Clarke Murphy

Clarke Murphy
Sunwing
Kenneth Oppel
Fantasy
JR
107

1) Right now in the book Shade and Marina just entered the mysterious building that the humans built. After entering the building Shade is captured by humans, they shave a patch of his fur off. After this happened Shae was put in a cage and in the cage is a lot of other bats. Chinook is kind of a leader and he too is in the cage which puts a lot of their spirits down. Shade is trying to talk to Chinook about how they are going to get free but Chinook wont do anything and he isn't talking. Then the cage is put onto a plane that is going south.

2) This is a pretty good book, i have liked it. The book is partially confusing because of Oppel's writing style. There will be one thing going on and then she will jump to another thing and sometimes without notice. Some of the pages i have had to read twice so i can understand them and so i can keep going through the book. Otherwise i haven't had too much trouble with this book and it is pretty good, i read Silverwing too so it is interesting to see the comparisons.

3) A theme i have noticed in the book so far is curiosity. At the beginning of the book Shade is asking other bats about his father because he hasn't met him and he is wondering all about him because he has heard that he is legendary. Also Shade has gotten himself into trouble with his curiosity because now he is on a plane going south thanks to his decision to go into the mysterious building that looked cool. Without Shade's curiosity the book wouldn't really be where it is right now, it would be more like the beginning.

4) My favorite character in the book so far has to be Shade. This is kind of weird for me because my favorite character is usually the main character. Anyways i like Shade because he is a cool bat and he has cool opinions. Also Shade's curiosity makes him an interesting character. Also Shade is a very nice and helpful character because he wants to get all the other bats out of the cage once they are in, and he is really trying to help even though Chinook wont help.

5) I really dislike Chinook. He is kind the kind of character that just gives up when faced with a difficult situation. Granted Chinook has been in the cage longer than Shade but Shade really wants to help and Chinook should realize that with Shade they could be able to get out of the cage and save the other bats. Chinook is being really mean because by being lazy, he is hurting all the other bats.

6) I kind of feel like Marina is going to gather some of the bats and follow the plane south. And there they will try to free Shade and all of the other bats. Either that is going to happen or they are going to somehow escape during the flight and get off of the plane. A third scenario i am thinking might happen is that Chinook will somehow betray all the other bats and then they will be in an even worse situation.