The Time Warp Trio Sam Samurai
Jon Scieszka
By: Lesly Baltazar
Plot Outline
TE: "In 1600 Japan we didn't look anything like anybody' Page.42
Rising Action: they were looking around for clues so Fred scanned the room and looked and pointed to a small ledge on the top of a wall.
TE: " He pointed to the small ledge on the top of a wall.That's where I'd hide Them. we looked up and saw a row of book-size packages wrapped and tied." Page.22&23
Cilmax: They were able to cross the gate without a passport which the didn't have , the had to lie to the gatekeepers.
TE:"Honda came back with one hand on his sword handle. He looked down at the gatekeeper and spoke harshly to him. " They are entertainers,"said Honda . "I'm escorting them."Page.49
Falling Action: They were able to pass through the gate and go to the other side ,but then they went to see Owattabutt of Minowa and the Auto translator got turned off and they couldn't understand what they were saying.
TE:"Something's is wrong with the Auto Translator." Eeka weeka wakka,"said Owattabutt"
Resolution:They found the book in Jo's lap .
TE:" Jo turned and knelt with The Book in her lap." Page.8
Conflict: This story is man vs. machine because the book disappears from them out of no where and it seems like it's running away from them and doesn't want them to find it .
Theme:I know they learned that they have to hold on to the book very good because maybe next time they will never get back home
Character Analysis
The gatekeeper is the antagonist because he didn't want to let Joe , Fred , Sam go to the other side of gate that's why Honda told him they were entertainers.
4 Facts
Giordano Bruno burned as a heretic. English East India Company established.
1603
Ieyasu rules Japan, moves capital to Edo (Tokyo). Shakespeare's Hamlet.
1605
Cervantes's Don Quixote de la Mancha, the first modern novel.
1607
Jamestown, Virginia, established—first permanent English colony on American mainland. Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, saves life of John Smith.