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A connection that anyone can make to the book is that Caden doesn't like to tell his parents stuff, just like most kids don't.

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A connection I or anyone can make to the book is that everyone has an imagination and imagines places they'd like to go, just like Caden imagining going to Challenger Deep.

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"I keep imagining I see my little sister on board, even though I know shes not" Caden is going to continue to imagine stuff in his head because that's who he is and he has a mental illness that makes him hear things in his head as well.

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I predict that his schizophrenia is starting to take over his mind.
"I cant remember when this journey began. Its like Ive lays been here, except that I couldn't have been, because there was a before, just last week, or last month Im pretty sure." (Shusterman 4)

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Is the captain real?
What kind of things does the captain say to him?
"I've stopped trying to decipher the things the captain says,but they still weigh on me." (Shusterman 3)

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"Even so, there are nights where you cant sleep, because these things you juggle take all of your concentration" pg 2

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"Its 5 am. You know this, because there's a battery powered clock on your bedroom wall that ticks so loudly you sometimes have to smother it with a pillow." pg 1

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Why does he have such random precise thoughts at 5am in the morning? "And the painted dolphins on your sisters wall cannot plot deadly schemes." pg 2

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Caden has a mental illness called skitsophrenia which is where he hears voices in his head and they scare him, and he wants to get away from them.

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Protagonist is Caden and he antagonist is his mental illness, skitsophrenia.

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Caden, Mother, Father, Carlyle, Callie, Hal, Captain

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Author: Neal Shusterman
Year: 2015
Genre: Fiction

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Caden Bosch is on a galleon that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench.

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Neal Shusterman is an award winning, best selling author. He lives in California with his four children. He attended the University of California where he majored in psychology and theater.