What I Plan to Read Next

I just finished my book Divergent and I really liked it.  Next I plan to read the second book in the series called Insurgent.  One of the reasons I want to keep reading is because the ending was very suspenseful and the book leaves the reader waiting to know what happens next.  I want to keep reading because I really want to find out what happens next.  I also want to see how the characters and the people in the society react to the events that just happened, but I'm not going to spoil what it is.  After Insurgent there is a third book called Allegiant, which I might read if the second book is even better than the first.  But I will have to read these books in the fall because to tell you the truth, I don't read over the summer except if it's for school.

The Divergent series.

Final Blogging Assessment in English 1B

Text Connections

A text-to-self connection for my book Divergent is that sometimes I feel like there is someone controlling me and not allowing me to think on my own. This is like my book because the government in my book wants you to think a certain way to be able to be controlled. But Divergents don't think one way and that is why they are so difficult to control.

A text-to-text connection for my book is to Fahrenheit 451. My book connects to Fahrenheit 451 because in the book, the government hankers to control the people and make sure that nobody can learn from books in dismay that the people might take on the government. That is why they burn the books, to prevent the people from gaining knowledge of the past and revolting against the government. A quote from my book that supports this is when Tris and her mother are talking, "But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled"(Roth pg. 442) Governments in both societies want the people to think a certain way so they can be manipulated and controlled by the government.


A text-to-world connection for my book is that in today's day and age, the government feels like a major presence in our society. Every month you hear reports on the news about how the government is being incriminated of spying or listening in on people's conversations. The technology is available that the government could be able to eavesdrop on any one's conversations. The government can use technology like this to control and manage the people. The government claims that they use this type of technology to prevent terrorist plots or other tragedies from happening. But most people feel like they are violating their privacy. This is like my book because in the book, the Erudite have created a serum with transmitters to take control over the Dauntless soldiers to kill the Abnegation people.

I myself am against this idea of the government spying on the people for many reasons for example privacy! Hello? Does really anyone want the government watching and listening to them 24/7? No! How do you, the reader, feel about this issue in our society today? Comment your opinion.

A picture of a sign saying the Government is watching people

A cartoon sketch of the government spying on the people.

Here is a link to the 'New York Times' website article talking about this issue.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/facebooks-zuckerberg-complains-to-obama-over-government-spying/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Paragraph 1:  Throughout the trimester I have tried to include different styles of syntax and diction in my blog posts.  But in my final post I included a few different examples of syntax and diction.  One example of formal/ elevated diction from my post is in the text-to-self paragraph when I write, “My book connects to Fahrenheit 451 because in the book, the government hankers to control the people and make sure that nobody can learn from books in dismay that the people might take on the government.”  To make the sentence more elegant or formal I replaced simple words like want and fear with words like hankers and dismay.  These words show a little bit of my voice in the piece and make the piece more formal.  An example of syntax in my post is a mix of punctuation and short sentences at the end when I write, “I myself am against this idea of the government spying on the people for many reasons for example privacy! Hello? Does really anyone want the government watching and listening to them 24/7? No! How do you, the reader, feel about this issue in our society today?”  I feel like the short sentences and the different punctuations help show my voice in the paragraph.  It also connects with the audience by asking questions and voicing my own opinion.  These styles of both syntax and diction help me show my voice in the post.

Paragraph 2: My goal this trimester was to actively engage the reader, contain compelling ideas, take advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically by consistently including links, pictures.  First trimester when I blogged I really didn’t fulfill any of my goals above.  That is why over the course of this trimester I have tried to work toward this goal.  A few ways I have worked toward this goal was that in my first post and a few others I incorporated links to website discussing a topic or relating to my book.  For example one link was to a faction quiz for my book while another was linked to an article discussing government spying on the people.  Another way I have worked toward my goal of actively engaging the reader with compelling ideas is by asking questions for the reader to think about and answer.  This keeps the reader attentive and pays attention to what I wrote in a post so that they can answer it.  I also give my opinion on a topic and that allows room for a debate in the comments section.  In conclusion throughout the trimester and especially throughout the year I have worked to improve the content an quality in my blog using techniques I have learned this year and in previous years.

