Samuel D. 5 TH

1. Title: Flight 29 down-staticAuthor: D.J. Machale, and Stan RogowDate/Year Published: 2006Genre: realistic fiction Samuel D. 5TH

2. i Setting • The story is set on an island in the middle of the pacific ocean. It is important and adds meaning to the story, because it makes life hard, and it presents many different challenges. If the setting were different, the whole theme and the teamwork part would be different.

3. Characters

4. Conflict • The main conflict in the story involves 6 teenagers and 1 kid trying to survive on an island in the middle of the pacific ocean, but they all have different ideas on what to do, and they find it very hard to get along with each other and work together, but if they don’t then they won’t survive. There are 2 types of conflicts in the story, man vs. man, and man vs. nature.

5. Summary of Plot • 9 teenagers, 1 kid, and 1 adult get stranded on an island in the middle of the pacific ocean when their plane crashes. The adult and 3 of the teenagers set out through the forest on the island to find help. This leaves the other 6 teenagers and the one kid to have to find water, and food, but they find it very hard to get along with each other much less work together.

6. Theme • When you work together, you can accomplish great things. • Text Evidence 1: They had to move the airplane before the tide came in and the only way they were able to do it was by teamwork. • Text Evidence 2: To survive, they have to assign each person a certain responsibility, but work as a team to get the things they need. • Text Evidence 3: Never in the book does one person make a major accomplishment.

7. Point of View • The author uses first and third person points of view. It is mostly written in third person, but throughout the whole book the author would write from the point of view of a specific person which would tell you how certain characters felt about each other.

8. Symbolism • In the end of the book, 2 of the teenagers are digging a hole to find water when a small trickle of water starts coming out of the hole. This symbolizes hole, and affects the story by improving the odds greatly of them being able to survive.

9. Recommendation • This book is worth reading because it provides a realistic situation and gives a very challenging task to 7 individuals who really don’t get along very well. The book shoes in good detail how they overcome various problems by working together, and throughout all of the action it reveals the thoughts and feelings of the characters.