Some real life issues in the text is that Jocelyn's brother dies at a young age in a car accident. Another issue is that Noah's mom does drugs and he is influenced by that. This influences Noah by him watching his mom doing the drugs and he resists doing but he has a hard time doing that sometimes. A third is a company is ripping people off by using backdoor codes to hack into their systems. The author talks about some of these issues a lot and some not as much as others. But the other uses characters dialogue to talk about these rather than random text. I think that the author wrote this work to entertain the reader rather than to inform or persuade. I believe the authors point she is trying to make is you should believe in what you think and don't listen to people trying to put you down. The author tells us that making the right decision that helps more people that doesn't include us rather than the wrong one that helps only you.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11873007-the-vanishing-game
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ReplyDeleteI think that you are doing well with this post but you forgot to add a picture and a hyperlink. Also maybe you shoud talk a little more in detail about how Noah's mom doing drugs affects him.