Text Connections

  A text-to-self connection for my book Divergent is that sometimes I feel like there is someone controlling me and not allowing me to think on my own.  This is like my book because the government in my book wants you to think a certain way to be able to be controlled.  But Divergents don't think one way and that is why they are so difficult to control.

  A text-to-text connection for my book is to Fahrenheit 451.  My book connects to Fahrenheit 451 because in the book, the government hankers to control the people and make sure that nobody can learn from books in dismay that the people might take on the government.  That is why they burn the books, to prevent the people from gaining knowledge of the past and revolting against the government.  A quote from my book that supports this is when Tris and her mother are talking, "But our minds move in a dozen different directions.  We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders.  It means we can't be controlled"(Roth pg. 442)  Governments in both societies want the people to think a certain way so they can be manipulated and controlled by the government.


  A text-to-world connection for my book is that in today's day and age, the government feels like a major presence in our society.  Every month you hear reports on the news about how the government is being incriminated of spying or listening in on people's conversations.  The technology is available that the government could be able to eavesdrop on any one's conversations.  The government can use technology like this to control and manage the people.  The government claims that they use this type of technology to prevent terrorist plots or other tragedies from happening.  But  most people feel like they are violating their privacy.  This is like my book because in the book, the Erudite have created a serum with transmitters to take control over the Dauntless soldiers to kill the Abnegation people.

I myself am against this idea of the government spying on the people for many reasons for example privacy!  Hello?  Does really anyone want the government watching and listening to them 24/7?  No!How do you, the reader, feel about this issue in our society today?  Comment your opinion.

A picture of a sign saying the Government is watching people.

A cartoon sketch of the government spying on the people.

Here is a link to the 'New York Times' website article talking about this issue.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/facebooks-zuckerberg-complains-to-obama-over-government-spying/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Letter to the Author

  If I wrote a letter to the author of my book Veronica Roth, I would tell her my thoughts and opinions.  The letter would be written similar to the one below.

Dear Veronica Roth,

  Hi, my name is Nate Berman, I am a freshman at Mason High School and I am currently your book "Divergent."  I am almost finished with the book and I really like it.  I like how you have created this futuristic dystopian society that is split up into 5 factions but I do want to know why and what happened to make this society this way.  I also like how you keep the reader such as myself guessing by incorporating lots of suspenseful parts to the story and using some elevated diction throughout the story for example on page 357 when Tris thinks, "My stomach twinges at the thought of him."(Roth pg. 357)  This diction makes the reader be able to picture her stomach twinging and there is more sentences like this throughout the story.  Something I don't like about the book is that you only focus on Tris and you don't show the reader what life in the other factions is like.

  Overall I really like the book and all of the plot twists the most.  I am definitely going to try and read the other books in the series.

                                      Sincerely, Nate Berman

Veronica Roth and the cover of the book.

The Best/ Worst Things About My Book

  So I am almost done with my book and I want to share some reasons about the best things of my book.  First my favorite reason is that there is a very good and easy to follow story line.  There isn't any flashbacks that would confuse me and it is a very smooth and steady plot.  Another reason I love this book is that the plot is very suspenseful and it makes me want to keep reading to find out more.  Another reason is the setting.  The setting is in a dystopian future that has the people split up into 5 different factions.  Before I bought the book I read the summary and I was immediately drawn in because it sounded interesting, the plot seemed good and the setting is in a dystopian future.

  Now some of the worst things about my book are.  One thing is that it mainly only focuses on Tris,  the reader doesn't get to follow any of the other character who chose different factions.  I would like to know how other people are doing during their initiations.  Another thing is that the reader is not given a lot of information about how the world changed and the government creating factions.  Overall I love my book and highly recommend it if you want an action, suspenseful and thrilling book.

