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VISUALIZE: In the Book, skeleton key, General Sarov tries to adopt him even though Alex is one of the spies sent to see if he had a nuclear bomb. In the book, he gives himself some time to consider what he should do, because he never really had his parents around him. I would definitely say yes because, General Sarov is a very powerful man and it would be very nice to spend some time on the great tropical island.

PROTAGONIST: The Protagonist of this book, Skeleton Key, is Alex Rider. He faces a person known as the General buys one kilogram of weapons grade uranium, which is enough to annihilate an entire city. Alex is a very intelligent and strong schoolboy who is very skilled at martial arts.

HERO'S JOURNEY: In the book, Stormbreaker, is, a kid who realizes that his uncle is dead in a very suspicious way and needs to figure out what really happened and is sent by the MI6 to investigate the Stormbreaker, a new computer being given out to British schools. This book's about a hero's journey because, Alex is on a quest to end what his uncle started in the investigation against Herod Sayle.

AUDIENCE AND PURPOSE: The audience of this book, the Son, in which Claire gives birth to a kid and leaves the birth mothers and finds her kid, Abe, are the people who have already read the other giver books. The purpose of this book is to reveal the life of the birth mothers, which isn't discussed a in the other giver books and is a important part of their society, since they are the main source of their population.

CLIMAX: The climax of this book, code of honor the climax appears when Kamran Smith's brother is accused of being a al-Qaeda terrorist who is training their troops and led a attack on the Turkey US embassy. Kamran is determined to prove to the US government that his brother is innocent while in a government prison undergoing interrogations, where he meets a CIA agent willing to help him prove his brother's innocence

INCITING INCIDENT: The inciting incident of the book, The Graveyard book is when Bod Owens escaped certain murder by a man from a mysterious organization named Jack. Bod Owens escaped only because of his bad toddler habits of escaping and drifting away from his family. When he ran away, Nobody then went through the fence of the graveyard and the ghosts concealed him. Also a vampire named Silas made Jack go away.

Inciting Incident: The inciting incident of my book, Sabotaged, is when the main villain of this story makes Andrea, who is actually Virginia Dare drop their source of communication with JB, and ruin time. This is the inciting incident, because it is the most significant part of the story and it affects time, which changes Jonas's and Katherine's life forever.

Archetypes: The book, The Defector is a quest archetype. It is a quest, because in the story he fights his way to get the defector of the Russian FSB and his wife back from a Russian oligarch. He has to face assassination attempts and cold blooded killers to, in the end get his wife, Chiara back. In the end he gets his wife back but, the Russian defector Grigori Bulganov dies in the process of getting them back.

Summary:The main characters in the book Defector are Gabriel, and Shamron his elderly boss. This book is about a defector of Russia's Federal Security Service who is the highest ranked defector and is kidnapped back to Russia, by Russian oligarch Ivan Kharkov along with Gabriel's wife. This book mostly takes place in Europe. The inciting incident is when Chiara gets kidnapped. This book is a chronological narrative.

Visualize: Some scenes that I was able to visualize in my book were, some of the fights between Islamic terrorists and US soldiers. I would be able to imagine soldiers storming a terrorist cell and freeing innocent people. I am able to imagine this, because the author does an awesome job in vividly describing all of the events.

Text to Text: The connections that I am making are between this book, Battlegrounds and Killing the Killers. Both of these books talk about terrorism. These two books talk about killing, and preventing terrorism.

Characterization: The main character, Dash does not like the moon base. The character Dash, takes video lesson from Earth as school and talks to his friend Kyra. Dash says, and talks about how he wishes he was back home at Hawaii. Dash thinks in his head and speaks telepathically with a space alien named Zan.

Antagonist: The person who posed as Dr. Chen during the excavation of Minerva is the antagonist because she tried to steal the Tyrannosaurus that Teddy was trying to find. In the book, Fake Dr. Chen and eight other people dragged the skull into a U-Haul and tried to get away. Teddy was trying to get the skull back, and jumped on the U-Haul and ended up saving the skull and putting the faker behind bars.

Static v. Dynamic: Teddy is a static character who is always solving crimes and never really changes his behavior or his way of living. The one character that is dynamic in this story is Xavier he went from being a kid who no one cared about to being a popular person.

Conflict: This story's conflict is external. This makes it a character vs. character. For example, in the book Flush, the character's dad is fighting against a captain aboard a gambling ship who is illegally dumping his waste into the bay. This shows that this story's conflict is character vs. character, because of the conflict between Noah's dad and the captain of the Coral Queen.

PREDICTIONS: Since the fire that Bunny Starch has been missing, I assume that Nick and Marta will be able to find out where their biology teacher, Mrs Starch will be or is."The headmaster wasted no time getting to his questions."Did you and Marta really go to Mrs. Starch's house?"Nick nodded."Nobody's seen her since the field trip. It just seems so weird." " This shows that they are willing to go find Mrs. Starch.

The point of view in this awesome story of Allegiant is first person narrator. This book is first person, because it tells the tale from the perspective of Tris and Tobias. This proves that this book is written in first person.

The protagonist in this book thoughts, actions and emotions wise would probably be Al. Al is a kid in Tris's dauntless training who was the strongest but refused to fight. This proves that he is the master procrastinator, because refusing to fight and hurt people would later on get him kicked out of any faction and become factionless, which is basically homelessness in the book.

Divergent is an awesome book about a girl whose mother is Divergent and passes it on to her. Divergence is considered to be dangerous by the Euridite because it cannot be controlled by a simulation. She realizes her divergence and goes to the Dauntless faction and as she climbs the rankings she realizes that the Euridite is plotting something can she stop it before it's too late or will she fail?