Introduction
The book I selected for my chapter book analysis is The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey. It is a fantasy book. I believe the intended audience for this book is teenagers and young adults. I would say starting at about age twelve as the main character is twelve. In this book, the main character is Will Henry. The book is meant to be a diary of sorts that Will Henry wrote. It is about his time living with the monstrumologist Dr. Pellinore Warthrop. In particular, his time hunting anthropophagi. Will and Dr. Warthrop try to determine how the anthropophagi got to New Jerusalem. Then Will, Dr. Warthrop, and an interesting group hunt and attempt to kill the anthropophagi before the anthropophagi kill them. Will is a twelve year old orphan who lives with Dr. Warthrop. Dr. Pellinore Warthrop is a monstrumologist as was his father, his father’s father, etc. Captain Varner is a sickly, older man who has knowledge of how the anthropophagi got to America. Constable Morgan is the equivalent of a modern day police chief and wants to get to the bottom of the mystery at hand. Dr. John Kearns is an expert at hunting anthropophagi and believes he knows all the strategies need to eliminate them once and for all.…show more content… According to Galda, Liang, and Cullinan (2015), “settings become believable when an author provides rich details that enable a reader to envision them”. (pg 222). Throughout the book, Yancey gives detailed descriptions that make the book feel very realistic. An example of this is,“Above me the stars seared the obsidian canopy of the sky; there was no moon”. (Yancey, 2009, pg 36). Yancey describes the outdoor scenery, people’s physical appearance and the anthropophagi in great detail. An example of the anthropophagi description includes “a massive claw, easily twice the size of a human hand, with a two-inch gray razor-sharp barb on the end of each corpse white digit…” (Yancey, 2009, pg
