Book Report Of Death Cock Year By Makiia Lucier

Do authors develop characters from the beginning of a book to the end of a book to thicken the plot? In the book Death Struck Year by Makiia Lucier, the Spanish Influenza breaks out in Oregon. Cleo Berry is a normal teenager worrying about her future life as her brother and his wife head out on an anniversary trip to San Francisco. Cleo is left at a boarding school for girls as the epidemic spreads further. The boarding school gets shut down and Cleo decides to run away and volunteer for the Red Cross. She finds new friends, love, and grief. The author develops Cleo Berry from a naive, sheltered teen to a brave and mature adult because she became selfless by putting others before herself, she became brave and courageous by joining the Red Cross,

The flu spread around her town extremely fast, so Cleo met multiple people who were dying from the plague and needed to get to the hospital. “A woman in a white nightgown was twisted in the sheets, her long dark hair matted with sweat. Dried blood crusted her nose and lips. Her face was the color of chalk. A little boy, no more than three, curled to her side. He had thrown up all over his blue pajamas. Lucier, 66)” During this scene in the book, Cleo discovers an ill family as she goes around houses. She sees a woman, a young boy, and a baby girl in the sick house. She grabs both children and runs out of the house to the hospital where she finds a man named Edmund who helped her with the children. She risked her own life to help a family she doesn’t even know. Therefore, Cleo sees that she needs to be a selfless person to continue on with her dangerous job. She cares for people she doesn’t know and saves lives, even though she knows she could get sick also. Once Cleo became selfless, she also became brave and courageous. At the beginning of the book Cleo was immature, although towards the end Cleo became mature and courageous because of her