Things We Didn't See Coming
by Steven Amsterdam
Published in 2009
Prof. Maquelly John
House: Hufflepuff
I chose this story as it is one of the prescribed reading texts for school and I had some difficulty connecting to it. I hope that by completing this project on the book I will be able to gain a new perspective on it to understand the journey that the narrator goes through over the duration of the novel. It is not one of my favourite books however I hope that through this, I will be able to appreciate it more than I currently do.
Hero
The hero of this story is the unnamed narrator of the story.
Plot Summary
The book is set around one character who is not named for the duration of the novel. It begins with his parents Cate and Otis packing up to spend New Years Eve with their grandparents however Otis is worried about the possibility of the Y2K bug at the turn of the millennium. As the book progresses, a dystopian future is painted as it steps further along in the main characters life. A bleak future is shown with devastating environmental disasters frequently occurring, an array of diseases and cancers infecting the people, and the people turning against each other as they lose all sense of morality as the world sinks deeper into crisis. Along this journey however, the protagonist makes a friend in Margo who plays a somewhat vital role in his survival whilst all of this is going on.