Blog #2

Here is where the action comes in. Massey is great at creating such a tense and suspenseful atmosphere as Elinor has to save a member of her team while the other half of her team was in a gun fight with minors. Massey also does a great job of showing the chaos of being on not necessarily the battlefield but pretty close. The way Massey describes the fire fight with words like "shorter blasts" and " the crisper, more controlled sound" really show a contrast with the fir power that each side has. Then Massey describes how Elinor is reacting showing how tense the situation is with "Sweat is dribbling from my forehead and into my eyes now". Then a young girl emerges out of nowhere and stares at Elinor unmoving. Her stoic nature is the complete opposite of the panic that is going on all around them. Then after she leaves Massey throws the reader back in as Elinor is preparing to blow the I.E.D. that a member of her team is standing on. They all make it out alive but Massey leaves me wondering how this mysterious girl will tie into the rest of the story.