Michael Grant's Plague Summarization

Being sick when you were a little child was bad but probably temporary. Having that extremely high fever, with the worst headache imaginable, and struggling to fall asleep was terrible, but it eventually went away. Everything would go back to normal like going back to school and playing with friends. The book Plague by Michael Grant is the exact opposite. The kids that got a really bad sickness never got better. It has been eight months since all the adults and teenagers at least the age of fifteen have disappeared like flying in the Bermuda Triangle (☺ Simile). There is a huge dome that is enclosing the two towns of Perdido Beach and Coates Academy and there is no way out of the dome. With no connection from the outside world the kids inside
I chose this setting because it shows the helplessness of the town Perdido Beach. One example is when Sanjit (a helper of the hospital) said sarcastically to Edilio (one of the leaders of Perdido Beach),Ever since the illness spread to Perdido Beach it has been nothing but utter disaster at the hospital and in the town. One by one kids are dying. This illness is the next step up from the flu virus but intensified by ten. Like the flu, you have a high fever and you’re coughing and sweating. The difference for this flu virus is that over time your coughing intensifies, and every time you cough you fly backwards. The end result is that you are spatting, spitting, and suffocating (☺ Alliteration) until you die. The setting and the quote summarize that the leaders of Perdido Beach don’t know how to cure this virus and they don’t know what to do in this situation. If they cannot find the cure for this more extreme flu virus, then the hospital is going to look like a morgue, with everyone dead in
This represents the hope for the town of Perdido Beach. An instance of hope for Perdido beach was when Sam (one of the leaders of Perdido Beach) and some of his friends found the Lake Tramonto and they checked if it is fresh water and Sam said, There has been a lack of water in Perdido Beach for a copious amount of time. Lake Evian (the water source they used before) has been dropping dramatically. Because of the drop in the amount of water in the lake civilians get smaller portions of water. As a result of this situation people do very outlandish and brash things to get what they need. They are so thirty that they could drink their own urine (☺ Hyperbole). Perdido Beach is having a really tough time with everyone getting the virus. Drake is trying to kill everyone exists in the FAYZ, and individuals are trying to kill innocent people (Albert). With all of theses pressing issues, they can stop worrying about one thing, which is the lack of water because they found another