Saturday, November 10, 2007

The Ear,the Eye, and the Arm

This book takes place in Zimbabwe,2194. The future, so this book is obliviously really wacky. It is about three kids, Tendai, Rita, and Kuda. Regular kids right? Wrong, these are General Matsika's kids. If you read the book you start to get the impression that General owns the Country. He doesn't but it seems that way. The thing is his kids never get to do anything, never get to go outside, down the street , to the Mebare Matista. No where. See because General owns the Country you can imagine what kind of ransom you could get for them. This book is something that before I read it I thought it would be super weird and wacky advanced technology. Stuff like that. The weird thing is, this book made me think of Ancient Africa. Not however many years in the future. I think that was because everyone uses weird (well not weird just not invented words. I think that made me think of words that they used in the past. Anyways why call it The Ear, the Eye and the Arm? Because when the children go missing their mellower.( Mellower are a mix of Praise singer and companion) Suggests that they hire detectives to go look for them. That's where Eye, Ear, and Arm come in( yes those are their names). The reason they are called that is because Ear has gigantic ears that enable him to hear really tiny things like an ant on the sugar bowl. Arm is super tall (he could just as well be called leg) and he has this unusual ability to sense when things are going to happen. Like when the Baboons are planing to raid the Wheat fields. Eye because his eye-sight is really keen. He can see dust particles on a Hawks feather. This is because a chemical leaked into their mothers water, the chemical effected them in that way. The weird thing is that Arm starts to read peoples thoughts and emotions. That was really interesting to think about when he finds this baby girl and how there thoughts clash. I hope that you read it.

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