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Topic: Protagonist : In the book Home is where the bodies are, the protagonist is Beth. Beth is the daughter of "mother" and she took care of the mother during her final months. But Beth, Nichole and Michael will all find why their parents killed someone and who it is.

Topic: Audience and purpose: The Audience for this book are people that have sympathy and are uneducated of the troubles of living in a communist country that is undergoing a war. And the purpose of for R.F. Wong to have a book that she put out that relates to her life and so it is kind of a journal to show how she felt during this time.

Topic:Setting: The setting in the book is southern Asia. This includes China,Hong Kong, Taiwan and it also includes America too. Also this book takes place from the late 1950's to the 1970's This includes when they moved to Hong Kong and when May-May and Ann-Ann

Topic:Story Archetypes: I think the story Archetype is Rags to riches. I think that it is rags to riches because the single mother of 2 has to make around the world and try and stabilize the family in a very expensive country (Hong Kong.) She also is having trouble bringing all of here kids to Hong Kong because the bus fair is to big to come from China and has to sell her Jewelry to help.

Topic:Types of conflict: This book is a story about a family living in a communist China and trying to escape to Hong Kong and or America. Science they are trying to escape their country it is a character vs. society science China is the society and Lassan May-May and Ann-Ann are the characters.

Topic:Make predictions: I believe that the killer may be one of Cassie's co-workers. I have been noticing that they have been acting weird and blaming other people randomly. I also feel that Cassie is catching on to the suspicion of the co-worker.

Story Archtypes: I believe that Bad Blood is overcoming the monster as they are trying to find and stop the killer. Even though Cassie and the team of FBI agents have not found the killer yet they are reveling many facts about the person are on the search for them.

Topic: Point of View The point of view in the book bad blood is first person narrator. Cassie ( the main character) talks with the words "I" and talks about others as they, she, he etc. Their is also part of the book that is in the point of view in the killers mind and that is 3rd person omniscient because the killer explains what the feelings and the fear of the victims and the FBI's frustration not finding them.

I believe that the Inciting Incident is her mother dying and an FBI agent wanting to talk to her. So from just hearing that, it is interesting which already gets the attention of the reader. From their, the author goes on with the story showing how she used her mom's death not to put herself down but to help others in her situation.

Out of all of the 7 archetypes I believe that my book is overcoming the monster and tragedy. In the begging it is more tragedy focusing more on her and her mom who got murdered, but later it is about Cassie trying to help find the person who killed her mother and other people. Their is also other people that she finds along the way while being in the FBI camp and solving cases that help her.

I think that a very important supporting character is the murderer. This book is based around Cassie and her solving cases. In the first book she was doing her training and the second book and this one is about her solving cases and trying to find who did it, but if we didn't have this murderer we wouldn't be about solving cases Their wouldn't be a story to read about. Although we don't know them they are important.

Whenever I read this book I get a chilling feeling. Especially when their is a murder. But when they are just living life like in the living area and Cassie sneaking around it feels more chill and I imagine them being in bunk beds not individual rooms.

I think that this book is very similar to the book called Promise Boys that was also a murder mystery book and I think a connection they have together was that the murderer was right in front of them the whole time. In Promise Boys the principal was the person who died and a student was the one who killed him, and in Killer Instinct they found the person who killed someone was a suspect the whole time.

Characterization: When I read Killer Instinct and I see how Cassie feels she probably feels on-edge. When ever she is in a situation she is very conchies and makes sure to learn and understand what situation she's in to go from their. When she came to Trina Simms house she was very understanding and was learning from the face expressions and the way that they talked with Trina.

Antagonist Their are 2 antagonists in this story. The first one is the serial killer because she is trying to stop the murders that is being created from this person that she doesn't know yet and figure out who it is to stop them. The other antagonist is Cassie, her self. While she is going through training and the cases, she is also trying to find the person who killed her mother and that is hard on her.

Genre: I think that the genre of the book Killer Instinct is mystery and thriller. I think this because their is a lot of suspense when their is an intense scene and thriller because it involves crime and is very exciting from page to page.

Static vs Dynamic: Agent sterling is a static character because she saved Cassie's life. This was shown when she shot someone in the back of the head who was chocking Cassie to death. Cassie is the dynamic charterer though, this is shown from how she has changed from a waitress at a diner to an agent that is cracking asses. She used to be a little girl in her home town but now she is one of the FBI's best assets.

From the start of The Naturals book I was wondering why Cassie wanted to be an FBI agent. But starting the book Killer Instinct I was thinking it was because it was finding who killed her mother but that is only half of it. She knows it's difficult when someone kills someone you love so she's trying to find them and get you the justice and satisfaction of punishing who killed a loved one.

The protagonist in this book is Cassie. She is a 17-year old girl who learns that she can't trust everyone she meets. Everyone thinks that she is very intelligent, helpful and to some, a beautiful person. She has made it far in her training camp to crack cases so she wont be stopping anytime soon.

Prediction: My prediction is Cassie is going to find the killer that is killing all of these people and the person who killed her mom. She'll probably kill them with a gun because she is taking lessons and is very upset about the situation or put them in jail for life. I really hope I'm right so she can be happy in the end.

I believe that the conflict in my story is character vs character. I think this because their is a girl named Cassie and she is trying to find the killer who killed her mom and other people. Although she is trying to find someone she doesn't know their name house or phone number.

I believe that the point of view in my book is 1st person. I know this because she said " as I was pouring the water he asked for a side of Jalapenos." Not only is it proven that its first person because she said "I" but she also said "pouring" as in the act of pouring the water.

The book starts at the dinner where Cassie works. The book though is based in Stafford, Virginia. This is where the FBI training camp is for profiling, then they will move around different places to look at homicides and figure out what happened. I know this because in the beginning of the book Agent Briggs asks Cassie's grandmother if he can take her to the training camp in Stafford Virginia.