In the story of the Michael Vey series, Michael Vey The Last Spark by Richard Evans concluded the series with a exceptional story. Set in present time in Tuvalu, a small strand of islands in Oceania, an evil company has tried to conquer Tuvalu for themselves. The tuvalu island’s original names were soon turned into the Hatch Islands, Hatch is the last name of the evil man who was trying to overtake the whole world by supplying everyone’s energy. Also, the islands names were changed to names of Greek Gods. Some examples are he renames one island Hades, which is the Greek God of the underworld, and turns into a prison island and he renames another island Plutus, A Greek God of wealth which stored its valuable items. Hatch’s islands were runned …show more content…
very strictly. If you didn’t follow orders there was no hesitation to be harshly punished. What was peaceful tropical life was turned into a sad, tiresome work house. Natives to the islands were forced to act like slaves in their fields. Life on Tuvalu before and after Hatch’s arrival was like night and day. In the seven book series, lots of characters were used to develop and to carry on the story. There was two main sides to the series, one being the Electroclan who acted like the protagonists. The electroclan is a group of electric children, who are called glows. Glows were affected during birth by an electric charge inside the hospital. This charge gave them electric powers. For example, one glow Taylor, who is a founder of the electroclan, can read minds and also make people confused. The main character, Michael Vey has the ultimate superpower out of all the glow’s. He can make super electric charges and create huge shocks of electricity, even lightning. He can also use other glow’s powers when he is around them. He is the second founder of the clan. Other main characters in the electroclan are Ostin and Jack. The only two without superpowers, but great friends of their founders. Ostin is the organizer and a very smart man. Jack is strong and helps the electroclan in other ways then using powers. For example, he escaped the enemy and rallied up rebels to fight their enemy. On the other side of the fight, are the elgen. The elgen is a massive electric and power company with a villainous leader Admiral Hatch. Hatch is the main antagonist in the story. He is trying to eliminate the glows so that he can conquer the world by selling his energy. He makes energy through electrified rats which is less expensive than electricity beforehand. He is known for being a hated man. For example, with the last leader of Tuvalu, he cut his tongue off and put him in a monkey cage. Like the electroclan, Hatch has glow’s, but most of his glows joined the electroclan. He still has Bryan, who with his electricity can cut through mostly anything, and he has Kylee, who acts like a magnet. Also introduced very later in the story, Zara is Hatch’s most powerful glow. She can replicate any power and make it better. She uses this by using Taylor’s mind reading to get secret informations from the electroclan. In the Final Spark, it starts right after the devastating loss of Michael Vey, everyone believes he is dead and all of the electroclan mourns. While on their hijacked ship, the Joule, they flee the Hatch island’s to try and regroup with other alliances who can help. Their main conflict, being the elgen, has lots of allies. The reason why is because that their allies run on their energy. On their return to mainland in Philippines, the electroclan gets stopped by Philippine navy who arrest the electroclan and the Joule’s crew. Welch, who helped lead the clan, was also arrested and sent back to the Hatch Island’s with the other glows. Meanwhile, Ostin and Jack escape the ship during the chaos. Ostin and Jack then find a man named Vishal, who helps them return to the islands and meet up with Tuvaluan rebels. After the explosion by Michael Vey, the elgen left the natives who were soon turned into rebels by a man named Enelle. Enelle was also a native and took command of the rebels. He fought off little attacks by the elgen until Ostin, Jack and Vishal got there. With the scavenged weapons and explosives, the rebels set up in an abandoned headquarters. Unfortunately, the elgen came with heavy amounts of troops and tanks. To everyone’s surprise, Michael Vey returned to help the rebels, but not in human form. He destroyed the tanks and all of the ships and crew with bolts of lightning. He turned into what natives called, Uira te Auta, which also means “the lightning god”. To find out, he could make himself into real energy or a regular human. Then, They went to rescue the imprisoned glows who were on a different island. Just before they were about to be fed to electric rats, Vey saves the electroclan’s glows and comes face to face with his hated foe, Hatch. Hatch pleads for mercy, but Michael Vey disintegrates him. In the end, the electroclan reunites and the Tuvaluans retake their islands, and Michael Vey and his clan defeats their terrifying nemesis. Throughout the story, major events contributed to the build-up of the story.
