Week 7 Posts A/B

Vocab

Appendages (267) - part(s) that is joined to something larger

Infatuation (279) - foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration

Figurative Language

1) "The aged hermit was now staring up at the Oracle. The device was slacked in its armature, thin smoke twisting from the gap around its lens" (278). This is an example of imagery. It is describing these two characters and what they appear like to the reader.

2) "The vault's dark walls began to glow as their veinlike pathways brightened inside them" (276). This is an example of a simile because it is describing the walls as veinlike and in truth they aren't obviously veins.

3) "The alien Avery decided was the leader-the one with golden armor and helmet with a V-shaped crest that swept back from its head like two jagged saw-blades-carried an additional item: a long-handled hammer with a stone head that must have weighed at least as much as Byrne" (245). This is an example of imagery because the alien leader is clearly described from his armor to his weapons etc.

Quote

"<\\> HARVEST.SO.AI.SIF >> HARVEST.AO.AI.MACK

<\ I'm in trouble.

<\ They've boarded the Tiara.

<\ Please help \>" (280).

I choose this quote because it is part of the subplot to this book. In the time this whole set of events happens humankind has become a lot more tech savy. So now there among other things there are AI that help from the biggest thing to the smallest. So specifically there are 2 AI in this book Sif and Mack and they have their own plot that happens. But the format you see above is the format they use to communicate to each other via circuits. So I thought this was interesting and I choose to use it. If you want to find out more about the subplot you should read the book because even though the book is all about this war, fighting etc, the subplot actually is a love story (which I'll talk about in a later post).

Theme

The theme for this part of the book is the inevitability of these aliens killing the inhabitants and destroying the planet it's self. The humans now know these aren't friendly aliens and going off of an evac plan which is about to put in place but they know they can't be offensive, it's a defensive plan their putting in place which connects to the theme.

Post B

For this post I thought I would comment on a quote I thought was really interesting and well placed into the book. The quote is "Now it was Fortitude's turn to feel weak in the knees. He grasped the arms of his throne and tried to come to terms with an impossible revelation: each glyph represented a Reclaimer, not a relic, and each Reclaimer was one of the planet's aliens-which could only mean one thing. "The Forerunners," the Minister whispered. "Some were left behind" (275). This is talking about the Covenant and how this religious technology an Oracle built by the Forerunners the society the Covenant revere just spoke and it spoke of the humans and how they are actually Forerunners or decendents of them. The reason this is important because the entire Covenant religion is based on the Forerunners so if the different species found out that their core religious values are a lie it would lead to a civil war. So because of this single event it leads to the Human-Covenant war because these individuals that heard this don't want the rest of the Covenant to know for reasons I just explained so in their minds it would be better to kill all of humanity to keep this secret safe. So the irony is the Covenant worship these Forerunners and now a select number of them found out that there are decendents of the Forerunners and they want to kill them all off so there won't be civil war. So there is this huge twist which is the whole reason all the other events happen.