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Sacrifice In Zack Lightman's Armada

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The novel, Armada, is a sci-fi narrative about an eighteen year old schoolboy whose world revolved around a fictional game called Armada. His name is Zack Lightman and he lives with his mother in Beaverton, Oregon, where he is also a senior in highschool and an employee at a secondhand video game store called Starbase Ace. His father died when he was less than a year old, and he has two close friends who are also seniors in his high school. I chose the theme of sacrifice, which is expressed well in this book. There are other themes that could fit into this book, but sacrifice is the one that I feel conveys this book well. Armada opens up with our protagonist, Zack Lightman. Zack is pretty much just an average kid in high school. He has decent grades and a bit of a temper. He is in his seventh period english class with a half an hour left and he can't wait for it to end. Outside he sees a glaive fighter, an enemy ship in the ever so popular video game Armada, an MMORPG, made by Chaos Terrain, that you pilot a remote drone from a base and fight off alien invaders. Zack thinks he is hallucinating and ignores it, not telling anyone in fear of being made fun of and laughed at. He looks back at his two friends, who play the other …show more content…

Zack finds a seat by a girl that he thinks is attractive and they chat for a while before the room darkens and people go up to the podium in front of them. Zack recognizes the first one as an EDA (Earth Defence Alliance) general from Armada and he talks about an invasion that is headed towards Earth in three waves, each one bigger than the other. The general shows a video to the new recruits about them sending a probe into space. The probe spots one of Jupiter's moons and sees a swastika on its surface. They send it down to investigate and as soon as they know it, the unknown beings have declared war on

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