Summary Of The Roar

Before the events in this book there is an 'apocalyptic' plague called the animal plague. The events in The Roar are many years after the government 'killed' the animals. One day Ellie wants to go to her friend's house so her parents let her go. That night a man kidnapped her and let her mom, Asha, her dad, David, and her brother, Mika, very devastated but later everyone believed she really had died except Mika. Mika was Ellie's twin and they had a power to feel each other. Mika still feeling remorse goes to school but after awhile he believes he might be a crazy but he insists that his sister is still alive. One day his classroom is very different and feels happier. He is forced to drink called fit mix to help him get his nutrients so he grows to be healthy. He denies drinking it because he knows something is up. He is given out of school detention and also sorting one thousand beads into four colors and he has to see a counselor named Helen. After a week he goes to school and everyone is talking about a new game called Pod Fighter. When he gets to know the game he becomes one of the best. Then there is a tournament between every child that plays this game and he enters it with a girl named Audrey. They are a great team and excel at the game. They get farther into the tournament and win the prizes that they are given since they won the rounds. One prize is a vacation for the winner's family to a resort that resembles a Jamaican beach or what was a Jamaican beach before the plague. There the winners shot harpoon guns at metal animals to get into the last round of the tournament. While they were in the ocean shooting in a contest Mika is shot in the leg and nearly dies. He is healed very quickly and a man announces the winners and Mika and Audrey both made it with others too. The winners all go to this big building at Cape Wrath where they fight to see if they win a house in the golden turrets. They go through challenging competitions and they learn how to move things with their mind. Mal Gorman which happens to be the man who kidnapped Ellie and also the leader of the Youth Development Foundation , who made the kids drink the fit mix, chooses the winners of the last round. Mika and Audrey still make it through and they are allowed to go live in their new houses. But before they leave Mal Gorman makes them promise that they won't speak of anything that has happened, stay in their house, and go back to Cape Wrath the next day and if he follows his promises he will get his sister. Right after he left there were trains full of children that had been taken from a gaming place. When he gets to his new house it only takes a few hours to cause everything goes insane because the people that live in the shadows are striking back against the government so they are destroying the golden turrets to get to where the politicians live. This makes the promise very hard to follow but Mika and Audrey stay in the house while all the others leave. The police come in pod fighters and leave them hovering by themselves. Mika and Audrey need to get out and they tack the pod fighter away. When they do this Mal Gorman knows and he sends his men to go kill them because they are headed towards the wall and he doesn't want them to see what is behind the wall. But they make it over the wall and get away from the other pod fighters. They notice trees and are in awe because they were told that trees didn't exist. The men caught up with them and shot Mika and Audrey's fighter down. They landed in a forest and when they hit the ground they jump out and start to run as far away as possible because they knew they were being hunted. They came across many animals and they weren't bitten or attacked. Later they realize a pod fighter has landed since the men were told to follow and kill Mika and Audrey. The men don't last because the animals get a hold of them and they are killed. The next day they get into the left pod fighter and fly to Cape Wrath to keep their promise or at least try to. When they get to Cape Wrath they confront Mal Gorman about the other side of the Wall. He tells them everything about how this whole 'animal plague' and all the mansions out in the forests of woods. He also explains that there is going to be a war with all the children that he had planned to kidnap which he did against the rich people who have greater and better weapons then what the children will have. Mika thinks about war and realizes that the animals that he saw in the forests were going to be killed and he doesn't want them to die because he has always loved animals sense he has holographic pictures of the animals. After they talk about the war Mika asks to see Ellie and Mal Gorman allows him to see her. They unite and at last he finds her. They go back to the house in the golden turrets. As they fly back to the house they talk about the war and the children which were abducted. Mika feels something going on where the children of the army sleep. The children were waking up even though they weren't supposed to. Then the children left since the nurses couldn't get them to go back to sleep

Author's Purpose Question

Emma Clayton's purpose in writing the Roar is to educate society and persuade society to start thinking about Earth so we won't pollute the whole world and make the human race not be able to live sense the oxygen is always going to be toxic or bad for anything. I can tell that she adds the part when Mika goes over the Wall and sees that his whole life he has been lied to because the animals aren't all dead, the animals aren't killers, and that people do live on the other side of the Wall. With him noticing these lies he also notices that what he was taught about how a lot of the world had chopped most of their forests down; now most of the land is full of lush, tall, and healthy trees. This backs up her purpose because she says many times that the world has lost all of its necessities for basic life and our age doesn't do anything to stop the bad things we are doing to the world, the life of how Mika and Audrey and the characters in the Roar could possibly be how we live in out later years. 

