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SETTING: The setting of the story takes place in Lisbon, Portugal. The timing takes place in the late 1970's to late 1980's. It takes place and begins in the summer season and the month of July as he flies to Portugal for his marine biology career. His trip lasts the whole summer and the timeline of this book goes up to a few months. Throughout the summer, Adam gets caught in a spy battle and Poly gets kidnapped.

INCITING INCIDENT: The inciting incident in the book is an important event that is when Poly is kidnapped. Adam eventually rescues her from the kidnappers with help of Typhon Cutter. During the flight from Madrid to Lisbon, Poly ask's Adam to take her to the Ritz. Shortly after this, she goes to the airplane's restroom and completely vanishes from the flight. The flight crew also denies she was on the passenger list.

My topic is visualize. The story describes so far how the character Adam Eddington makes his way to Portugal. I can visualize what Portugal looks like when it says, "Ugly apartments crowded upon beautiful old houses with walled gardens... There were many billboards of American products like Pepsi-cola, Coca-cola, and toothpaste." This helps me visualize what the city of Madrid looks like and how it surprised Adam.