Blog for week 11/11/15-The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau

Prompts used:
-Determine theme/ analyze its development throughout the novel
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The book I recently finished is The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau. It's a fantasy novel.     
      The setting also drives a theme, survival. The book takes place in a post-postapocalyptic world. Everything is rejuvenated, and dotted in the rubble of cities. Among that are the settlements, pioneer-like places, where people have begun to live again.
     The plot heavily drives a theme of hate.  First, somebody smashed some tomatoes, leading to the accusation of an Emberite. Then, somebody writes "go home cave-people" in the town square. This leads to another retaliatory Emberite attack, which itself leads to the Emberites getting poison oaked. By this point, war is about to start, so the mayor attempts to force them to leave. They don't, so he pulls out an old machine gun, which explodes. That, in turn, heavily damages the Emberites' home.
      The plot shows another theme:reinvention. The Emberites reinvent themselves, like a city dweller moving to a very rural area, and kind of fail at it for a while. They eventually get the hang of it, and by the end of the book, they've sort of got it. This is a different lifestyle, with different jobs needed, hence reinvention. 

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First Quarter Reflection

This is my first quarter reflection blog.
      I am very far along in my 40 Book Challenge (as in probably read 40 books already, just forgot to log them). I still have yet to muster the courage to yank my nose out of my fiction and stick it in some nonfiction, unfortunately. However, I have found some gems of novels I would be happy to tell you about. If you have any interesting nonfiction you think I would like, put it in your comment.
      I have learned that gun violence and other sad things are rather prevalent in this world. This really says a lot about humanity. Sadly, this is not the impression I wish to cultivate to any extraterrestrials that may wish to visit. We need to fix the Middle East problems...and all the other ones.
      Moving away from that rather dark topic, my blogs have been getting more and more detailed as I write more of them. I also have figured out the exact number of spaces needed for a good indentation. (It's six, by the way.) I think my blogs are where they need to be.

It was a good quarter.