Documented or Controversial Societal Issue

In the Roar Mika and Audrey are involved in many controversial societal issues; one issue they are involved in is poverty because they both live in homes that are basically the size of a master bed room, that has mold in it, and very unhealthy. Also they aren't rich enough to buy real food so they are forced to eat fake food which is made of mold and it is unhealthy also. When they get farther into the competition they win their families a house in the Golden Turrets where the rich live. Sadly they earned this new house but lost it in minutes due to the poor striking back against the government. But after the revolt it was time to clean up and the rich had maids who quickly repaired all the broken things and cleaned up the house.

Compare and Contrast Question

The Two characters in The Roar are Mika and Audrey. They are similar to 'normal' people such as teenagers because they are addicted or fascinated by video games. Also they go to school just like normal children and teenagers. They are not very similar to 'normal' because they are mutants which in their society mean a birth defect; these birth defects are very crazy such as being born with no eyes or the ability to move objects with their minds. They also have terrible living areas and are poor unlike what the middle class in our society live in and with. Mika and Audrey are different because they aren't allowed to have pets but in our society we are able to have pets.

Science Fiction or Fantasy Question

The Roar is considered a science fiction novel because the actions that take place are very futuristic and "out of this world". The characters in the novel have mutations that allows them to be able to move objects with their eyes instead of their hands. Also society is able to travel in space anytime they can since they have hover cars and pod fighters that are easy to drive and  maneuverable.

Chapter 28 summary of "Tarzan of the Apes"

In the conclusion of "Tarzan of the Apes" Edgar Rice Burroughs writes about when Tarzan and Jane finally caught up with her father and the others of the group. They had gone into a room and soon Canler had come in the room with a man to marry him and Jane. Jane refused to get out her seat so Canler took her arm but before he forced her to get out Tarzan choked Canler. Jane asked Tarzan to release Canler but before he did he made Canler promise he would not marry Jane. He dropped Canler and Canler left the room. Jane's father said that he would now have to pay Canler and that it would take many days to do so but Tarzan had checked the treasure in and put the money in an envelope and threw it to him. Clayton had came back into the room and said that they must leave due to the fire coming to where they were. They drove off to another room and Tarzan asked Jane's father if he knew anything about the bodies they had buried and if all were human. Her father said that the smallest one was an ape. Jane had been by herself and Tarzan noticed her. He asked her if she would marry him but she had already told Clayton she would marry him. She told Tarzan the whole story and Tarzan knew he must let her marry Clayton.  When the others came into the room they gave Tarzan a letter which was from D'Arnot saying that he was a Greystoke. Clayton had come in after Tarzan read the letter and asked him how he had been in the jungle. To let Clayton be able to marry Jane he said his mother was an ape and he never knew his real father. 

Chapter 27 summary of "Tarzan of the Apes"

In this chapter Edgar Rice Burroughs writes about when a man named Robert Canler came to the Porter's house in America wanting to talk to Jane's father. They talked about him wanting to marry Jane how he didn't know that she was leaving for Wisconsin at the end of the week. Then Jane came in and her father left. Jane said that she would marry him but they have to understand each other because he was going to buy her. Jane and everyone had left for Wisconsin that week and she had not been married yet. When they got their Clayton had changed everything about the little house they were to live in. The next week Canler came to the house saying that he was going to get the marriage license tomorrow and get married tomorrow. There had been a fire going on for the past week and hadn't come close to the little house, but that day the wind had blown it straight for the house. Before it engulfed the house a man came and made everyone leave the area. He asked where Jane was and Esmeralda said she went on a walk where the fire had been coming from. The man ran for Jane towards the fire while everyone left. This man finally found Jane and she knew that it was the ape-man she had known in the African jungle. This man was Tarzan; he told that the man she met in the jungle was himself, which he just learned how to speak after they had left. He wanted to know is she loved him but she said that he would be better off with only knowing each other not being married. They finally made it to the car and they caught up to Jane's father and the others of the group.