Nathan Lu’s Reviews > Battle Royale > Status Update

I decided to make an identity chart for Shuya Nanahara. He grew up being a foster child and was a good student. His parents died unexpectedly during a "freak accident". When he entered the arena, he lost his best friend, but he was still willing to go on. He is caring and would sacrifice himself for others, and tries to take other's pain. He is strong-minded and almost always knows what to do when in a bad situation.

The society in my novel basically shows everyone's true personalities and everything that they've ever wanted to do. The society tries to bring out the worst in everyone, and it's successful.

The society in my novel is much like that of the Hunger Games. It is set in an arena with many biomes, where everyday students are pitted against each other. Each character is under an extremely large amount of pressure, having to kill each other's classmates, so when they are under this much stress, their true colors show. Certain characters are quick-witted to try to survive, and some characters are blood-thirsty.

There isn't exactly a main protagonist in the story, but I feel that there are some characters that I can relate to. I feel that I related to Shinji Minimura, because when he was tired, he had strength and courage to go on, and although he sometimes gets lost, he always tried to fight for his loved ones. His attitude was quirky and he always tried to help the ones he loved. My reading goal for next week, is 75 pages.

There isn't exactly a protagonist, but I did feel like there are some characters in the book that I can relate to.

I left off with Kawada, Shuya, and Noriko being in hiding so they can stay safe. The story goes to Kaori Minami where she seems mentally insane from her isolation and paranoia. Takako Chigusa has an all out brawl with Kazushi Niida eventually winning but at the cost of her own life. While this happened, Shuya and Kawada noticed that Noriko was ill and had to get treated immediately. They run to the pharmacy.

My reading goal for this week is 65 pages.

If I were the author, I would change the exposition of the story to tell more about everybody in Class B's life. Either that or tell the backgrounds throughout the story more throughly. Knowing everybody's lives more, will add more drama and flavor, and the reader would know why a certain character would be killing or be friends with someone. In addition, keeping Shinji alive would stop my heart palpitations.

I would not like to be a character in my book because the world is sort of like a post-apocalypse setting, the government is overpowered, you lose your family (death-wise), and certain classes in ninth grade get picked to fight to the death. I nearly hit my goal this week which made me feel really accomplished, and I hope to read more and hit my new goal of 70 pages. From the 42 students in the class, 32 remain...

Shoyo and his classmates are going on a "trip", but all of his classmates start to doze off and Shoyo knew that it was no longer a field trip. Shoyo eventually fell asleep and woke up in a classroom with everybody else. A tall man came into the classroom and said that their class was picked for a fighting combat simulator to test the cities defenses. Everyone was to fight...to death. I did not hit my reading goal,