Dear Mr. Tiernan, December 18, 2017
I have recently finished reading the novel The Compound by S.A. Bodeen. Could you imagine living in a lie? Never knowing what happened to your twin brother? This is one of the unanswered questions of Eli. For six years, Eli and his family lived a nuclear fallout shelter that his father had built. Eli finally makes a decision and wants to try his luck in the assumed, nuclear bombed world. When their carefully plannned existance threatens to destroy their sanctuary, sanity becomes almost as rare as natural light. His father claims to have built this for his family to stay safe in the ‘worst case scenario’, but Eli starts to question his father’s theory. Are they safe-or will they be sorry? Eli and …show more content…
This was demonstrated when Eli began to become suspicious of the whole situation. Eli’s suspicians came about when when he took a computer and used it near his dad’s office, he had a wireless connecion. But his dad’s office was the only place in the compound that this occured. This was just the beggining of Eli’s suspicians. He decided to go on his laptop and sees that his suposedly dead brother was online through his computer. For the sake of everyone in the compound, doesn’t confront his father about the incident. No matter how long he tries to forget it, he will never trusts his father the …show more content…
This is the place where Eli had to spend the other half of his childhood. Eli was not psyched about the new way of life either. Eli so depressed about this new way of life, and more importanly, losing the other half of him. Eli was sad and worried when they first enter the compound. He shows this when he sadly says “T.S Elliot was wrong. My world ended with a bang the minute we entered the compound and the silver door closed behind us. I realized what I had lost when that door shut for the last time. Whatever family wasn’t down here with me, was gone and gone for good” (Bodeen 1). Eli is torn up by this, and I would be too quite frankly. Leaving the life you knew and grew up with for that? This shows a huge amount of stress and depression on Eli, he really did lose part of him when thye left the outside world for this compound. This is one of the settings thatis important to the main character
I have recently finished reading the novel The Compound by S.A. Bodeen. Could you imagine living in a lie? Never knowing what happened to your twin brother? This is one of the unanswered questions of Eli. For six years, Eli and his family lived a nuclear fallout shelter that his father had built. Eli finally makes a decision and wants to try his luck in the assumed, nuclear bombed world. When their carefully plannned existance threatens to destroy their sanctuary, sanity becomes almost as rare as natural light. His father claims to have built this for his family to stay safe in the ‘worst case scenario’, but Eli starts to question his father’s theory. Are they safe-or will they be sorry? Eli and …show more content…
This was demonstrated when Eli began to become suspicious of the whole situation. Eli’s suspicians came about when when he took a computer and used it near his dad’s office, he had a wireless connecion. But his dad’s office was the only place in the compound that this occured. This was just the beggining of Eli’s suspicians. He decided to go on his laptop and sees that his suposedly dead brother was online through his computer. For the sake of everyone in the compound, doesn’t confront his father about the incident. No matter how long he tries to forget it, he will never trusts his father the …show more content…
This is the place where Eli had to spend the other half of his childhood. Eli was not psyched about the new way of life either. Eli so depressed about this new way of life, and more importanly, losing the other half of him. Eli was sad and worried when they first enter the compound. He shows this when he sadly says “T.S Elliot was wrong. My world ended with a bang the minute we entered the compound and the silver door closed behind us. I realized what I had lost when that door shut for the last time. Whatever family wasn’t down here with me, was gone and gone for good” (Bodeen 1). Eli is torn up by this, and I would be too quite frankly. Leaving the life you knew and grew up with for that? This shows a huge amount of stress and depression on Eli, he really did lose part of him when thye left the outside world for this compound. This is one of the settings thatis important to the main character