Thursday, May 10, 2012

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

2 comments:

  1. Thank you for this review. Helped me out for not reading the first book. Starting The whisper soon.

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  2. So he was going to turn the children into soldiers?

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