These
are the final three chapters of the book. In these chapters, having recently
been captured by the mutants, David is separated from Petra and Rosalind.
Sophie finds David in the dark and brings him back to her house where she
believes he will be safe. David plans to go and rescue his sister and Petra but
Sophie objects and goes for them herself, killing a man to get them back. I was
surprised when Sophie came back into the book and I was rather disturbed to
hear that she was in love with the spider man, Gordon, because the concept of
someone looking like a spider to any extent freaks me out. Sophie and Rosalind
meet for the first time and I was startled at how quickly they decided that
they were not going to be friends. I feel bad for Sophie because she never got
to live her life; as a child she had no friends except for David and then she
was cast out to the fringes to live a harsh life concentrated solely on
survival. At the end of the book the people from Zealand come in a helicopter
and they decide to bring the telepaths back to Zealand with them. One of the
boys refuses to return because he does not want to leave the other telapath girl behind and he
is left on his own. When the Zealanders come they kill everyone except the
telepaths and I must admit that I was not expecting that. I was a bit disturbed
that they could just kill those people and think nothing of it. When the one
boy refused to go back without the other girl I thought it was very sweet and I
would be curious to hear what happened to them. I was glad that David, Petra,
and Rosalind got to go to Zealand in the end.
Meggie, I liked how your summary was brief, but sweet. I too thought it was cute when Michael went back. Do you ever wonder what would have been different if he had gone with them to Zealand? Would anything have been differeint?
ReplyDeleteGood summery and thoughts, never thought that about it that way for Sophie's life.
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