The Testing Literary Analysis

PLOT SUMMARY AND THEME OF NOVEL:

The Testing, a story by Joelle Charbonneau, is a story about a group of friends who get tested by the government to test how they act and how smart they are.. The plot of this story starts when Malencia Vale graduates high school and gets picked to go to a series of tests created by her government to see if she is smart enough to go to their university, but when she finishes the first test she realizes there is more to it than just being smart it is also about how you act under pressure, then as she goes to the last trial to pass into the university she starts to understand the tests are actually about if you have the skills necessary to be a good leader and if you will do whatever it takes, the story ends when she passes the test and

This literary device is when you give an inanimate object a quality of a person. This device is used when Cia is leaving her magistrate’s house after being told she has been invited to attend the testing. “Bright sunshine greets us as the door swings open”(Charbonneau 24). The second literary device is the use of foreshadowing. This is when the something is said or happens to foretell what will happen later on in the book. This takes place when Cia’s dad is giving a speech about a new hybrid of potato Cia’s brother Zeen made, but does not give him any credit for making the new kind of potato. “No it is not the potatoes that caught me off-guard, but the words dad uses to announce them. Last week he told us Zeen would get full credit for the project”(13). This shows foreshadowing because it shows you that there is a reason that dad does not want people to think his children are as smart as they actually are, and does not want them to be chosen for the testing. The third literary device is also foreshadowing. This example is about when another testing candidate wants to go first during a group exercise when someone else should actually go