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Artemisia is a type of plant that is thought to be able to help cure cancer. But in this book it is very significant. Artemisia, if it makes contact with a Seedbearer, can kill them instantaneously. It is very important to this story because if one Seedbearer dies, all the others will too. This means Ander would die.

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What is it? / Artemisia annua / Herbal products / CAM-Cancer

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Artemisia annua, also known as sweet wormwood, sweet annie, sweet sagewort and annual wormwood (Chinese: qīnghāo), is a common type of wormwood that is native to temperate Asia but naturalized throughout the world. 1 It belongs to the family of Asteraceae and has fern-like leaves, bright yellow flowers and a camphor-like scent.

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When Eurekas mother dies, she goes into a very deep depression. She takes pills to try to kill herself because she feels so guilty. Eurekas step-mother sends her to a therapist but it seems to make things worse.

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Many things can contribute to clinical depression. For some people, several factors seem to be involved, while for others a single factor can cause the illness. Oftentimes, people become depressed for no apparent reason.

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Atlantis was a very important part of this book. It is where everything originated from. Ander grew up learning about it, knowing it was real. Eureka always thought it was just a story. She soon found out she was wrong.

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Atlantis, a likely mythical island nation mentioned in Plato's dialogues "Timaeus" and "Critias," has been an object of fascination among western philosophers and historians for nearly 2,400 years. Plato (c.424-328 B.C.) describes it as a powerful and advanced kingdom that sank, in a night and a day, into the ocean around 9,600 B.C. The ancient Greeks were divided as to whether Plato's story was to be taken as history or mere metaphor. Since the 19th century there has been renewed interest in linking Plato's Atlantis to historical locations, most commonly the Greek island of Santorini, which was destroyed by a volcanic eruption around 1,600 B.C.

Plato's Atlantis

Plato (through the character Critias in his dialogues) describes Atlantis as an island larger than Libya and Asia Minor put together, located in the Atlantic just beyond the Pillars of Hercules-generally assumed to mean the Strait of Gibraltar. Its culture was advanced and it had a constitution suspiciously similar to the one outlined in Plato's "Republic." It was protected by the god Poseidon, who made his son Atlas king and namesake of the island and the ocean that surrounded it. As the Atlanteans grew powerful, their ethics declined. Their armies eventually conquered Africa as far as Egypt and Europe as far as Tyrrhenia (Etruscan Italy) before being driven back by an Athenian-led alliance. Later, by way of divine punishment, the island was beset by earthquakes and floods, and sank into a muddy sea.

Did you know? In 1679 the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck published "Atland," a four-volume work in which he attempted to prove that Sweden was the original site of Atlantis and that all human languages were descended from Swedish. Though considered authoritative in his homeland, few outside of Sweden found Rudbeck's arguments convincing.

Origins of the Atlantis Story

Plato's Critias says he heard the story of Atlantis from his grandfather, who had heard it from the Athenian statesman Solon (300 years before Plato's time), who had learned it from an Egyptian priest, who said it had happened 9,000 years before that. Whether or not Plato believed his own story, his intent in telling it seems to have been to boost his ideas of an ideal society, using stories of ancient victory and calamity to call to mind more recent events such as the Trojan War or Athens' disastrous invasion of Sicily in 413 B.C. The historicity of Plato's tale was controversial in ancient times-his follower Crantor is said to have believed it, while Strabo (writing a few centuries later) records Aristotle's joke about Plato's ability to conjure nations out of thin air and then destroy them.

Atlantis Reemerges

In the first centuries of the Christian era, Aristotle was taken at his word and Atlantis was little discussed. In 1627, the English philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon published a utopian novel titled "The New Atlantis," depicting, like Plato before him, a politically and scientifically advanced society on a previously unknown oceanic island. In 1882, former U.S. Congressman Ignatious L. Donnelly published "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World," which touched off a frenzy of works attempting to locate and learn from a historical Atlantis. Donnelly hypothesized an advanced civilization whose immigrants had populated much of ancient Europe, Africa and the Americas, and whose heroes had inspired Greek, Hindu and Scandinavian mythology. Donnelley's theories were popularized and elaborated by turn-of-the-20th-century theosophists and are often incorporated into contemporary New Age beliefs.

