Are you a Darwinist or a Clanker? The book Leviathan takes place in Europe in the year of 1914. Parts of the book take place in Austria, Switzerland, and a little bit in London. A major theme in this story is that violence is not always the answer, sometimes you have to help others. This story has a very urgent or suspenseful mood to it, always having you wonder what is going to happen next. This story has two sides to it, Darwinist, and Clanker. The Darwinists are the countries who used genetically modified beasts, or beasties. Clankers are the countries that use very high tech machines instead of Beasties. The book begins on the clanker side with an Austrian prince named Aleksander or Alek for short. Alek was the son of the Archduke of the Austro-Hungarian …show more content…
The people come in and they are Otto Klopp, the master of mechaniks, and Count Volger, his fencing master. They woke him, to tell him that he was going to be operating a walker in the nighttime. Meanwhile on the Darwinist side of things the main character is a girl named Deryn Sharp. Deryn wanted to pass the Air Force middy test. Deryn knew that the test would be easy, but the problem was that she was a girl, and girls were not allowed on the air force. Deryn had to convince them that she was a boy, so she changed her name to Dylan Sharp. Back on Alek’s side of the story, he was using the walker at night. At first Alek became suspicious and thought that Klopp and Volger were kidnapping him, when then they told him that his parents had been assassinated. Klopp and Volger were mostly sure that it was the Germans who assassinated Alek’s parents with poison. Alek knew that the Germans had wanted war, and that it was coming soon but he didn’t know it was going to happen so early. Even though the Germans are on the Clanker side they have been desiring war so much that they killed the leader of one of their allies to start the war. On Deryn’s side of