Independent Reading post 1

NAME:Nate Kling DATE 1/26/10 TITLE : Pendragon: The Lost City of Faar TIME 2.5 HOURS AUTHOR D.J. Machale PAGES 0-168 TOTAL PAGES THIS WEEK:168
QUESTION 1: Explain how the author creates suspense in this book.

RESPONSE1: The author has taken multiple measures to get the suspense up. One thing he has done to make suspense in the book is to create a very calm enviroment,just to makeit straight in to action, making you want to read on. One occasion he had done this was during the attack on the "habitat" the characters live in. They gave a sense of security in the setting, a feeling that nothing would happen for a while. This in when the author brought in the first suspenseful part of the book, when two of the habitats crashed into each other in the water. The way the author wrote gave a kind of chaos which gave the suspenseful setting.

Another way the author gives the kind of suspense is to make the villian a very cruel man.He is very unexpectable,so it makes it that reader feels that the setting is suspenseful, and just plain evil. The way he makes a villian that is so undescribably evil makes it so you want the villian to be defeated. It makes it so the reader even feels unsecure, because the setting also exists in a place wher such evil is able to come here. It creates an atmosphere of uncertainty and suspense.

QUESTION 2: I wonder why the author...
RESPONSE 2: I wonder why the author had decided to make one culture the way it was. The one culture is the one which one of the characters, Loor, comes from. The way he has done it so far is that they come from a gladitor kind of culture. The way they had described Loor in the first book made her seem like she was a warrior, but the fact that they made she was a very special warrior compared to the main character made me wonder why the author made her so strong and the main character so scrawny.
I also wonder why the author made the bully that bosses around Mark, another main character, find the journals that are written to Mark by Bobby, the main character. It feels like an unneeded event that was just filler. Maybe closer to the end of the book he will make that event a more important one in the bigger scheme of things. He may have done this so the character Mark would also be a part of the story.