final summer post- Revolver

Wolf asked Sig while they sat in the cabin waiting for Anna to return how they got here in Alaska. Wolf had waited for the first ship to sail out once summer was starting. when he got to the drop off the passenger list showed that Einar and his children had never sailed on a boat the summer before. To get away from Wolf Einar knew he could not sail on the ship with is 2 kids. He bought 4 dogs and a sled and the were off. They traveled light, Only carrying little amounts of food with blankets and jackets. Wolf stopped Sig, "you mean to tell me that Einar took 2 small children hundreds of miles across the ice on a dog sled?" "yes" Sig replied. The thing wolf asked Sig was, "where is the gold your father stole from me?" Sig did not know what Wolf meant by this. What Wolf forgot to mention was Einar rented a room above the tavern and took Wolf there. He put the acid that they use to test gold in his whisky and knocked him out before he could force Einar to give him "half" the gold he had. Einar had no gold. At least that's what he told Wolf.
Once Anna showed up, Sig was sad to see that she was alone. Eventually Wolf tied Anna to a chair and took Sig to the spot where his father died to find the papers he brought from the office thinking they might show Wolf something.

In this book I have noticed that not a lot happens. There is just so much detail in it.
what did I think of this book? I though that it had some parts where it just drug on about the same thing but some parts where I couldn't put the book down. I would rate this book 3.5 on a scale of 5.
If you like drama this book isn't something you would like. The unique thing about this book is that it will leave on one topic and the next chapter will be about something totally different. Read it to find out what happens in the end.

Does Sig die?
Does Anna?
Will wolf ever leave them alone?
Did Einar ever have any gold?

3rd summer post

I have continued to read revolver by Marcus Sedgwick. I left my last post by telling you about Sigs farther being dead. That he fell threw the ice and froze to death before he could start a fire. He now lies on the table in the middle of the cabin in Alaska. This is a man who came to the cabin on a "giant white horse." His name... Wolf. He talks a lot about his journey, tracking down Einar (Sig's father). he followed them for ten years.
Wolf tells Sig many stories, but my favorite was how Einar got away. They were going to leave Nome, a place with short summers and long cold winters. Sig's father was the man that weighed all the miners gold and tested it for purity. One day when Einar was locking up the station a large man bumped into him. "Test my gold" he said. Einar apologized telling the man he would have to come back the next morning but the man shoved him hard against the wall, "you listen here, I wont have my cabin robbed wile I wait here to have my gold tested tomorrow. Test it now." Einar still refused but luckily a few of the guys from work were headed home from the bar and saw him. Wolf let him go. The next day wolf returned, but his gold was of only 10% purity. Wolf stayed in the shop all day. not moving other than to stretch. He watched as miners came in person after person with some very pure gold and some not worth anything.
Einar and his family planned to take the very last ship out of Nome off to America. The last day when Sig was out playing watching the ships sail in and out, Maria, the children's real mother told Anna to go get Sig so they could eat the last dinner they would ever eat in Nome. An hour later after she ran into her father and they found Sig the all walked back to the cabin. Anna walked in first and saw her mother on the floor in "an awfully still position. She watched as the brown floor changed to a dark red." Maria had been murdered.

revolver smmer post

In my first post about my book Revolver I finished by talking about Sig (the main character) and about how his dad is dead on the table frozen. This book goes back and forth from present time to past. It goes back to how Sig found his dad.
It was getting late on wash day when Sig's father was supposed to be home. Sig decided to go out and follow the trail to meet his father on his way home and ride the sled back with him. Sig noticed a black spot out on the ice of the frozen lake. He finished putting his ski's on and slowly walked across the ice checking the thickness with his stick. When he got to his frozen father he put together what had happened.
His father had gone across a thin section of ice and fell in waist deep. The sled dogs pulled him out and Sig saw that his father had taken his glove off. But why? Sig had seen the matches in is hand but no wood. Then he realized the sled was made of wood and the papers from the office he could have lit. The father (Einer) would have frozen before he made the mile ride home so he took the long shot chance at trying to start a fire but it did not work.
The most interesting thing I remember is that Einer when he was still alive told Sig that "a gun is not a weapon. It's an answer."
This is the first book I have read by Marcus Sedgwick and I think it will get more interesting as it goes.

Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick- 7/2/2014

For my summer blog post I chose a book called Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick. The main character in my book is a boy named Sig. Judging by the way to book is worded I would estimate him to be around 13 or 14 years old. He has an older sister and a step mother. His step mothers name is Nadya and he describes her only as being 25 years younger than his dad with dark hair. He also describes his sisters and his relationship as, "we were always to far apart in years to have any conflict with one another."
When Sig describes the place he lives in he says it is a, "24 foot by 12 foot". Before he goes outside Sig puts on a heavy fur jacket and hand made gloves. He says that inside the cabin the temperature is just above freezing but outside it is, "dozens below zero."
While Sig explaigns his life he talks about a day called, "wash day." Bathing once a week and washing clothes in the same water they bathe in. The two women bathe first then Sig and his father.
What I thought was weird about this book is right in the begining he talks about his father, dead on the table. After he tells the reader that his father died of hypothermia he goes back in time to how, and where he found his father dead. Now I will read to find out what he was dong when he died.

pg 150-162

I am continuing to read Execution by Alexander Gordon Smith. Alex made it back to his house and he already knew no one would be home. Every kid had been turned into a rat or a new berserker. Every adult has been killed because their body can not handle the nectar. Eventually Alex decides to let everyone sleep for a while considering Simon had already laid his head on the table and fallen asleep. Alex didn't even remember laying down before falling asleep. While Alex was dreaming he met the real Alfred Furnace, the man who took him away from his family. The man who made him the monster he is. The man who killed the old him and created a new Alex. During his dream Alfred is only a kid. His eyes are deep, dark, black pits. Alex looks around to see they are in a barn. Their is 2 men and a women who Alex describes as "Extremely Drunk." The adults are kicking a boy who could be no older than 16. Furnace walks over and the Adults try to run but their is nowhere to go. He puts a pin size hole in the boys wrist and his hand over the boys mouth. The nectar in Furnaces veins begins to run into the boys body. Just as it does with all its victums, the nectar began to cloud the boys thoughts and take over his system. The boy, not even a boy but a thing now was on its feet in seconds sprinting on all fours to the women and with in second she was on the ground blood running from her neck. Before the men could react the boy was shredding them apart. he walked back to furnace and funace looked back at Alex. Alex asked, "was he the first?" furnace looked at him and only said, "yes, the first of millions."

My prediction is that Alex will find Furnace just as planned. But will he kill him like he wants to? I dont thinks so. Hopefully soon I will find out.

Pg. 141-155

Alex has just escaped the military and found his friends. Its is now Alex, Zee, Simon, Lucy, and the other black suit. The black suit is driving the hummer they are all in and Alex is navigating. Something is telling Alex where to go and he doesn't know where it is coming from. He thinks it is Furnace talking to him through the nectar. The Berserkers are killing every rat that tries to attack the truck as they travel the road looking for a place to stay. When they finally arrive Alex realizes he has led the hummer directly to his old house back when he was a regular kid. Before he was made the monster he is now. They all eventually walk in and sit at the table and Lucy makes tea and they find a little food to eat.

Alex goes upstairs to his old room and sees: his room is cleaned, left the same, not messed with, the same posters still on the walls, drawers open as they were, but still clean. He sees the only picture he ever kept in his room and he looks closer at it. His family on a cruise, ice cream on dad's face, laughing, mom close by, little eleven year old Alex right between them. He begins to cry and gets an, ''awful pressure in my throat, like something huge was crawling up it." I like this quote because anyone who has ever cried can relate the "awful pressure" in their throat.

The good parts about this chapter is it is showing how Alex felt about this life before Furnace. The bad part is it is actually kind of sad and there has not been a sad part in the series yet, mostly just killling, anger, and regret.

My prediction is that Alex will find Alfred Furnace, but killing him like he wants to I'm not sure about that one.

Good things and bad things about my book, Execution

Good things I like about my book is it never gets boring. Something new that you never thought would happen, happens. To me this book is so interesting because the detail never dies down such as the line, "an island, waves crashing against its cliffs." I like this line because even though this book is more out of the ordinary because it includes things that would just never happens it still has those little glimpses of hope for the character, Alex.

The only real bad things I don't like about this book is that every chapter ends with a cliff hanger; if it doesn't it leaves you wondering what is going to happen next. You can almost never expect what is going to happen because this book is so off from other books. I would greatly recommend the author of this book Alexander Gordon Smith, because he does terrific detail in all the books i have read in this series.

