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Q#7 If you've read other books in this same genre, how does this one compare?
Q#8Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth.


In the novel Maximum Ride: Schools Out Forever, by James Patterson, the novel continues with Max and her flock head toward Washington D.C. to try and find answers about there past that they have no memory of.After had just escaping the clutches of the "school" the group is ambushed by Ari, who has rose from the dead, with his gang of flying erasers. After witch they must head to the hospital where there worst dreams had been realized, there secret has been discovered and is now open to the security agencies. Unlike the previous book , Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment, the story is seen through both Max and Ari's perspective, so that we can peak in on the plot of the book and also learn of Ari's hidden feelings for Max, and how he wants to have max for himself and try to get her to stay with him. Along their way, Max and the others must be brought under protective custody by the F.B.I under custody of Anne where they must stay at her house and live there.As they spend more and more time with her, they come to like and think of Anne as their new parent like figure, Anne even files for an adoption for them. They then later get enrolled at a private school. While at the school, trying to fit in and get a feel for it, Max and Fang Find love with their new class mates. While at the school, snooping about is Iggy and Gasman, who find old news articles on there school and its corrupted ways. Along the way Max, gains an incredible new power. Meanwhile the cooperation, Itex plans to destroy the world and who to be the leader of the cooperation, Anne surprisingly,  someone with access to the F.B.I and the leader of Itex. With their goal in mind, Max and the others head toward Itex to destroy the cooperation from the inside.

In the previous book , Maximum ride :The Angel Experiment, Max had been the main character. But this time the two characters who stood out the most to me was Fang and Ari. In the previous book he was just this quite character who had stood in the corner and never talked, just gave the occasional nod or smile toward Max to confirm or deny something. But this time he was pretty social, He even started his own blog in the Book called Fang's blog, Witch turned out to be a real blog on blogger.com. If you want to go check it out then here you go. Its pretty cool how he actually talks like Fang inside of the book on his blog. In the book Fang stirs up things between himself and Max romantically. In the last book, Max had kissed Fang thinking that he was going to die on the beach after being mauled by Ari and a group of erasers. So now they have UN resolved issues. And Fang wants to get closer to Max and become and item with her, unfortunately Max dose not feel that way about him. Another weird love angel is coming from Ari. Ari and Max have always been arch enemies in this book, and now he's going to go and ruin that by wanting to be with her. The plot of the book is to capture Max and replace her with a look alike eraser Max and destroy the flock. Once Jeb and Ari had gotten a hold of Max they would kill her, but Jeb has no interest in that, so Ari was going to keep Max caged up and try to get her to like him. There are so many reasons why that is wrong, one is that Max is double the age of Ari, even tho he looks like a completely grown man. Another thing is that, that kind of sounds like what a rapist would do. Luckily, Max's flock can tell when something is up with her, and they expose her for the fake that she is. Ari's plan doesn't work out so well either, Max escapes and confronts the fake Max. After the epic battle between the two, Jeb tells Max to kill the copy because she is obsolete, and yet Max dose not. She spares the copy and flies away after destroying Itex.Kind of a weird love triangle?

Another book that i am currently reading is The contest, by Matthew Reilly. This book is filled with action and excitement throughout the whole book. Steven Swain is a leading doctor at a hospital, where a month ago gang members had come in trying to kill and opposing gang member. Instinctively, he fights the gang members punching one in the face severely and wrestling the other one for a gun. While the two wrestle for the gun, the gun discharges a shot into the members head and is killed. One evening Swain is at his house with his daughter holly and a ring around him is formed where he is teleported into a dark room, which turns out to be the public library. Before him appears a man in white named Selexin, who is his guide in the presidian, which is a fight to the death arena.Now Swain cannot escape the arena, and if he dose he has fifteen minutes to get back in, if he dose not, the watch on his wrist will detonate and kill him. Along the way he encounters big and strong aliens and meets a companion or two along the way to help him fight off the strongest contestant of them all, Bellos,with his previous generations winning three of the seven presidian. Bellos has cheated by bringing his hoods, dog like aliens, with him to eliminate the other contestants and the kranadon, the strongest alien beast in the universe, tall as twenty feet and the strength of thirty men.

lit letter 3

After Max and the flock had just escaped the school and all the corrupted teachers who turned out to be erasers. Max and the others had just flew off from the school and then max went flew off into her waprdrive speed and ended up at a beach, she then tried digging at her arm, in an atempt to reach the chip inside of her and destroy it. As the Fang arrived at the scene with max, a glass shard and a bloody arm, he stops her attempt to destroy the chip. The Flock then calms max dwon from her saddness and they hang out at teh beach, where angel learns that she can talk to fish. Which is kind of weird seeing and avion talking to a fish, it almost seems contradicting in a way.  

