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Arima Mulya
Suci Ayu Andari
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Adviser: Ms. Leni Marlina
Reading Sources: ANIMORPHS - THE DECISION By K. A. Apelgate
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Hello All.
We are the new members of Reading Circle Community (RCC) from English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Padang.
Now, we'd like to tell you about our activity in the sixth meeting.
In this sixth meeting, we discussed a novel, ANIMORPHS - THE DECISION By K. A. Apelgate
Here are the summary of the novel that we discussed:
The story tells about the story of Aximili-Esgarrouth- Isthill, brother of Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul. He has friends, human friends, such as Prince Jake, Cassie, Tobias, Rachel, and Marco. Together they had experiences about the Ascalin incident, that they were betrayed by one of their own. Aximili-Esgarrouth- Isthill is the only Andalite presently located on planet Earth. He and his friends lost a Dome ship in orbit above the planet. The Yeerks destroyed it. They lost his brother, Prince Elfangor, in that battle, too. But before he died, Elfangor broke our law and gave the secret Andalite morphing power to five human youths. The Yeerks are after the earth. They are invading Earth in their usual style. The Yeerk parasite slugs have an easy time entering human heads, wrapping themselves around human brains, enslaving humans as they did the Hork-Bajir and the Gedds.
Aximili or “Ax”, works with human. In his work place, he meets with Marco, that will be his friends. After a few days he works there, he meets with Visser Three, the leader of invasion of earth. Ax becomes angry because he wants to revenge his sister that was killed by Visser. But Visser just goes by his self.
After a few days, they are attacked by the kafit bird in their work place. The kafit bird is asked by Visser to attack them. Ax that wants to protect his friends fights with Visser Three. They have a serious fighting. At the end, Ax wins and leaves Visser in the trash.
After the fight with Vassier, they meet at the barn where Cassie and her father care for sick or injured nonhuman animals. It is called the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic. It is a large, dark building made of wood. Within it are numerous cages made of steel wire. And within the cages are the sick animals. Tobias was high in the rafters. From up there he can see out through a sort of window and can warn us if anyone is approaching. Cassie was working, pushing piles of dirty hay with a very large, three-pronged fork. Prince Jake would occasionally lift something out of her way.
And then they gather to discuss about what have happened to them. They also discuss the plans to stop Vassier. After having a long discussion, they have the first plan that Ax will morph Jake. But Cassie gives another idea that they have to get Aldershot’s DNA. Finally, they agree with Cassie’s idea and then they go to the hospital. In the hospital, they separated and Ax goes by himself. Unfortunately, Ax meet with the Controller. To escape from the Controller, Ax fights with the Controller.
In the middle of their fights, there is sound of the police. The police will come. To escape from the police, Ax changes his shape into mosquitos and runs away. When Ax runs away, he feels hungry. Then he finds his food, blood. When he was eating his food, suddenly he was in the space, and he thinks he will die
The title of this novel is ANIMORPHS-THE DECISION that was written by K.A Applegate is very wonderful story. I have read from chapter 13 until 18 of the novel. In general, from chapter 13 until 18, it tells about that Animorphs especially Ax were separated from his friends. He wants to come to the his own place. But he can not do it because there were war after Andhalite ship were marooned. In the place he meets with Prince Jake and Leerans. Prince Jake Leeran helps him in order to he can come back to his place in the Earth. But before it happends he must help Prince Jack and Leerans to fight with Yeerk. Because Before he can comes back, the war happened between Leeran and Yeerk. Actually, he wants to help Leeran to fight Yeerk but, he can not do anything to help Leeran. For the first Ax only can see and hide when the war happened. Some of members of Yeerk dead in the war. The leader from Animorphs is prince Jake. At a moment, The rock bowl almost sinks, now they must have an idea fastly to make the rock bowl comes back to the surface. Finally the Andhalite and Leerans stood exploded it make the rock bowl and they landed. But one of their friends lost named they can not find Tobias. Tobias was dead because he has eaten by Taxxons before the rock bowl landed.
The Animorphs go through the major landmass of Leera try to find friendly Andalites. The Animorphs are beginning to disappear into thin air one by one, beginning with Tobias. Unfortunately, Tobias mysteriously disappears, but the others don't know where he is gone and are forced to move on without him. Ax is struck with a sudden realization, and the Animorphs follow him out into the ocean.
It was a big ocean. It stretched forever, brilliant blue, far more vivid and bright than the oceans of Earth, which are usually gray, but it was just endless miles of muddy shallows, overgrown with rushes and reeds and strange yellow trees that swirled horizontally. Suddenly, Rachel disappears. First Tobias and then Rachel. The Animorphs morph and being the sharks. There are four sharks swam out into the Leeran ocean which actually there should be six sharks.
When they swam in the wonderful and brilliant ocean, they saw four Leerans. The Leerans were mostly yellow. They had skin that was slimy, as if covered with ooze, yet rough in texture, like gravel. They had large, webbed back legs. For arms they had four tentacles arrayed around their plump, barrel-shaped bodies. The head was quite large, with a bulge at the back. It sat right on the shoulders. There was no neck. The face bulged outward and seemed to have just two features, a huge, wide, almost ridiculous mouth. And big, bulging eyes of a green that seemed almost to be lit from inside.
The Leerans asked Animorphs to carry their DNA and help to free their people from the Yeerks. The Animorph rescue a group of Leerans from Yeerk control. Then, The Leerans agree to be acquired in order to help fight off the Yeerk invasion.
In their new Leeran morphs, the Animorphs enter a Leeran city. The Andalites based there inform the Animorphs that they have planted a bomb to explode the continent, just as Ax had suspected, but that it needs to be activated. The Andalite scientists also theorize that the Animorphs' unexplained disappearances are the result of a "snapback" effect, meaning that when the Animorphs disappear they are reappearing either on Earth or in Zero-Space. The Animorphs volunteer to activate the bomb and Suddenly Marco disappears. The Animorphs disappear one by one, Tobias, Rachel and then Marco, So, who is the next one? They felt very afraid and thought that they might be disappearing too eventually.
Prince Jake, Cassie, and Ax were surrounded by Andalites. They were cross-examined by the sub's science officer. They were bombarded by questions from Galuit and a counterintelligence officer for an hour. It was nerve-racking. But at least it kept their mind off the awful suspense of waiting for another one of them to disappear too.
Then, Galuit said that all the Animorphs there would disappear like their friend, Tobias, Rachel and Marco. But, Prince Jake shrugged and claimed that they would not disappear too.
Soon after they set out to activate the bomb, they meet a Leeran-Controller who reads their minds and alerts the Yeerks of the bomb. When they reach the explosives, Jake disappears leaving Ax alone. He activates the bomb but a platoon of armed Hork-Bajir appear in an attempt to disarm it. A Hork-Bajir fires at him but he disappears right before the beam hits him. The bomb goes off right after he disappears. All the Animorphs arrived back to the hospital where they were before they got sucked into Z-Space. Hewlett Aldershot III wakes up, apparently healthy again.
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