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Summary:To summarize my book, the main character is named Zack and the supporting characters are his butt, a butt fighter, and a scientist. The story is about these 4 characters going back in time to save the future world form being entirely eaten up by Great white butts. The book takes place in prehistoric times. The main events that took place are the main character trying to kill all of the Great White Butts.

Static vs Dynamic Characters: The Main character of my book is dynamic because he can process the problem fast and make a solution even faster. I know this because in the book, it shows him thinking about how to save the world in the future when he sees the very first Great White Butt and wants to kill it. I have evidence of this because it says "What if, he though what if I killed the Great White Butt right now?"

Topic:5 types of conflict: Character vs nature. In the book I am reading, the conflict is character vs nature. In the book, the entire world is being attacked by massive butts and great white butts. The conflict is nature because (in this book) everyone and every creature evolved from butts. So this shows how the main conflict is nature.

Topic:Supporting Characters The 2 main supporting Characters in the book are Eleanor and Ned. I know these will be and are the supporting characters because at the beginning of the book, Eleanor saves Zack from a big brown blob that lands on him. Eleanor gets a hose and sprays him. I also know that Ned will be a supporting characters because on the back of the book, his robot will be used through out the entire story

Audience and Purpose: I believe the audience this book was made for is probably someone in 6th grade. I think this because I do find it kind of appealing and I think I would have liked to read it if I started reading this book last year. I think the purpose of this book was to make you laugh and smile. The events in this book would most likely not happen in real life, unless someone ate something radioactive.

First Person: All of the three stories in every book produced by Scott Cawthon is in first person. There is only one story where the narrator changed from one person to another because there was two main characters in the story. The story was about two girls making a robot to trap someone inside to get revenge on a different girl but the plan backfired and both those girls got trapped inside.

Setting: The setting of this book is a house and an office. It is made up here because this is where the main character of the first story works and lives.

Genre: The genre of this book is horror, fantasy, and mystery. I know this because every book this author has made revolves around a scary situation in which paranormal like activities appear and would most likely not happen in the real world

Genre: The genre of my book is horror, fantasy, and mystery. I know because every single book in the author has made is related to horror and and things that don't every happen in the real world.

Inciting Incident: I would say the main action in my book is when Alex Rider is chosen for the mission to find clues about the dead body of someone important in the book and when he does that, he falls right into the trapy of the enemy. I feel this is the Inciting Incident because this is the event that really kicks off the action and main focus of this book.

1/29 Topic: The 7 Story Archetypes:

The Story Archetype I think the book i'm reading falls into is Overcoming The Monster but the antagonist is setting out to get the protagonist. I think this because the evil organization known as Scorpia is setting out to trap then eventually kill Alex Rider.

Supporting Characters: In the book i'm reading, there isn't really a minor character that plays a role but i would say that MI6 (the organization that Alex Rider works for) kinda acts like a minor character. Without MI6, Alex wouldn't be a spy and wouldn't uncover the truth about his parents'death.

Visualize: A part in the book that i could visualize is when Alex Rider is first in introduced and in that part, its very descriptive of where he was, what he was doing, what he was wearing, and also how his body looked. I visualized a nice big front yard with very decorative bushes and also a nice big vanilla colored mansion with a nice balcony with some Roman type pillars holding it up.

Making Connections: A connection I saw was between the main character and my cousin. In the book, the main character is very young and all the enemies he had to face underestimated him for his very young age but that underestimation would end up being the downfall of his enemies. I related this to my cousin because he is very skinny, he looks like a raw spaghetti noodle but he is very strong.

Character does: the character is the main enemy in the book and he stays low and does not reveal his face to anyone because he runs a secret organization. he is trying to steal artifacts from England for around $40,000,000.

12/11 Topic: Antagonist.

The antagonist in the book i'm reading is Mr. Kurst and the Scorpia terrorist organization. Evidence for this is shown on the short description on the back of the book that says, "...But there is one enemy that wont stay down, the terrorist organization that murdered his parents and forever changed Alex's life: Scorpia." This shows that Scorpia is the enemy of the book.

GENRE:Action/Adventure. I know my book is an Action/Adventure book because there are many books in this series and it says on the back how action-packed the books are.

Static Vs. Dynamic Characters: I feel like the Static character was Monty. I feel this way because he didn't change a lot and had the same mindset throughout the whole story. I feel the dynamic character was George. He didn't have a lot of emotions but he had a changed mindset about somethings by the end of the story.

ASK QUESTIONS: Some questions I have is what time this book takes place. It doesn't seem like its in the future but more in the past, maybe around the 90's or late 80's. Another question I have is where does this take place. It was told that it was a little forest like but not a rain forest. I think it might be a bigger town that is located in maybe Tennessee or Indiana.

The protagonist in my story is George. He is a brother and the man of the house ever since his dad died when he was 5 years old. He usually walks to school with his brother during the week and on the weekend, they do jobs for a little bit of money.

The predictions I have for this book is that the older brother (George) will become a professional boxer and will live a good life. Another prediction I have is that the younger brother (Monty) might grow up to work as a boxing trainer

Monty(the younger brother) Is hanging out with Nat to do some work but he ends up getting drunk and super sick after Nat offers him alcohol. Mont stays very sick and is unable to go to school. His mother finds out and Nat leaves the apartment building.

SETTING: A half urban, half foresty town

GENRE: This book is a sports and action/adventure. This is shown because there are parts with fighting, boxing, and 1 death. The sport is shown in the beginning of the book when the kid is boxing with his dad and a few pages later when the kid is boxing with his little brother.