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Friday, March 8, 2013

Backwards In Time

Author's Note: I wrote a cause and effect piece on The Infinity Ring: A Mutiny In Time by James Dashner because I thought it would be a great example to demonstrate cause and effect.
Imagine you’re a kid genius, knowing everything there is to know about history, but you have only one friend, a science whiz. Your parents are even smarter than you, and they have their own lab in the basement, where you’re not allowed. Your parents aren't home for a couple weeks and they let you stay home alone for the duration. Your science friend insists they you and her should go in the lab while they aren't home. She convinces you and you let her in with the keys you found in their room. when you go in you see an almost finished time machine (The Infinity Ring). a week later, your friend actually manages to finish it. You are right about to test it, when your parents walk in the door.

The main cause, messing with their parent’s stuff and getting caught. I don’t think that the book would be anything like what it is now, because if they hadn't messed with the stuff, there parents would’ve never gone missing in the first place. The machine may not have even been completed without the science friend’s help. Or if they did, but they were never caught, they wouldn’t have made their parents go missing, or they could've been killed.

The result of this caused a large train of events, them to all go back in time at once, getting caught by the British in the Revolutionary War, trying to get away but instead went over the mass capacity of the time machine, and having to be separated from their parents in the time stream. They were soon after captured by a strange group of people (in their own time) and forced to fix all of the things that weren't supposed to happen in the past. Unfortunately in the end of the book (the climax), they didn't find the protagonist's parents their parents, but they figured out how to find them, but that would include fixing all the bad things that happened in the past, because their parents would be attracted to them, like magnets, in the time stream.

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