Final blog Assesment

In my post in the beginning of the tri I was relating my book to the real world, a text-to-world connection. I chose this post because I think that I used good diction and multiple sentence structures when I was describing how our problems today relate to the morphed humans in Wayward. An example of when I was using good voice in the post is, “The unknown threat to the townspeople is actually the remnants of humanity, morphed and disfigured by increasingly unstable genes (Rice)”. I think that this phrase in particular showcases my voice and style as a writer because while trying to describe the book I used I used elevated diction and it made me sound like I was describing the plot to a movie and I like that.

 

In this post when I was describing a text-to-world connection between the real world and Wayward I made purposeful diction choices for most sentences but while I was writing, I didn’t really think about my sentences structures, I just used what sounded best while I was reading it. For example, I used a periodic sentence while describing the creatures, not because I decided to, but because it sounded best.  “Humans, now four legged, translucent, hunting predators, evolved into these twisted things as their gene pool became increasingly worse (Rice)”. The sentence wasn’t wrapped up nicely until I included the part after I had described the creatures. While using diction, I actually gave things a little more thought. “The unknown threat to the townspeople is actually the remnants of humanity, morphed and disfigured by increasingly unstable genes (Rice)”. In this sentence, I purposefully used elevated diction like ‘Remnants’ and ‘Disfigured’ because I wanted a clear image of the creatures I was describing, along with more detail.

What the work tells us about people related to nature

This book's main conflict comes from how humans deal with their enviroment. The human town is placed thousands of years in the future from present day. the only reason that there even is a town is because a scientist saw that based on human day, the human race would one day evolve in to the twisted creatures that surround the town. this is all how people relate to their enviroment because we eventually evolved into these things just based off of what we were doing to our enviroment. so because of how we lived, our surroundings shaped us into the pale, twisted monsters.

How characters deal with the main conflict.

In this book the main character, Ethan, has to investigate the activities of suspicious occupants in this secret, post-apocolyptic town. Ethan deals with being in the town well, by integrating into the sheriff's position and by protecting its people. Others however, deal with it in a more violent way, by removing their tracking chips and sneaking out at night undetected. When these secret meetings get someone killed is when we start to see a character diffrence. Insted of adapting well like Ethan, Kate (Another former FBI agent) starts indulging in these behaviors, maybe just to learn more about the town. If you were in this position, do you think you could keep your cool, or end up like kate?

Conversaation with a book character

I would actually like to have a conversation with the main character from my book, Ethan Burke. If i was able to talk to him i would probably ask him what its like to live in a world you know is fake and to have to lie to people about how their world really is. I would hope that in the conversation, the point would come up about how he runs his day to day life. I don't think i would be able to keep going through my same routine each day if i knew that it was quite possible that i was in the last normal place on earth, let alone be the sheriff. I would probably break down and tell everyone beforee the end of the first day...