 

Behind the scenes, Ari and Jeb are start there plan to replace Max and destroy the flock with a exact looking replica of Max who is a eraser. And as this goes on Ari cant wait to Get his hands on her, Because secretly he loves her and wants to be with her. Ari has some weird thing for max, even tho Max is double his age.

 

Max and the others discover that the main body of this orginization is a group called itex. Once learning so they fligh over to flroida and get and appartment, then max is abductted and is replaced with the new max. Later two of them confront eachother where they have a big showdown and the victor is of course our one and lovely original max. Jeb then comes to max and tells her how she had overcome someon even greater than her and a bunch of other shit and then i believe she punches him in the face if im not mistaken. and then they fligh off.

spring break

I realize that probably a lot of people are going to be doing this but Im going to blog about spring break. Over the break i was supposed to be at hell weak practice for my swim team, the hardest week of them all, but instead decided to take mis girlfriend and her daughter with my brother and I to Yosemite Park. It took a good four hours to get there, i was asleep most of the way there so it was'nt as long as it was supposed to be. As soon as we got into Oakhurst, the town we stayed at, we checked into our rooms and then drove up to the park. Even before we got to the park itself, there was snow everywhere, i was so excited just to jump out of the car and nail my brother with a snow ball to his dome. It took about and hour to drive into the park, and as soon as we got out, we saw this pretty cool waterfall, i cant remember what the name of it was tho. After that we drom around for a while and then drove back to the hotel. And that was the end of day one.

The day afterwords we headed back and got out to do a couple of things that we had not had a chance to do. Such as, a snowball war. We went to this big open field still covered in snow and just threw a bunch of snow balls. My Brother teamed up with my dads girlfriends daughter, lily, and they attacked me! so i tackled ben to the snow. we then had lunch and i went back out. After i was completely done with playing in the snow, i was completely drenched in water from all my shenanigans , playing in the snow and what not. So i had to change into a pair of my dad pj's and a shirt of his and ride back like that. And we made a pit stop so i had to walk a good ten yards or more to a bathroom, where everyone could see me in those clothes. So then we got home and hung out there and then went home the next morning.

When we returned to Alameda i had to go to Friday hell week practice. and then i went to my moms house for the weekend, where i had to cut ivy off the side of my hose and paint. And it sucked because i had just got this new game that i had wanted, but right before i got it, my xbox got a E74 error message so i have to get myself a new one so i can play some cool new games that i have been waiting for awhile now. Hopely for my Birthday i can get one, if im lucky, or at least enough money so i can buy a new one. and then play all day every day! And what i mean is only on the weekend -.-

so in the beginning of our new book, ...

so in the beginning of our new book, Maximum ride : Schools Out Forever, Max and the flock had just escaped the school and are now are on there way to Washington D.C. On there way, they run into a group of an erasers with wings! not only are they strong but now air mobile. And who else to be in that group? Ari! witch is weird, since he died in New York. Like completely died. So after that fight, Fang gets this major wound in the side of him, bad enough that they had to go to a hospital, witch might just give away the fact to the doctors that this boy has a set of wings on his back. So then the doctors call in Max and she describes everything to the doctors, leading to her donating fang A butt load of blood since he can't take human blood.And then for the cherry of all events, the F.B.I come in to talk to them and get a possible lead on the guys who run the school and the institute. After their interrigations, Anne, member of the f.b.i. takes into her house for protective custody. Later after had having time to hang out at Anne's house,  Anne lets the flock know that they are going to be enrolled in a school, witch is pretty hilarious seeing how they are kind of mis-fitts who have not been to school one in there lives.While at Annes house. Max gets the ability to fly fives times as fast, so like a super boost of hers, allowing her to fly up to three hundred miles per hour. which is pretty cool, not as much as angel, but still pretty cool.