My book "Divergent" different factions.

Character Symbols and Animals

  A symbol that would represent the main character Tris would be a chimpanzee.  Chimps are very unpredictable, strong and intelligent like Tris is in the book.  Tris might appear small and weak but she is smart and knows how to fight.  She can be unpredictable in the way she fights whether she ruthlessly destroys her opponent without mercy or fights her enemies physiologically.  A chimp is not very big but they are very intelligent and they are incredibly strong and have the ability to rip your limbs off over your body and this is why they are so unpredictable like Tris.

  A symbol that would represent Four is a lion.  Lions are the kings of the jungles and are leaders, strong, vicious and also unpredictable like Four.  Four is one of the instructors over seeing the training of the initiates.  Four is leader and mentor to the initiates, he is also strong and can be vicious if he is in a fight, like when Tris was being beat up he came in and beat up the attackers.  Lion's are also big and are leaders to other lions just like Four.

Tris is like a chimp.

Four is like a lion.

Krista Ramsey Introduction Activity

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/columnists/krista-ramsey/2014/03/15/krista-ramsey-third-grade-reading-guarantee/6475723/

My article is about a 3rd grade teacher Jeni Ernsthausen who wants to help her students pass the OAA.  She doesn't want to be bore them with too much reading and writing but wants to get kids to like to read and be ready for the next grade and even in a job one day.

The line I think is best written is, "It has taken two years of legislating and countless hours of hammering out rules and time lines, but Ohio’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee is fully in place this year."(Ramsey)  The impact of this quote on the reader is that the reader feels like this is a very fancy and important sentence because Ramsey uses elegant diction like 'legislating' and 'hammering'.  The use of these words makes the reader picture Ernsthausen almost literally hammering time lines and knowledge into her student's heads.  The sentence is also a good form of elegant syntax.

Krista Ramsey's writing style is a elaborate and well organized style.  An example of this from the article above is, "She also has a very good handle on something the state’s not measuring at all: not just if her students can read, but if they will read." (Ramsey)

Some questions I have for Ramsey are:

1: Where do you go or what do you see to get ideas to write about?
2: What kind of education did you receive and where did you go to college?
3: Would you have ever considered being a writing teacher or language arts teacher?

Character Development

  I am about half way done with my book now but the main character Tris has already changed a lot throughout the book.  At the beginning of the book, Beatrice Prior was a normal 16 year old girl part of the Abnegation faction.  After her aptitude test showed she was divergent and after she chose Dauntless at the choosing ceremony, Tris has undergone many changes.  The first change is that before the choosing ceremony Tris really didn't know where she belonged and after all her training and time spent with the Dauntless, she finally found out that she loved the Dauntless.  Tris feels more free and has the ability to do more things than she could in the Abnegation Faction.

 
  The second change Tris has gone through is that she is now a better fighter and she is much tougher now.  At the beginning of initiation Tris was a terrible fighter and didn't want to hurt anyone, but after other initiates bullied her Tris became tough and when she fought she fought without mercy.  When she was fighting Molly (one of the bullies), Tris beat her to the ground and kept kicking her until Four the trainer pulled her away.  The third change is that Tris is now becoming one of the Dauntless.  At the beginning of the book, Tris was a selfless Abnegation girl but after doing things like jumping from a moving train to zip lining off of the top of the highest building in the city has transformed her and made her brave.  Tris feels like she can relate and fit in with other Dauntless members and really trusts them.

This is the main character Tris.

Future Predictions and Questions

  So far in my book a lot has happened.  I am only on page 179 out of 487 but I still have lots of questions and predictions.  So my first question is, why does the Dauntless faction have to get so many piercings and tattoos to show their bravery?  Eric who is one of the Dauntless leaders has many piercings covering his face and head and I feel like this doesn't show bravery at all it just makes him look ugly and scary.  My next question is, what is beyond the fences around the city that the Dauntless patrol?  In the book Tris and other initiates take a field trip to the fence that surrounds the city and Tris noticed that when they closed the gates, the lock was on the outside which makes me wander if they are keeping something out or in.

