In the beginning of Maximum Ride : saving the world and other extreme sports, by James Patterson, Max and the flock, including Fang, Nudge, Angel, Gasman, and Iggy, had just escaped a Itex corporation and are now heading toward Texas. Once they get into Texas they start there basic planning, which is to locate a safe area, be aware of any erasers and to get through the day. While in a local park of Texas, the flock is sleeping silently in the tree tops and branches, all except fang, who is on his blog and receives a message from an untraceable source. The message says "The flock has gone bad, one of you is a traitor". Maxes voice comes back and tells her that all of the erasers had been retired and that of the DNA recombinant labs are being found and shut down. As the flock is finding out more about them selves and gain new abilities they also encounter stronger enemies and must take down Ter Borcht and his evil plan. While all this is going on, Max discovers something about herself and she's not going to like it.
Question #3 What are the weaknesses of this book, in your opinion?
As far as the book goes, I think that it is a well written book, but there are some faults that could be fixed. The first problem is that Max, who is the narrator throughout the book, seems a little to childish. Her reaction to some of the situations that she is put in make her seem like that she couldn't be taken seriously as an young adult.In the book, there is one scene where Max and the flock wake up in a white room with no windows and they are all strapped to a medical bed with restraints so that they can't escape. After a while Anne walker, head of Itex and who cared for them while being under protective custody, walks in and talks with Max. Anne tells her that everything that they have experienced has been all in their minds. Max in complete in her most sarcastic voice says " This is a toally new tack. I truly did not expect that" Pg 118. As Anne goes on trying to convince Max, she snaps " What was the memory of living with you supposed to test?" "How I would react to a two-faced control freak who didn't have a maternal bone in her whole body?" Pg 119. After a coupe of days being at the school Ter borcht decides that there existence is meaningless and decides to kill them. Max and the flock re all caged up in a single Cage, waiting for their death. Max and Ter Borch are talking , and he's going on about his plan to annihilate the worlds population by half in an effort to eliminate all sickness and anything weak and to leave nothing but the strong, smart and those who surpass all others. After his sch-peel, Max sais "And if you look in a dictionary under 'delusional megalomaniac' you'll see your picture" Pg 154. It just seems like in a serious situation when your about to die, you shouldn't be laughing in the face of death. One other small fault that Ive noticed at the end of each two page chapter, is that the last paragraph has a lot of drama toward the end. ITs not that i dont like it, but if your going to have that much drama toward the end of one two page chapter than the chapters should be longer so that the drama can build up to something.
Question#8 Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth. You can also analyze a relationship between two different characters.
Out of all of the relationships there have been so far in this book, the one that interested me the most is with Ari and Max. Usually their relationship has been mortal enemies, but this time they aren't, theyre more of allies in this book. While Max was confined to her one room bed and restrained to her bead, Ari had been told to take Max out on a tour of the school, where they talked alot, none of what they said had been close to being anything threatening. While they were talking, Ari had revealed that all the recombinant DNA experiments have an exportation date. That included Ari, Max and the flock.While they were talking about how he had died and came back and talked about the expiration date, Ari has a sad tone when he talks, he seems almost as if he's trying to reach out to Max and ask for her help to get him out and just rescue him. After Ter borcht had told the flock to say their goodbyes, Angel comes up from behind with Ari and says " Good-Bye" with a steel cold stern voice and then he falls, Ari then busts the flock out. They all fly toward the woods and hide for a long time, after they make a temporary camp, Max bluntly asks him if whats he's doing is a trap. He sais no and then sais " No. I know that theres no hope for me, but a part of me hopes that you can escape". Afterwords Max and the flock have a discussion to keep him or get rid of him. You have a giant wolf man whos tried to kill Max mulitiple times and has also injured Fang twice and making him come close to death. Half of the flock wants to keep him and the others want him gone, so Fang takes Iggy and Gasman and they head to California. So now its Max, Nudge and Angel along with Ari. I feel pretty Bad for him, He was just a seven year old kid who didn't want to do this and now he's turned into what looks like a bad rag doll that's been stitched over and over again. And now the only thing he wants is Max's help.
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