Curvy Conquest Trilogy: A Summary

Set roughly in the present day in Cincinnati, Ohio ,16 year old, Cassie Sullivan is walking the highway hoping and praying that she will find what was important to her ,her brother. Trying to find her way through the massive destructions from the alien invasion that has taken over and killed half million of the population that has been wiped out.

A few chapters later, Cassie finds herself in a jet heading for Washington D.C. after the FBI agent Lacey Locke asks her on page 30, “How would you feel about

One main reason I chose to annotate this page is that it gives us a lot of important aspects of Cassie’s character. Not only the dialogue shows this, but Cassie’s own thoughts as well. As she is speaking with Brogden, Cassie states that she “did my best to answer Brogden’s questions without popping him with my free hand”. This shows that even though Cassie is speaking with Brogden hoping to join their camp for the safety of her family and herself, she is resistant and untrusting. Brogden asks them why they’re here (at the camp), and Cassie responds, “you mean at this camp, or are you being existential?”. Brogden is confused, and Cassie continues, saying “if you’d asked me that before all this”...”happened, I’d have said something like, ‘We’re here to serve our fellow man or contribute to society.’ If I wanted to be a”...”I’d say, ‘Because if we weren’t here, we’d be somewhere else.’ But since all this”...”has happened, I’m going to say it’s because we’re just dumb lucky”. This shows that she has a mildly sarcastic and snarky side to her personality. Another very important detail we learn from this statement is that even though it’s the ‘apocalypse’, Cassie seems very unafraid and unintimidated by people and situations that most people would panic in. She possesses the ability to poke fun at even the most stressful of

Cassie Logan is a black, nine year old girl living in rural Mississippi. Throughout her life Cassie displays many different qualities, she can be feisty, sassy, and clever, but most of all she is courageous. This does not just mean she is plucky or tenacious, it means she is “brave and/or fearless” (Merriam Webster Dictionary). Whenever she shows this quality, she stands up for herself, as well as others. Being courageous is so important simply because she is a black girl living in 1933. Racism was very common at that time, and standing up for yourself was the only way you would get respect. However, in some incidents described in the book, Cassie changed her life for the better and took one step closer towards a fairer world. There are three

When Cassie broke the molding dish she knew she could pick up the pieces, but for the burnt quarter of cotton she could do nothing the cotton was gone and she could do nothing to bring it back. As for T.J., he was in jail in Strawberry, she could not bring him back either. Cassie learned one lesson when she bumped into Lillian Jean. Lillian Jean Simms, Mr.Simms daughter, and Mr.Simms insisted that Cassie must apologize. When Mama, Cassie’s mother, discovered what happened she told her about the difference between respect given out of fear and true respect.

Cassie shows her courage by taking care of her problems using brains and strength. Cassie has so much courage that she leads Lillian into the woods to attack her. The text on page 180 describes the fight between Lillian and Cassie, “I flailed into her, tackling her with such force that we both fell.” This quote describes how the fight went down. Cassie does not only stand up for brother. Cassie also stands up for herself. The brain part comes in at the end of the fight. When the fight is over Cassie threatens Lillian that if she tells anyone about the fight Cassie will tell everyone all her secrets. These actions show Cassie her smarts and strength to stand up for what she believes she must

Cassandra is a hard working girl that won’t let anything get in her way. She gets kidnaped and almost dies trying to find the Homunculus. “Cass and the homunculus sprinted to the

Ethan, the main character, continuously fails to express himself, no matter how strongly he desires to. “He took a wild step forward and then stopped.” (88) In the scene Ethan arguing to keep the hired girl his wife and him have, but fails to show any emotion. This causes the situation to turn against him, due to his failure to show how he feels. “When the door of her room had closed on her he remembered that he had not even touched her hand.” (72) In this scene Ethan tries to connect to the hired girl, Mattie Silver, who he is secretly in love with. Ethan spends the entire night with her, and yet

There are many events that can occur to people that will change their lives tremendously. Racism plays a big part in Cassie Logan’s life and it changes her character throughout the novel as she grows in her understanding of inequality. As the narrator and protagonist of the novel, Cassie’s perspective is captivated very closely with the help of the other character’s conversations. At such a young age she is very naïve about certain situations but learns how things really are throughout the novel. As she is growing up she experiences many situations of racism in the American South, but there is one event that she would never forget. The day that Cassie Logan is made to apologize to Lillian Jean Simms for bumping into her is the event that had the greatest impact on her character.

Cassie has lost her mother, but has found someone potentially able to help her find her mother. Agent Locke has lost the person she trusted the most, but has found something to replace her hurt of abandonment. Michael lost to Lia’s goading, but he found a way to get even. Throughout the book, Barnes subtly explored the contrast between lost and found, giving her story a smooth flow from the beginning to the resolution. Making a point that everyone has lost something, she seems to support that everyone has found a replacement of sorts as well. Cassie experiences several losses throughout The Naturals, but Barnes’ ability to provide a satisfying and strong conclusion brings Cassie’s first months of being a Natural to a

When Cassie resist, Mr. Simmons appears and forces her to give Lillian another apology for some reason. A few months later, Cassie sorta prevails the conflict by luring Jean into the woods, beat her up, and make her apologize to her. But before that event happen, Cassie seems to respect and befriend Jean, which creates the question why did Cassie do that? The answer is that instead of

The further ‘off the rails’ Cassie goes, the more extreme the sexual situations, at one point ‘courting’ a female and then a few minutes after the female leaves a male arrives. “Sexuality strongly influences people’s identity.” (Op. cit. p.22) And at this point in the series we find that Cassie has a very mixed up idea about who she is and what she wants.

Finally, Cassie had little-to-no human contact before she was shot in the leg and saved by Evan Walker but she still did not hesitate to kiss him, cuddle, fight, or anything that a normal couple would do. After fighting with each other, “Evan Walker kisses me. Holding my hand against his chest, his other hand sliding across my neck…” Despite Cassie being shot in the leg by an unknown shooter, aliens trying to take over the Earth, her brother being taken, and her family being dead, she is still a teenage girl who enjoys male interaction.

Near the end of the book Cassie bumps into Jeremy Simms sister and her dad comes and pushes Cassie off the sidewalk.“It was then that I bumped into Lillian Jean Simms… Mr. Simms glared down at me “When my gal Lillian Jean says for you to get yo’self off the sidewalk, you get, your hear.” This shows her losing innocence because she now sees how terrible white people are to push a 9 year old girl off the sidewalk because someone bumped into her. Lillian and her dad are very racist so now she knows not to mess with her and not to talk back.

Cassie befriended Lillian, learned all of her secrets, and beat her up to make her apologize. Cassie was getting tired, so she threw Lillian’s books on the ground. Cassie took Lillian to the woods after being nice to her, doing things for her, and fought her, pulling her hair until she said she wouldn’t tell her father about it. In order for Cassie to win, Cassie said, “Make me.” This may have seemed like a not so good idea, but if this plan had backfired, Cassie knew that in the end, the results could’ve been deadly for her and her