S.J Kincaid's fantasy story, “Insignia” takes place in WWIII where many friendships are broken, sometimes by only one, wrong word. When the trainees got into small fights especially in competitions such as “War Games”, those who were once friends and fought for each other went opposite directions. In most of these cases they turned on each other. In one situation especially, the main character Tom gets into a small fight with Wyatt, and calls her a name. Then she snapped and said that, she hoped both of their enemies, Karl would defeat Tom. One possible theme of this story is that people should watch what they say because it could destroy a friendship or hurt someone else.
The theme of “Insignia” was shown first, about mid way through the …show more content…
So that he could get out and see his girlfriend, even when he is on restricted libs, in the Pentagonal Spire. After getting a nasty response from him, Tom had no choice but to let him suffer alone. Then Beamer started to get upset at Tom, not because he was mad at him, just because he could not leave The Pentagonal Spire. He “turned around to face the wall, and buried his head in the covers” (Kincaid 211).This then gets Tom discouraged, because he was willing to sacrifice his job as a military trainee to help out another trainee in need. Tom completely went out on a limb to help Beamer, even though Beamer did not seem to be friends with Tom after their exchange earlier. Which shows how good of a person Tom is, even when Beamer showed many reasons, why they are not …show more content…
In one scene where Vik and Tom were scanning the Pentagon’s systems for viruses, they found many malicious ones. The book says “Once they were inside their bunk, Vik accessed the Spire’s internal processor, and ran a cursory virus scan to try locating the other malicious attacks planted in neural interfaces. He pulled back with some shock when he was done and showed Tom the results: Wyatt Enslow had sabotaged everything. Everything” (Kincaid 217). This showed these aspects of author’s craft because, when the author used the action “pulled back with some shock” made it seem more like Vik was extremely surprised and was not expecting the result of the scan. Descriptive word choice was also prevalent when “sabotaged everything. Everything” was used. It was only a few basic words but the author used italics and short sentences to make the word choice show more surprise. To make the problem seem bigger. All of the author’s craft in this book made it more engaging to
The theme of “Insignia” was shown first, about mid way through the …show more content…
So that he could get out and see his girlfriend, even when he is on restricted libs, in the Pentagonal Spire. After getting a nasty response from him, Tom had no choice but to let him suffer alone. Then Beamer started to get upset at Tom, not because he was mad at him, just because he could not leave The Pentagonal Spire. He “turned around to face the wall, and buried his head in the covers” (Kincaid 211).This then gets Tom discouraged, because he was willing to sacrifice his job as a military trainee to help out another trainee in need. Tom completely went out on a limb to help Beamer, even though Beamer did not seem to be friends with Tom after their exchange earlier. Which shows how good of a person Tom is, even when Beamer showed many reasons, why they are not …show more content…
In one scene where Vik and Tom were scanning the Pentagon’s systems for viruses, they found many malicious ones. The book says “Once they were inside their bunk, Vik accessed the Spire’s internal processor, and ran a cursory virus scan to try locating the other malicious attacks planted in neural interfaces. He pulled back with some shock when he was done and showed Tom the results: Wyatt Enslow had sabotaged everything. Everything” (Kincaid 217). This showed these aspects of author’s craft because, when the author used the action “pulled back with some shock” made it seem more like Vik was extremely surprised and was not expecting the result of the scan. Descriptive word choice was also prevalent when “sabotaged everything. Everything” was used. It was only a few basic words but the author used italics and short sentences to make the word choice show more surprise. To make the problem seem bigger. All of the author’s craft in this book made it more engaging to