Dear Mrs. Zrihen,
I just finished reading a fictional book called “THE EGYPT GAME” BY ZILPHA KEATLY SNYDER. This was the exposition, the book is about 3 kids named Melanie, April and Marshall (who loved to hold his toy octopus) which is April’s little brother, that go in a yard behind a shop that says “A-z Antiques, Curios, and Used Merchandise.” When they go in a yard they see a statue of Nefertiti, a women pharaoh. In the way back home they find this game board of Egypt. So they were thinking of playing the game in the back of the shop because there were used merchandise for every game level they play, but Melanie realized that there will be no room for the board, because there is so much junk, they were thinking of acting out the game. When April went home, she saw Melanie April’s best friend there watching her mom cook. “What’s going on?” April asked. “I’m eating here with you tonight” Melanie sad. That night April and Melanie were thinking about the Egypt game, to see if they thought Marshal was old enough to play. In the morning when they were at the shop, they were looking for costumes to wear at the game and old merchandise to use. After they put the merchandise at the yard they quickly ran to their houses and suddenly ran into Aprils grandma (accidently) named Caroline. This is the rising action, Caroline introduced April to Elizabeth, which is going to be a new friend of April. The next day when April and Melanie came outside and was walking to the yard, they saw Elizabeth who looked just like Nefertiti. When they went to the junkyard, since Elizabeth looked like Nefertiti, they let her be the boss. In the way back home, Elizabeth would not stop talking about the Egypt game, so the only way to get her to be quiet was to ask if she really wanted to play, and if she really wanted to, she had to stay quiet. When they came home, April’s mom asked where they were, and when Elizabeth tells her where they exactly were because she does not know that they are keeping it a secret. Melanie had to close her mouth because if her mom heard, they would be in so much trouble, “at the park” Melanie said worriedly. That night April and Melanie were thinking if they were going to let Elizabeth in the game even, the only reason they let Marshal in was because he is still a little kid and that he can trust. When they came home again April’s mom said that she hired a babysitter to watch what the kids do. The next night was Halloween night. When April and Melanie went to Elizabeth’s house, she was already in her Nefertiti dress. When they went out for trick-or-treating they saw Ken and Toby. Ken was wearing a monster costume and Toby was wearing a T.V costume. They were the mean bullies to Melanie and April. They were thinking of how they were going to the junkyard since they were in a group with a chaperon. “Wait a minute, we could sneak out by running and then hiding somewhere, like the bush or behind it!” Melanie said. So when they ran away in the opposite direction they saw a shooting star and wished for everyone not to find us, and it worked. So when they got there, they heard noise coming from the fence, and they could not believe it, it was the boys. This is the climax, “Ken, Toby what are you doing here!!” they all yelled. “Trying to see what you were up to” ken and toby said. “Are you going to tell on us now?”. “No, only if you guys let us in you’re game!”, “fine.” They said sadly. The next day Ken and Toby came up with Egyptian names for everyone, Toby was “Ramose”, Ken was “Horemheb”, Melanie was “Aida”, April was “bastet”, Elizabeth was “Nefertiti”, and marshal was “Marshamosis”. “So now if we want to send messages around in class we could Egypt form that way kids will not understand it!”. This is when the falling action starts, the next night when April and Marshal were outside in the junkyard together, something or someone suddenly grabbed April by the neck, but marshal’s saliva was stuck in his throat so he could not yell, but, when marshal was able to yell help, April was already on the ground trying to breath through her lungs. When she woke up she was at home with marshal on one side and her mom on the other trying to calm things down. When she was all calm she decided not to play the game anymore, because it was dangerous to play in the dark she thought. The resolution starts, so when it was morning she wrote to the other Egyptians that she is not playing anymore and the rest agreed because they thought it was dangerous too. Later that day, when they came to the junkyard, they all said by to the game and went away. AND THAT’S HOW THE EGYPT GAME CAME TO BE.
The topic of the book is the Egypt game. The main idea is 3 kids finding an Egypt bored game and acting it out instead but since they were acting it out bad things were happening. The book is implied because April decided to finish early because it inferred that she almost got killed. Another title I would give it is “The strange game” because things were happening. The 3 supporting details are “kids who play a strange game”, “it’s a cliffhanger”, never get a dangerous game without a parent’s permission”. The book is factual. The essential message is to always get a game with a parent’s permission. The cause is getting a game and the effect is bad things. The problems were April almost getting killed and a cat died from Melanie. The five text feature are bolded and highlighted words, table of contents, heading, titles and sub titles, index. They help me write information about the book. 3 kids who play a game then friends come and it makes the game harder so April decided to quit. The Authors purpose is to inform about a strange and weird game. The Authors perspective is that every game should not have a big problem only a little. The author is subjective because the game is not accomplished because April quit. The Authors point of view is sad because April made the whole gang quit. The significance was that there were too much of dangerous stuff that April quit. The characters were April, Melanie, Marshal, Ken, and Toby, the protagonist were everyone, the antagonist were the parents, and the foil were the parents. The setting was at school at home and at the junkyard, the weather was rainy. The plot structure was first finding the game, then playing it , then other boys wanted to join, after was continuing the game then was April almost dead, after was April quitting. The conflict was the game (dangerous), it was internal, and character VS nature. The theme was the Egyptians. The moral was April deciding to quit or not. I would rate this book a 5 out of 5, because just because April quit the game still had a happy ending.
Your student Jeremy
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