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Plot Summary of University
"The University at Brea has started a new semester. There has always been a great amount of violence here but this year it is a bloodbath. Rapes, suicides, racially motivated crimes and murders are becoming the everyday norm. Only a handful of people realize that what is going on in the University is just plain madness. They try to put an end to all of the tortures and bizarre murders without becoming one of the possessed maniacs populating the campus. What they uncover is truly terrifying. It seems that the University at Brea is a living entity and when the semester ends in December, it will have graduated into an evil that will spread."
Alicia, Resident Scholar



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Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20%




Tone of story - scarey (primal ax-wielding fear)
Time/era of story: - 1980's-1999
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Horror Story? Yes
Horror plotlets - Why do they stay in the haunted house/boat?

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - student
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How much violence does he/she use? - a significant amount
Ethnicity/Race - White/American
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - natural phenomena
Has special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - can change shapes - mind control
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
Motive of antagonist - power
Monster of some sort? Yes
Kind of monster: - general monster

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - California

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey references to deaths/dead bodies and torture
How many deaths? - hundreds or more
Sex Yes
What kind of sex: - touching of anatomy - licking - use of artificial tools - orgies - lesbians! - actual description of sex - descript. of breasts - descript. of other female areas - descript. of male nudity - homosexuals doing their thing - rape (yeech!) - bestiality (baaa!)
Unusual forms of death - asphyxiation - poisoning - dropped from large heights - hanging - frying (cooking) - eaten - diced - rough sex - flamed - impaled - decapitated - perforation--bullets - perforation--swords/knives - exploded into bits
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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