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Sunday, August 7, 2011

The Arrival

1. In the Arrival a man has to leave his family. His old town has monster inhabited in it so he goes to a foreign country so that eventually the rest of his family can move there too. The book is mostly about how confusing it is to immigrate to a foreign country. He struggles with getting used to the food, animals, and people there. Soon he meets others that are in the same situation as he is. They all have their tragic story to tell the man. These people help him a lot and soon he settles in. He also befriends an animal that is his pet. Soon his wife and daughter come and they are all happy.

2. The man in the arrival changes over the course of the story by becoming more aware of how hard it is to immigrate to another country. Also I think the reader becomes aware of that as well after reading it.

3. The arrival is similar to a book called Flotsam. Flotsam is about a camera that is washed away in the ocean. While it is there it take pictures of all types of ocean creatures and eventually a boy finds it and develops the film and he sees all of these cool animals. I think these books are the same because they both do not have words and they are both about travel.

4. The man in the Arrival faces in internal conflict because in a completely new place he has to make a lot of decisions. He faces external conflict because monsters scare him and people are annoyed that he does not know that much about the new country.

- Nora Duncan

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