Execution Pg. 112-125

After Alex screems all the soldiers are silent but keep thier gun pointed at the berserkers. Alex yelled to the still runnig chopper "Give me Zee and you can all live." the chopper's speakers came on, "You have no way out Alex." In his mind he knew this wasnt true. that with is amry of Berserkers he could do anything. He herd another Beserker as it appered on top of the hospital above. the other Berserker now stood on top of a pick up truck. He knew thier were 4, that somehow he could picture them doing something and they would do it. Alex made one of the berserkers pick up a soldier by the throat and wile he tried to fight it was no use. Eventually the soldiers started to fire back and Alex had the Berserkers attack. The chopper started taking off and one Berserker jumped from a tank and hung from the chopper keeping it from taking off.
Why did Alex want Zee back so much? He met him less than 7 months ago in prison.

Execution- Page 96-111

In my book Alex has just been revived from the dead and is now going to try and escape the military base. Alex is now in control and has now figured out that by picturing the berserker doing something in his mind, some how make the berserker do it. For example Alex is trying to find his friends Simon, and Zee and when he pictured the berserker ripping the cell door off, it did just that. While they await quietly for the army to make a move, they look out the window to see that not only every military personnel from the base have gathered in the army, but all of the troops in the army have retreated and come back to the hospital that was made into their base.
 Alex describes a military helicopter, and he pictured in his mind the berserker holding the helicopter and keeping it from taking off. The berserker jumped out the window, then came another creature from upstairs; as they tear through the parking lot full of troops Alex jumps and hits the ground on all fours. He stands up and "like a hurricane of sound" he screamed across the parking lot "ENOUGH!"
The book takes place somewhere in Europe, I know this because Alex mentions "quid" several times in the book. Quid is the money people use in Europe.
The author always wants you leaning in for the next thing that is going to happen in the book and I do just that when i read this series of books.
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Execution page 85-95

In my book Execution by Alexander Gordon Smith, Alex was just brought back to life by using a defibrillator. The doctors that once surrounded him were now all dead at the hand of the berserkers. Alex looked around to see that he was back in the opperating room. The walls that were once white, were now now paainted in red.  Alex asked the other blacksuit "we're getting out of here, right?"

This part takes place in a hospital that was boarded up and made into a milirtary base since the outbreak of freaks from the prison. Alex says hes been having thoughts about the past because he can finally fight through the nectar, he can fight through when it trys to take over his mind over.

I would recomend this book to kids ages 13 and up, and young adults. This book is far out of what could really happen, but it is so cool the way the author details certain points and describes the characters so well.

The picture is of a weaser, who is the thing that does the operations in the second books

execution pg. 71-84

In my book Execution by Alexandar Gordon Smith, Alex was just injected by his doctor with tranqualizer acid so the military could do experiments on him. Before the doctor came in Zee (a boy inmune to the necter) told alex about how what the scientist were doing was worse than furnace. Alex describes death as "endless sinking in the ocean, not ever being able to breath". Alex never described being scared before this time of his dying process. Alex then describes how he started to float up to the surface. He talks about the ocean water getting clearer, as if his body was soaking up all the bad in the ocean. Alex felt more power, not being so weak anymore, as he was when he was drained of all his necter.

Alex wakes up and all the doctors that once surrounded the table were lying on the ground, dead. The 2 berserkers stood at the end of the bed, having to neal down so that their deformed heads did not hit the cealing. The man between them was a black suit from back in furnace; only he wasnt in black but the hospital gown just like Alex. Alex saw the two electrical handles that had shocked is heart back to life; The black suit only said "you were dead for nearly five minutes, didnt think you were coming back". Alex said nothing.

This book is the fifth book in the furnace series. The first book is called Lockdown, the second, Solitary, the third, Death Sentence, the fourth, Fugitives, and the fifth, Execution.

The setting changes in every book but where you left in the last book is the same place you start in the next book, until Alex finds his way out out of furnace.

