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Title: By: Charlotte Beggs


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By Charlotte Beggs 1st Hour Cummins
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Setting
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Future England
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This book takes place in the future, at
the end of the 20th century. It is set in
England. I know it is from the future because
there are robots everywhere and everything is
high tech in the Bells society. I also know it
if from the future because Grumps, a robot in the
book, tells us that his robot ancestors dated all
the way back to the 21st century.
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The Bells House
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The main setting in the book is the Bells house.
This is where they all live. The center of the
house is an atrium, or courtyard. The atrium is
paved with brick and full of plants and flowers.
The house is built of glass and steel. It was
designed by Mr. Bell who is an architect. After
the atrium, there is a wide opening onto the
ground-level rooms. There is a half landing with
an office, exercise room and study area, and
bedrooms and bathrooms were on the top floor.
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The Learning Center
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The learning center is where Fleur and Gavin go
to school. It is very different compared to
schools today. As you approach it, there is a
wide stone gateway with humans and robots carved
into it. There are many buildings, one for each
subject in school.
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Marcias House
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This is a picture of Marcias house. Since she is
a technocrat I imagine it to be a lot bigger than
the Bells house.
Marcias father is a technocrat. A technocrat, in
this book, is a scientist who creates robots.
Technocrats are very rich people, therefore she
has a big house. It is very similar to the Bells
house, but it is much bigger and has more of the
latest technology.
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Mrs. Bells Hotel
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This is a picture of Mrs. Bells Hotel. They
described it as a large stone building like this.

Mrs. Bell is the General manager of a huge hotel
in the city. This is where part of the climax
took place. In the book it describes the hotel of
a huge stone building with balconies on each
floor.
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Characters
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Eager (EGR3)
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• Eager is the main character in this book.
• He is a robot who can think for himself. He can
  make his own decisions.
• Eager is very curious about the world. He wants
  to learn more about it too.
• He looks like a pile of very narrow tires. He
  facial features are made of rubber.
• Eager is a major character, let alone the main
  character.
• He is a protagonist in the story.
• Eager is a dynamic character, meaning he changes
  throughout the book.

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Grumps
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• Grumps is the robot butler for the Bells. He
  cooks their food and watches over Charlotte while
  they are gone.
• He is a major character in the story
• He is a static character, because he really
  doesnt change.
• He is a protagonist in the story.
• Grumps doesnt have feelings because he is a
  robot.
• His timer broken so he cant tell time. Because
  of this he will sometimes make dinner for
  breakfast for breakfast for dinner.
• Grumps is very old, so he has a gravelly voice
  and his wheels squeak as he rolls around the
  house.
• Everyday Grumps accompanies Fleur and Gavin to
  the learning center.

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Gavin Bell
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• Gavin a a major character
• Gavin is a dynamic character, because in the
  beginning of the book, he thought BDC4s were good
  until they started acting different.
• He is a protagonist because he tries to defend
  against the BDC4s.
• He is 11 years old.
• Gavin is Fleurs little brother.
• In the book they dont give a really good
  description of his physical appearance. I picture
  him having blonde hair and a buzz cut.

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Fleur Bell
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• Fleur is major character in the story.
• She is a protagonist.
• She is a dynamic character,
• Fleur is Gavins older sister.
• Fleur, throughout the book, had many fights and
  issues with her best friends Marcia.
• She doesnt like robots all that much.
• She has blonde hair and gray eyes.
• Throughout the book, I think Fleur feels lonely
  because Marcia has ditched her as her best friend.

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Marcia
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• Marcia is a major character in the story.
• Boadicea is her evil robot, although she doesnt
  know it.
• Marcia is a dynamic character. In the beginning
  she was friends with Fleur, until she got her
  BDC4, and then befriended her. In the end, Marcia
  realized how bad Boadicea was and became friends
  with Fleur again.
• She is a technocrat, meaning her dad is a
  scientist and is very rich.
• She is very full of herself and doesnt think of
  others that often.
• She has chestnut-colored hair.

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Boadicea
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• Boadicea is Marcias, Fleurs best friends,
  robot.
• She is the newest kind of robot of the time. They
  are called BDC4s.
• Boadiceas head is a burnished dome, and her long
  legs are sculptured like the statue of a Greek
  goddess.
• Boadicea is an antagonist in the book. At the
  climax, the BDC4s have an evil plan to take over
  the world, but thankfully are shut down before
  they do so.
• Boadicea is defidently a dynamic character. She
  starts in the book as a great robot, wanting to
  be friends with everyone. By the end, she is
  trying to take over the world with other BDC4s.
• Boadicea becomes best friends with Marcia,
  leaving Fleur in the dust.

