The gardener By S.A. Boden by Colden Dorfman https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9 Colden dorfman en-us 2017-10-12 13:59:50 UTC 2024-06-02 10:42:56 UTC hello@padlet.com Setting colden_dorfman https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/197372183 It seems as if the setting is taking place in near/during present time since the technology is definitely on the same scale as ours since the majority of what is in the book is often used present day . The  setting is always changing though since the characters are always moving around. All of the events that take place in the book take place in a 24 hour span

]]> 2017-10-16 14:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/197372183 Point of view colden_dorfman https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/197379468 the point of view seems to be from Mason who is a sophomore who happens to be an outcast since he is about 80 pounds heavier and a foot taller than  everyone else in his grade.
Mason generally wants to help people because he gets joy out of helping others in other words he is very benevolent and often shows acts of compassion "being responsible for the happy endings made me feel happy" ]]> 2017-10-16 14:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/197379468 the Protagonist colden_dorfman https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/198779599 the protagonist is a 15-16 year old boy named Mason who is much bigger then everyone else in his grade. Mason does not talk a lot but he is very good at science and by the end of the book is able to attend an ivy league school (Stanford) because he is good enough at science to get into an Ivy league school. "they'll cover all your college expenses through grad school. They would pay for Stanford" ]]> 2017-10-19 17:09:15 UTC https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/198779599 rules colden_dorfman https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/198783454
  • Include all of the information from your literary terms chart.  Be sure to include SPECIFIC passages from the novel!   You will have 4 boxes of information for this section: 
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    ]]>     2017-10-19 17:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/198783454     colden_dorfman https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/198785374 2017-10-19 17:20:27 UTC https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/198785374 the Antagonist colden_dorfman https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/198792907 I cannot say exactly who the antagonist is without spoiling the plot since at the beginning the antagonist is unclear because mason is running from antagonist(s). and it is unclear who/what is the antagonist/ how many antagonists there are. but the main antagonist seems to be Trodyn which is a company who wants to get an Autotroph back (the autotroph named Laila escaped from Trodyn with Mason. Trodyn wants to get back Laila and mason is trying to hide her because she does not want to go back. as Laila says "Don't make me go back there. Please, I'll go wherever I need we need to go"

    ]]>     2017-10-19 17:34:38 UTC https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/198792907     colden_dorfman https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/198802806 2017-10-19 17:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/198802806 colden_dorfman https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/198803848 2017-10-19 17:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/198803848 theme of the story colden_dorfman https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/199410686 I think that the theme of the story is to always help others because it always makes someones life better which is always good to do. after mason had helped out Laila she was able to experience life and be happy instead of being a mindless object composed of blood, bones and sinews. ]]> 2017-10-23 00:02:57 UTC https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/199410686 a real life article colden_dorfman https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/199411505 I looked through 5-6 articles and I decided that this article was by far the best example. the plot of the story and the theme of this article are very different but also very similar because the book is about a guy who helped a woman and it is from the guys point of view. in the story the guy takes her out of the false reality that she is in, where she is not truly living and brings her into the real world so that she can truly live. in a way the guy saved her and let her actually live. In the article however it is from a suicidal girls point of view who tries to commit suicide and a guy saved her from ending her life and saved her from herself and showed her how to live and saved her from her reality and her nihilistic state of mind. In both the article and the book, a guy saves a girl from her reality where she isn't living and gives her an actual chance to really live life. https://themighty.com/2015/11/a-letter-to-the-man-who-saved-my-life-after-a-suicide-attempt/ above is the link to the article that I am referring to.]]> 2017-10-23 00:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/colden_dorfman/6otjqmnb2kj9/wish/199411505