Wednesday, July 9, 2008

FINAL THOUGHTS

1. - Who are the characters in the novel? If you could be any of characters in the novel, which would you be and why?
= Saul, Sue, Ruth, Caroline, Captain Marrs, Dick Lane, Peter, Marc, the Controller, Wind.
I will like to be a Saul, because he saves the dolphins.

2. - What do you think was Saul’s reaction when Ruth explained to him about the dolphins? How did you feel?
= He was mad and he felt sad, disappointed.

3
. - Describe the setting of the story. How is the year 2051 like? What role do computers play in 2051? Make a list of ways in which the world in the story is different from the world day.
= It’s a virtual world; the people don’t do anything at all, the computer does everything. In this world you can’t do virtual walks. You can see the people, touch them and do everything

4. - How did reading this novel affect you?
= I imagine everything when I read and I felt sad because the dolphins died, but at the end I felt so happy because they do save the dolphins and they are still alive.

5. - Who is the main character of the novel? Describe how you are like the main character of this novel. Describe how you are different than the main character of this novel.
= Saul. If I would done the same things as Saul did because I too like the dolphins. The difference between Saul and I is that he lives in a virtual world and I don’t.

6. - If you could give the main character a piece of advice, what would you suggest?
= He could be a better person. When he was in Caroline’s house he could have insisted on believing him.

CHAPTER 20

The next day, during a virtual concert on the Web, Caroline started talking about Saul. She repeated everything he had told her about the Captain Marrs and the Music Rooms, and how they were hurt in order to make music. As she was speaking Dick Lane came into the recording studio and fired her dead.

CHAPTER 17

1. - I want him found: Captain Marrs
2. - They hated screen watching:
Narrator
3. - I’ll check in the laptop:
Sue
4. - They lay without moving:
Narrator
5. - We’re too late:
Saul
6. - Good morning, What can I do for you?:
The computer

CHAPTERS 14, 15 & 16

1. - Why did Saul and Sue feel Sad and angry when they left Caroline’s house?
= Because Caroline doesn’t believe that he said about the music rooms, dolphins and Captain Marrs. She wanted to call the police, but only for her love him no do it.

2. - Why while Captain Marrs questioned Caroline, she decided to make herself sound unintelligent?
= Caroline decided that whatever she now thought, she should make herself sound stupid, as if her only world was music.

3. - Give reasons why Caroline believed or not believed in Saul’s worlds.
= BELIEVED: Because she loves and she lied at Captain Marrs about Saul said her.
NOT BELIEVED: Because never stayed together only in a walk virtual.

4. - Do you think Saul really loved Caroline or vice versa?
= I think Saul did love her, because he trusted she and also they talk every day and he could rely on her help when ever he needed her. Caroline doesn’t trust him, but at the end she told the true about Captain Marrs in her concert and she died loving Saul.

CHAPTERS 11, 12 & 13


1. - Explain the reasons which Saul did not want to travel with Sue?
= Because he thinks the crazy idea, and he didn’t enjoy the idea and she was the rudest person he had ever met.

2. - What was the purpose of the small computer chip?
= To save the numbers of the tunnel workers.

3. - Explain the reasons Sue and Ruth became a terrorist?
= Three years ago the Sue’s husband died, when he visit a friend, but unfortunately his house was next door to the house where a terrorist lived. And the Captain Marrs sent him back to Sue as a warning. Robert died the next day. Sue was arrested, and that’s why Ruth set up PACE and rescued her.

4. - Why did Saul think Sue was rude?
= Because when he met Sue, she ignore him when he said Hi, at Sue.

CHAPTERS 8, 9 & 10

Answer two questions only.

1. - Do you believe that Saul and Sue will arrive to Neumatt alive?
= Yes, because Sue know the path, and they would do everything possible to save the dolphins.

2. - What were Saul’s thoughts when he was traveling through the tunnel with Ruth and Sue?
= He thought the things that he lost for example he’s home, music collection and job.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Chapter 10

Who...
a.- Wanted to watch everything that happened on the web?
= Control
b.- Did all the real work?
= The tunnel people
c.- Started a fire to burn the forest down?
= Captain Marrs
d.- Made the fire even bigger to get Marrs into the trouble?
= PACE
e.- Was going to stay behind the caves?
= Ruth