Significance
Perspective
Evidence
Connection
Supposition
Significance
This isn't any ordinary story about creatures and vampires, this book is about disease. Now at first you may think this book is about vampires, but get real, there is no such thing as blood sucking, reflectionless, shape shifting creatures. These are just ordinary people, except there are parasites living in them. These parasites live in the stomachs of infected people who are called peeps for short. Although this fact was proven wrong at the end of the book, the only way to spread the disease was by STD. (you get the idea.)
This book is important because it proves the importance of teamwork. It is also important because it shows a lot of situations where you need to not only be smart, but to be clever also, and you can't get through life only by being smart. This book could have advice for a lot of people because of those reasons, and also because it shows alot about dealing with certain friendships in some cases. The author's theme that he chose to write about is very interesting and probably took alot of creativity, and it also prbably took alot of time to write because of what a jurassic idea he chose. I decided to read this book because... well the truth is my mom made me so I was forced to read it.
Perspective
This book was written by Scott Westerfeld. The way the author wrote this book was from a very specific point of view. His point of view is more towards "the evil side should win" compared to most authors who try to make the good guys win. This point of view effects the outcome of the book because sometimes the bad guy was winning, but if the bad guy won completely, it would have completely changed the story. I have a bias against the character, Lacey. This is because I don't really like the way she talks, and she is also really bad at handling relationships.
Evidence
The argument that the author is trying to make is that peeps are not like some type of mysterious creature that lurks around at night sucking people's blood. They are merely humans that have parasites living inside of them, causing them to eat twice as much. Another point that the author is trying to make is that just because they are different, doesn't mean they should be treated differently than any other person. I can prove this because there have been some incidences where it shows this. For example: One time, Lace realized that Cal Thompson, the main character, was a peep, she left him just because of that. I agree with the argument that the author is trying to tell me in the story. This is because I feel it is important that people realize that everybody is equal and should be treated equal as well.
Connection
This book was written a few years ago. I think this effects the results of the story. (I will explain more in depth once I get into the "supposition" paragraph.) This is a fictional book, so it doesn't exactly effect our lives. This book does connect to us though. There are a few ways that it connects to us- one way is that many times a day we have problems to work out that we need more than one person to accomplish. That is where we mostly connect to the story; teamwork. In the future, this piece of writing might have inspired me to read more fictional books than I do at the moment, or maybe just to encourage that by reading more books written by Scott Westerfeld.
Supposition
A prediction that I can make from this story is that in the next book in the series, there will be more peeps- maybe enough to fight back and kill the giant worm (the "bad guy").If we applied this book to a new situation, the product of the story would be much much different than what it turs out to be in this case. For example; if this book took place underwater, than the people/peeps would probably be mermaids/mermen, and the giant worm would probably be like a shark or something. If this book took place in a different time periiod, say, the 1300's, the clothing would be different and the way that everybody spoke would probably be a lot different.