  Another question I had was, what happened to this future society that made the government turn to the faction system and why are divergents do dangerous to the system?  So the government says that the only way the society will survive is if the people know what faction they belong in.  Many people have different opinions on what led to the faction systems, like some say that people were to selfish and wanted power.  Some future predictions I have is that Four will find out that Tris is Divergent because Tris is intelligent, brave and selfless which means she is more than one type of faction.  Another prediction I have is that Tris will have to fight Peter and she will beat him because she recently just beat Molly and Tris is angry at what they did to her and tells herself that she will hurt them.  My final prediction is that Al and many other initiates will not pass and become factionless because they are to weak or not Dauntless material.

This is the main character Tris practicing on a punching bag.

Divergent Summary

  So far in my book "Divergent" by Veronica Roth we know that the setting takes place in a dystopian future in Chicago.  The people are split into 5 different factions to keep peace and balance.   There is a day every year in which all 16 year olds will choose the faction that they will live in for the rest of their lives.  Once they have selected by drawing blood and letting the blood fall into a bowl of their chosen faction, they are now a initiate of that faction and may never see their family again.  Once they have selected they must go through initiation into the faction and those who do not pass or do not choose a faction will live factionless and homeless for the rest of their lives.


  The 5 factions are Candor (Honest), Abnegation (Selfless), Amity (Peaceful), Erudite (Intelligent), and Dauntless (Brave).  The main story follows a girl named Beatrice who later changes her name to Tris, as she goes to school on the day of the aptitude test to help her make her choice on what faction to pick.  She drinks a blue liquid and goes through several simulations that are supposed to narrow down which faction she would fit the best into.  The tester Tori leaves the room then returns and says, "Beatrice, your results were inconclusive.  Typically, each stage of the simulation eliminates one or more of the factions, but in your case only 2 have been ruled out… People who get this kind of result are… are called… Divergent."(Roth pg's 21-22)

  In this dystopian society people who are Divergent are considered dangerous to the system.  Why do you think Divergent's threaten the system and people's way of life in this world?
Also post what you got on your test and what faction you are best suited for.

The cover of the book.

Here is a link that will lead you to an aptitude test to find our which faction you would be best to live in.

http://assets.divergentthemovie.com/aptitudetest/


Here is a link to another test.

http://www.divergentfactions.com/divergent-faction-quiz.html

About The Author Veronica Roth

  The book I will be reading and blogging about this trimester is called "Divergent" by Veronica Roth.  Some information about the author Veronica Roth is that she is 22 years old and a graduate of Northwestern University.  Roth graduated with a degree in creative writing.  While she was a student there, she chose to work on the story that would soon become "Divergent", instead of doing her homework.  In my opinion, that was a very smart move by Roth because now she is very well known author because of the success the Divergent series has had.

  Roth is now a full time writer and lives near Chicago which is a coincidence because the book takes  place in Chicago.  "Divergent" is Roth's first novel and surely not the last, as she has 2 sequals to the book already and a movie that came out on March 21, 2014.  Veronica Roth is an amazing author and as I have started reading the book I can see that she really spent time writing and imagining the world that the book takes place in.

This is a picture of Veronica Roth.

About The Author

  Charlie Higson is an author, actor, comedian, and writer.  He wrote the very popular "Young Bond" series which has sold millions of copies worldwide.  He began his zombie adventure series for teenagers in 2009 with "The Enemy" and 1 year later came out with "The Dead."  Charlie is a huge fan of horror movies and books and studied gothic literature in college.  He has 3 teenagers and he says they are his inspiration for these teenager based novels.  He currently lives in London, England.

