Week 5- March 14, 2010

How do characters change or evolve throughout the course of the story? What events trigger such changes? Remember to include the name of your book and your characters.

In my book, "The Final Theory" the main character is David Swift. He has changed throughout the story. At the beginning, David was a dad who was lonely. He also followed the law and had no reason to break it. David is now running from every law enforcement agency and refuses to get caught. The only reason David is running from the law is because a dying theoretical physicist whispered a sequence of numbers into David's ear that have to do with Einstein's proposed Unified Field Theory. David was asked not to share these numbers with anybody he doesn't trust. He doesn't trust law enforcement; therefore, he is evading police and the FBI.

Week 4- March 7, 2010

If you could be any character from your book, who would you be and why? Give me at least one specific example as to why you would choose to be this character.

I am reading The Final Theory by Mark Alpert. If I could choose any character from this book I would choose Monique. She was a colleague and peer of the main character, David Swift. She now resides in the house Einstein once lived in. She is an extremely smart woman that is living well and making a living as a scientist. She is someone I think I might look up to if she was real. She went to Ivy League school, one in which I am pursuing, and she is a scientist, I want to be a scientist of some sort. She is also one who isn't afraid to say that she is extremely intelligent and she isn't afraid to show it off. I want to become someone like her when I grow up. :)