Execution page 60-71

The first setting takes place in a dream of Alex's. He is tied to a tree in and orchard. the sky is gray, and the clouds black. A young boy is brought in by a mod of towns people. The boy's hands are nailed to the tree and he hangs there. Alex can not hear anything and he can not tough the ground. A women walks forward out of the crowd and some how Alex knew she was the boy's mother. Some how Alex knew that the boy was Alfred Furnace, the man that had put him in the prison that was impossible to break out of; until Alex broke out. The women took a knife out of her coat and slashed the boy open from the top of his chest to the bottom of his stomach. Alex read the lips of the mother "for killing your brother" she whispered next to his ear. After the crowd left a figure appeared. the figure asked the boy "do you want to die? or avenge your brothers death"? Alex couple now hear. The boy only said "you killed him".

 The stranger ripped one of the black branches down from the tree and put it in the boys mouth. Black liquid spilled into the boys mouth, that could only be known as nectar. The boy drank, and drank, and drank not stopping. As Alfred drank the nectar it seemed to drain the stranger of his energy. Alex tried to scream but as soon as he opened his mouth the strangers arm stretched 20 feet from where he stand to Alex's face. The touch was cold to his face, leaving him breathless.

 When Alex awoke he was sitting straight up, in a metal chair, still wire wrapped around his body disabling movement. His arms were laid out on separate tables, still wired down as well. Zee was sitting just a few feet away in a chair in a uniform that Alex thought were furnace prison uniforms until he saw the military insignia. They talked for a while until Zee whispered into Alex's ear "their just as crazy here as the warden at furnace". He was talking about the experiments being done on soldiers, using the nectar.

Blog Reflection

My best blog post is the execution post. In this blog post i talk about the theme, setting, and how Alex has changed as a character. I talk about his personal problems and how he feels. I focus mainly on Alex and furnace and how they interact. Alex was inspired to break out of prison because he found out what the warden does to the kids he takes. When he blew that hole in the ground he didnt think it would lead to underneath the prison. Alex thought, that under ground river, led to freedom.

Next trimester i would like to read more and find a book i can really get into. i read slow so that i understand what it is i am reading, so i would like to be a faster reader. When i write i would like to be more intriguing and leading the reader to believing something will happen until another thing does. I struggled greatly on my comments, i found it much easier to do them in class and easier to blog when i was at home. My Strength when i blog is attention to detail. I do pretty well at rememberign everything i read in that chapter.

details

In the book execution alex has escaped prison and was saved by the army. the Army put him on a metal table and rapped him in shipping wire so he could not move. they put him to the test by loweing him into a cage with a berserker and a soldier who had been turned into a rat. Unexpacted things happened.
the setting is at first in furnace penetentiary then moves to a city, after he is captured it takes place in a military base but alex is in the rooms where they used to lay out sick soldiers along with nearly 60 rats, and berserkers.
the conflict is between Alex and Alfred furnance, the man that he is trying to kill, the man that locke dhim away to do expieriments on him, the man who turned him into what he is.
Alex has changed as a boy, what once was a scared little boy is now a raging monster not scared of any task. He was yanked away from his family. He watched his only friend get shot in the head then he got blamed for it and put away in furnace.

execution

The theme of execution is the entire story about how alex got out of furnace and what he did after he got out. It is in first person from Alex's perspective and when you think one thing is going to happen suddenly what you thought was nowhere near what actually happens.

The setting of execution is furnace penitentiary, a prison that is a mile under ground and is supposed to be impossible to escape out of. Alex did manage to find a way out by outting gas filled gloves in a crack in the floor and blowing a hole in the floor to an underground river.

Alex has changed as a character a hole lot. He started as a kid who just broke into houses and made money do so. In prison he kept to his own and didnt get into fights. He worked in the mine in the prison and thats how h found his way out. When they tryed to turn him into a black suit he could only try to remember his name wile the nector tried to take over his mind. When he broke out he thought he was free, but Alfred Furnace unleashed all his monsters on the city and has now turned the entire city into a home for his beast.

