This Dark Endeavor 140-240

Victor felt silly for never seeing how Konrad and Elizabeth have been in love for awhile. This bugged Victor a lot and he wanted to make Elizabeth his. Konrad learns of the adventures they have been doing when Henry, Victor, Konrad, and Elizabeth go out for a little fun. Konrad tells everyone that his illness was not cured and it may come back. They decide to continue on with finding the ingredients for the elixir to heal Konrad and he wants to join them. That night Victor steals a note that Elizabeth left for Konrad in a vase and it said to meet her at the balcony at one in the morning. Its pitch black and Victor meets Elizabeth up top and steals a kiss and she realizes it was Victor and the next morning swore to not talk about it and she loves Konrad not him. They go to the alchemist house to find out the next ingredient and its the fish oil form a extinct or thought to be extinct fish that lives in the caves of the mountains. Victor prepares the trek and gathers supplies and uses a map that was given to them of the caves. They go to the mountain and descend into it with their lanterns. Victor made another elixir that would make a flame less light too that would be helpful. They climb through the tunnels of the cave and find a lake in it. They get out their poles and fish for the creature. They got a bite and fight to reel the fish in. Then suddenly the water begins to rise and goes all the way up to victors arm and the fish swims up to him and tries eating Victor and puts his whole arm in his mouth. Konrad pulls out a sword from his bag and stabs the fish couple times and kills it. He severs the head and puts it in a bag and they try to hurry through the cave before they would drown. The lanterns where useless because of all the water so the flame less fire would come in handy to see and they got all the way back to where they started and Henry pulled them all up to safety. They go back home way late past curfew and their father meets them at the door and takes Victor to his study to sew up his wound. Victor tells them what they were doing and his dad tells him to stop and he can not go into the library anymore. They were condemned to the house for 2 weeks and in the two weeks tension between Elizabeth and Victor rise and Konrad passes out when confronting Victor about the things he has been bugging Elizabeth about. Konrad fallen back to the illness even worse than before.  Victor rallies up everyone and convinces them to go after the last ingredient of the Elixir of Life. They go to the alchemist house to find out what the last ingredient they need is. He tells them they need the bone marrow of the person closest to Konrad. Victor decides he would be the one who would have two of his fingers severed for Konrad.

This Dark Endeavor 1-40

Victor and his brother Konrad who are twins were in a play fighting a monster and they defeat the monster who was battling them. When they killed the monster it transformed into a woman. Victor asked her why she was only fighting him instead of his brother to. She said because he was the one who is the true monster. They get what they need to collect the reward for killing the beast. Victor then turns on his brother saying how the riches in the world will only belong to him not Konrad. They sword fight it out and Victor strikes down Konrad. He says how he is finally alone with all the riches and will live in peace. The lights dim and the crowd applause and cheers filled the room. He helped up his brother and they go into the crowd to talk to their parents. They walk through the crowd who is clapping for them. When walking with their parents Victor falls off the balcony and lands ontop of a roof and is holding for dear life. His brother rushes down the side of the building to help him. He makes it their and pulls Victor back on top of the building. The next day Victor is in a wheel chair because he sprung his ankle. They horse around him and his brother and their cousin Elizabeth and end up falling into some book cases and find a door leading to an underground room. They go down there and find a locked door. Victor stuck his hand into a hole to see if he could unlock it and a big metal arm grasps his arm. He freaks out and tries to break free of the grasp and could not. His brother then reads something on a door that was a riddle. He shook to the metal arm to unlock the door. They enter the library which was called The Dark Library in latin. They look at all the old books and medicine in the place then their father comes down there. He explains how their great grandpa used to be an alchemist an how he just rode off one day and nobody knew what happened to him. They go up stairs to fix their servants supper on Sunday which was a tradition of theirs. They finished eating and went to go star gazing on the boat with Elizabeth and his brother Konrad. Elizabeth and Victor get into an argument about how God exists and how Victor's dad does not believe in him. Then Elizabeth dares him to push her off the boat and never refusing a dare he did. 

The Death Cure Book Response

Book Title: The Death Cure
Author: James Dashner
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of Pages: 325
I. Plot Summary- Thomas and his Friends who survived the Scorch Trials are back at the WICKED facilities and are given the choice to regain their memories from the past. Some refuse to get them back and Thomas, Minho, Newt, Brenda, and Jorge escape the WICKED facility and head to Denver. They meet Gally there with a plan to stop WICKED. Thomas is faced with a choice to go back to help WICKED finish the cure to the Flare or put an end to their experiments on people.
II. Literary Elements
A. Narrator-Third Person, "It was the smell that began to drive Thomas mad."p.1
B. Protagonist- Thomas- The boy who has been one of the big leaders of his friends since he was in the Glade with them and is WICKED's variable to the Flare. "Forget reloading!, Thomas shouted. Lets go!" p.89
C. Antagonist- WICKED. The group of people who have been putting Thomas and his friends through all of the challenges and is responsible for killing many of Thomas's friends. They want to cure the Flare even if it means torturing these kids. " Lets get it over with. The Rat Man smiled and said, follow me." p. 298
D. Setting- WICKED facility and the old worn out city of Denver. " Thomas was utterly wowed; he could not stop craning his neck to take in the large buildings around him" p. 110
E. Conflict- Man vs. Man. Man vs. Self: Thomas against WICKED trying to put an end to their experiments and fighting Cranks along the way. Thomas also had to fight against his own mind deciding whether he wants to finish the trials and find a cure or to put an end to WICKED." We will do whatever it takes to find a cure. With as little loss of life as possible. Nothing else needs to be said on the matter." p. 264
F. Theme- Sometimes things just seem to get worse and worse so you have to learn to roll with the punches and battle on. Do not let anything stop you and trust your gut most likely its the right thing. " This ends now" p. 310
III. Reflection- I most enjoyed the last book in this trilogy. It kept my attention the whole way through it and I wanted to keep reading to find out what happened. Full of twist and turns through the whole thing that you did not expect. Some tragedies happen and I think that is what makes the book really good because not every story needs to be happy the whole way through it because in real life that is not what happens. I would recommend this to anyone who likes to read a good story because it certainly has one.