Sunwing-assignment 1

        The author is Kenneth Oppel. He has written 14 books. He was born in B.C.
        This book is about a bat named Shade. He is trying to find his father and then he gets caught by the humans and put in a paradise forest. There, he meets a bat of a different species named Marina, and they plot to leave. They want to leave paradise because the Humans are taking bats away at night and doing something with them.
They swim through a river that runs through the indoor paradise and end up in a room full of bats that are having bombs put on them. Shade gets caught and he gets a bomb put on him. Then he gets dumped out of a plane over a Human city but when he sees that the bats are blowing up when they land, he lands in water. He is chased by cannibal bats through the jungle when he finds his father and uses him bomb to blow up all the cannibal bats. Then they live happily, ever, after.
        The atmosphere of this book is really dark and deppresing at the start because the owls are killing all the bats because of a disagrement over the sun. At the end of the book the atmosphere is happy because Shade finds is father. The book never gives a time period but it is after 1903 because they had planes. It is in winter because they talk about how much snow there is is on the ground. The place this book is written in is somewhere around the middle of U.S.A. The bats are also taken south on an aeroplane to Brazil. I think it is Brazil because it has a tropical climate and it talks about a statue that has the exact dfinition of the Cristo Redentor in Brazil. In the epilogue the Kenneth Oppel even says he based the statue on the Cristo Redentor.
        The main character's name is Shade. His two main personality traits are that he is grumpy, and that he is also stubborn. I get the impression that he is grumpy because he always snaps at people. An example of this is apparent when somebody asks him what the time was, and Shade replied, "I don't know the time who horrible idiot! Stop bugging me!"
        You get impression that he is very stubborn because he won't listen to anyone else's opinion. An example of that is shown when a cannibal bat is swooping down on him he says, "we've got to fight it!" even though his friend says he should run.
         I'm just near the end of this book. I've hated it so far but Mr. Edwards is making me read it so I will finish it. A good thing about it is that it is almost over. A bad thing is that it is extremely stupid and a waste of time. About the book, a bad thing is that it gets sort of confusing in parts because it is part of a series and I haven't read the series. A good thing is that all the bad bats die, and that makes me happy.