Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Allen Chien https://padlet.com/335458907/rl4sehsadtkb By: Allen Chien en-us 2019-06-12 13:50:28 UTC 2019-06-16 16:10:32 UTC hello@padlet.com Book 335458907 https://padlet.com/335458907/rl4sehsadtkb/wish/367183724 2019-06-12 13:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/335458907/rl4sehsadtkb/wish/367183724 Introduction/Synopsis of the book 335458907 https://padlet.com/335458907/rl4sehsadtkb/wish/367184037  To everyone at Meridian High School, Michael Vey seems like an ordinary 14-year-old–he likes waffles and video games, hates homework and gets bullied at school. But Michael is anything but ordinary. He was born with special electrical powers.
 
When Michael’s best friends, Ostin Liss and cheerleader Taylor Ridley, make an accidental discovery, the trio learns that there are other children with electric powers–and that someone, or some thing, is hunting them.
 
After Michael’s mother is kidnapped, Michael will have to rely on his wits, powers and friends to combat the powerful Elgen and free his mother.
]]> 2019-06-12 13:55:22 UTC https://padlet.com/335458907/rl4sehsadtkb/wish/367184037 Personal Struggles 335458907 https://padlet.com/335458907/rl4sehsadtkb/wish/367188843 When Michael was faced with  his own insecurities as he explained to his mother that he's "just tired of everyone picking on me all the time for no reason except they think they can. I'm tired of knowing I could stop them and I don't. You know who I hate more than them for picking on me? I hate myself for letting them. I'm tired of being a nobody." (Evans 30). Michael has been constantly getting bullied at school, due to his tourettes syndrome. (This is a disease that Michael has. It makes him blink and twitch uncontrollably in stressful situations.) The reason he has it it's because of his electrical power that he needs to hide so people won't find out. However, there is time when Michael feels like he should use it to simply defend himself, but by using his power, he will no longer be able to hide his identity. His mother told him that “As you grow older, Michael, you’ll learn an important lesson—that most people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time.” (Evan 31) meaning that if he does ends up exposing himself consequences could happen and he (Michael) may regret.
 
]]> 2019-06-12 14:15:01 UTC https://padlet.com/335458907/rl4sehsadtkb/wish/367188843 Against Elgen (Against Dr. Hatch) Person Vs Person 335458907 https://padlet.com/335458907/rl4sehsadtkb/wish/367778212 Michael faces the strength of The Elgen, an evil corruption who wants to take over the world, and find ways to create more kids with electrical power lead my Dr Hatch. Hatch is the head of the Elgen Academy, and a member of the board of directors. He is ruthless, uncaring, and will do anything to get the electric children on his side. Hatch calls the electric children Glows because they all give off a faint glow. Hatch is rich, and will try to bribe, threaten, and coerce the electric children to do his bidding. Michael being one of the strongest electrical kids, was threaten by Hatch to join his side and take over the world. He manipulates people by doing good things for them, as said   I need a show of faith. After all I've done for you, and you won't do this simple thing for me?"  (Evans 60) .Usually asking to harm or kill a GP or human. First, its something small, then Hatch asks again and says the same thing once more. Then it starts piling up and you begin to feel guilty, but now Hatch has something on you, almost like blackmail. However Michael wasn't going to join his team, so Hatch set out to kidnap his mother and his girlfriend for Michael to go search for her. ]]> 2019-06-16 15:23:28 UTC https://padlet.com/335458907/rl4sehsadtkb/wish/367778212 Corporate Corruption 335458907 https://padlet.com/335458907/rl4sehsadtkb/wish/367779866 The main issue stated in the novel is corporate corruption. Corporate corruption is defined as , the “abuse of power or private office for personal gain" (Google). By this simple definition, The Elgen was definitely taking part of corporate corruption. Dr. Hatch (full name is Charles James Hatch) was the former multi-millionaire CEO of the Elgen  Corporation and main antagonist of the Michael Vey series. He and his Glows overtook the island nation of Tuvalu. He deposed as CEO and became the unsanctioned President of Tuvalu (renamed Hatch Islands).Dr. Hatch, the head of operations at the Elgen, uses his position of power in order to help him achieve omnipotence within the OASIS. His plan is simple; he wishes to  find all the electrics kids and make his own society and with the advance technology find out how to make more special kids and eventually take over the world. If his company benefits, as the head of operations, he also benefits himself. This evidently follows the above definition. This is closely tied with a major issue in our society today: ISIS. "ISIS aims to create an Islamic state called a caliphate across Iraq, Syria and beyond.The group is implementing Sharia Law, rooted in eighth-century Islam, to establish a society that mirrors the region's ancient past.
ISIS is known for killing dozens of people at a time and carrying out public executions, crucifixions and other acts." (CNN) This is definitely a clear example of corporate corruption. This group are abusing their powers in order to benefit themselves greatly. Like Elgen in Michael Vey, the Elgen believes what they're doing is for the best and won't harm the world.
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