VP+Plot

Jordan Cheney: -So here's the shpeel; There is no written plot to The House of the Scorpion. Boy am I in for a ride. -Matt wants to be normal, so I guess that could kind of be considered the motive, but there's a lot more. For instance, There's the Evil drug lord who puts potatoe chips... excuse me... COMPUTER chips into peoples heads so that they are basically machines, and you could say the plot is to overthrow him. Then there's his friends lost mom who lives up north in the United States, and you could say the plot is to find her. Then you find out half way through that Matt's going to be harvested cause he's the Drug lords Clone, so he needs to escape. -I've decide that the Plot is for Matt to be happy (like the humans around him). In the beginning, he doesn't get much respect, cause he's just a soul-less animal, so naturally that's what he'd want. He begins by working hard in school in the hopes of maybe being able to impress people, but of course that doesn't work out. So then he learns to play the piano and the guitar, and turns out to be quite good. He receives only the occasional smile of a stoned lady. So the search continues. -When he finally finds out that his organs are to be harvested and given to El Patron (who happens to be like 190), He decides, and is supported by his three friends, to High-tail it to the Next country ASAP. After a quick scuffle with the doctors and the death of El Patron, he does just that. -He doesn't find happiness yet though, although that's what he thinks at first. He makes friends for the first time along with getting to work, but this new place is kind of socialist in that they obsess about one brother doing good for all his other brothers and no individualism whatnot (sound familiar?). So he and his three new friends decide to escape not long after and continue their journey to a town up north. There is an issue with being thrown into a pit of whale bones, but I'm tired, it's late, and don't want to go into that. -So Matt continues onward in hopes of finding his girlfriend and living happily ever after. =﻿Cami Garner:= T he giver is written from the point of view of Jonas, an eleven-year-old boy living in a futuristic society that has eliminated all pain, fear, war, and hatred. Everyone in the society looks and acts almost exactly the same, And there is very little contention and competition between the people in the comunity. And also no one chooses what they want and do not want to do. At age twelve every member of the community is assigned a job based on his or her abilities and interests. Citizens can apply for and be assigned compatible spouses, and each couple is assigned exactly two children each. The children are born to Birthmothers, and spend their first year in a Nurturing Center with other babies, or “newchildren,” born that year.

=Abbi Bean:= The Hunger Games is told from the point of view of a 16 year old girl named Katniss Everdeen. She lives in District 12 in a country called Panem where everyone is governed by President Snow, a man who lives in the very futuristic Capitol. The Capitol is very controlling and shows everyone that they have all the power. During the Dark Ages, there were 13 Districts that all tried to rebel against the Capitol, many were defeated and District 13 was completely destroyed. In order to prove to the Districts that they have no power, every year each district is forced to sacrifice two of their children, male and female, between the ages of 12 and 18 that are drawn out of a reaping ball to enter the annual Hunger Games and fight to the death where only one person can be the victor. Everyone is forced to watch the Games, but only the Capitol enjoys it. The Gamemakers make each year different from the arena, to the weapons, to the animals, their job is to make each one a definite blood bath and entertainment for the Capitol. When Katniss's 12 year old sister Prim, whose name is only in the reaping ball once, while hers is in 20 times, quickly volunteers to take her place, and is thrown into a world that she not only didn't want, but feared. While Katniss is thinking of ways to stay alive, she's thrown a curve when Peeta, the other tribute for 12, confesses his love for her, throwing them into what the Capitol views as "star crossed lovers". Katniss quickly finds that this changes everything for her when she is thrown into the arena with "lover boy" trying to protect her.

=﻿**//Casey Coppieters://**= Kira, abandonded because of her inability to walk and death of her father, sees the would as brutish and cruel. In her community the week and disabled are left to die, but because of her uncanny talent of sewing, or embriodery she is taken into the community and given the task of repairing the singers robe. The singer sings about the community's story and plays a very inportant role in the community, making Kiras ability very valuable. Athough her life now has hope she questions the council members and community. What had append to her father? Once she learns of how the government works she does everything in her power to fix it or make it better. Also throughout the book she trys to discover how to make the color blue, which she eventualy learns through the help of jonas ( A character from "//the giver").//