Rashaun

RATS By Paul Zindel



CRITIC REVIEWS: Its a book that will pull you in, and keep you in so you won't wan't to stop reading. Teachers or parents may dislike this book, but students/teenagers (especially boys) will love it.
 * Rats: A good example of a horror novel for older students!**

MEMORABLE QUOTES: music soothed the savage beasts...soothed them

the rats were killing everyone

it's the music, it's got to be the music

this picture is a single rat that can do any harm to people. it is like the dump rats in the beginning of the book. they were small and helpless and couldn't defend thereself like the rats in the second part of the book. this is an old regular rat that reminds me of the two main characters pet rat surfer.A rat that doesn't do any harm and not scary looking to anyone.

the next picture is a picture of several rats in what looks like a ship. this picture explains to you how many rats have been in a group at the same time. then all the rats form together to make billions of rats and kil everyone. this picure show how the rats were in colonies any how big they are.

this first memerable quote is about the music that the main character turned on at the amusement park where the rats were to sooth them and keep them distracted enough so the humans can get there and kill them without much of a fight.the rats were killing people one by one, and to finally have a solution that the people have been waiting for for ever in great. this helped the people out alot with the billions of rats but didn't settle this with them. the people killed alot of them but it was not yet enugh to kill all the rats.

the next memorable quote is about the rats killing everyone and everybody. this was used alot in this book and it was a true statement. i think what first got the rats to kill people is thta the workers in the dump were treating the rats like crap and the rats were getting fed up with the nonsense.plus there was methane in the dump with made thm crazy and that also triggered them. also because the rats wanted to move from the dump to somewhere else and they probably thought that the people were in their way so they killed everything in their sight. the rats killed everyone in sight, that for sure.

the last memerable quote is about the music that the main character played to keep the rats distracted the second time so the humans can try to kill the rats again. this time worked a little better because the main characters little brother spilled a glass water bottle on the floor on purpose so that the main character can use her laptop and turn it on and it will show up on the tile floor so the rats can see it and get distracted. but thats what they didn't like.the rats like the music that see played on her laptop.this finally got all the rats attention and the people had enough time to kill most of the rats. the rats love the music and the people finally figured it out and it helped them in the long run.