Roddy Doyle's "Wilderness" had ended. I wasn't expecting that, though.
So for this Homereasing, I decided to write about another book: Ann Halam's "Dr. Franklin's Island".
My apologies.
Chapters 1-5 (pages 1-50)
Semi, the main charecter, was going on a field trip to Quito, the capital of Equador. she and thirty other teenagers were part of a sociation called "Planet Savers".
She met some of her companions, who all seemed to ignore her. For nerds like the trip was for, they all seemed alot 'cooler' than her.
When she got on the plane, she sat next to one of the 'cool' teens- Miranda. She seemed nice, but also like she didn't care much. They said a few words to eachother.
After some time of flying, Semi noticed that the employees started to panic. The plane was going down.
Before she even realized, she was swimming towards a sandy beach, hearing explosions coming from behind.
The plane had crashed into the beach, leavin behind only three survivors: Semi, Miranda and Arnie.
At first, they were all scared, but then got to know eachother better and set up camp. They made up rules, like who should bring water from a nearby river, get some food and improve the camp site.
They went looking for some supplies in the air-plane, but only found a med-kit and a few packed-lunch boxes. They also found a dead body, which floated into the ocean, reminding them that the situation was very critical for them.
Semi and Miranda were getting off fine. Miranda seemed to be very friendly, actually, and knew quite a lot about wilderness. As for Arnie, the only boy, he seemed to be rather obnoxious and negative towards the two. He did things by himself and offended his companions from time-to-time.
Time passed, and the three teens started to get worried about the rescue-team that they were hoping for. Infact, Arnie was building a raft, telling the two that he will leave when it gets done.
As the daily rutine went on for about two weeks, the trio decided that they should venture deeper into the tropical island, because waiting on the beach started to get boring and the hopes that there could be civilization on the island rose.
So, as they went to discover for more food and civil facilities, they got lost. Semi had seen an animal and followed, until she really took a close look- the animal (a wild pig) had human arms! she went back and found others, who at first, didn't believe her. But when she showed them the creature, they started to get suspicious about the island.
In the next day, the girls found out that Arnie was missing. They searced the beach, and couldn't find him- thinking that he went off to te ocean with his raft.
Semi and Miranda didn't know what to do. They thought that maybe Arnie had gone off into the jungle, so they went on.
After hours of travelling, exhausted and desperate, the girls finally made it to a clearing, where there were walls, houses and even cars! But, they were arrested as tresspassers and knocked out.
When they awoke, they seemed to be in a hospital. They were clean and felt a lot better than on the beach, by themselves. Semi thought that it was a dream, or that they were finally rescued and brought to civil lands. Miranda was still very suspicious and anxious about the place.
They met a doctor, who actually looked like a scientist, with two armed men walking a step behind him. He told them that they were kept in here, a secret island. And that his boss was the owner of the island.
He explained that this place is testing on making human-like-animal mutants.
My thoughts:
The book is very, very interesting. I love survival-stories, and this is definetly one of my favorites. The emotion and horror added to the whole concept made my spine shiver. Besides the main idea of the teens surviving, the whole dram and emotion added to it made it even better. It's much better than some movies where I've seen people carrying around guns and always being prepeared for trouble, while being stranded on a mysterioys island. This was about having no experience and bravery, but fright and curiosity.
Again, a very very interesting book!
definitely
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