The Darkest Minds (Book One)
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Book Report
Title of the Book: The Darkest Minds (Book 1)Author: Alexandra Bracken
Date Started/Date Completed: 10/02/2019/10/12/2019
Pages Read: 488
Genre: Fantasy/Science Fiction
Author
Alexandra Bracken is an American author of fantasy novels for young adults. She was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, alongside her older sister and younger brother where she lived until she left for university. She graduated from The College of William and Mary in Virginia with a Bachelor’s degree in History and English. She wrote her first two novels whilst still in college and signed with an agent when she was just 21. She moved to New York straight out of college to attend a publishing course. She was then employed in the publishing industry for five years before becoming a full time writer.Her debut novel, Brightly Woven, achieved third place in the 2010 GoodReads Choice Awards for Best Debut Author. She was also chosen to be the writer behind the novelisation of Episode IV A New Hope: The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farmboy. Perhaps her most well-known novels are those in her The Darkest Minds series. This series follows a girl with extraordinary powers following a battle with a deadly disease. She is left as one of the few surviving children of America and has to fight for a life worth living.
Alexandra Bracken has mentioned in interviews that she was hugely influenced by British authors of children’s books, namely JK Rowling and Roald Dahl. She has said that Dahl’s books are largely responsible for her own aspirations to be an author of books for children. Like many people of her generation, she grew up reading Harry Potter and felt the books to be an important part of her adolescence.
Questions
Rating of the book: 9/10
Briefly summarize the book
When Ruby turned ten, her life changed completely, a rare disease named IAAN started to spread in her school, and the school started to report whose who had the disease. Then Ruby fell ill of the IAAN disease, making her parents forget her and start to call the police, leaving her at the Thourmond camp. Six years had passed and she discovers that she is one of the Psi kids, but one of the dangerous ones. She also made a lot of mistakes during the development of the novel. After that she met, Liam, a leader, Chubs, the smartest one, and Zu, who is an Asian girl, that can´t talk. In the end she returned with two people that she had met before.
Describe a character/person who changes the most from the beginning to the end of the book. Explain the change and what caused it.
Ruby, is the character that changed the most, she made a lot of mistakes during the development of the novel, and that led to many consequences. She passed from an insecure girl from a more secure version of herself. The cause of her change was her friendship with Chubs and Zu and her love for Liam, also, her past experiences.
Describe a minor character/person of the book who had major importance in the book.Explain
The minor character who had major importance in the book was Grace because she was the first girl of Ruby s class that died from IAAN disease.
Describe one major external conflict and one major internal conflict found in this book.
One major external conflict in this book is the spread of the IAAN disease, and one major internal conflict is the insecurities of Liam.
Above you rated this book. Explain why you gave this book that score
I rated the book a nine, because it was a little boring at first but then I liked how Ruby developed as a character and the story itself.
Evaluate the end of the book.Considering the book unfolded is it an effective ending and why?
It is an effective ending, because Cate could find Ruby and made the promise of letting free Liam. and made Ruby stay, letting this to a suspense.
Choose (5) of the following sentences starters and make a brief reflection of each one.
I think I never liked Greg.
I’m surprised that Zu wanted to go with her cousin .
I’d like to know if Chubs is alive or not.
I realized that Chase was lying all this time.
If I were Ruby I would appreciate what Sam had done to me.
The intended audiences are from 9-17 years old
Unknown words
dimly: with a faint light, not brightly
Example: A single lamp glowed dimply in the room
cramped: unconfortably small of restricted.
Example: She had to work in a cramped room.
grouse: synonym of complain
Example: He groused of his problems
sputter: to spit or squirt from the mouth with explosive sounds.
Example: Dylan sputters every day at my house.
whine: to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry.
Example: They whine a lot a cause of the death of their mother.
bearable: tolerable
Example: My years at school were awful, but it was bearable because there were my friends.
lethargic: inactive
Example: I am lethargic while I am sleeping.
splotchers: to be suceptible with stains or bolts.
Example: There is a lot of splotchers on my skirt.
Seep: bleed
Example:Two subjects seep in the ground
murky: dark or dirty or difficult to see through
Example: the river was murky.
velvety: soft
Example: My thoughts are very velvety, like a feather.
afterthought: an idea happening later
Example: I have an afterthought after the party.
gutter: indecent
Example: The people of these place are gutter.
sag: slack
Example I sagged against the bus.
deflate: to release air or gas from.
Example: the balloon was deflated.
jolting: shock
Example: I was jolting, from the news.
sedan: a portable often covered chair that is designed to carry one person and that is borne on poles by two people.
Example: I have two sedans in my house
swerve: to cause to turn aside or deviate
Example: We had to swerve because an accident happened.
grope: to feel it about it blindly or uncertainly in search.
Example: The girl is groping about her childhood.
jimmy: a short, strong metal bar with a curved end, often used to force things open for example by thieves to force open windows or doors.
Example: We began to jimmy the door, so it could open.
reek: vapor
The cloth began to reek of a strange odor.
References
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/diccionario/ingles/jimmyhttp://www.webbiography.com/biographies/alexandra-bracken
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