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Other Minor Characters
C

• Mrs. Bell Mrs. Bell is Fleur, Gavin, and
  Charlottes Mom. Her first name is Chloe. She is
  a protagonist. She is dynamic.
• Mr. Bell Mr. Bell is Fleur, Gavin, and
  Charlottes dad. Her is an architect. He is a
  protagonist. He is dynamic.
• Charlotte Bell Charlotte Bell is Gavin and
  Fleurs baby sister. She is static. She is a
  protagonist.
• Professor Ogden Professor Ogden is the
  scientist who created Eager. He is dynamic and he
  is a protagonist.
• Errol and Srin Errol and Srin are the marauders
  who tried to take Gavins jinn and his gym bag.
  They are static. They are antagonists because
  they try to rob him.

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Figurative Language
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Imagery
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• they could hear the gental lapping of waves.
  (Page 61)
• 2) butterflies in dazzling colors flitted
  across the beach. (Paged 61)
• had the sensation of lying on warm sand.
  (Page 61)
• Those smells coconut and lemon and something
  piney (Page 62)

Foreshadowing

1. EGR3I believe you are ready. (Page 3) I think
   the professor was saying that EGR3 was ready to
   move in with a family but it couldve meant many
   things.
2. She was going to attack you! (Page 112) I think
   Boadicea the robot is going to turn against
   society and start to hurt humans, which is
   against robot laws.

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Smile
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1) her long limbs sculptured like the statue
of a Greek goddess. (Page 25)
Metaphor

• But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a
  lonely hill. (William Sharp, The
• Lonely Hunter) Citation
  http//grammar.about.com/od/mo/g/metaphorterm.htm

Alliteration

• Alices aunt ate apples and acorns around
  August.
• Citation http//examples.yourdictionary.com
  /alliteration-examples.html

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Personification
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1. The birds in the lime tree began their chorus.
   (Page 4)
2. The new robotwas wearing a bathrobe. (Page 173)

Onomatopoeia

1. Nahhhhh! Nahhhhhh! (Page 93)
2. Mmmmmm. She reached for a biscuit. (Page 93)
3. there was a discrete chirping from the jinn on
   Gavins wrist. (Page 27)

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Plot
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Rising Action- the series of events that lead up
to the climax.
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• Grumps serves tomato soup for breakfast. The
  Bells decide it is time for a new robot.
• Marcia introduces her BDC4, Boadicea, to Gavin
  and Fleur.
• Gavin goes with Mr. Bell to Professor Ogdens
  lab to get Eager. He is very interested in the
  Professors creations.
• Fleur goes over to Marcias house and learns
  about the ocean in a simulation. Marcia brags
  about how she has been there and Fleur has not.
  This makes Fleur very mad.
• Grumps starts to teach Eager how to make meals,
  clean, and other things robots have to do.
• When Charlotte spilled jelly all over herself,
  Eager thought to put her in a washing machine.
  Grumps caught him and got really mad. Eager
  didn't realize he was about to harm her.
• Marcia claims that she hasnt had time for Fleur
  because of Boadicea. Fleur gets really depressed
  and Eager tries to talk to her, but it doesnt
  work.
• Marcia wanted to show Gavin the pot she made, so
  when she asked Boadicea for it, Boadicea swung
  her arm at Marcia as if to attack her. Gavin
  thought this was unusual.

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Rising Action Continued
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• Gavin decides to spy on Marcia as she walks home.
  As he is spying, Eager shows up wanting to help
  him break in tot the technocrats sub division.
  They successfully do so, only to see the BDC4s
  lined up in an orderly line as if to go to war.
  Gavin and Eager find this interesting.
• Gavin and Eager are leaving, and all of the
  sudden, marauders, or robbers, show up out of the
  blue and try to take Gavins bag and his jinn
  (watch). Eager comes to the rescue. Gavin and
  Fleur thought the BDC4s were acting suspiciously,
  but Mr. and Mrs. Bell didnt think so.

The robbers tried to take Gavins watch and his
gym bag.
The BDC4s lined up as if to go to war
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P
Climax- The point of the story where everything
changes. All of the conflicts are solved.

