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INCITING INCIDENT: When the antagonist Ashfur takes Squireelflight, Thunderclan's deputy into the spirit world known as The Place of No Stars. Bristlefrost, Shadowsight, and Rootspring, have to embark on the adventure to save Squirrelflight and figure out what Ashfurs plans are. He has taken all authority through manipulation in the spirit realm where he can controls all the spirits to his bidding.

ARCHETYPES: My story is overcoming the monster, the main characters Bristle'Frost, Root'Spring, and Shadow'Sight are in the quest of trying to defeat the enemy known as Ash'Fur who wants to destroy their homeland on the lake. He locks spirited cats as his hostage and locked away the living from communicating to the dead. He possesses the living cats and uses them to manipulate the others to turn on their clans.

SUMMARY: The story takes place in a forest that surrounds a lake, with an island in the middle in which they call the gathering place. The main characters are named Rootspring, Bristlefrost, and Shadowsight. The story is about a cruel spirit named Ashfur who wishes to destroy all the clans by possessing one of the leaders who is named Bramblestar using him to manipulate all the clans and turn against each other.

VISUALIZE: In the book they are very descriptive about the landscape, the clans, cats, fights, and even the starry sky above. For example on page 207 it says "Thick clouds covered the sky, hiding the moon and stars, and scarcely a glint of light touched the dark water...could hear the quiet gurgle of the current and the soft paw steps of cats.." They also describe their feelings and the forest sounds of birds.

TEXT to TEXT:This book reminds me of another book called Wings Of Fire where they too have clans like the clans in Warriors. In WOF they have many problems just like the cats. I remember one being where they found their lost princess after 7 years and in Warriors they found a lost clan. Another one is where they had an imposter dragon or a dragon being mind controlled, and in Warriors they are facing an imposter cat.

CHARACTERIZATION: The author shows this trait in the main character Root'paw who is a yellowish Tom with blue eyes. He is able to feel apprehensive, sad, fearful, and have anger or hatred and think about whether he can fit in with his own clan and be "normal". He does what he thinks is best and wants to help the clans with their problem of following the rules. It reveals that he will play a huge part in the book.

ANTAGONIST: The antagonist is a spirit or a looming shadow. Though not specifically named yet, they have brought despair under the clan cats. For they have possessed one of the clan leaders after they lost one of their nine lives to a fever. Their goal is to destroy the very code that forged all 5 clans together and to make them be lost.

STATIC VS DYNAMIC: Twigpaw is a static character because in the book they find her lost clan mates of SkyClan where she goes under a conflict of whether or not she should go stay with her original clan ThunderClan or go to Skyclan. When she goes to SkyClan she feels as if she doesn't belong there. During a ceremony she decides to leave SkyClan and go back to ThunderClan where she is welcomed back.

CONFLICT: The conflict is character vs. character, this is because one of the leaders of the clans Onestar of Windclan shut off his borders after a group of rouges invaded the area and took over 2 clans. Since their leader Darktail is Onestars kit. Onestar abandoned Darktail leading for Darktail to seek revenge on his father, leading to the big conflict between the lake.

PREDICTION: I predict that the clan cats will either find a way to get rid of their problem which is the invading rogues that took over ShadowClan or that one of the others clans will fall to the rouges as well. One sentence says "So much blood-and we didn't even achieve our goal. Still the rouges hold ShadowClans territory." This can tell me that they are wounded and need to find a way to drive out the rouges.