  He was born on July 3rd, 1958 in Somerset, England.  Charlie formed the band the band The Higsons where he was the lead singer and they released 2 singles.  He stared in many television programs on BBC as an extra.  Charlie Higson is still writing good books for teens even today and is  a world known author.















This is a picture of Charlie Higson.

Analysis of a Piece of Text

 
  A paragraph of text from my book, "The Enemy" by Charlie Higson is on page 439 when the leader of the grown ups is trying to figure out who he is.  "Fat man.  Bald.  White vest with a a red cross on it.  He knew the words.  Saint George.  Then he smiled.  The man was him.  It was was... What was it?  A mirror?  A window?  Yes.  He was Saint George.  A crusader.  That made him happy.   To remember hard words like that.  He was Saint George.  This city belonged to him."(pg. 439)

  This text is at the very end of the book.  Obviously we know that this guy is not alive.  He is one of the millions of other brain dead grown ups who want to kill the children.  But this guy is different from the rest of the other grown ups.  He is more intelligent and is able to get other grown ups to follow him into battle.  This guy believes he is Saint George who was a was a soldier in the Roman army and later venerated as a Christian Martyr.  He was believed to be born in 303 A.D and was a great military general.  The guy must have died with the Saint George Red Cross shirt on so he thinks he is him.

  It is believed in the story that this guy was one of the last alive grown ups to turn into a zombie so his brain isn't as rotten and therefore he is more intelligent.  Earlier in the book his army lost a battle to Arran and the kids so he has now sworn to kill them all.  He looks in the mirror or what he thinks is a mirror and tells himself that he is Saint George,  a crusader and that this city is his.  I predict in the next book the kids will see him again but I think Saint George will be more prepared and kill all of the kids with his undead army.
















This is the cross of Saint George.

Zombies

  Many books, movies and T.V shows in the past couple of years have been about zombies.  For example my book "The Enemy", by Charlie Higson.  An outbreak of a disease turns mostly every person on the planet into a brain dead zombie that only wants meat.  Only children survived and must survive in this new harsh world where they adapt to survive, or act stupid and get themselves killed.  Another example is The Walking Dead, which is a T.V series on AMC following a character named Rick Grimes and his struggle with other survivors to survive.  It is kind of like a W plot that never seems to end.  The show is in its 4th season and many people Rick has loved have died and every time they think they have a breakthrough something bad happens which puts the hero back a step and somehow he will overcome that obstacle.

  In the new season, where Rick and many survivors are living in a prison where walkers or zombies are trying to break trough the fences every day.  New illnesses are making people sick inside the prison and when they die they turn into a walker and want to only kill and eat live meat.  Recently the prison was attacked and many people died, walkers almost knocked the fences down and many people are getting scared.

  They always seems like in science fiction stories it always take place in a post apocalyptic future where a disease killed most of the population and turned them into zombies where a hero and his friends struggle to survive and there is always other survivors that want each other dead and everyone struggles to survive.

This is a picture of the popular T.V show The Walking Dead.

Theme

  The theme of "The Enemy" by Charlie Higson is that you shouldn't trust people you don't know.  I think this is the theme because the kids at Waitrose were all by themselves living badly until a kid they have never met before asks them to leave everything behind to come to Buckingham Palace on what the kid says and from pictures.  They were promised a new safe life but when they get there the leader David seemed nice but he only wanted the Waitrose kids to fight for him so he can rule London.  They also don't get a lot of fun time and the food is terrible.  An example to support this is when David locks Blue and Maxie in the nursery and not letting them leave.  David locks them a
in the room and says, "When you see sense, you can join the others.  In the meantime, I'm taking charge of all your kids.  Good night."

  At first David seemed like a nice guy and promised a new safe life but was just a kid wanting power, and put Maxie and BLue (the leaders) in house arrest.  Another example is when Small Sam was taken in by Nick and Rachael in the subway tunnels.  Nick rescued him and they fed him but when Sam fell asleep he was handcuffed and locked in another car with other kids.  He assumed they wanted to eat him and fatten him up.