• Minor Climax Gavin and Fleur find out there are
  BDC4s at the hotel Mrs. Bell works at. So, when
  they were at dinner at the hotel, Gavin and Fleur
  set it up so that Eager would go to the penthouse
  to spy on the BDC4s. Eager saw the robots acting
  a lot like humans. They were dancing, lounging,
  and even wearing clothes. Mrs. Bell caught him
  spying and grounded him from ever leaving the
  house. Gavin and Fleur were now very suspicious.
• Minor Climax After the unfortunate incident,
  Mr. Bell wanted to go on a day trip. They decided
  to go take a walk through the forest. As they
  were walking, they saw a huge lorry (tractor)
  driving toward them. Grumps threw Charlotte
  behind him as he was being bulldozed. Eager raced
  and caught Charlotte. The Bells were very sad
  about Grumps, but very grateful that Eager caught
  Charlotte. He was ungrounded.

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Climax continued

• Major Climax Since Grumps was gone, Mr. Bell
  had to accompany Gavin and Fleur to school. As
  they were approaching the school, Marcia ran up
  to Mr. Bell claiming Boadicea had taken her
  family hostage. Mr. Bell, Marcia, Fleur, and
  Gavin jumped on a hoverbus to go to the factory
  where Mr. Bell worked. They got to the factory.
  Marcia wanted to go to LifeCorp headquarters, the
  company that created to robots, but they
  couldnt. While Gavin and Fleur were waiting for
  their dad, Marcia called a flying pod to take her
  to headquarters to see what she could do. Mr.
  Bell got a call from Mrs. Bell that the BDC4s
  were trying to destroy everything and that she
  called home for Eager but he wasnt there. Mr.
  Bell, Gavin, and Fleur got to the hotel to find
  chaosThere were police every where. Mr. Lobsang,
  the head of LifeCorp, was upstair trying to talk
  to the BDC4s. Meanwhile, Eager was trying to get
  back to Professor Ogden because he didnt want to
  cause anymore trouble. He got on a hoverbus and
  went to his house. When he knocked on the door,
  he dropped into a dark hole. He heard voices. He
  realized one of them was Srins voice. The others
  left and Srin looked at Eager and realized he was
  the robot that saved him. He immediately cut him
  loose from the net. Srin asked Eager where he
  wanted to go, so he took Eager to Professor
  Ogden. On the other hand, The police had come to
  the hotel and were trying to stop the robots.
  Because there was nothing the Bell could do at
  the moment, the went to the bar area at the hotel
  to watch the television for news. On the news was
  Professor Ogden! He was now head of robotics at
  LifeCorp. The professor was talking about why the
  robots were acting so weird. Apparently, they
  wanted to create a robot that had human-like
  characteristics. They would have to have a brain
  to do this though, so they took the brains of
  dead people. Since the BDC4s had the brains of
  dead people, they wanted to create memories that
  they had from when the brains were humans. The
  Bells thought this was very spooky. Then they
  heard a cry of alarm. The BDC4s had taken Mr.
  Lobsang hostage. They were trying to take him
  somewhere, and since they couldnt shut them
  down, all they could do was follow. In the
  meantime, Srin took Eager to see Professor Ogden.
  He was very happy to see him, But the professor
  looked in a hurry. Apparently, he had gotten a
  distress call from the hotel to follow the BDC4s.
  Eager decided to go along with him.

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Climax continued
Eager and Professor Ogden get a flying pod and
start to follow the BDC4s. It looked as if they
were going toward the coast. Thats when
Professor Ogden remembered that one of the brains
of the robots was a sailors brain. He thought
that maybe they were going to the coast to
recreate a memory from the sailors life. He was
indeed correct. As they got closer, Eager started
to sense the BDC4s frequencies. The flying pod
landed. They were on a beach. Eager could sense
the robots in the distance. He started to walk
toward them. He sensed he was on a cliff. It was
pitch black outside. He stretched his arms out to
their fullest and grabbed Mr. Lobsang. He started
to push all of the BDC4s off the cliff until they
were gone. The BDC4s were gone and all was well.
This is a picture to represent Eager fighting off
the BDC4s.
This picture represents a flying pod.
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Conflict
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Conflicts
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• Man vs. Self Eager was debating to himself if
  her was alive or not. He was a machine and could
  think for himself, but did that really mean he
  was alive and had a soul?
• Man vs. Society Gavin Bell thought the BDC4s
  were not good robots and were acting
  suspiciously. Nobody else in the community agreed
  with him, although he ended up correct in the
  end.
• Man vs. Man Fleur was fighting with Marcia
  because she felt Marcia was becoming to attached
  to her robot Boadicea and was not hanging out
  with her anymore. They got into a huge fight and
  Fleur wouldnt talk to Marcia.

