The Twelfth Plague Analysis

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Introduction “We must become the change we wish to see in the world.”. Mahatma Gandhi

In the story, The Eleventh Plague Stephen (the Protagonist) has to live through a dystopia where China nuked America and people are dying from a strand of super flu that China created. In my companion book first you will go inside a plane and find a can of pears, then you will travel into the world of flashbacks, after that you will find out how Stephen being alone is so important to the book, find out what happens when Nukes are mixed with the flu and finally, you will find out how the story should have ended.

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A Can Of Pears And A Plane Early in the story Stephen and his Dad find an old military plane that looked as if they were the first to find it when they went inside they found a rusted locker that was
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fruit is worth a lot in this book because there is almost no fruit left that’s why Stephen had a flashback of grandpa saying stupid, wasteful, they could have gotten lots of stuff that they really needed badly in exchange for the pears. Later in this chapter, they find that some people set up camp outside of the plain and were going to stay the night the people who are outside of the plain have a car running cars are even more scarce then fruit. The people camping outside of the plane also have slaves that they captured Stephen wants to help set them free but Stephen’s dad thinks it would be too risky, But Stephen convinced him to do it

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