Theme and summary
In the book, The Testing I believe the theme is, even though the challenges and going might be tough, it doesn't mean backing down and giving up is the answer. That is what I believe to be the theme because in the book they have many challenges thrown at them made to make them crack to separate the leaders from the followers to correctly lead future generations. They also have to see how they react in tough situations where it looks like the outcome won't be very good.The summary of The Testing is: Cia is young for her class, but she acels and does better than most people in her class. She is hoping to be chosen for the testing. An elite group who is chosen who must first pass four tests and prove their intelligence and leadership to lead the future generations. When she is chosen everyone is happy for her, her father included but he warns her that people there will do whatever it takes to win and to only eat what she takes herself.
She immediately meets up with Thomas and they become partners through out the whole testing, but she realizes that he might be the person she thinks he is. She was told to trust no one but she believes she can trust Thomas. As they say, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
I have not read The Testing and I will look into reading it soon. It seems like (from what you have said) it is a very Sci-Fi book where kids in elite roles get chosen for testing which shows how smart they are in class and to be ranked among people. It seems Sci-fi because it doesn’t seem like we would do that today. In school everybody tests and we see how they do.
ReplyDeleteYour post on theme and a little bit of analysis is very good. You might be able to add more detail in to where you fully develop a theme in which you analyze the book even greater. Nice job though.