THE COMPOUND

Cody Young1st period

S.A. Bodeen

S.A. Bodeen is a well known for her children books and many young adult books. One of the most known book is Elizabeti’s Doll which has won the Ezra Jack Keats Award. She is a peace corps worker and has traveled the world with her husband and her daughters. While she was living in the Pacific Northwest she wrote the book The Compound. The Compound is the first novel that she has written

Protagonist

Eli Yankakis Helps siblings and his mother Keeps family together Finds out their father is hiding things from

them Foils their fathers plan Gets his family out of the compound

Antagonist

Rex Yankakis Builds the compound traps his family in the compound Hides things from his family Cloning

Favorite Character

Eli Yankakis Cares for his family Doesn’t fall into his fathers lies Gets in touch with the outside world Figures out how to get his family out of

the compound

Least Favorite Character

Rex Yankakis Traps family in the compound for 6 years Leaves many questions unanswered Has a mental break down Wont let his family leave once they know

he is lying

Exposition

Eli on a camping trip with his family News of nuclear war has broken out Rex Yankakis rushes his family to the

compound Eli’s twin Eddy and his grandmother don’t

make it to the compound

Rising Action

Eli’s younger sister talks about the outside world and reminds Eli about his twin Eddy

Eli takes his twins computer out of his room

He finds internet Food supply starts to run out

Climax

Eli starts to find out more information on the outside world

Finds a secret door in his dad office Gets a CD with a new date on it and is

told it just came out Mother tells him that there is an original

of a painting when she was told it was a replica

Climax

Rex shows Eli his secret lab He tells Eli about cloning family members Eli talks to Eddy and finds out there

wasn’t a nuclear war He finds out that Rex has been doing

research on cloning

Falling Action

Eli goes and see’s the clones His father has a mental break down Eli knocks out his father Father gets sick and has to go to the

hospital Mother goes into labor Eli figures out the code for the door

Resolution

Eli figures out that his father was planning to trap his family for years before he trapped them

Been making prototypes of a more affordable compounds

The compound gets destroyed Rex goes to a private island Eli and the rest of his family is reunited

and move to Hawaii with there grandmother

Setting

Takes place in an underground compound to protect the Yankakis family from nuclear war

Takes place in the Seattle, Washington Takes place in the future

Themes

Family Deceiving people

Rating

8 out of 10 Its entertaining Keeps you interested Makes you think

Social Issues

Cloning Nuclear war Mental illness Attempted murder Food shortages

Youtube Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wagd_F8Rypw

Social Issue Poem

Clones by Edward Racey Similar but not the

sameexperience defines distinction.Man must not seek to duplicatejust one step closer to extinction.Why bite the hand that feeds you?Why smack the hands of creation?

Has time taught us nothing of life?We MUST fight the duplication.It is hard enough todayto find a definite identity.It would be impossible to find the truthif there were two or more of me.You have constructed the ladderbut now you have climbed too high.The strands of DNA beneath you shatterand now the pieces fall from the sky.Clones - Is this really me?

Article Quote

“The results of a Time/CNN poll taken-suggest that Americans find the idea of human cloning deeply troubling: 3 out of 4 disapprove.”

Elmer-Dewit, Philip, Cloning: where do we draw the line, Time magazine, 1993

Article quote #2

“One argument against human cloning is the idea that it is morally wrong or undesirable to crate replicas of people-although a clone has the same gene set as the adult from which it is cloned-the resulting individual is not an identical copy, ether psychologically or physically.”

McLachlan, Hugh. Lets legalize cloning, Reed business Information UK, 21 July 2007

Article Quote #3

“Embryonic stem cells ant the subject of intense medical interest because of their ability to develop into any major cell types in the human body-these stem cells could become the foundation for therapies for a range of diseases.”

N. Spotts, Peter. Stem-cell advance opens up the field, the Christian Monitor 23 November 2007.

Pros and Cons

PROS CONS

Can help cure autoimmune diseases and cancers

Can help replace damaged body cells

A child that does not have biological parents

The clone will be less alike than the original person

High risk factors of the clone and parent surviving

What Can We Do?

Be more aware of the medical advances that are done with stem research and what is being done with the human body

Look at the pros and cons of cloning and stem cell research

Vote what you feel is right