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.