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characterization: Bill one of the main members feels lonely sad about it but also calm and relaxed some times one quote states: "I'm so lonely I wouldn't think Beverly would notice me the only people who do is the bullies." Bill is an overweight kid so he is kind of down but what he does is he sits in the library and reads either about the past of Derry or other things. he thinks he can catch a break in the summer.

Connections Text to Text: I think IT reminds me of the book Three Billy Goats Gruff. One reason is that there's a monster under the bridge the goats have to get past and in IT the gang has to defeat or do something in order to pass to wherever they want to. The monster in Three Billy Goats Gruff resembles a monster under a world of ordinary just like IT. IT is the monster living in the sewers under people/ordinary.

Conflict: I think the conflict in IT Is character vs self. the conflict is many things but One way you can think it is this is because the author is putting us in the pov's of the main characters and they are kind of deciding what adventure to go on in their personal lives, they are working on themselves/deciding. The members also must regain their childhood innocence, strength, and memories to battle IT as adults.

Setting: Mike Hanlon was proving to himself that something has been disturbing Derry for a long time. after that he had a flashback to 1957-58 and he was talking with this man who had his daughter go missing the same days that were a killing spree of people which started with Georgie Denbrough. The man reported hearing voices in the bathroom drains and his wife soon went missing after and he died later in his home.

Visualize: One scene in my book was so well written that I could picture what they were doing in my head. "I promise!.. He put an arm around her and led her to the couch. Brought her a glass. She slipped at it, getting herself under control." She and Bill then talked about him moving back to Derry to meet up with his old friend Mike Hanlon, who said IT might have returned and that he needs to talk.

protagonist: in IT the main characters that we see many times are bill denbrough who's brother died to IT Beverly Marsh who is the child who's been through a lot of problems. Ben Hanscom who is a overweight lonely child. Richie Tozier who is loud and talks trash a'lot. Eddie Kaspbrak who is overprotected by his mother. Mike Hanlon who is the librarian and smartest one and Stan Uris who is wary all the time.

Summary: for 6 weeks IT, introduced a new kid named beverly like all the protagonists she also has a couple issues/bad things that have happened in her life. she has an abusive father and a smoking issue sadly. After beverly's sad story, The book fast-forwards to the main cast as if they are older. They then come back to derry and start experiencing the same or just horrific things, and so they get back together.

Inciting incident: One of the main characters bill, is sick on a rainy day and can't play outside with his brother georgie. he asked bill to make a paper boat. georgie then goes outside and chases the boat streaming down the little river sidewalk. the boat goes into the gutter and a clown/IT is down there and teases georgie about his boat and then kills georgie when he reaches for his boat.

Overcoming the monster: The main characters eventually gather up after seeing kind of, the same thing. A monster that can shapeshift into family members and more creepy things, like there own fears. Then they are all thinking to stop this thing, they call IT.

Summary: the main character is Alex rider, the story is about Alex riders uncle who passed away due too a virus in stormbreaker computers. he turns out killing the person that helped made the computers in revenge for his family member when he worked for this military program that trains him to fight and they do missions to stop bad people. the story's told in a chronological narrative.

Visualize: Alex rider was being held/handcuffed while being interrogated for what he knows and Mr. Grin was going to do bad stuff to Alex with a knife. "...I've already told you Mr. grin is an expert with knives and he still is so tell me what I want, or he will cause you more pain then you can begin to imagine..." "just remember what happens to lairs. particularly with their tongues. "Mr. grin took a step closer."

Text to text: in john wick he joins the Mafia or a clan he stayed for a bit then he wanted to leave but he couldn't so they kept trying to kill him. In Storm Breaker Alex joins a program where he is on the computers that killed his uncle but he doesn't know that yet so I think it will kind of be like John wick towards the end of the book.

characterization: Alex rider feels sad that his loved one died to someone called Yassen, but he doesn't know who that is. Alex rider then joins the army to be tougher and stronger for something. He stated that he will work harder. He thinks that if he is stronger he will protect his family better. Those characterization features reveal that Alex rider will do something out of revenge for his loved one that died

Antagonist: Herod Sayle is the antagonist. He was a victim of bullying and wants revenge towards the prime minister. Herod Sayle is now a billionaire Lebanese businessman who secretly wants to kill the children of Britain. He plans to kill the children with Stormbreaker computers that have deadly viruses in them. No it is not possible for Alex Rider to be his own antagonist he is not doing anything wrong to himself.

static: I think the giver "the person" is a static character because he hasn't evolved or changed. He's still him and he hasn't changed when they were in conflict with or around him. I feel that he can later in the book kind of be heroic or he is to Jonas right now but he can be maybe later in the book. that's why I think the giver is a static character.

The conflict in my story is how world war 2 affected paleontology. Basically in the middle of the battle they destroyed a museium and the people lost a lot of dinosaur bones and everyone was mad. Later, they found out some dinosaurs had complete bones and they are all lost. Then the muesium team had to regain all the bones and they found more in the processes of regaining the fossils.

Predictions: I predict that the author would talk more about world war 2 and how it effected paleontology and how it ruined it for a bit or how it got better after the war. The text clues pointing me towards this prediction is mostly happening in other books but also little foreshadowing I guess like: "as far in the future Dr. Brown would be finding terrible news about his Museum."

P.O.V: my book's point of view is 3rd person omniscient because it tells the story sometimes of how the characters found the fossil, when they found it and what they were feeling when they got interviewed about it. "Elizabeth philpot was a fossil collector and paleontologist who excavated in Lyme Regis." the connection between my answer and citing is that it explains what they did or the start of who she was.

Protagonist: my book does not have a protagonist, the author does not narrate the people who he tells to us in the book he just says that they found this fossil in 1965 or 1860. The main focus of the book is paleontology, the author talks mostly of it and sometimes other people who find fossils but its not a common thing he talks about its just a short sentence of when and where they find the fossil.

Setting: The Author sates the setting clearly in the book saying that it can be a cold, dark day or even a sunny bright day. "It was a cold, dark misty, terrible day when the tragedy happened Holmes!"

location" in the beginning the author talk about the place being in London England on page one of the book.

Time: so far in the middle and beginning of the book the time has changed from 1891 to 1892 and now to 1893

genre: action, adventure and mystery. I found it by typing that in I also know about the genre because it says it when you click the cover of the book and read about it. it says the genre there.

the main character is Sherlock homes and his trusty side kick Wattson they find mysteries and stop bad people who do very bad things