From time to time, archaeologists and historians locate evidence-a swampy, prehistoric city in coastal Spain; a suspicious undersea rock formation in the Bahamas-that might be a source of the Atlantis story. Of these, the site with the widest acceptance is the Greek island of Santorini (ancient Thera), a half-submerged caldera created by the massive second-millennium-B.C. volcanic eruption whose tsunami may have hastened the collapse of the Minoan civilization on Crete.

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Atlantis, a likely mythical island nation mentioned in Plato's dialogues "Timaeus" and "Critias," has been an object of fascination among western philosophers and historians for nearly 2,400 years. Plato (c.424-328 B.C.) describes it as a powerful and advanced kingdom that sank, in a night and a day, into the ocean around 9,600 B.C.

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The waves were very important to Eureka. On her last trip with her mother a massive wave drags their car into the ocean. Her mother dies in the freak accident. Eureka doesn't forgive her self, and wishes it was her who died in the disaster. She is afraid of going too close to the water because when she is near it, it seems to drag her in.
https://www.pinterest.com/deesgrignoli/ocean-waves/

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Eureka and Anders descendants came from the lost city of Atlantis. Their paths crossed because of the horrible past that Atlantis had. It created Ander and gave Eureka her powerful tears. An evil force is rising from it, and they have to figure out how to stop it.
https://abstract.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/461211/

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In the book, tears are very significant. Since she was a child Eureka was told never to cry.  She never knew why and never asked. Until she met Ander, who made her question everything. He taught her that her tears were powerful, and could sink a whole continent if she cried too much.
http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/12/bitter-tears.html

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A minor character who had a major importance was Madame Blavatsky. This woman plays a big part in the choices and decisions Eureka makes throughout the book. Eureka meets Blavatsky when Eureka needs a special book translated. The book was her mother's, given to Eureka after her mom's death. It was in a strange language and Blavatsky was the only one who could read it. The facts that come out of the book about Atlantis were pivotal to Eureka's story. Without Blavatsky none of the important information needed for the story would have been known. Not only does Blavatsky release important information but she also helps Eureka see that not everyone is a bad guy, and some people just want to help.

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I was surprised that the author was able to tie so many things in the book together. In the beginning of the book I couldn't see how some of the things talked about were related. Slowly, the character of Ander connected the dots between the questions I had. The parts in the book were tied together with the idea of Atlantis rising up from the ocean. I didn't understand how Eureka not being able to cry affected this though. Near the end of the book it is connected. If Eureka were to cry, it would raise Atlantis and lower everything else underwater. This would kill billions of people. When the author explained this it connected the many things that I thought were random in the book. They weren't random though, and I was surprised with the way things turned out.

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Describe the character/person who changed the most from the beginning of the book to the end of the book

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The character that changed the most from the beginning of the book was Eureka. Eureka is heartbroken when her mother dies. It shifts Eureka's life and changed it for the worse. The only people she could count on were her best friends Brooks and Cat. As the book goes on Brooks is overcome by awful mood swings and it causes their relationship to falter. Eureka has no one to turn to and keeps her emotions bottled up. When she was a child the only time her mother ever lashed out on her was when Eureka was crying. Her mother yelled at her to never cry again and slapped her across the face. Since then, Eureka had never cried because that's what she was told to do her whole life. Once she meets Ander, everything changes. He explained to her why she was never allowed to cry and she slowly opens up. She doesn't open up completely to everyone but she begins to trust Ander. On the last few pages in order to save her family she begins to cry for the first time in 17 years to cause a flood and get them to safety. It relieves her of what she had kept inside and opens her up to the people around her.