The Supernaturalist, Eoin Colfer. Cycle 17 Reading Response, 1-15

Summary:
In these first 15 pages, you are introduced to a world of cruelty and torture for no-sponsors (orphans). In the futuristic satellite city no-sponsors are sent off to Clarissa Fraye Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys, where they are forced to test products like lab animals. In this place the only way out is through death, adoption, or escape. The book follows a fourteen year old no-sponsor named Cosmo Hill; each day he dreams that his real parents will come, but he knows that is a dream that will never come true and knows his only way out is escape. In these beginning chapters, they tested a new series of antiperspirants, by being spread with several different varieties of antiperspirants and being forced to run 10 miles with monitors attached to their legs. The next day they take a bus to a nearby facility to test another product. On their way home the bus crashes, will this be Cosmo chance to escape?

No words that I didn’t know.

The main character Cosmo is a really just let things happen type of guy. He doesn’t take action most of the time and just waits and hopes something good will happen. He kind of reminds me of myself. I really don’t like to take action and I usually just hope for things to go the way I want them to go. Like say in class I have this thing that I don’t understand, instead of raising my hand asking about it, I just wait and hope someone else who has a question like mine and wait for them to ask it themselves. My main reason for this my shyness and the fact that I don’t really want to put myself out there and be given the chance to embarrass myself. I think this could be the reason for why Cosmo acts like the way he does.