Maximum Ride Essay

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Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment By Courtney Wright Science fiction texts use events and issues in society today, to explore and imagine what may happen in the future. In the novel Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment, published in 2005, the author, James Patterson, explores possible technological and scientific advances of the future. Even though the novel is set around the present time, maybe a few years into the future, it explores the same kinds of ideas as many other science fiction texts. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment, follows six children, aged between fourteen and six, who’s genes were modified while they were embryos. The children have the ability to fly, with 2% of their DNA being avian. The six kids escaped from The School, where they grew up, and where they were genetically altered, and spend most of their lives hiding from Erasers, mutants who will stop at nothing to bring them back to The School. When the youngest of the kids is captured, the other five must return to The School to save her, and begin to learn more about themselves, and why they are who they are. The characters in this novel are a huge part in exploring the future, with their wings, and air sacs instead of lungs. The novel is written from the main character’s point of view, and depicts the events that form the story. Characterisation is very prominent throughout the novel. Maximum, or Max, has a lot of feelings, and emotions, that are vividly described to allow the reader to experience what she feels. The other characters are given descriptions that allow the reader to enter their world, to take part in their adventures. There is much exploration of different themes in this novel, including science versus ethics, and good versus evil. There are many ways to explore the future worlds, and many authors draw on current events and issues to aid them in their discoveries.
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