Cloning Miranda

As I mentioned earlier, the author and publisher of the book are no other than the book’s own characters. The book was first published in March 21, 2002,

Yet her compassion, as real as it is, also has a certain element of shallowness, or at least inexperience about it. She has lived the majority of her life in isolation, on an island known with her only companionship being that of her father. Growing up on this deserted island, Miranda learns to live and abide by the example set by Prospero. He is her only contact with the humanity and therefore he is her only friend and teacher. She knows no other woman and therefore had no female figure to aid the process of raising her. She is naïve and unaware of life's experiences, having been shielded from the rest of the world.      

The musical was set in New York, 1995. Nathan Detroit needs money to be able to host at the new location for his crap game. So he bets Sky Masterson, a high rolling gambler, that he has to take a “Doll” on a date in Havana, Cuba. Sky Masterson takes on the bet, it turns out he has to take Sarah Brown, a young evangelist who works for the local missionary and hates gamblers. The musical goes on and Sarah gives Sky a run for his money, and then surprise each other as they fall in love.

Miranda has been a great developing character in this part. Miranda meets Arthur Leander and later on marries him. However, they end up divorcing after a couple months. This part of the novel foreshadows from the beginning of novel, “thrice married” (Mandel 2). This event will also foreshadow events to come as this infused the relationship between Arthur and Elizabeth after this divorce. Furthermore, during this part of the novel, we learn the personality of Miranda

of why she's apprehensive of the books, other than that because the society says she should be.

The House of Scorpion is a science fiction, utopian, and dystopian novel. This story is dark and twisted, but a hopeful story. The book is broken up into different parts, Youth 0 to 6, Middle Age 7 to 11, Old Age 12 to 14, Age 14, and La Vida Nueva. The main protagonist is about a young clone name Matt. He grows up in a dystopian world under control of a drug lord. Ironically, this drug lord happens to be the man that Matt was cloned from. El Patrón, who is the drug lord, cloned the protagonist to harvest his organs in order to keep him alive. This novel tells you a story of Matt’s corrupted life from his childhood all the way when makes peace with his country.

This book, was never to my liking, I always wondered why Mrs.Silva always talked about this book. I was never interested in reading really long books, my mind always would drift off but this book had something about it that was connected with me!

V.C. Andrews was best known as the author of the Dollanganger series. It’s the story of four children trapped in an attic by their cruel grandmother because of an incest situation. Because men didn’t like to read novels by women authors during this time, Virginia’s publisher decided to use the initials V.C. instead of her full name. The intention was to neutralize her gender so men would buy her books. Her accomplishments were familiarized by a worldwide audience. In 1984, Seeds of Yesterday was the best-selling fiction paperback novel. That same year, in Norfolk, Virginia, she was honored with the title “Professional Woman of the Year.”

During the beginning, she is young and doesn’t understand much. When her and Jem hear the bad rumors of Boo Radley, their neighbor, she becomes scared but tries hard not to show Jem and Dill that. She says, “ Every night-sound I heard from my cot on the back poarch was magnified three-fold; every scratch of feet on gravel was Boo Radley loose and after us” (84). When she is younger she’s more scared of the world and what could happen. On throughout the story, she begins to grow up, realizing how people really are and after watching her father and the effects of the trial. In the end she meets Boo and finds out he was actually a good person, that was looking for them. In the end she says, “ as I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn’t much else to learn” (31). She matures and also finds herself in trying to find out who Boo really

In my opinion, the author, Ruta Sepetys, moves the novel in an interesting fashion. I liked how there are many characters and how there is a lot of things happening. The author kept the reader interested at all times throughout the novel. The author, Ruta Sepetys, who writes historical non fiction books just as this novel, was born the daughter of a Lithuanian Refugee which may have influenced her to write this very novel. It is geared in a positive way due to Joana, a main character in the novel, helping to portray this with her nursing skills. Seeing the book in the Character of Joana’s eyes affects the overall novel in many different ways. Some may be on Joana’s good side and others may be on her bad side.

Author: The author of this book is Cylin Busby. I have not read any of her other books.

Miranda and her family begins the struggle for survival. Throughout Chapters 4-6, Miranda faces problems at the gas station, the rise of new diseases such as the West Nile Virus (Pfeffer 80-81), more food shortages, electrical outages, and heat waves. Miranda, and especially her mother, are challenged mentally as well, which in turn grows their own character as a whole, which will be explained throughout this journal entry. The rise of new motifs and themes comes with the rise of new challenges for survival, also to be explained. “There are no more hot lunches.

Her perception of the real world is only what she has imagined in her dreams. She only knows what she has seen and what she has been told by her controlling father, Prospero. Prospero puts Miranda on a pedestal and treats her like a princess so she has no idea of how the world really is. He only starts to tell her the story of how they became stranded on the island once she turns 15. Miranda’s kindness is demonstrated in the beginning of the story when she is concerned about the people aboard the shipwreck in the storm she witnesses. She has a kind soul and will most likely treat her people fairly but may be too naïve to see through the ones who are likely to plot against her.

Moreover, the positive messages embedded in science fiction works can have powerful influence on the audience and the society, both locally and globally. In particular, most of the messages embedded are prompted by the past events of world history or by the contemporary social phenomena, and

The resentment within the young girl’s family is essential to the novel because one can understand the young girl better as she makes her decision.