Analyzing Carman's Pulse

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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 …show more content…

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

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