Character pt.2 The Last Book In The Universe

The main character of this book, to start, is called Spaz. I do believe that we are pretty similar in a few traits. He and I both have a tendency to go after what really matters. When Spaz found out about his dying sister he knew that he had to go see her, even though he knew that it was against the rules of the latch boss. I recently found out that a family member of mine was in the hospital. As soon as I heard that the first thing I did was make sure I could get myself over to the ICU to see her. I knew she couldn’t see me, or hear me, but I knew that she would want me to be there so I was. And I believe that was how Spaz felt when he got the message of his sister.
Also I think that his general fear of the unknown comes into play in my life as well. I have a horrible fear of getting myself in over my head. In fact a lot of times I will tell myself not to do things that would probably benefit me only because I am afraid of having to deal with the new people. He is afraid to travel through the latches, let alone with an old man and a little boy that he doesn’t know very well. He is very uncomfortable and untrustworthy as I see myself being very often. I’ve had some bad experiences with people that have led me to take a little longer to open up with people.
God these new versions are so much shorter. I may have to greatly exceed the limit a few times this quarter. Which is surprising coming from me.

Opinion pt.2 The Last Book In The Universe

I love the abstract characteristic in this book’s diolouge. It uses different slang and it’s fun to seriously try and figure out how they got the new words. I now often he’ll use the term ‘zoomed’ instead of crazy. Like when he’d talking about Wryter. Another part of this special diolouge is the way they spell things. Like Wryter’s name. It’s spelt odd because it’s supposed to be writer, seeing as though he was writing the last book in the universe. (Thus the name)
I’ve also come to love the way that Spaz, the book’s main character, has his problem. In a world were people shove needles into their brains there is a boy who can’t. Spaz is epileptic, meaning he can’t shove probes into his head. The probes are like a drug. They are rotting the brains of every leader (Latch boss) in the Urb and causing lethal chaos. They’ve actually spelt the death of a whole latch, untill Spaz and Wryter come along that is. Because in the whole huge adventure of The Last Book in the Universe Spaz is the last beacon of hope. He is the only thing that may fix, at least in the very distant future, the devastation of the Urb.
That and you have to love the whole super dramatic plot description. In a world that has been crushed by devastating natural disasters; one that is feeling the dark, horrible side of technology, one that has lost all connection of the past and any will to change the horrid atmosphere back to what it was there is one last hope. One boy with a defect that he believes has ruined his life. He will be the savior of what has become of our destroyed Earth. He is our last hope. *End dramatic rant*
I’m quite happy with this.

Conflict pt.1 Trials of Death

Trials of Death in an interesting book on the topic of conflict. There are at least five different things that I could and will go on about. There were the Trials of Death, (NOTE THE NAME) where Darren Shan, a mere half vampire is forced to go through trials in which many full vampires have failed. Larten Crepsley, his ‘teacher’ per say isn’t against it, but a man named Kurda Smahlt is. He actually goes and complains to the princes that the trials are not something that he can manage as a half vampire. Mr. Crepsley agreed to this along with the princes who narrowed down the amount of the trials he would be forced to endure.
The first trial was called the Aquatic Maze. And if you couldn’t guess already, it was a maze that was drowned from the inside out. Darren was told to learn how to map things with his mind and how not to panic when the water levels rose. Darren of course did survive but he came very close to death. He in fact was delusional right after he made it out, thinking that he was on a beach. He actually looked up and told Mr. Crepsley to get out of the sun before he burnt up.
The second trial was called something like the Cave of Needles. Hall of Needles, maybe? Either way Darren had to go through a cave by jumping from one stalagmite to another, trying desperately to make it to the other side. Sounds kind of easy right? Not at all. Darren accidentally made a little too much noise which caused the ceiling full of stalactites to start falling on him. There were many that nearly killed him and one that he was forced to catch with his bear hands. (Even a half vampire has more strength than we do.)
The third trial’s name is completely gone from my mind by now but it was by far my favorite and the most horrifying. In this trial Darren in shoved into a room that has many tunnels going through it and many openings to these tunnels. Each one of these tunnels leads to another room in which a group of vampires makes and sustains a very large fire. This fire if you couldn’t guess is shoved up through the tunnels and spouted out at or anround Darren. He has to spend like 15 minutes in this place and if he’s alive at the end he wins. Though badly burnt and in desperate need for a long break Darrren survives. Just barely.