One thing is the desire Enelle had to gather Tuvaluans and build an army to fight against the elgen. In the beginning of the story, Enelle was quick to gather weapons and make his way to the enslaved Tuvaluans. If Enele had not done that, the chances of the electroclan surviving would be diminished,, because Hatch would have been faster to kill them. With Enelle's fight and distraction to Hatch, it made the Elgen fight long enough so that Michael Vey could come and rescue them. Secondly, with the attempted escape by the electroclan made more events in the story possible. If they didn’t try to escape, then Jack and Ostin wouldn’t have had their chance to get help and it gave more time for Enelle and the rebels to prepare for incoming elgen forces. Also, when Jack and Ostin escaped it had contributed to the ending. If they didn’t escape then they wouldn't have been there to help Enelle defend. Also, Michael Vey would not have recognized Enelle but would recognize his best friends Jack and Ostin. Another major event that happened was when the rebels rammed the Edison with their boat, the Neuton. The powerful Edison, if not destroyed, could have fired missiles right away and tear the rebels to shreds. With the demolish of the boat, it gave the rebels more time to organize and defend the next attack. It also gave time for Jack and Ostin to arrive. Furthermore, if Michael Vey didn’t help Jack, Ostin and …show more content…
the rebels then they probably wouldn’t have survived. Without the timing, he probably would have only saved the glow’s in prison and not the ones who were outgunned by their opponents. Lastly, if Michael Vey had not arrived to save the glows then they would have been fed to a really painful death. To sum up, lots of major events happened in the story for everyone to stay alive and succeed. In the Final Spark, the main message was even without a commander or someone to lead, you need to keep hope and fight on and eventually positive results will come. For example, Michael Vey wasn’t thought to be alive to the electroclan. But, they didn’t give up. Instead they fled and tried to regroup. Even when that went wrong, Jack and Ostin still kept hope for them with their escape. Time in time again, hope was never lost and the electroclan kept fighting. With all their hope came success when Michael Vey saved the outgunned and the imprisoned electroclan. Also, the issue presented by the author was put in a believable manner. For the just arrested electroclan to go back to the place it just came from instead of going to a Philippine prison makes sense because Hatch devilish ideas wants them to suffer and die for what they did in previous books. To add on, I learned how that while in bad situations, lots of people look at the glass half full, just like the electroclan did with all their hope in all their bad situations. The electroclan showed readers how hope can fuel yourself and can help make things positive for you. To conclude, the Final Spark was a very enjoyable book and series.
I liked the build up of the story and how they made Michael Vey more powerful than ever and it was shocking. The only thing i disliked was I felt the ending was rushed and could have been spread out more. In the end, there was lots of unanswered questions. For example, what happened to the countries with elgen’s electricity? In all, the seven book series was very enjoyable since the first book. Also, teens and adults who are into sci-fi movies and books would enjoy the vey series because all the main characters have some type of superpower and they use to attack and defend events in the series. Also, the idea of little children becoming heroes is relevant to things that happen in today’s world. This is because lots of children have been there to save or protect things in bad situations. This is also in the Vey series, but on a very different level.To sum up, the Final Spark was a great final book to a great series that was all built on
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The Elgen then attack and capture the Electroclan in their hotel. It seems as if Nichelle sold them out to the Elgen, but she didn’t, she actually helped them. When Michael is captured by the Elgen Tara, Taylor’s twin sister thats works with Hatch, disgued You must get her before the Elgen or else Hatch will be able to make his army of electric youth's, which means he takes over the world. Your mission will start tomorrow so be ready. Good luck to all of you.”
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I loved how we were able to see the evolution of Mike’s mental illness, and see how the charges that were pressed against him affected him in many aspects of his life, such as getting a job. I loved that we were able to see him “recover” and decide that he was going back to school as well as that he knew he had to be taking his medication. I wish we could have seen more of the stories of the patients that Earley talked to. While we got a large overview of their lives and how they ended up where they were, I wish we could have seen more of what happened after they were released, or moved other places. There were also many things that surprised me; I didn’t realize how many people in America were affected by mental illnesses and how a majority of them were homeless. I also didn’t realize how many times that they were brought back and forth from jail to the streets. There was one lady that was talked about in the book, who has been awaiting trial for 3 years because she is still not competent enough to stand
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel because it connected the dots on how the Narnia series started. I would definitely choose another book by this author because he makes fictional stories that you cans apply to biblical aspects. I liked the fact that the story connected with the others in the series. I did not like how some spots in the plot were dry and not pertaining to the story. I would recommend this novel to anyone who is a fan of the Narnia series.
My overall opinion of this book is good I really liked it and recommend it to anyone. It is a good book to read and it keep you interested throughout the whole book.
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul and to me, this has always been enough.” That is a quote from The Notebook, a famous book written by Nicholas Sparks in 1996. This quotation inspires people to have faith that love is the only thing in the world that they need. They need not have prosperity or fame. They simply need an individual to love with all their hearts for all eternity. The world is a place where love seems to somehow find its way through in the most difficult of times. Nicholas Sparks is a dedicated author, father, husband, and donor who sees that clearly and demonstrates that in his novels. To understand the genuine significance of Nicholas Sparks and his novels, one must know his background, the truth about what the critics think about his novels and his influence on today’s society.
series for two reasons. The first reason is because it ties up all the questions I had from the other books. This book really was a good ending, for me at least. And the second reason is because it’s just a great book. It has mystery, suspense, humor, action and many more things that keep you from putting the book down. On a scale of one to ten I would rate this ten and it is also my number one favorite book (so far).
...ove this book because the characters are developed very well and have such interesting stories! I also love the mystery; it’s like I never know what will happen next and I love books that aren’t predictable. And lastly, I love the romance between Tris and Four. They are so perfect together, and I love reading about them.