Reflection

My character blog post best exemplifies my ability to analyze complex characters.  The characters can set the tone for the entire story, resulting in a successful story and theme. Having the character be complex helps the reader figure out who the character truly is and helps create a story by having the character develop throughout it. Theme is the underlying meaning to the story that is almost universal, which can help with real life situations. Each can be helpful or almost meaningless but there is always one. To analyze a theme I find patterns throughout the story between characters and what’s happening in the story.  Having characters develop and change throughout the story makes it easier and helpful to the theme, creating an interesting story.  Depending on how complex  the story and characters are developed, the theme can be found closer to the middle or the end of the story.  

               

 

      The goals I have for the next trimester is finding a more complex book with harder ways to figure out the character development and theme. I need more complex vocabulary and overall general ways of improving to a higher level of comprehension.  I also have to work on time management and remembering to do blog post and to readJ.  I would like to work on a better understanding to for analysis. In writing I would like to improve my ways to structure a paragraph and increase my vocabulary usage.

               

 

After being rescued by Kate's dad, I predict that they will continue to look for the rare plant and find it ,foiling Mr. Curtain's plans. Do you think this will happen? Will another ten men capture them for good? Do you think Dr. Curtain wants to cure his narcolepsy or think of a plan of putting a city of people to sleep to do something bad?

In the Netherlands they are lead to a castle where they research to find the rare plant that Mr. Curtain wants is a duskwort, a plant that might be extinct because its so rare. This plant can put a large amount of people to sleep and cure narcolepsy which Mr. Benedict and Mr. Curtain both have. After the library they go to a hotel for the night but were found by Mr. Curtain's workers called ten men because they have ten different ways of punishing you. All four attacked him but were defeated. When they thought that it was all over, Milligan, Kate's father saved them.

I'm not at the end to find the exact theme of the book but an overall can be " Having a friend can help overcome challenges" I used this because they're children that are traveling to different places alone to find the head of the agency. Because they are traveling off of the clues Mr. Benedict gave them many clues that  could go wrong which is very dangerous. They all work together to figure out the clues and help each other stay safe.

Likes and Dislikes
What I like about this book are the clues that they find and how they figure it out using each talent they have. An example was a clue that had several pages with sequences of words. "It's some type of word puzzle, I take it." said Sticky
"There are three words that keep being repeated.... They're always in the corner of a wide page never in a corner of a narrow. Doesn't it seem significant?" Said Constance.
This was how Constance used her talent of finding patterns to figure out these sequences leading to the ship they take.
    I dislike that the time interval between after a riddle is solved and before a new one is found is dragged out  which makes it boring.

Characters
Deep into the story, I noticed that each character is starting to change which i know they will continue to change. Reynie is a better leader, he answered most of the small riddles leading to each clue, and keeps his friends focused. Before they left for the ship, they were accompanied by Constance, Mr. Benedict's adopted  3 year old daughter that detects patterns and use it to predict the future. She also helps with her bravery and stubbornness. Sticky and Kate don't exactly change but Sticky remembers everything word by word and is starting to become less nervous and more comfortable with himself and friends. Kate uses her unique strength, speed, agility, and endurance to help the group. They sort of remind me of the Fantastic Four because they each have their own talents and help save the day.

The four kids find that Mr. Benedict planned a treasure hunt but he is not there because he was captured by his evil twin, Mr. Curtain in which he threatens all of them if they don't find a rare plant that he needs.They figure out a clue leading them to sneak out to a ship called the MV SHORTCUT which the fastest ship in the world. This takes them to a castle in Belguim finding the next clue in a barrel. The riddle unscrambled to going to a train station leading them to a library in Thernbaakagen.