vacation please.

pg. 452- 494

where i left during these endless snow days, drake had just received this whipping arm he now uses as a weapon. like he needs another weapon.

At the beginning Sam is wondering where Lana has gone, not knowing that she has been taken by Caine and the coyotes. He is also wondering where Caine is because Sam is all ready to take him on and he is no where to be seen. They also go to visit Orc which they find probably wasn't the best idea. all he does is drink beer anymore and they find that after being dragged by the coyotes, and who knows what, he is covered in patches of gravel. gross.

Sam collects all the machine guns from the nuclear plant for the war that is about to come, also to keep them away from Caine. They all get ready for battle, they take their positions sort of i mean. Astrid goes on top of the church where you can basically see everything that is about to come and they get walkie talkies so they can communicate. Sams day to disappear is not too far away, actually its hours away, but he wont go down without a fight.

Sam also says something that he suspects Astrid has some sort of power. Diana said she was a two bar and Astrid confesses that whenever she touches a person's hand, she sees something in her mind. in Sam's case, a streak of fire. my guess is, that Astrid can tell what powers each person has by the touch of the hand, but its just a guess.

Also, Diana asks Jack to go to Sam and tell him what he can do to save himself from disappearing. Jack starts driving off, but he finds that drake and panda are following him so he drives into the forest to hide. As he emerges the next day, he thinks he is being followed again by a huge semi truck being driven by Drake, but it is really two children, unaccounted for who have been living in hiding and have threatened to kill him. luckily, he saved himself after promising to fix the boy's wii.

Sam sees a whole bunch of Coates kids reach the school so he goes there with some of the kids with powers. After destroying half the school and terrorizing the two kids the are inside, they find that it is a trap... great.

this is me...

pg. 392- 452

im taking advantage of these snow days to finally finish this book...

it's getting kind of weird. i mean weirder than it already has. after Sam and Lana and them escape from the cabin, they follow the wall home, but they happen upon this girl whose hands are encased in cement. she is basically dying from starvation and exhaustion in the forest which is sick. we get a little clue prior to this that Drake is actually the one who has been doing this to people, but only people with the power. but they show compassion to this girl, give her some food, and try to carry her back to Perdido Beach, until they get stopped by Drake and Caine who were driving along because they saw the fire that Sam had caused.

They get brought back to Coates academy where Lana is introduced as the healer and Drake encases Sam's hands in cement like the girls. They also meet at least a dozen people in the same situation who are basically being held hostage because they can't going anywhere due to lack of food and exhaustion. After being encased in cement, something happend and Little Pete uses his power, causing the cement blocks to disappear not only on Sam's hands, but on everyone elses too. it is kind of weird how his powers come and go. after Sam's hands are free, he burns Drake's arm off, causing a big diversion and they escape back to Perdido Beach.

They basically have to chop Drake's arm off after they leave which causes a big scene. Drake refuses to let them, but they do it against his will and with the power of Caine's power.

When Lana finally reaches Perdido beach she is invited to stay in this house where she gets cleaned up, but its not long before she is basically abducted by Drake himself. They don't get far. there car, also with Howard in it, gets surrounded by coyotes and they are forced to get out and are lead to see that darkness that the pack leader always talks about. When they get there it's kind of creepy. the darkness speaks through Lana but then when it finds out that Drake is there, it thinks that Drake is more suitable for the position that it has been looking for, to kill humans, so it takes him in, healing his arm, not regrowing it with human flesh, but with some sort of tentacle.

It is also learned in this section that Little Pete was the one which caused this whole situation. he was in the control room of the nuclear power plant in the day it happened with his dad when a whole bunch of alarms went off. to my understanding, the alarm that was going off was about to destroy every human on earth, with the help of Little Pete and his power, he sort of saved everyone by putting them in this situation.

2.23 Diction Exercise

a.)
jut
hewn
rushing
taciturn
stocky
treacherously
placid
graze
lumps
slate
sharply

b.)
harsh
pensive
pleasant
smooth
brash
delicate
c.)
Neil Gaiman's beautifully concrete language illustrates the delicate image of pleasant brashness.

pg. 351-392

In this section, Caine is reminded of a boy named Andrew, still living at Coates with the power, who has a birthday today. he gathers a whole bunch of camera equipment so Jack can film when or if he goes at the time he turns fifteen. He wants to know if the theory he has that people with the power do not go, is true or not. After they arrive at Coates, they finally track Andrew down, and tie him to a chair so he does not mess up the filming experience. Jack counts down to what he thinks is the exact time he is supposed to poof out, but then he ends up going over in time. Andrew is doing is power and going nuts, thinking that maybe he might survive and then after twenty seconds, he disappears. Luckily, they got it all on film and they actually saw something at the time of his disappearance. after slowing down the footage considerably, they see that right before Andrew disappears, he smiles and starts extending his arms as if he is reaching our for a hug. They also saw some sort of green blob. they say that for Andrew this whole experience was lasting a whole lot longer than than it was for anyone else, that that green thing, looking like a monster to them, must have looked like something positive to Andrew. They say that this whole experience is a trick and that if it was just possible to say no...

Sam and everyone as they are walking back to Perdido Beach, hear coyotes which gathered are Lana leading all of them to the cabin. Sam happens up the same cabin and then sees Lana running towards him for the first time. she tells all of them to run inside very quickly, but they aren't necessarily quick enough. Sam and Quinn, especially Sam receive a fair mount of damage from the coyotes, but luckily, they are safely, inside eventually and that Lana has healing powers. They all introduce themselves, about time Lana meets another human. Lana fixes all of Sam's wounds and amazes the whole crowd. They discuss the mutations of the coyotes and the snakes. But the coyotes are angry that Lana never taught them anything. dozens of them surround the cabin, making it impossible for them to escape. They keep having to reinforce the door because the coyotes keep knocking it. After a while, Pack leader catches the cabin on fire forcing them to come out. Sam uses his power to break the barricade in front of the door to get out also kills many coyotes this way. It sets of this huge inferno of flaming coyotes, some of them running through the forest engulfed in flames.

about time

i finally saw it's kind of a funny story! the book was better but you know they did what they could. they changed a lot of parts which confused me on why they even did so, but it was still a good movie. there were still parts that were exactly the same like his map drawing and the people and the ending. overall, everyone should see it, its actually kind of inspiring.