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=Stage 1: Before Reading >_<=

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I chose The Third Day, The Frost by John Marsden because of one main reason. The title in itself catches my attention because it draws suspension, The Third Day, The Frost. It could be The Frost Day or The Third Frost. They would have been equally good titles, but they wouldn’t have caught my attention as easily. The blurb is smack bang. Smack bang is my way of saying something is full on. The blurb was full on starting with the first few sentences. Live for what you believe in, die fighting for it. With the third day comes a frost. A killing frost. The enemy spreads across the land, cold and relentless. They invade. They destroy. They kill. Only the heroism of Ellie and her friends can stop them. When hot courage meets icy death, who will win through? Okay, so maybe that’s the whole blurb, but that was what caught my attention. I judge a book by its blurb. If the blurb sounds interesting enough, than I would read it. The blurb for The Third Day, The Frost is exiting as a whole book. =====

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Yes I have. The first book I read by John Marsden was Tomorrow When the War Began. Others are Letters From the Inside, Darkness Be My Friend, The Dead of the Night, Burning for Revenge, The Night is for Hunting, and Incurable, The Ellie Chronicles. =====

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On the cover illustration of The Third Day, The Frost, there is a huge explosion in the foreground and in the background there are clouds of dust. The shimmering outline of the explosion emphasizes the importance of the fiery blaze on the cover of The Third Day, The Frost. But what I see in that explosion is more than just an explosion. I see friendship being blown apart, lives being wasted. I see love being torn apart, and more importantly, I see the dullness of everyday life being thrown away into the ashes. =====

What kind of story do I think The Third Day, The Frost will tell?
I think that the story will be about people dying in vain because of the illustration and what I see on it. Maybe the story will be about people dying in order to save someone else, or maybe about people realizing that nothing they do can save someone close to them. Maybe the story will be about relationships being torn apart by selfishness, greed, urge to save one’s life before helping others.

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I didn't really have any questions as I understood the main plot of the story, as I had read the first and second book. But I did think once about how boredom could possibly be worse than fear, but since I've never actually been through a war, I didn't think of it as unusual. =====

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I believe that maybe when you're frightened then you at least have something to think about, something to concentrate, but with boredom, there's absolutely nothing you can think about, nothing you can concentrate on. =====

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I would most likely adopt Ellie Linton, the main character in the Tomorrow series. She would be the hardest yet the easiest to see the story from, because the story is from her pespective, she is the 'narrator' in the story, yet there are so many things she cannot understand. =====