Empathy 2

Write down 5 questions you would like to ask a character. Say why you would like to ask these questions.

Questions I’d like to ask Dirk Pitt the central figure in the story.

1)      Why are you still working for the NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency)? You have enough money with your jet and your old-timers.

2)      Why do you like diving or respectively the sea more than everything else in your life?

3)      Why do you don’t want to marry your girlfriend at the beginning? She’s beautiful and successfully as seconded of the USA.

4)      How long ago did you first meet Al Giordino, your best friend and diving partner?

5)      What do you think; after this job for the US government will you live a peacefully life or go on with missions and dangerous work? I mean you could only watch at your old-timers or is that too boring for you?

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Analysis 2

Write about some repetition or pattern you have noticed.

This book isn’t the first book from Clive Cussler I have red. And the most obviously repetition in all books is that the Author is a supporting actor. In this one, Dragon, Clive drives in an old-timer race against Dirk Pitt. In another I’ve read, Sahara, Clive is a prospector. This short appearance of the author is called “Cameo appearance” and is much known from Alfred Hitchcock.
I’ve read about 4 books from Clive Cussler and in all of them he had a cameo appearance. In the book “Shock Wave” is Clive a chief engineer of a mine in Colorado and he helps Dirk Pitt with a permission to get in the mine.

In the Internet I found a site on which stand all books with all cameo appearance of the autor Clive Cussler.

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Prediction

At any point in the story take a guess as to how the story (plot) will go on or finally conclude. What is going to happen.

I don’t know the end of the book but I have red other books from Clive Cussler. And they always have a happy end so I think this one will have one too. If it has a happy end Dirk Pitt will successfully destroy the Island with the atomic bomb and kill the terrorists. But this is very difficult because he has to drop the bomb in a crevice. The detonation will make a big tsunami which rolls over the island and the earthquake will let the hole island sank under water.
I hope Pitt is fast enough in his submersible so that he won’t get hit from the atomic bomb. Unfortunately his deep sea submersible is very slow and so the American government doesn’t think he will come back from this mission.

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Recount

In your own words what has happened in the book? At any point in the story, retell the major details of the story's plot so far.

Japan 1945: Two U.S. bombers take off with atomic bombs. Only one gets trough, the other was shot down from a Japanese hunter aircraft.

Japan / America 1993: Japanese terrorists want to restore Japan's former glory by taking out the United States economy by planting nuclear bombs. The only hope for the world is Dirk Pitt and the huge atomic bomb on the ground of the pacific.
Dirk Pitt has a very difficult task because he has to salvage the atomic bomb in a deep sea Submersible and transport it about 30km underwater. When he arrived at his target point he has to drop the bomb to destroy a Japanese Island. Because the terrorists are on this island and they have the igniter for the about 40 atomic bombs they planted in the USA.

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