Final Thoughts

  After finishing my book I really liked it so I wanted to see if there was a second book in the series. It turns out there is like 4 more books in the series and I am looking forward to reading them.  My book was kind of sad throughout the whole story because you would learn about a a characters and what they did before the disaster and you got to know them.  Then in the next chapter they might end of dying like many important characters like Arran, Freak, Deak, Joel,  Rhiannon, Calum and Rose.  The book was full of plot twists and surprises.

  One example is when Arran died, another is that David is a tyrant and kept Maxie's people at the palace.  A very important example is when the girl Maxie saved told them that there are tons of other kids living around London surviving and it isn't just David.  The suspense of Achilleus winning the fight was really engrossing and I didn't want to stop reading.

  Overall I really liked the book and I now want to read the other books in the series.






This is another picture of the book "The Enemy" by Charlie Higson.

Update 4

  Well I finished the book.  The book was interesting the whole way through but the ending took me by surprise.  When we left off the fighters were helping David get control over the squatters.  But now they were all gathered together in a room at Buckingham Palace discussing a deal.  The squatters would agree to help them and let them farm in the park if, Achilleus and John would have a fair fight.  So that night in the courtyard Achilleus and John fought to the death with John's deadly 3 knifed spear and Achilleus's spear.  The whole fight Achilleus was losing when he was cut in the chest, the neck, the face and even part of his ear was cut off.

  John was bigger, but not as smart as Achilleus.  Eventually John's spear was down to 1 knife and Achilleus kept up a smooth rhythm of jabs at John but missed every time.  He was waiting until John let his guard down then he quickly attacked John fast and ferociously.  It happened so fast and the next moment John was on the ground pinned and pleaded for death but Achilleus didn't want to.  After the fight Achilleus had to get bandaged and his ear stitched back together.  Later Maxie and Blue were talking in the sick hall about leaving the Palace as David has taken charge.  They are then kept prisoner but Ollie escapes and they create a plan to escape.

  David left 2 guards at the door, but inside Maxie and Blue were learning the truth about David.  A girl who was badly attacked was in their telling them that there are many other groups of kids around London surviving.  She and many kids were living at the Natural History Museum where it was safe.  But David wouldn't let her go back.  So that night Ollie released the Royal family zombies into the Palace.  David and his guards would be so busy finding them that the Waitrose and Morrison's could sneak outside.  Achilleus and Lewis freed Blue and Maxie as they all left the Palace that night before David could stop them.

  Sam and the other kid escaped from Nick, who in the sunlight instantaneously had boils and burns on him as he turned into a pile of goop.  But they were lost and they thought they were going to die.  But 4 boys in armor saved them and led them to the Tower of London where 70 kids were living good inside the castle and protected by a moat from danger.

  The very last chapter of the book was weird as one grown up who was fat, had glasses and a St. George cross shirt was destroying cars and thinking to himself that he wouldn't lose another battle.  The kids would not beat him next time and thought that he was the mighty Saint George who was a great war general hundreds of years ago.  He riled up all his grown up army also.  I did some research on him and he is believed to be the last human that turned into a zombie and his brain might not be as rotten as the other grown ups because he wasn't affected as early as them.

This is the Tower of London where the boys who saved Sam are living.

Character Development

  Maxie:  At the beginning of my book Maxie was Arran's second in command.  Maxie is now the leader of the Waitrose kids but still doesn't have as much power as David does at the palace.  She used to be scared of the grown ups and scared of losing her friends but she is now not fearful and is angry at the grown ups for what they have done.  After Arran died somebody had to step up.  At first Maxie was scared to take command but Blue convinced her that everyone needed a leader to follow, and Maxie was the only choice.  She rises to the challenge when one presents itself to lead.

  Achilleus:  Achilleus hasn't changed at all since the beginning of the story.  In the beginning he was  a big tough guy who was good at fighting.  He didn't have any good relationships with any of the other children, he would keep to himself and defend everyone if he had to.  Later in the book he is mainly unchanged.  He still keeps to himself, does as he is told and protects everyone  if they are under attack.