While at school, Max and Fang both have these love interest which in doing so they both get jealous of one another, earlier in the chapter, Fang falls for Max and She dosent do anything about it, not a date or talk or anything.While at teh school, the headmaster has in it for all of the kids, he thinks of them as nothing as trouble makers, even tho they hardly do anything. While Iggy and Gasman are snooping around, since they think the headmaster has it in for them, they head down to the basement out of curiosity. And find all theses files on the school and how it was closed down along time ago. And after that one of the teachers come to try and kill them. Actually kill them! So what does iggy do? what he's great at, making bombs. SO he sets of this big bomb. Later the headmaster calls in Max and he tries to kill her, She puches him and they all bust out of there. Most of the teachers turn out to be erasers. Jeb, Anne and ari show up at teh school and Jeb reveals the fact that Anne is one the people help run the whitecoats and such. Who wouldve thought that Anne, one of the nicest characters of this book to be on the side with the white coats. Im pretty dissapointed in her. And so they all just dash for the woods and just keep running and running, without a destination in mind, just so long as that it isn't near the erasers.

What do you guys think is going to happen next. I think that Max is going to head to where one of there parents are and try to locate them so that they have some sort of protection and a shelter for them to get back on there feet. let me know on my blog please.

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Question #2
For what audience(s) is this book intended, and how can you tell? (In other words, for whom would you recommend this book?)
 
It is kind of hard to narrow this book down to a single set of age group. I would have to say that this book is for anyone from the age of twelve to mid thirties. This book is full of adventure and action,fantasy, and tons of imagination, and has one great plot. About six kids who have been genetically altered to be able to flight, and be stronger, and faster. Kids who are twelve can start to comprehend the plot and understand whats is going on, and to the age of mid thirties for an older group of adults, because a majority of adults at that age might start to loose their creativeness and lose interest in the book as a result.This book would probally most attract kids my age because of all the imagination that it contains.In this book, there is a lot of flying, who doesn't like to dream about being able to fly? If i could fly, there is no way in hell anyone would ever see me again. There is also these men that can morph into werewolf type things, called erasers, these are the henchman of the villain of our story. There is also a little bit of romanticism to the book as well, some young teen love, which is a another good contributor to my argument that this book is mainly for children from the ages twelve and higher. So if you happen to be talking to one of your friends about a book, hit them up with this one, its great, and it comes in a series so that they'll be reading this book for a while, if you liked the harry potter series,then you'll definitely fall into this book within the first couple of chapters.

Question #4
How would you describe the author's style of writing? What's your opinion of the style?

James Patterson, author of Maximum Ride,writes this book almost as he's painting the scene of where the story is taking place with so much depth. As my group and I read through this book, there was so much description in each of the scenes that he had written. The opening chapter was the narrator who is also the main character, saying how her and her family lived on an L shaped building high up on a mountain that couln't be seen from anywhere, almost as like there house was there own personal haven from the outside house. Another section of the book, near chapter forty-two, is when Max saves a girl from these bullies who have a gun, Max runs from them after knocking one of them out with one punch. The narration from Max running was just tremendous narration, James Patterson describes the scene as if he were running from the guys with the gun, constantly being shot, with a shot shoulder. Besides the Maximum ride series I know that James Patterson also writes murderer mystery novels, i cant imagine how well his description is those books are. Overall , I find James Patterson's writing completely superb. When my group and I continue the next book in this series, I hope for the same kind of visual experience that I received from this book. I would definitely recommend this book for the fact that it is such a great book to get addicted to.Flying! i still cant get over that fact, I don't know how he is able to pretend that he has the ability to fly, and he even writes down realistic speeds for flying and heights as well. Being able to write something as good as that, requires a lot of time and creativity.

Question #8
Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth.

