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What story elements (character, plot, mood, conflict, theme, etc.) are present in this book to make it "young adult"? What intrigued you the most about this book? What will you remember most about this book?
What story elements (character, plot, mood, conflict, theme, etc.) are present in this book to make it "young adult"? What intrigued you the most about this book? What will you remember most about this book?
1. The main character is the book is a teenage girl, who wants to tell storys like as a living. While on the ship she is all alone and has to figure out how to live with out her family which normally teenagers dont have to do and how to overcome her problems with no help or support. I feel like the theme represents powering through and not giving up on your self. What intruged me the most was that no one ever found out that she was faking being a zeta the whole time. I will remember how they described the planet Sagen the most from this book.
ReplyDeleteThe mood of this book was good on how they really showed how the characters felt during the book. I will most likely remember the confusion of the book because it added a mystery kind of aspect that lasted the entire book with out an answer by the end .
ReplyDeletethe character is this teenage girl named Petra Pena she has wanted to grow up telling stories her whole life. All that changes when she has to go on this ship now she has to learn how to live and concur things without her family members. what intrigued me the most is that nobody new that she was fake being zeta one she gave away so much clues and made things so questionable that she even got away with it. I will remember the love between Petra and Javier because it is a close relationship i have with my brothers
ReplyDeleteA teenage girl named Petra Pena is the narrator of this story. She and her family had to escape earth before a meteor hit and when she finally woke, she was without her family and alone. Being alone at such a young age is not something most children have to go through. Something that intrigued me the most was the collective. A group of biologically different humans who are connected as one in a sort of hivemind and brainwashed to believe that the only important thing to them is the collective. Their interesting in their pale, white, see through skin and the way they think. the most memorable part of the book to me was when Petra found her families names in what was the ships graveyard, realizing then her families gone and starting her plan to escape the ship and the collective with the others that she survived reprogramming with.
ReplyDeletePetra is a teen girl. She wakes up after being asleep basically for almost 800 years and is all alone. She cant express her feelings with anyone because she is apart of the collective. And that shows the area of young adult because many people feel they cant express their feelings. What intrigued me most about this book was how they escaped earth and woke up to being in the collective. It really did not make sense to me so that continues to make me wonder and remember it. What I will remember most about this book was how confusing it was. I really did not understand this book at all.
ReplyDeleteThe main thing that makes this book "young adult" would be the main character's age. Also, the aspect of having little power in an unjust world is a feeling many teens are familiar with. Petra is forced to be independent when her family is "purged." She has to find a way to stay true to herself and her passions even in a world of conformity. These are all similar to some of the many internal conflicts that arise when growing up. Even the much broader concept of this book, leaving earth for a new planet, could be connected to the feeling of leaving childhood behind as you grow into adulthood. I was most intrigued by the main idea of starting humanity over on another planet, which was a creative concept. However, the thing that I'll remember most about this book is how much I disliked it.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that makes this a young adult literature book is that Petra is a teenager. This book also has a little bit of young adult literature because she is trying to help her brother and friends but this book doesn't have a lot of young adult aspects in it. What intrigued me the most was how Petra made herself fit in so know one would know that she remembered all of her memories. The thing I will remember about this book is how Javier helped her sister and the other zetas because he knew that they wouldn't make it to Sagan if he didn't stay back on the Ship.
ReplyDeleteI don't really think this is the best book to represent young adult contemporary literature. Since the book is based in the future and is very fictitious, it doesn't deal with the problems people do right now. Yes the main character is a teenager, but the book really didn't resonate with my feelings'
ReplyDeleteI don't think this book gave off the reputation of young adult, reason being it is based on the future and leaving earth and going to a different planet. What may make this book have some young adult in it would be Petra's age of a teenager. What I will remember about this book is the confusion and how it was hard to read. Something that intrigued me about it was the thought process by the author.
ReplyDeleteI agree I was very confused the entire book and it made me not want to read it.
DeleteThe only thing I see as young adult is the fact that Petra is teenager, other than that this story wasn't young adult at all to me. I will remember the descriptive words and the connections between Petra and Javier, and Petra and Voxy.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I think makes this book young adult is Petra and the other Zeta's ages. The concept of the book with Petra having lost her family and having to navigate the ship and her new life by herself could probably only relate to few young adults. The people on the ship complete adult task and I don't think that connects with young-adults. I didn't really think much about this book intrigued me, except for finding out Epsilon-5 is Petra's brother Javier and the connection between Petra and Voxy. I will probably not remember anything about this book since I didn't enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteI feel like this only is represented by young adult because of Petras age. overall, this book was so confusing to me. I don't know if I didn't understand because of how unrealistic this book is or what. I feel as if no teenagers going to go to a new planet, so it doesn't classify as a young adult. I don't really feel like I will remember this book other than me dreading to get it done.
ReplyDeleteThe only part that made me feel like this was young adult was Petra and Zetas ages. I feel like the problems she had weren't really something a young adult could relate to. This book was a little too confusing for me. This book felt very unrealistic and i don't think i will remember most of the book.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes this novel young adult is the characters. Petra, the Zetas, and Voxy are all very young and still growing. Even if they are "programmed" to think like adults, they still have their own personalities and are still just young people growing up. It was really fascinating to see how even though their memories of their past were taken from them, they were still unique in their own way. I think Petra losing her family and having to kind of figure everything out on her own could also be related to some young adults today. What intrigued me the most was how Nyla and Voxy and all of the Collective were not really human. The way Petra described them it made it seem like they were almost alien like. I found it hard to believe that Petra didn't have a bigger reaction to seeing that for the first time. If it were me I would be terrified.
ReplyDeleteI think that the age of the charecters make this book young adult and how Petra has to greif with the loss of her family. When in the beggining of the book she finds out that her mom and dad had gotten purged but she had to push through it, just like a lot of people do today
ReplyDeleteSimply put, the main character and her close allies are all young adult. The theme of fighting against those trying to make you fit a mold is pretty common for young adult novels as well. The novel discusses the importance of family and being yourself, which are not out of place in YA literature. I'll probably remember the ending most, with Javier sacrificing himself so that Petra and the other zetas can live on the new planet in peace. Although i find it odd that the collective would be so willing to just ditch their potential home world, it does not matter for the story overall.
ReplyDeleteThis is about a bunch of young adult aged characters having to just push through struggles and not give up. No matter what they're still their own people with their own struggles. However, with how unrealistic and confusing it is I didn't really like it and struggled to get into the book. There were so many good ideas there but they were either executed horribly or were completely forgotten. The book feels like it was a rough draft almost and would probably be better if it was rewritten.
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