The Elite
Author: Kiera Cass Presentation by: Jenna Jorns
Point of View:First Person
(It is saying "I" as in America. It has her actions while saying the other girls names and only knowing her thoughts in the story.)
Charecterization
America came into the competition with no make up on, her hair just plain, and wearing jeans. She doesn't care of her appearance. Because of her caste her family are artists. They are poor and don't have many fancy things.
The other people think she is too low of a caste to still be in the competition. The king disapproves of her because she has no connections to make Ilea any better and all the girls think she should have been out the first night because of how low her caste is.
( The other people think she is too low of a caste and all they think of her is that she comes out of a poor family and is not queen ready.)
Theme
Everyone thought she would be out of the competition by the first night because of her caste. America tried hard enough that she made it a far way into the competition and barely anyone is left in it and she is one of the last competitors.
Figurative Language
(Hyperbole. She was over exaggerating about how quickly she said it and how badly she wanted to.)
"Sometimes I feel like were a knot, we are too tangled to be taken apart."
(Simile: It is saying how close Maxon and America are. They are with each other so much and never want to leave each other.)
Dialouge
I shook my head. "Just some scratches on my legs."
"Did they try to hurt you?"
"No. They never caught up to me."
He looked a bit shocked. "None of the other girls could outrun them, I don't think."
I smiled, finally at ease. "None of the other girls is a five."
(Its showing that she has lived differently than the other girls. While they are all getting everything to them all the time in life, America is out trying to do the stuff by herself. She was the only one out of all the girls who would have actually run away to save themselves.)