Supernaturalist By Eoin Colfer Sparknotes

The novel, The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer, is about four kids named Cosmo, Ditto, Mona, and Stefan. Mona, who is 15 years old, has a tattoo over her eyebrow, and is hispanic. Ditto, 28 years old (looks like he’s 6), is a bartoli baby, and has hands that relieve people's pain. Cosmo, a 14 year old, was a no-sponsor (orphan), and he had escaped from Clarissa Frayne and became a supernaturalist. Stefan, who is 18, has a scar by his mouth, and his mom died in a car accident.
They can see blue parasites and they think the creatures suck the life out of people but really they take the pain away. Cosmo was a no-sponsor, which means he was an orphan, but he escaped from Clarissa Frayne and joined the supernaturalists. The supernaturalists go around Satellite City and try to shoot the parasites.
Satellite City is powered by a satellite. It is the city of the future. The sky has smog because the air is so polluted from all the factories in Satellite City. The setting is important to the story for several reasons. First of all, the time the story takes place can affect the plot and how the story goes along. For example, if this story had taken place where technology and electricity hadn’t been created the story could’ve been extremely different. The supernaturalists would’ve had nothing to use to kill parasites and would deeply change the plot. “He fired the device on the move: two blasts of pure electricity erupted from the barrel of his strange weapon. The effect was spectacular” (Colfer 28). The author told the reader that if Stefan didn’t have that weapon the parasites would’ve sucked the life out of Cosmo. This event shows how if the novel takes place in a different time, that could immensely change the plot of the