacres that have happened whereas others are wanting people to have background checks done before owning a gun. I am against gun control because banning handguns in the United States should not be allowed because handguns fail to protect the people and it is ineffective.
I am so tired of the sickly platitudes: “our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims.” And I am sick to death of the rationalizations: “guns don’t kill people; people kill people.”
In the book Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein, death is one of the main themes that is widely explored. The novel communicates a very strong message about death, it portrays that it is inevitable and that it comes in different ways. It also shows that death isn't necessarily the end, but it can be the beginning. The author communicates how one faces death through literary devices such as characterization, conflict, and setting.
The stories setting takes place in Western Colorado. In Western Colorado in a home of a retired nurse named Annie is where the whole story takes place. Annie's home is a two story log cabin out in the middle of nowhere. The closest neighbors are miles away. It takes place in the middle of winter snow storms.