Chapter: Into the pit

When Alex awoke once again, still strapped to the metal table the doctor still stood by his side. She made the other doctors aware that he had was awake. About 10 doctors surrounded Alex and the doctor told Alex they were going to test something and that it will hurt a lot. One of the doctors passed something the to the one standing closest to him but he could not see what it was. She started cutting a half circle in his shoulder; she then she pulled a syringe out of her long white coat's pocket. he saw that it was the nector. nearly a teaspoon, it would do nothing to him. The doctors only wanted to see if it effected his heart rate.
When the tests were done the doctor told Alex she wanted to see how the nector could react in battle. A fork lift picked up the table he layed on and he realized they were taking him to another building. In the building there was a pool, it was empty and surrounded buy a cage. they dropped alex into the cage and it took all he had to get to his feet even using the wall of the pool. On the other side of the pool the cage door opened and out came a berserker. it stood there just looking at Alex. The next animal, a rat. The rat did not have the usual prison uniform but an army suit. the rat darted directly at Alex. Alex could not move being so weak and only held out his arm that the blade stuck out of. there was nothing that hit him. only the breaking of bones. the berserker had thrown the rat against the side of pool hard enough to kill a normal person. the rat stagered up and tried running at Alex again. Again the berker cought it, this time tearing it to pieces; nector poring out of it's torso. the berserker slid it over to alex. It wanted it to suck the necotr out of its body. With no time Alex started sucking up the nector and immediatly the sensation of energy hit him. He climbed the side of the cage where the doctor stood and stabbed his blade arm through. it came up inches short. within seconds there were knockout darts in his back and neck he fell and hit the bottum of the pool he laid with his eyes watching the berserker rocking back and forth as it fell to it's side. Moments later Alex was uncontious.

Execution by Alexandar Gordon Smith

I left my last post at Alex on top of a building. At the end of that chapter, the army calls in several helicopters. One helicopter shot Alex with a gappling gun and hoist his up to the chopper. A soldier hangs out of the side of the chopper and shoots Alex with five tranqualizer darts. Alex gets very dizzy but trys to stay awake.
Alex awoke on a metal table, wrapped in shipping wire. The doctors soon realized, unlike the others, Alex could talk. Alex still had his min for the most part under control, while the others did not talk, they did not control anyting they were doing, and that they only reacted when the nector told them too. The doctors drained Alex of 90% of the nector in his body. The doctor tells Alex that during the X-ray she did she found over 22 bullets in his body and all of his vital organs had been shredded apart buy the wounds but were still functioning. The only thing he said was "thats what the nector does".
When the dostor left alex looked down to see that his hands were unrapped out of the shipping wire but held down by metal clamps. His right arm that had been cut off and was now just blade had grown longer. His left arm that had been completely cut off up to the elbow now had 3 stubs the size of thumbs. The only thing Alex could think was "was ii trying to grow his hand back? Could it"? The docotr looked down over the balcony and told alex to sleep. He layed there looking around at the creatures he shared a room with. He dozed off close to what he thought might of been half an hour later.

execution

Furnace.  The prison. Alex has been out for less than 24 hours but already his memories from inside are fadind. Buried a mile beneath the ground, it was a place society put children they no longer wanted. where even their parents would forget about them. It was a place where kids like Alex were buried alive.

Warden Cross, a man as cruel and as dangerous as the devil himself, a man whos eyes were so full of hatred, of madness of rancid glee, that meeting them was like watching yourself die a million time over. Alex got out of the prison by him and his friends smuggling gas filled gloves from the prison kithenand they blew a hole in the floor and found a river that they tought might lead to freedom. It turns out it only led to the dark tunnels under the prison. the place that the gone wrong creatures romed freely. these were called rats. they had been pumped full of a liquid they call necter. the weasers had cut them open and stuffed them full of muscle and stiched them back together. these creatures were built to be bigger, faster, and stronger than natural life coule ever make them. the giant mistakes that were uncontrollably strong were named "berserkers". the were nearly impossible to stop.

Alex is now on top of a sky scrpper that is being blown to pieces and wont stand much longer. Alfred Furnace led him to the Warden who he fought with and killed. He has lost his left arm up to the elbow, his right hand was cut off but the blade still sticks out. The only reason he does not feel any pain is the necter patching his wounds faster than any pain killer that could ever be made.

Find out what happens next next week.

Execution

The whole world is now a prison. monsters rule the streets and Alfred Furnace is their keeper. Alex is a monster too and the only one who can stop Furnace. Furnace has taken his monsters and unleashed them into the world now that alex has escaped, and has let every prisoner who is still alive out of the one prison that was "impossible" to break out of. he has hiden in malls, shops, and churches trying to stay away from the monsters outside wile they figure out a plan on what to do. Alex escaping prison may have now doomed the world!