Fiction Reading Response to The Kill Order by James Dashner

            Sun flares have hit the earth, destroying everything that stands in its way. In the book "The Kill Order" by James Dashner Mark and his friends have to fend for themselves if they want to survive. But now that the sun flares have stopped Mark has to survive what comes next and it isn't easy. In futuristic books characters go through hardships that one can only dream of.

            Mark and his friends suffer a lot throughout the book. Sometimes Mark gets all caught up in everything that is going on. "Mark had fallen into a trance, watching as the strangers with their odd outfits and their menacing weapons come out of the Berg…What had happened to the Mark who could act fast? Who had survived the year…after the flares ravaged the earth?” page 21. In the book the characters go through some pretty horrible things. Since the book takes place in the future the characters have to deal with different types of things then we do today. In addition to the horrors that experience they are also exposed to some more sorrowful things. “If it’s truly something as global as sun flares, then the little hope he held out for his family is gone.” page 98. Mark is forced to think this negatively, if he has too much hope he will end up hurting himself more in the long run. Lastly Mark has seen some horrible things. “Mark was horrified. He shouldn’t have been-he’d seen more dead people in the last year than a hundred morticians of the past would have seen in a lifetime.” page 55. What this quote is saying is that Mark has seen more people who have died then a hundred funeral directors see in their lives. The sun flares killed many people and Mark saw many of them being killed.

            In sci-fi books characters experience situations that different from those that we experience today. Reading these book can make one appreciative of what they have. Life has its ups and down and you never know when everything around you is going to change. Things just change quickly in front of your eyes before you even realize what is happening.