  Arran:  Arran was the brave leader of the waitrose kids.  He was smart, brave, strong and kind.  He was always looking out for everyone and keeping everyone together.  He was going to lead all of the kids to the palace safely until they were overrun by a large pack of grown ups.  He was weak from a bite in his neck but fought and did everything he could to make sure no kid would die.  He fought until they forced the grown up back until he was hit in the lung with an arrow.  An accident, Arran lied on the ground in pain but kept the strength a will to push on.  Sadly Achilleus wanted to speed things up and pulled the arrow out which killed Arran.  He died a brave fighter in battle and would have kept everyone alive at all costs.

  David:  All though we don't know much about David Ollie thinks everything at the palace isn't as he made it out to be.  He wants to gain power over London using the dead royal family.  They don't have as much food as they need to feed all of the new children.  David also wants to use Maxie and her friends to help him take over London.  David and his real intensions are unknown. 

This is a picture of what life could look like after the apocalypse happened.

Update 3

  After all of the kids went on their shopping spree for new clothes, they continued their journey to Buckingham Palace.  When they arrived there were kids in the British guard outfits with rifles on the the walls to watch the gate.  They opened the gates as Palace kids living there rushed to greet the new survivors.  Jester introduced them all to David who is 17 years old and the leader at the Palace.  David showed them around the palace and introduced them to the head gardener and nurse.

  That night they all met in the dining hall to have a good feast of food.  While everybody was chowing down on food Ollie thought it was time for him to start snooping around the palace because David didn't seem like the person he looks to be.  Ollie was looking around and found his way in the darkness to the kitchen where chef's were working to cook food.  There were about 20 Palace kids eating in the kitchen eating terrible looking soup while Ollie's friends were all feasting upstairs.  He then knew something was off about the Palace.

  The next morning David unveiled what was left of the royal family chained to their thrones a zombies.  David wants to keep them alive and to reunite London under the Royal family again and to give people hope.  He ordered Blue and anyone else who wanted to go to deal with wild savage squatters in St. James park.  David wants them to be gone so they can increase their gardening and food planting.  

  About 40 fighters went while the non fighters and little kids stayed back to play in the Palace.  Their shear size was to intimidate the squatters to move away.  When they arrived their leader Just John was being very stubborn to not move when Achilleus used his sledge hammer to knock out John and fighting broke out.  The Waitrose kids were fighting the other squatters while the Palace fighters went to pull down the pathetic shacks they lived in.  Freak was at the Palace and heard the fighting, he went over to help as it started to rain.

  Freak was helping Maxie who was on the ground in pain when Just John stabbed Freak in the back which later killed Freak.  Maxie in rage took out Arran's club and smashed and broke John's nose which started bleeding.  She threatened to kill him when the other squatters gave up.

  While this is happening Small Sam is still trapped with other kids in the subways.  But one night a boy comes to their rescue and breaks Sam and Rhiannon out while the twins are to weak to move.

This is Buckingham Palace where Maxie and her friend's will be living for saftey.

Book Recommendation

  A book that I recommend that people should read is "No Easy Day" by Mark Owen.  The book is about the largest manhunt in U.S history, where a group of people spent 10 years tracking Osama Bin Laden after the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.  The book also is about everything that the Navy Seals went through like months of training to kill 1 man.  Everything was planned out for years with good intel, a 3D model of the base and they had to work until they could actually complete the mission, and end Bin Laden's life.

  At first before I read this book I was a little skeptical because I didn't think the book was going to be that exciting but I was completely wrong.  It was very informative and gave firsthand accounts of every person's point of view during the raid.  I liked learning about all the intel people had to gather and everything everyone involved had to do to complete one of the most important and biggest assassination missions in the United State's history.

This is the cover of "No Easy Day," by Mark Owen.