Another hard question to only talk about one individual, so I'm going to have to cheat this question a little bit and narrow it down to two people. Both Fang and Max interested me quite a bit. Max of course because she is the main character of this story, the title is named after her existence signifying that shes that important. And the other would have to be Fang. The only description i know that they gave Max is the fact that shes fourteen. I imagined her as a taller girl,skinny,long curly-dirty blond hair. Her character itself to me symbolizes some sort of justice figure. Where as Fang is described as a tall shadowy type figure,with dark hair and with dark wings. I don't think that he is evil or anything, just that kind of person who likes to keep everything bottled up. He and Max hardly talk, he kind of just gives her a look to signify either an approval or decline on what they are going to do next. I think that if we could actually peak into Fang's mind, and see everything coming his perspective, that the book would be a lot more interesting. The main reason why i chose these two characters was because Max and Fang are basically complete opposites. We have Max who is the a radiant type of girl who takes charge of the flock and is running everything, where as Fang is keep to himself kind of guy, taking no responsibility over the flock, only when he is actually needed then he helps. Such as when there is a fight, he can take maybe two or three erasers, so when the time is needed he comes and helps out the flock. But at the same time, Max needs Fang to coexist, there is this aura from fang that makes it so that Max is in a perfect balance so that she can make wise decisisons. I also find it very interesting that we hear nothing of his personal life or about where he came from, where for everyone else, your given a rough guess as to where they came from. .

last letter

Finally we can talk about the end of our book. Just to recap tho, Max and the flock are now in New York looking for the institute. And Max has that voice in her head, kind of pointing her in the right direction of where she should be going. The voice had told Max to get on the bus and to hop off when it looks fun. And then they come up to a toy store, and Angel finds this teddy bear that she wants to have, and Max sais that its too much. Out of no some person just buys the doll for her, because Angel "influenced" them, buy forcing thoughts into their head to control them, which is awsome, getting anyone to do what you want. While walking down the streets of New York, the flock wins a free makeover, and they decide to take it because with the erasers constantly tracking them, Max thinks that their new looks will make them un-noticiable.

The flock then goes to the beach and Angel of course has the ability to breathe underwater. They then get into this big fight with the erasers, and then Jeb comes to stop the fight and refers to Max's situation as a game, and how that the beauty of the game is that no one else has experienced what Max has. After they have that encounterment with Jeb, they head to the institute and go find data about them selves. Mudge gains this ability to know stuff about people just by touching them, she can know everything about them. They then escape threw the tunnels of new york, and max confronts Ari in their last battle. In this their last battle, max ends up dropping ari from the top of the tunnel, and breaking ari's neck, killing him.

If you could give yourself any power ...

If you could give yourself any power what would it be? I would probaly take the powers of the Green Lantern. The ability to conjure anything from your ring at your will. Imagine not having any of your normal day stuff things with you, just you,your clothes, and that awsome ring. You wake up on a Friday morning and its seven fifty, Oh no what do i do? Not to worry i'll just FLY myself to school within a minute. Now that your at school and you are situated, its lunch time and some bullies come over to you and try to mugg you, now what? Well you have some good options, make a forcefield ( like i do everday of my life) and block them so they cant do anything, or you can just punch them with a giant sized green latern fist. This is why the Green Lantern is such a beast, he cant be stopped. Sinestro , the main villian, alredy tried to fight him using the yellow element ring, and failed miserebly to Hal Jordan. I dare you to try and beat him, he's got many more powers than what i've listed, and i mean MANY MORE.

 

If you could make up your own superpower, what would it be? Thats kind of hard, theres not alot of super powers to choose from left is there? Id probally take the ability to remake anything at my own will. Im not sure if theres a super hero who can do that, if there is go ahead and leave the name of that superheroe. But being able to touch something and turn it into whaever you want would be prety cool. Kind of like alchemist, but at the same time i wouldn't have to obey the law of equivalent exchange, nothing can be created from nothing , you must give up something of equal value, plus theres a bunch of science behind that. If im at home, just change my whole house into a transformer, no reason, just chillin with my house, or even just clean it like that. There are alot of endless posibilities to that kind of power. I could turn Mr.Sutherland into Chuck Norris if I felt like it. If you had that power, and could only do one thing with it, what would you do? Thats kind of a one wish type question, you could give earth a whole bunch of brand new natural resources, and then we would probally be out of national debt. Supernatural powers having a healing effect on our economy, thats all we could really ask for.

 

And who is your favorite superhero, we all clearely know that the green lantern is god and cannot be beaten by anyone, but if you had to choose who would it be? Or supervillian for that matter. Best superhero or best villian. If i had to choose it would probally be Venom, even tho he requires a host, he gives his host the ability of super strength, and speed. He might not be the strongest of vilians but he is one of the coolest.