TONE
Carman uses an anxious mood in many dangerous situations that can get the characters hurt or in trouble.
An example would be when Hawk was confronting Wade to discuss why Wade gave a Wire Code to Faith. Carman, in his book Pulse, said “He was scared to death. He had just told a huge lie; and furthermore, he’d just made a monster blunder…All he had going for him was Faith Daniels. The only thing that mattered now was how much Wade liked her.” (113) He bluffed about having evidence to prove Wade guilty of such a crime to Faith. Doing so put him in danger of getting beat up by Wade, which intensifies the scene.
In another example, Hawk is hiding from Wade, who is chasing him to possibly kill him for finding the evidence of a bloody fight
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in the hallway. “He could hear Wade coming closer, probably about to look under the desk, and then he’d be at the storage room and it would be over.” (Carman 227) This showed how dire Hawk’s situation is since he is so close to the hallway, where Wade was lurking. In my opinion, the author’s ability to create tones is subpar. Carman rarely uses imagery and doesn’t utilize diction. He seldom uses descriptive words or phrases to strategically produce a tone. The scenes the readers picture derive mostly from their imagination because there are only basic descriptions in the book. For most of the story, he simply stated the characters’ actions, words, and thoughts. The meaning behind his words is literal and don’t convey a hidden meaning. In general, the author’s attitude is not portrayed in many events, especially the smaller ones. THEME The theme of friendship has been frequently shown throughout the book. The strong bond between Faith and Liz has been displayed at the beginning of the book. They spend most of their time together and both share their inner feelings about the State. They support each other through the hardships they have with other people. Liz is someone Faith goes to when her parents left to become Drifters. Faith’s companionship relieves Liz the absence of her boyfriend, who has moved to the State. Both hold hands often, indicating that they are so close, they have sister-like bond. Another theme is family. Faith thought that her parents abandoned her to be Drifters. In actuality, the Drifters recruited them to isolate Faith. By secluding Faith, Dylan can train her to use her Pulse in her sleep. Unfortunately, Faith didn’t know this until her parents were already dead. So up until she discovered the secret behind their departure and death, she has been despising them. After realizing what really happened, “She wanted to take back the way she’d felt about her parents. She was owed a chance to talk with them and make things right, to say the things she was supposed to say. But she’d never have that chance now.” (Carman 312) The message about this theme would be: Don’t jump to conclusions about people because they could be misunderstood. The author puts forth these themes well.
They were the main focus of the whole book. All of the events happened so that Liz and Faith’s parents would get killed by the Quinn twins. The author used a third person’s perspective (omniscient) so that the reader would understand what happened at the scene of the characters’ deaths. Wade was the only one who had retained the memories of that night when he murdered the Drifters because he erased Faith’s memory with Wire Codes. If this has been told through Faith’s point of view, she would have had no clue as to what had happened. To tell the readers events that occurred in the Field Games, the story turns to the Quinn’s since they were one of the few characters from the plot that were inside the State. During the Hammer Throw, Clara’s thoughts were exposed to explain her purpose of killing Liz.
PERSONAL RELEVANCE
I agree with Carman about the value of family and friends. Whether it is thirty-five years in the future or now, companions are important and one must learn to appreciate them. I think it is sad, yet meaningful that Faith lost her parents before finding reason to apologize for what she felt about them. But losing her loved ones gave her a purpose to wage war against the Quinn’s and join the Drifters, which the desired ending the author
wanted.
Grace has never had a real home her whole life. For Grace and her mom, “there was always a better job or place to live, better schools or less crime” (15). A second theme of the story is give people second chances. Lacey and Grace had a secret plan, Plan B, in which they would drive Grace’s grandma crazy enough that Grace could go back to living with Mrs.Greene and Lacey. Grace should have given Grandma another chance because she might not understand everything she's lost such as “waiting for her daughter to come home” but years later dead (196). Another theme of the story is spend the most time with loved ones while they’re here. Grace finally realized her grandma isn’t so bad. They both want “to find a way to get them back”, they’re loved ones, and that’s through each other (196). Grace has lost her dad, grandpa, and mom, but doesn’t realize that her grandma lost them too and could be
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