I thought The Death Cure by James Dashner was a good book, not my favorite of all time, but not the worst. This is the third book in the Maze Runner series. Thomas and his friends are used for experiments by W.I.C.K.E.D a government agency. There is a Disease called The Flare that the population is getting, it makes people crazy turning them into cannibalistic zombies. W.I.C.K.E.D starts doing experiments to try and find a cure for it. This book is about the last experiment, it will tell people if they are immune to The Flare, and which ones already have the awful disease. The evil and corrupt government agency W.I.C.K.E.D tells everyone that they will allow an implant to be taken out of their brains to let them regain their memories. Thomas
and his friends decide not to be a part of this experiment and they try to escape. Thomas has the key to their last experiment, and W.I.C.K.E.D tries to hunt them down. This book felt dark and kind of depressing to me. But, it did keep me interested in what would happen next. Two of the main characters end up getting killed, which is heartbreaking. I think the ending came too fast, I wish that James would have explained a few things better. It left me feeling frustrated, I didn’t ultimatley know what happened to the remaining characters. Maybe the new book, The Fever Code will explain the unknown. In conclusion, if you have some spare time and like books that are exciting and keep you on the edge of your seat. Or, if you like bloodthirsty zombies, and don’t mind violence and some intense stuff, you should check this book out! But, if you are more into love stories with a storybook ending this might not be your cup of tea.
The Truman book I chose to read for the first quarter is All Fall Down by Ally Carter. I enjoyed reading this book because the plot was very interesting and I liked seeing how the events would turn out. All Fall Down is about a girl named Grace Blakely who has grown up in Adria, a European nation. She finds out her mom has died. Grace remembers an old man with a scar who was at the sight of where her mom died when it happened. Grace thinks he is the killer. She calls the man the Scarred man. Grace meets some people on the way including Megan and Noah who help her with her search to find the person who killed her mom.
The book I read is called Silent Warrior. It's a biography about the famous marine sniper, Carlos Hathcock. The book takes you from his death bed to the death field in Vietnam, where he earner his title as the best of the best. His 93 confirmed kills and hundreds more unaccounted made him the number one sniper in our history. The book brought out the best of the man that everyone knew as Gunny Hathcock.
According to his biography, Ernest J. Gaines grew up in Oscar, Louisiana on a plantation in the 1930s. He worked picking potatoes for 50 cents a day, and in turn used his experiences to write six books, including A Lesson Before Dying. While the novel is fictional, it is based on the hardships faced by blacks in a post Civil War South, under Jim Crow and 'de jure' segregation. In A Lesson Before Dying, the main story line is a sad tale in which a young black man named Jefferson, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, a teacher, is persuaded by Jefferson's grandmother Miss Emma to help Jefferson become a man before his execution. The struggle for Grant to get Jefferson to cooperate, and Grant's own internal development are the main plot-points; however, the background commentary on systems of racism is the main theme.
The novel The Kill Order was written by James Dashner, and is the prequel to the Maze Runner trilogy. It was published in the year 2012. In this novel, the main character Mark is surviving in a post-apocalyptic world. The earth has been hit by solar flares, frying almost anything electronic and killing anyone who was not underground or otherwise protected. The result of this is the fall of civilization and a permanent spike in global warming, flooding coastal areas and raising the air temperature to a scorching level in most areas. In the early chapters of the story, a giant metal airship, called a Berg, came flying over the makeshift town where Mark and his friends have found residence. From this ship came a group of men, who were wielding tube-like weapons. Eventually, these people began shooting darts from these weapons, attacking the residents of the village with them. It is soon revealed that those darts were bio-weapons, containing an incredibly contagious and lethal virus, nicknamed the Flare. This virus killed almost all of the people it struck almost immediately, however it has begun to take longer and longer to kill. The virus has been mutating at an incredibly fast rate, to the point of affecting every individual differently.
The first stanza of “Two Thoughts of Death” by Countee Cullen is pretty straight forward. The narrator explains that when he’s dead, he would not have much of a concern who takes care of his body or who cries for him, after he’s gone. The first impression that the narrator portraits to the reader is of not having compassion for the living or glad for leaving. The first stanza clearly portraits that the topic is death.
+Feed by M.T. Anderson takes place in America in the near future. This world has many scientific and technological advancements, such as flying cars and colonization on extraterrestrial environments such as the moon. Although the society achieves many scientific and technological advancements, much of the natural world has been destroyed, leaving oceans as a toxic oil slick and little remaining forests. Possible side effects to all the radiation in the atmosphere and the destroyed environment, lesions grow commonly on the civilians’ body, deteriorating their skin. Powerful corporations control the public education system, teaching the citizens mindless and pointless knowledge comprising of how to decorate ones room and what products to buy.
