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Novel Study on 'the Droughtlanders

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Independent Study Novel
Sarah Driedger
The Droughtlanders
Part A
1. Carrie Mac is an award winning author who wrote the Droughtlanders series. Carrie is a writer, storyteller and an artist. She’s written countless books, many that are award winning her very first book ‘The Beckoners’ won the Arthur Ellis YA Award, is a CLA Honour book, and is being adapted for film. Carrie is able to hold the interest of many teenagers with her griping novels.
2) The novel ‘The Droughtlanders’ is set in a futuristic world where disease and death are kept outside city walls and is spread by the Droughtlanders- people who try to survive on the parched land between the keys. The characters in the novel want to destroy the keys so that all the …show more content…

The initiating event in the novel The Droughtlanders that got the entire story rolling is when Eli follows his mother and sees her talking to a Droughtlander, the very same people he was taught to hate and despise because of the sickness that they carry. When he sees his mother kiss the Droughtlander he is mortified that that his mother would go anywhere near the people that are considered worse than rats. This leads Eli to question his mother, then question his beliefs, and then follow in his mother’s footsteps to bring the keys down.
7) I can imagine myself re-reading this book again in 10 years because this book is amazing and it is perfect for teenagers and young adult readers. This book is griping and beautifully written. When reading this book you get thrown into the apocalyptic setting. I would recommend this book to my friends because I loved it and all the other books in the series. It’s just great.
Part B
2.a) One scene in the novel that I remember well is I the very beginning, at a circus that the Droughtlanders put on. In this scene a circus performer on the tightrope plummets to his death. I remember this because it is so vivid and gives insight on how low the Droughtlanders are considered within the keys. “The acrobat stumbled backward, and then, as the crowd’s gasps lifted into cheers he fell to the concrete floor-.” (p 1) The crowds watched as a young boy fell to his death and they cheered, his death was their entertainment. Because he was

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