Changing an event in a very intriguing book can prove to be quite hard, especially when you feel as if the book was close to perfection. Beaming with flares of similes, metaphors, and personification some pieces are as good as it gets. Modifying experiences in the book changes the characters, the plot line, and the final resolution. A good book might not even be a decent book with certain changes. What if you could re-vision a portion of a novel, improving or corrupting the work of art?
The Compound, a novel by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen features Eli and his family who are forced to live in a compound with each other for what is supposed to be fifteen years. Eli’s father has been keeping secrets from his children and his wife for the past six years and Eli is just now seeing through the fog, in a daze. He must figure out the code to escape and save his family before it’s too late. Without the code, extreme survival measures insue almost forcing the Yanakakis family to resort to cannibalism. Racing against the clock, Eli discovers the code, freeing his family from the underground prison just in time. Imagine. What if Eli didn’t decipher the code in time, keeping his family captured for another nine years?…show more content… Eli doesn’t do it in time. He can’t figure out the code. Everyone is starving and they can’t just sit back and die. They use the Supplements for their intended purposes, adding and transforming a few scenes along the way. With this dark turn of events, dire conditions change and they make it out, but with the exception of one less person. The matter of how contorted and strange their sinful act was they live with guilt for the rest of their