The name of my book is Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan. This is a mystery thriller about five teens who plan to kidnap their English teacher to teach him a lesson. Their teacher is very hard on them and does not allow any room for slacking. But instead of just kidnapping him for a while, they decide to abandon him for a while by a deserted lake in the middle of nowhere. Two of the teens come back to find that he is dead. Now they must decide what to do with the body and how to explain his death.
This book shows us that, even in the face of hopelessness, there is indeed hope, and there is a need to move forward. There is nothing that can change what the outcome will be in the end. However, in light of this, a person is left with two options. Either they could deny and fight it the entire way, or accept it, learn from it, and move forward. This paper will show you,, when given this situation, what the outcome will be when one choices to accept it and move on.
Hemingway once said that "all stories...end in death." Certainly, each living person's "story" ends that way. The interrelationship of a narrative to a life, of the "boundary situation" of an ending, is of vital importance to the existence of these two fictional narratives, A Farewell to Arms and The Outsider. Death plays an important, one might say necessary, part in both novels, too: Frederic Henry is, of course, in war and witness to death many times, wounded himself, and loses Catherine; Meursault's story begins with his mother's death, he later kills an Arab, and then is himself tried and sentenced to death. In fact, the defining death-confrontations (Frederic's loss of Catherine, Meursault's death sentence) transform the characters into narrators; that is to say, the stories are told because of the confrontations with death. We must recognize that the fictive characters are attempting to provide or create an order or meaning where it appears there is none. Or, there are pre-existing versions, meta-narratives, which prove inadequate or unsatisfying, and which must be replaced by the narrative each character produces. Meursault responds directly and violently to the priest who represents one such meta-narrative for Meursault's life. In the crescendo of the final scene of that novel when Meursault confronts the priest and finally re- leases the pent up anger and frustration repressed for so long, he does experience an epiphany:
Death and Grieving Imagine that the person you love most in the world dies. How would you cope with the loss? Death and grieving is an agonizing and inevitable part of life. No one is immune from death’s insidious and frigid grip. Individuals vary in their emotional reactions to loss.
In Thomas Nagel’s “Death,” he questions whether death is a bad thing, if it is assumed that death is the permanent end of our existence. Besides addressing whether death is a bad thing, Nagel focuses on whether or not it is something that people should be fearful of. He also explores whether death is evil. Death is defined as permanent death, without any form of consciousness, while evil is defined as the deprivation of some quality or characteristic. In his conclusion, he reaffirms that conscious existence ends at death and that there is no subject to experience death and death ultimately deprives a person of life. Therefore, he states that Death actually deprives a person of conscious existence and the ability to experience. The ability to experience is open ended and future oriented. If a person cannot permanently experience in the future, it is a bad or an evil. A person is harmed by deprivation. Finally, he claims that death is an evil and a person is harmed even though the person does not experience the harm.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is unified by various themes throughout the work. The plot is driven by two major themes in particular: honor and ritual. Honor is the motivation for several of the characters to behave in certain manners, as honor plays a key role in Colombian culture. There were repercussions for dishonorable acts and similarly, there were rewards for honorable ones. Also, ritual is a vital element within the work that surrounds the story line’s central crime: Santiago Nasar’s death.
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal” (Henry Ford). This is shown throughout the book as the reader follows the main characters on their journey to take down WICKED. Throughout their journey the reader sees them visit several new cities and territories that propose new challenges to them. In the novel The Death Cure by James Dashner, the setting motivates the characters decisions, and creates suspense in the plot.
There are some who absolutely love this novel, and others who absolutely hate it. I find myself somewhere in the middle. I am not a fan of zombies, nor am I anti-zombie. They are just another creature simply there in the literary world. I did love the details surrounding many of the stories in the novel, and found the author’s creativity pushing me to me more creative in my own work. It is not my favorite, and I probably would not read it again, although I did appreciate the style of writing after I got used to the format of the interviewer questioning the survivors.
In Wislawa Szymborska’s poem, “On Death, without Exaggeration”, the idea of Death is assigned characteristics of Deaths waged war against numerous quantities of emerging life that, itself, destroys life. Szymborska grew up in Poland during the Second World War, she was surrounded by Death, in addition, the experiences she had helped her to cope with Death and remain hopeful. The poem seems to make the reader think Death is an inevitable part of life and in order to appreciate life one must accept Death. However, if you read closely in the last line of the second stanza, “which is always beside the point” (7), Death is revealed to be indifferent, not accepting. Szymborska uses persona, irony, and personification to create rich