The Wild Cards By Simone Elkeles

The symbol i have for this book is a football. Football is what a lot of this book is about because one of the main characters Ashtyn is the Kicker for her high school team. Football is her life. In the book she goes to a football camp called Elite in the story. At that camp she finds out that Derek was a star quarterback that attended this camp and he never told her.

The Wild Cards By Simone Elkeles

Theme

Plot line structure

" Never give up on something that you work so hard for". Because in this book Derek tries so hard to push Ashtyn away but cant keep her out of his mind. And Ashtyn tries so hard to put up this front that she hates Derek but she cant hide her true feelings forever. they will try so hard to hate each other but they cant mask there true feelings.

Key Quotes

UNIFYING SYMBOL

Exposition: This story is about two people learning to love each other.

Rising Action: Derek Moving in to Brandi's dad's house

Climax: when Derek leaves Ashtyn at football camp and realizes that he has feelings for her.

Falling Action: Derek can't stop thinking about her when he goes to his grandmothers house in Texas

Resolution: Derek comes back and makes things right with Ashtyn.

1. "Getting caught wasn't part of the plan". - Derek pg 1.

2. "The Fitz is back"-Derek pg 342.

3. "Caption Ashtyn Parker" - Ashtyn pg 14.

4. "You weren't good school because you didn't apply yourself"- Gus (Brandi's Dad) pg 36.

5. " Everybody i care about hurts me"-Ashtyn pg 288.

Archetype

Introduction

Setting

The archetype i chose for this book was Duality because the characters in my book have an ongoing struggle with my other characters. Between the constant drama. They are always fighting. They can never agree so the good and the evil clash all of the time in my story.

Every thing changed that summer for seventeen year old Derek Fitzpatrick when he gets kicked out of his private school in California. Derek has to move in with his new step mom Brandi and her father, son, and younger sister. He slowly finds him self falling for Brandi's younger sister Ashtyn she is also seventeen years old. But as the summer goes on Ashtyn is also secretly falling for Derek to.

The setting of this book mostly takes place in the city of Fremont it is a suburb of Chicago. Derek is Mostly at Brandi's dad's along with her son and Ashtyn. The house sounds nice it sounds very big. Derek lives in the Den and has to sleep on an air mattress. Brandi and her son share a room and Ashtyn has her own room near Brandi's. They have a big backyard that Derek works on most of the time that he is at the house because the grass always is needing to be mowed.

Figurative language

Metaphor: "Your has become a tomboy" pg 34 "let me go you jerk" pg 134

simile: "You look tough with bruises on your face" pg 145 "wanna bet on it sugar pie" pg 114

personification: "forever is along time" pg 85 "i happen to like frozen cap" pg 169

analogy: "The words cut deep" pg 247 "a piece of cake" pg 187

onomatopoeia:" Click" pg 8 " harrumph" pg 20 "cheers" pg 119 "squeak" pg 90