Contact Harvest Summary
Author Joseph Staten brings to life a story from a loved game by many. The story is set between 2425 and 2525 on an outer colony planet named Harvest. Contact Harvest tells the story of humanity’s first encounter with a group of various alien species known as the Covenant. This book is great and I enjoyed it, I think it shows the potential of Mr. Staten’s writing. His outstanding amount of description really helped me imagine the planet Harvest and its inhabitants.
The main theme is friendship but not only in the human perspective. Throughout the book the characters slowly rebuilt their trust for each other. “Johnson. Take the shot!”- Byrne to Johnson. Johnson didn’t take that shot which ended up killing Byrne’s squad but leaving Byrne alive. “Why didn’t you take the shot?”- Byrne to Johnson. When Johnson ended up meeting Byrne again at a training camp to teach new soldiers, Byrne started fighting Johnson ruthlessly. Byrne was filled with anger because on that one day, Johnson didn’t fire a shot that could have either killed his friend and many others or risk not firing and seeing what would happen. Shortly after the fight was broken, Avery and Johnson would have to gain each other’s trust and friendship to take on a new problem and a catastrophic one at that. …show more content…
“… Fielding more of Mack’s flirtatious offers of assistance…” Most of them were introduced indirectly. Although most of the time they were introduced indirectly some of the characters were introduced directly. Those characters weren’t the main characters though. The main characters were very developed and you could really feel their emotions, what they are going through, and why they are doing what they did. Mr. Staten gave almost all of the characters personality traits showing how they were all different. This added a lot of variety to the book as it was told in different perspectives, you were able to see situations in different
The main theme is friendship but not only in the human perspective. Throughout the book the characters slowly rebuilt their trust for each other. “Johnson. Take the shot!”- Byrne to Johnson. Johnson didn’t take that shot which ended up killing Byrne’s squad but leaving Byrne alive. “Why didn’t you take the shot?”- Byrne to Johnson. When Johnson ended up meeting Byrne again at a training camp to teach new soldiers, Byrne started fighting Johnson ruthlessly. Byrne was filled with anger because on that one day, Johnson didn’t fire a shot that could have either killed his friend and many others or risk not firing and seeing what would happen. Shortly after the fight was broken, Avery and Johnson would have to gain each other’s trust and friendship to take on a new problem and a catastrophic one at that. …show more content…
“… Fielding more of Mack’s flirtatious offers of assistance…” Most of them were introduced indirectly. Although most of the time they were introduced indirectly some of the characters were introduced directly. Those characters weren’t the main characters though. The main characters were very developed and you could really feel their emotions, what they are going through, and why they are doing what they did. Mr. Staten gave almost all of the characters personality traits showing how they were all different. This added a lot of variety to the book as it was told in different perspectives, you were able to see situations in different