In Darkness Summer Entry #4

I liked the title of this book. It just grabbed my attention at the first moment I read the title to myself. I love books that make u predict something every other line in the book and I like books about horrific things that happen to people and they survive after the event has happened. Plus this book was the first book I saw on the list, and actually looked at. The personal connections to the novel are completely different because I have been growing up in a great town, Mason, and our main character has been growing up in bad place with a lot of crime, deaths, and kidnapping. I have never even touched or shot a real gun in my life, but our main character has killed a man with a gun when he was twelve. I would recommend this book to people who like books about mystical creatures, and for people who like horror movies/books like Carrie. In my family I think my mom would love to read this book because she always reads horror books and books about people who have a tough life like the main character in my book.

In Darkness Summer Entry #3

“I have no name. There are no names in the darkness cos there is no one else, only me, and I already know who I am (I am the voice in the dark, calling out for help), and I have no questions for myself and no need to call upon myself for anything, except to remember. I am alone. I am dying” (Lake 1-2). This section on the text “hooks” the reader because you want to read on to find out the things or ideas he is calling upon to remember, and you want to read on to find out his name. Throughout the whole first and second page you don’t learn his name and at the point in the book I am right now I still haven’t come across the name of our character, but keep in mind that I haven’t finished the book yet so I probably will not know his name until the end of his book.

In Darkness Summer Entry #2

Our main character, we still have not figured his name out, wants to have his sister back and want his savior to come and rescue him before it is too late and he dies. One of our minors characters Marguerite is our main characters sister who died from being shot. When she was still alive she just wanted to help her family and trying to give them everything she could. Her family actually believed her when she said, “Yes. See those big houses on the hill, for the rich? I’ll have one of those one day. I’ll have a swimming pool and a car, and you’ll all be living with me.” My book starts off with a chapter or our character talking about the most important sections of his life. Then the next chapter goes to before our characters parents were even born, when all the crime and terribleness started. The paragraphs switch off every other one so far in the book.

In Darkness Summer Entry #1

The main character in the book In Darkness, by Nick Lake, is a boy that is some age over 12 years old because this like from the book tell us that, “I first shot a man when I was twelve years old” (Lake 1). Who is that man? The author at the start of the book never gave his name to us and I’m guessing that at the end of the book we will be surprised by his name or as we go throughout the book we will get clues of his name. The setting of the book is a hospital that was bombed down with people inside it. Our character, I, was the only survivor that we know of and is giving us pieces of his life that tell us what his life has been like and what other people thought about him. The conflict that is emerging in the book is that our character has this huge hunger starting to come in his bell, for food, and he is so desperate for water that he has to like up his own, almost dried, blood to even get a little bit of his thirst quenched. Why was he put into the hospital in the first place? What happened to his family? The connection I found with this book is to another book/movie, Carrie. I know that is a long stretch but I think the connection between my book and Carrie is that it is super dark and almost a horror book like Carrie.