Extraordinary Power In Bloodline By Kate Cary

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Imagine being in a war fighting for you life. Fighting for your country even though many other people think your the enemy and it’s tearing you apart. Your losing and your life is about to end but you notice something, something that is strange when you're captain saves your life from the doom that almost followed. Extraordinary power that you have seen before from an enemy coming from your captain, before you can comprehend anything you are out cold. You wake up and you see that your sister and your general now getting to know each other, and you have to convince her before her death awaits. In the book Bloodline by Kate Cary that is what happened. This takes place during the time period in World War l. In the book John Shaw was in the battlefield …show more content…

The reason for this is that Lily did not even leave the hospital in fear of her brother dying or getting worse. She stayed as close to him as she could and even had a heart attack in the hospital worrying for her brother’s life. The story is told through the eyes of almost every character in the book and is told in first person in each journal or diary of each person. The reason why Cary chose this narrative form the diaries and journals from each character is to show how each character feels and thinks about each other. In the book John shaw was saved Quincy, but had superhuman like strength and knows that Quincy is not just a ordinary man or general. During John’s delirious state John’s sister, Lily, met Quincy because he was visiting John in the hospital at the same time as Lily was. Quincy and Lily got to now a little more about each other and got more attached romantically together. This passage shows John’s point of view of Quincy, “Panic gripped me the as that of Captain Harker. There was no doubt in my mind. No mistake. Surely nobody else shared that imposing silhouette? The figure moved down the ward toward my bed. I realized incredulously that though the light was behind it, the figure cast no shadow before it on the polished ward floor. I wanted to run, but I felt frozen in place-like a frightened deer” (Cary 90). This proves that the different in point of shows that John

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