Literary Elements
Stuff highlighted in red is character not following the theme and green is following the theme.
Motifs
Bullying
Abductions
Lying
Anxiety
Friendship
independence
independence You don't always have someone by your side to help.
bullying people will be rude to you no matter what if they think there better.
friendship Most friends will stay with you till the end.
Facing fears You might want to run from your fears but its most important to face them.
The book owls have come to take us away by Ronald L. Smith. Is a science fiction book about aliens coming to save humanity from them self. The people who would like this book will be people who like sci-fi, people who like a main character no one believes and people who like a character no who has trauma from school. A few parts that are the best are when Simon realizes the aliens are good when Simon reads us his book and when Simon and his friends search for what the aliens want. This book is about aliens abducting people and those people struggling with people who think there insane.
The theme of the owls have come to take us away by Ronald L. Smith is facing fears. I know this because Simon tries to resist the aliens assuming there bad, making Simon try to remove the implant they put in him which made people think he tried to kill himself. Because he feared the aliens he assumed they were bad and not knowing they were trying to help making him try to remove the implant in his stomach causing him to bleed everywhere so people thought he tried kill himself because no one believed him about the aliens. Also when Simon stopped fearing them then they helped him see how the world could be saved. Allowing for Simon and a handful of others to be appointed to lead the human race to live making it so no pain, no disease, and no fighting and 1 race the human race. Simon also became a famous story writer from his book max Hollyoak and the tree and Eygrim telling the story of Simon but in a fantasy world. In it he stops fearing the fae making him realize they're good not bad. Because Simon trusted them the grays gave him more time to live on for the evolved human race so the planet would not be destroyed from other stuff. and finally the theme of the owls have come to take us away by Ronald L. Smith is facing fears.
It takes place in a military base because of his dad moving so often, in a world that takes place as ours.
Name Simon. Physical description…
Has glasses. Mixed skin color. male.
Personality description (traits)... obsessed, paranoid, Story teller, Hates camping, Doesn't like owls, Loves fantasy books, hates sports, and loves books. Caring, believes in aliens, born in Maine, doesn't like P.E, has a brother, has asthma, doesn't like school, lies, loves pancakes, and loves video games. Their role in the story is to help people understand the problem of the aliens coming to invade earth.
Their problem in how they are paranoid about aliens because it ends up making him get abducted and tested on and obsessing over the aliens.
They want for people to understand that aliens exist and that their coming to take over. he ends up realizing the aliens are high to help humanity so he stops fearing them.
In this book aliens called grays are trying to stop humanity from destroying themselves so they abduct people in order to use them to help the world.
Simon the main character talk about his obsession and fear about aliens and talks about how the government is preparing them for the aliens.
Chapter 2
In chapter 2 Simon goes to the bx (base exchange) and goes shopping with his mom while trying to not get embarrassed.
Chapter 3
In chapter 3 Simon talks about his trouble with his dad making them move so much because he's in the military and not being able to make friends in the short time. As well as the only friend he made.
Chapter 4
In half of chapter 4 Simon and his mom have a talk while at breakfast about Simon's mom wanting him to play with people. In the other half Simon shows the first chapter of his book.
Chapter 5
Chapter 5 Simon talks about the first alien sighting and if aliens came there would be no war and disputes between races.
Chapter 6
In chapter 6 Simon continuous on about the second chapter of his book and talking about publishing it.
Chapter 7
Chapter 7 Simon talks about the start of his campaign trip and how much he hates them.
Chapter 8
Chapter 8 Simon talks about him fainting just to wake up with his parents looking over him and remembering. that he had been abducted.
Chapter 9
Chapter 9 Simon struggles to tell his parents the truth about the abduction.
Chapter 10
Chapter 10 Simon tries to get the thought of grey's out of his head.
Chapter 11
Chapter 11 Simon sees a men and black agent and finally tells the truth to his parents. Just for them to not believe him
Chapter 12
Chapter 12 Simon gets abducted by aliens and tries to find a way out of their spaceship.
Chapter 13
Chapter 13 Simon gets abducted again and tells his mom. So they get worried about his mental health
Chapter 14
Chapter 14 Simon is forced to go to the psychologist and they ask him questions and then send him off with pills that help control thoughts.
Chapter 15
Chapter 15 tony gets back from mexico and Simon tells him about the aliens. Simon stops taking his pills and trows them away when no one is watching
Chapter 16
Chapter 16 Simon tells the 3rd chapter of his book.
Chapter 17
Chapter 17 Edwin get back home and his girlfriend joins Simon's family for dinner so Simon lets her look in his room and they bond.
Chapter 18
Chapter 18 Simon gets invited to a alien meeting by Miranda's dad and learns new stuff about the grays.
Chapter 19
Chapter 19 Simon finishes the meeting he had with Miranda's dad after, Simon goes to the bowling alley and tony tells him they should check the forest where he was abducted.
Chapter 20
Chapter 20 Simon goes to the doctor's office while they ask him personal questions.
Chapter 21
Chapter 21 Simon goes back to the camp he was at and find 3 men in black after they saw them the 3 men chased them off of the camp.
Chapter 22
Chapter 22 Simon remembers that he was abducted in his sleeps and then he grabs scissors and tries to cut out the implant.
Chapter 23
Chapter 23 after Simon tried to remove the implant everything went red and he woke up in a hospital with people thinking Simon tried to kill himself.
Chapter 24
Chapter 24 Simon gets out of the hospital and has to stay in his house for a few weeks then tony came over and they talk about aliens and what A.T.I.C. is. (A.T.I.C. is what the 3 men talked about.)
Chapter 25
Chapter 25 Simon shows us his 4th chapter of his book.
Chapter 26
Chapter 26 Miranda came to Simon's house and Miranda showed Simon a official article about spotting aliens until Miranda has to leave.
Chapter 27
Chapter 27 Simon, his mom, and his dad all went out their house because of an air drill but suddenly jets flew so fast it made a sonic boom making Simon question what was happening.
Chapter 28
Chapter 28 Simon flips through his dad’s news paper but realize on the last page is one of the people in Miranda's dad’s basement.
Chapter 29
Chapter 29 Simon continues on with his book and in it the main characters learn they are Fae which are mythical creatures..
Chapter 30
Chapter 30 Simon talks about his first day of school and how much he hates it.
Chapter 31
Chapter 31 Simon goes to doctor cross’s office and in it he says one word making her think they had a breakthrough.
Chapter 32
Chapter 32 Simon goes to the greenhouse in his school and gets frightened by a bird and fell causing him to get bullied a lot.
Chapter 33
Chapter 33 Simon has a bunch of memories that happened to his last chapter but suddenly as he lays in his bed he gets abducted again.
Chapter 34
Chapter 34 Simon ascended to a god seeing every possibility that humans could have become. Then he woke up after being abducted with the aliens invading earth. After trusting the aliens
100 years later
Simon and a handful of others were appointed to lead the human race to live making it so no pain, no disease, and no fighting and 1 race the human race. Simon also became a famous story writer from his book Max Hollyoak and the tree and Eygrim. Because he trusted them
How did Simon get a implant in him
After getting abducted
Why is Simon always talking about aliens.
Because he gets abducted. foreshadow