Gone

GONE

By Michal Grant

It is a Dystopian fiction novel

1st read: sometime in early 2019 re read in August 2020

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One second everyone is living happily in Perdido beach, the next second everyone over the age of 14 suddenly vanishes. Poof. Gone. The kids under 15 are stuck in this strange dome over the town, and some of them are developing strange powers. They must fight each other to gain control but little do they know there is a sinister force lurking underground waiting for the right time to strike.

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A character I found interesting was Sam Temple. I found Sam interesting because he was immediately expected to step in and be the leader of the “FAYZ” which is what the kids call the dome they are in .  It’s because he stepped into his leadership role reluctantly and knew nothing about how to do it “That’s your solution? Have a cookie?’ Astrid asked. ‘No, my solution is to run down to the beach and hide out until this is all over,’ Sam said. ‘But a cookie never hurts.” This quote shows how Sam was wanting to hide from everything and not carry on and be the leader that was expected of him, but he still did it anyway.

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A message I found from the text was that when faced with adversity we are able to step up and prevail even when we think we cannot. This has shown me that when things are tough people can always find a way to rise up and overcome the challenge. I can relate to this when we went to Africa and I had to adapt to the new environment that I knew nothing about for example when we arrived to Botswana we had nothing but a bare plot of land, with no water or electricity. This was difficult for me as I had never experienced having to collect and ration water, even at one point going for two weeks with no water supply in the village. But we managed to overcome the challenge, and learned that you can survive two weeks without a shower as long as you have water to drink.

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One of the challenges that the characters had to overcome was stepping up to become more responsible than teenagers should ever have to be “He’s one kind of person, you’re another. When life is going along normally, you’re sort of the same. But when life turns strange and scary, when there’s a crisis, suddenly you’re completely different people.” this quote shows how that when they were faced with a problem they had to step up and face the challenge because if they did not they there would be dire consequences.a example of this was for me when i went to a youth camp in dunedin and i was asked to be the leader of the group for a day even though i was the youngest, in this situation i was streasing a lot but persiveard and led the group.

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I think that the title of this text is appropriate because for the characters a very significant part in their lives is gone which in their case is all the adults.The adults are significant to the children because they have raised them nourished them, and cared for them, now they have to do all of this themselves and they have to look after their younger siblings which would normally be their parents job.

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 I would recommend this text to people 12 and up because it has some scenes where the coyotes eat some of the children,and there is some offensive language,and also some of the stuff in the book younger people may not understand.