The reason I chose this book off the list is that I like dystopian stories a lot weather it be Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep better known as Blade Runner or Brazil, mainly being I like stories of a crumbling society that the citizens are oblivious too because they often turn into a political satire as a warning message that could happen. Also I like the idea of an alternate universe with an alternate history, because it's fun to see how things change , to give an example they drink Croca Cola instead of Coke. I also thought the title was pretty cool because that it was brought me too the book because with a title like Maggot Moon I thought it sounded like that was going to be more science fiction and it kind of is but isn't. The connections I make with the character is that Standish in the story is an outcast that everyone thinks is weird and when I was younger I wasn't very social and was very shy and was kind of an outcast based on what I like.
The people I would recommend this book to would be people who like Dystopian stories like Brazil which is the vibe I got off this story, I would also recommend it to people who like a slow burn because the story while having short chapters isn't the paced fast and doesn't pick up till about half way through the book. Over all I liked the book and I am sure that some people would call this book boring so you have to go into it with the mind set that this isn't the most action packed book and at some points can get predictable if your familiar with the dystopian genre. I also want to make it clear this book is not for everyone because the way the chapters are which is each one last two to three short pages and goes back and fourth between the past and present, so if your annoyed by that then you will hate this book.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Summer Assignment part 3
The section of the book I am using is in the rising action section of the book because up to this point it was kind of slow because up to this point it was setting everything up and introducing us to the characters, then it gets to this point were they are setting up what will become the main problem of the story
" I told the Greenfly who was in charge of us that I had been expelled. He said nothing. I don’t think they cover what to do with uncooperative pupils in their manual. Every boy in the class had his head down. I was an undesirable among the sheep. I returned to my desk. I felt stupid and didn’t know what to do, so I lifted the lid. There was a note pinned inside. It was written in big words so that I, who can’t read, could read it. YOU AND YOUR GRANDFATHER ARE IN GRAVE DANGER. TONIGHT THE OBSTRUCTORS WILL COME FOR THE VISITOR." Gardner, Sally (2013-02-12). Maggot Moon (pp. 107-108). Candlewick.
This section sets the story in motion because him getting expelled leads to something and the message is setting up the Obstructors, which are the big bad guys. Now this isn't the big thing that lights the fires of the story but at about half way through the book this was at least a spark for what will happen later on in the story. I also thought that this works as a quickly paced scene that makes you want to know what happens before and what happens after it. I also thought it worked as a build to a jump scare were it builds and builds till it finally is just like pow something really big happens and this is one of those build up steps that works better if you read what happens later on.
The context in which the section I chose was that our main character Standish got blamed for the death of a little kid but it was actually a teacher that killed the kid and after an interview with a hooded figure he gets expelled and this happens. To deal with terminology the green fly is kind of the police unit of the mother land, and the obstructors are set up as the big bad government earlier on in the story. Immediately after this happens the big conspiracy in the story starts as it goes into the crumbling fake utopia that is really a dystopia. So this is in terms of a dystopian story this is the part were our hero finds out the big bad government has something to hide and people are disappearing and minor villains are being replaced with major threats and the secret police are on the heroes case as he digs deeper into the conspiracy. That's all I can say about what happens afterwards because other wise I would be spoiling a lot.
" I told the Greenfly who was in charge of us that I had been expelled. He said nothing. I don’t think they cover what to do with uncooperative pupils in their manual. Every boy in the class had his head down. I was an undesirable among the sheep. I returned to my desk. I felt stupid and didn’t know what to do, so I lifted the lid. There was a note pinned inside. It was written in big words so that I, who can’t read, could read it. YOU AND YOUR GRANDFATHER ARE IN GRAVE DANGER. TONIGHT THE OBSTRUCTORS WILL COME FOR THE VISITOR." Gardner, Sally (2013-02-12). Maggot Moon (pp. 107-108). Candlewick.
This section sets the story in motion because him getting expelled leads to something and the message is setting up the Obstructors, which are the big bad guys. Now this isn't the big thing that lights the fires of the story but at about half way through the book this was at least a spark for what will happen later on in the story. I also thought that this works as a quickly paced scene that makes you want to know what happens before and what happens after it. I also thought it worked as a build to a jump scare were it builds and builds till it finally is just like pow something really big happens and this is one of those build up steps that works better if you read what happens later on.
The context in which the section I chose was that our main character Standish got blamed for the death of a little kid but it was actually a teacher that killed the kid and after an interview with a hooded figure he gets expelled and this happens. To deal with terminology the green fly is kind of the police unit of the mother land, and the obstructors are set up as the big bad government earlier on in the story. Immediately after this happens the big conspiracy in the story starts as it goes into the crumbling fake utopia that is really a dystopia. So this is in terms of a dystopian story this is the part were our hero finds out the big bad government has something to hide and people are disappearing and minor villains are being replaced with major threats and the secret police are on the heroes case as he digs deeper into the conspiracy. That's all I can say about what happens afterwards because other wise I would be spoiling a lot.
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