Book Essay

What if you had no control of speaking to the dead? Chloe the main character in the book The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong had to deal with this special power for the rest of her life. This story follows the ironic plot line with the plot line and the characteristics really make the mode of literature clear.

In the ironic mode of literature there are only three plot points and in this story they are very clear. In this book the first plot that Chloe, Simon, Derek, and Tori who are Chloe’s friends, are all running for their lives to get away from their group home. There are many reasons why the kids were running from their group home. One of the main reasons is that the people from the group home were trying to kill these kids, because Chloe and her friends have supper power. For an example Chloe can talk to the dead sounds cool but, not knowing if you were talking to the dead really starts to make you feel like you are a crazy person. Or Derek had the power of turning into a werewolf and he had no control of when it would happen. So as you can see it is not really fun to have powers like these. That leads us into the next plot point is the kids were running for their lives. So the friends go to New York trying to escape but they find out that the people that are in New York. Chloe and her friends were so scared, When they started running trying to escape again. Trying to escape they had split up in order to escape they did not split on purpose. Almost all the time they were running for their lives from the group home. When Chloe was escaping she had to go into a tree to be safe and she fell out and knocked a lady out. After all that running they escaped for now from them. That leads us to the last point which is when they were running Chloe saw her Aunt, Chloe’s aunt was the only person she could trust and she was everything to Chloe and now the Edison group killed her because she was helping the kids get away. Although the plot line proves the mode of literature the characteristics just as much prove the mode.

As you can see the mode was proven with the plot line the characteristics do the same. In this story the main character was not is control Chloe and her friends had the keep running to be safe. Another characteristic is that the evil was strong and good is weak the group home had all these weapons and cars and tools to always be a head of the kids and the kids had no clue what would happen next. This story is very unrealistic because in real life you do not have powers like these and you don’t have powers at all. There are more characteristics but these were the main characteristics but these were the characteristics that really prove the mode.

So as you can see this book follows the ironic mode of literature through its plots and its characteristics. This stories lesson is something that we need to think of more often because compared to this story our lives are nowhere near how bad these kids’ lives are.