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Plot Summary of Nightmare Academy - Veritas Project 2
"The Springfield family has another strange mystery assigned to then from the government. A boy was found. All he knew and saw was endless terror. After a fair amount of research, the Springfields find out that the boy they found used to go to Knight-Moore Academy. Elisha and Elijah Springfield, twins in the family, attend Knight-Moore Academy, looking for answers on the boy's condition. There were field for sports, swimming poopls, game rooms, personal bedroom, and real food. But the academy has strict rules and teachers.

Elisha and Elijah each make friends with students at the academy. Each one strives for information, revealing more than they intended. They learn that everyone at the Knight-Moore Acaemy wants to leave. Since thay were still in the school, they obviously couldn't. As the twins learn more and become closer to those at the academy, they are pulled into a plan of escaping. Elisha and Elijah are willing to help. Elisha and Elijah have contacted their parents.

All the students will run out to the back of the school and board a van driven by their parents. Using their extraordinary talent as detectives, they come up with a fool proof way to leave, or so they thought. The officials of the academy learn from the plan from a student, through torture. To stop the children, the principal uses the secret, highly advanced machines in the school mansion. Right before freedom from the nightmare academy, everyone is trapped. "

Linda Yu, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Nightmare Academy - Veritas Project 2
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Plot

Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10%




Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story: - present (2000-2010)
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Crime Thriller Yes
Crime plotlets: - escape/rescue from kidnappers
General Crime (including known murderer) Yes

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How much violence does he/she use? - none
Ethnicity/Race - White/American
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - government investigator
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount
Motive of antagonist - power
The antagonists are: - government bureaucracy
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
Misc setting - fort/military installation

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey references to deaths/dead bodies and torture
How many deaths? - 1
Amount of dialog - significantly more dialog than descript
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