The author James Patterson uses the antagonist to help the story develop and to create character development by robbing people, living in the black market and using people for their fame. This is significant because the antagonist drives events which create the plot and the story. During the story, there is a mysterious guy named Louise. He seems mysterious and tries using the kids for their money, even though he knows he could get in big trouble. Louie is the guy that secretly sells stuff
Are you really a slave if you sign up freely? In James Patterson 's detective novel Cross the Line, this question and many others are raised about human nature as well as intrapersonal conflicts in the characters. This question is one of a few in the book that is still a topic of debate to this day; as well as it helps get the reader thinking about their response to the situation. The more shocking conflicts deal with what the main villain is thinking and his motive for orchestrating the whole plot
James Patterson is the author of the Maximum Ride series. The Angel Experiment, the first book, is an uncommon mix of science fiction and fantasy. The story revolves around the members of the Flock trying to save the abducted, Angel and trying to find the Institute. The Angel Experiment began at the house on top of the hill where Jeb and the Flock lived. Later on, the Erasers tracked down the house and pulverized it. The Erasers, a type of human-wolf mixtures, were made by The School. The Erasers
James Patterson is a famous author of suspense thrillers, he holds the Guinness world record for the most number #1New York Times bestsellers of any author and he is best known for his character, Alex Cross, Women’s murder club and his Michael Bennett series. James Patterson has recently branched out into books for kids. Patterson does a lot of charity work and gives donations to different organizations to promote reading for young people. James Patterson is a passionate author and writer of suspense
Max by James Patterson Max, a novel written by James Patterson, is about a girl, Max, who can fly. She is working on lowering pollution level, when a company sets out to hunt her down. Not knowing she is being hunted, she and her friends go to a school to learn, without having to worry about Earth’s fate. Then she learns that her mom has been kidnapped and she decides to go save her mom. Max is science-fiction because it involves futuristic genetics as well as robots that don’t exist yet. First
Figurative Language Demonstrated by the Idea of Choice in “The Road Not Taken” Choice can be defined as making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities. Robert Frost composed “The Road Not Taken” for a friend, Edward Thomas, intending for the poem to be a joke. Although Frost had opposite intentions, many critics in the modern day interpret the poem as a complex writing about making meaningful decisions and choices. “The Road Not Taken” was created in 1916 and originally titled “Two
Many different factors affected the plot, theme, and characters in James Patterson books. James Patterson has written the different type of books that have different plot theme and characters. Though I noticed that in one of the book series he wrote the plot changed a numerous of times as well as the theme. The theme of one of the book series that he has written is ¨Maximum Ride¨. The theme of this book was love, anger, revenge, fear, and loneliness. In each of the books in the series, the
Another example is from the famous book series, “Maximum Ride” by James Patterson. Maximum Ride is the story of several kids who are ninety eight percent human and two percent avian, giving them wings and unique powers. This adventure is about Max, Fang, Iggy, Angel, Nudge, and the Gasman trying to get away from the scientists
it will you steal it ? In this essay I’m going to compare and contrast these two stories in my essay. Two themes consist with these two stories I read which was ”Tough situation” and“war”.One of the two stories I read was “ Maximum ride “ by James Patterson. Maximum ride is a scientific –fiction novel. This scientific – novel is about how max and the flock went through hard times especially after losing Jeb ( who was
James Patterson’s book, Maximum Ride, is quite the journey. It is a sensational and conflicting story that definitely the reader intrigued. It is about six young kids who finally escaped from a lab where they were experimented on and were brought there after being kidnapped. The six kids are; Max, who has the leader role in the group, Fang, Iggy, Gasman, Angel and Nudge. They have grown up together and are on the mission to find their parents. The flock is taken in by Anne, who works for the FBI
Symbols of Snow in “The Dead” by James Joyce The Dead is a short story written by James Joyce. The work represents a description of a typical Christmas day of Gabriel Conroy, the decent husband and beloved nephew of three aunts. His mother died and her sisters became the man’s closest relatives. All women lived in one mansion that Gabriel visited with his wife on holidays. The story does not show significant events like murders or adulteries. It describes a typical holiday of a decent Irish man and
It was the end of fall. I sat on the back porch with a blanket across my lap and the newest James Patterson. I wasn't reading, but examining the leaves that had fallen in the backyard. I remembered Paul and Kat raking them into piles when they were younger. Kat would run from the trampoline that no longer sat in our backyard and flop into the crackling brown and yellow leaves. I always watched from the same spot on the porch, entertained from her laughter and seeing her body shake with joy.
and threw at an old man’s head…on purpose. This old man was James Patterson, also known as the “Junk Man” because he collected all sorts of garbage for who knows what reason. If it weren’t for the wind, Arthur’s bad aim, and the fact that the Junk Man moved at the right moment, he could have been killed, or at best, fatally injured. Instead James only broke his arm from the incident. He only threw the brick at James because of the hat James was wearing. Arthur’s dad recently passed away from an accident
The first book in the series by James Patterson gives an overview of the Flock: Maximum Ride (the leader), Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel. These children, ages 6 through 14, are far from normal. They are only 98% human, while the other 2% is avian, giving them wings and special powers. This book covers some of the back story of the flock, explaining how they ended up on their own in their remote mountain home. It also covered the antagonistic half-wolf, half-human creatures known as Erasers
doesn’t matter if I create amazing works of literature as long as I get people to read. I write in a variety of different genres to accomplish my goal. Therefore, I look up to authors such as James Patterson who write in many different genres in order to give people choices when it comes to reading. James Patterson just like me wants to get people to read. William Morris goal when writing News from Nowhere is to show the world what it could be.
Bullseye the Mystery Bullseye is a fictional novel written by the great author James Patterson. This book is about an agent named Michael Bennet “must kill or be killed” (Paterson, 45) he goes through a journey into many missions and must survive. This book lives up to its moral kill or be killed. Bullseye is very mysterious and left you hooked at the ending of this book makes you want to know more. The book has allot of deaths that leave you wondering why these people were targeted and why all
Throughout the book Invisible by James Patterson Emmy, the protagonist, puts up a facade that she’s military strong, but ever since her sister died that facade has transformed into a mask and eventually faded away all together. Emmy puts up a mask, never really showing anyone what’s underneath the veil covering her emotions. In the beginning of the book Emmy was angry and lonely because when her sister died, she “was nothing without her” (54). Emmy was determined to “find her sister’s killer”
right before their eyes? It’s one thing to lose a loved one but another to witness that person be killed right in front of your face. Typically after losing a loved one an individual will experience grief in a number of forms. In Alex Cross, by James Patterson, the main character Alex loses his wife and experiences grief at several times throughout the book. For example, when Alex and his daughter Janelle begins to cry he begins to tear up feeling overwhelmed by reality and unreality of losing his wife
In James Patterson’s novel, The Final Warning, there are a group of kids who are not like the rest of the world. These kids have been genetically altered to look like humans, but have the ability to fly in the same manner that birds do. The kids: Maximum, Fang, Gazzy, Angel, Nudge, and Iggy, have been tested on and have been held captive for a sliver of their lifetime. In this particular novel, Patterson is using the flock as a literary tool in the fight against global warning. Patterson is an
In the narrative Maximum Ride Forever written by James Patterson, the story of Maximum Ride, the main character and our protagonist, who is a mutant with both the ability to fly, and the ability to breathe underwater, and her flock who are also mutants, and their plights in a post-apocalyptic world. In this book, they begin by being forced to leave their little island in the pacific and travel in order to escape the eruption of the volcano there. They go back to the real world, where they had lived