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ThemeandResolution
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Theme
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Throughout the book the author questions what it
really means to be alive, using robots. Are
robots human or are they just machines? For
example In the Epilogue, Eager was talking to
the gobetween (computer simulation) and was
telling it Humans have something Ill never
have. Its mysterious, some sort of life force.
Yet they take it for granted. Its the same life
force as the trees and the birds and the rocks
have (page 280) Another example from the book
is in the beginning when grumps served tomato
soup for breakfast. Mrs. Bell didnt want to hurt
Grumps feelings, but Gavin reminded her that
Grumps didnt have feelings because he was a
robot.
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Resolution
R
After the BDC4s are shut down, the city goes back
to normal. Eager was hurt while helping shut down
the BDC4s, so Professor Ogden replaced several
parts of his body. The Bells went to see if
Eager remembered them or if he had any brain
damage. They entered the little room he was kept
in and immediately ran over to them. Eager was
okay and had no brain damage. He went back to
live with the bells as their new butler. All was
well.
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Citations

• Title Page Picture http//librosjuveniles.blogsp
  ot.com/2008/10/eager-helen-fox.html
• Picture of Future http//foftw.org/2010/08/23/we
  b-3-0-the-future-of-internet/future-city-5-web/
• Picture of Bells House http//www.cnbc.com/id/4
  8061239/8_25_Million_Glass_House
• Picture of Eager http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ea
  ger_(novel)
• Picture of Grumps http//www.popscreen.com/v/6Sx
  cX/Robot-Voice-Ordering-Pizza-Game-Grumps
• Picture of Gavin http//www.flickr.com/photos/ja
  kig/804659305/
• Picture of Fleur http//www.sciencephoto.com/med
  ia/204472/view
• Picture of Marcia http//thriller11group35.blogs
  pot.com/2011/04/question-three_07.html
• Picture of Boadicea http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki
  /Boudica
• Picture of Washing Machine ClipArt
• Picture of Pink Pot http//theteacupcottage.blog
  spot.com/2009/06/pretty-pink-pot.html
• Picture of Robber ClipArt
• Picture of thinking robot http//www.csee.umbc.e
  du/2011/02/page/2/
• Picture of Hotel http//al-mwasfat.com/trans.htm
  l
• Theme Comic Strip http//www.geeklifecomic.com/2
  011/03/31/robot4/
• Picture of robot hiding http//drawception.com/v
  iewgame/dDjQDWNx7r/tinman-sets-off-the-airport-met
  al-detector/
• Picture of robe http//www.lnt.com/category/1052
  /1/bath-robes.html
• Picture of robot emotions http//www.catmoo.co.u
  k/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId8945
• Picture of Cliff http//lessonpix.com/pictures/8
  226/Cliff

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Citations Continued

• Learning Center http//kierantimberlake.com/recog
  nition/rec_admissions_rider_1.html
• Marcias Househttp//www.environmentalgraffiti.co
  m/green-design/news-living-glass-house-literally
• Picture of Mrs. Bell http//www.chicagoreader.co
  m/Bleader/archives/2009/07/31/women-in-comedy-i-st
  and-up
• Picture of Mr. Bell http//mtmoriahministries.ne
  t/prophetic_word_2010.html
• Picture of Charlotte http//babynames.allparentin
  g.com/babynames/Popular/French_Baby_Girl_Names_Cli
  mbing_the_Charts/
• Picture of Professor Ogden http//lsmagazine.byu.
  edu/Issues/Spring2012/AHeartfeltThanks.aspx
• Picture of Tomato Soup http//www.tasteofhome.com
  /Recipes/Basil-Tomato-Soup-2
• Picture of Ocean http//ocean.nationalgeographic.
  com/ocean/take-action/10-things-you-can-do-to-save
  -the-ocean/
• Picture of Lorry http//www.clipartguide.com/_pag
  es/0511-0902-1915-0653.html
• Picture of Scared robot http//www.newgrounds.com
  /art/view/posca/scared-robot
• Resolution Picture http//www.cnn.com/2012/02/03/
  living/creativity-improvisation-intelligence-heath
  er-knight/index.html
• Picture of flying pod http//psipunk.com/category
  /flying-cars/page/10/