Book Project 4 Sean Lowe per 4

Book Project #2   Independent Reading Analysis and Response

List the KEY EVENTS in the story and describe their effects on the main character(s). Use a chart for these notes.

Key Events

Effects on Character

1.       Eli and his family enter the Compound. 2.       Eli's family has lived in the compound for six years and his mom is pregnant with her fourth child in 6 years. 3.       Eli's dad Rex shows Eli a machine that could clone people 4.       Eli accesses the internet hoping he can contact his brother 5.       His mom Clea is bleeding and Eli realizes he needs to get his family out of the compound 6.       Eli discovers a series of numbers that were written in invisible ink 7.       Eli's dad wakes up and finds him with the paper and takes the paper. 8.       Eli still wants to get out so he tries the code but since his dad took the paper he only remembered some numbers 9.       he tries to think of birth dates to find the rest of the numbers. 10.   he escapes the compound and has to go to a new one. 11.   He helps his family get out of the compound 12.   Rex was arrested for abducting his family.

1.  Eli is scared of the Compound because he is only nine and his brother did not make it in with them   2.Eli will have a new sibling and that means less food for everyone, which concerns him   3. Eli does not like the idea it would take up more food   4. Eli has hope that he can contact  his lost brother   5. Eli needs to get ready to break out   6. this is a big step to escaping   7. this is bad and will make it hard for Eli to escape   8. this is a set back and needs more numbers   9.  It worked partly but he needs more numbers   10. Him and his family are scared that Rex will catch them   11. His mom needed help since she was pregnant   12. The family did not have to worry about Rex and were safe

 

Study the information you have listed and determine a theme for the work. Write a constructed response in which you state the theme and explain its development through the story. Use some of these suggestions to guide your thinking.

Writing Criteria

• TAG
• A theme is stated
• The author’s development of the theme through events and character portrayals is explained.

 

                Theme

 The Theme of The Compound is when you want to protect something do all you can to protect it.

Constructed response

                 In the story Eli had to protect his family from Rex and from other effects such as bleeding, starving or temperature. Rex is unappealing  and makes sure Eli and his family never leave the compound. Eli tries  to break everyone out and steal the combination to the door. As Eli is steeling the combination Rex wakes up and takes it from him and tells him never to try to escape again. Eli does not give up there, he remembered some numbers from the combo and had to keep guessing till he got it. He guessed birthdays and special days and holidays. Eli did not give up until he got the door opened. He wanted to protect them so bad he would do anything to keep them safe.