Blog reflection Tri 2

The blog I chose was my first blog about Collapse http://tylercreadingblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/collapse-pt-1.html

I chose this blog I use words like,"dire situation" that are very descriptive or generally uncommon. In this blog and my others this Tri I have introduced a new chracter and then given some backround then shown how the act or change in what I have read so far and I think this shows that I can be very informative in my posts but I also like to comment on what i think of the character.


 In this post and many others I tend to use elevated diction such as,"massive huricane" or ,"very passionate" Using words like the previous examples, I think, help people to understand what I am describing or talking about. I also tend to use longer sentences that are seperated by commas because people tend to not stop reading something in the middle of a sentence so if I have longer sentences they will hopefully read more of the most and be more entertianed.

collapse pt 3

The next main character in collapse is billionaire Howard Beck, who even throught the economic hardships the book describes, still remains the richest man in the world. Although he is a super genius of einstien proportions he does have one flaw which is aspergers. This is very clearly shown in the first few pages of his portion of the story as his best friend is a computer he created. Though his aspergers limits how much emotion he feels or shows we do see some emotion when he mourns his late wife. Howard's great fortune has mostly come from his technology business known as Beck enterprises which is a global company that would equal companies such as google in the real world. Howard also design a computer so advanced that it has been qualified as artificial intelligence essentially meaning it can think and make decisions on its own.

 After being introduced to all of the characters the story rotates between it's many perspectives and shows how the characters grow as well as how they tie into each otherwe also see how the world the story has created changes first we see riots begin to happen in cities like Denver and in response there are more and more restrictions and even more deaths due to ambulances not being able to get to hospital fast enough also the empire of Iran also begins to grow and also improve their defenses and begin to attack the us and other countries.

Collapse pt 2

The next character we see in Collapse is Richard Dupree who is an inmate at a prison rivaling the security of Alcatraz. When we first see him he is part of a white supremacy gang but we very quickly find that he has little choice to leave the gang and is completely disgusted by the thought of it.Later in the book we learn Richards backstory, ever since he was a boy he had adored the Navy Seals and had dreamed of becoming one. In his senior year of high school Richard learned that his long time  girlfriend,(who was also African American) was pregnant. They had spoken of marriage but Richard decided that instead he would break up with her to pursue his Navy career. After being deployed Richard changed his mind and married  his high school girlfriend. Several years later Richard became suspicious that his wife was not being faithful to him while he was away when he returned home his suspicions were confirmed and he planned to kill his wife's secret lover. His plans were ended when he caught a pedophile abusing his children and brutally murdered him. The murder he committed showed a HUGE change in him, from a prestigious military officer to a homicidal criminal.


The next important character in the story is the 43rd  president Malcolm Powers. At his 7th year in office Malcolm is facing a major decision that could decide the fate of America or even the world. He has 2 and only 2 foreseeable options and those are to continue the war efforts in what us becoming the 3rd world war and let the citizens who suffered a catastrophic hurricane die, or he can send an aircraft carrier from the Port of Gibraltar  and let the empire of Iran invade Europe where they will surely take over. To help him make this decision the president has called the heads of a few departments. In the middle of this fateful meeting explosions begin to go off outside the White House and the president is carried away by the secret service.