Dead Zone

Author’s Note: I wrote about the book Magisterium by Jeff Hirsch to meet two goals, text analysis and the three categories of organization.

Imagine, your mother had left you ten years ago, and all you have left is your father, who went mad after she left and locked himself in his workshop, so concentrated that he would forget to eat if you didn’t remind him and the only joy you have is your goal to go to another planet, trying your hardest in school so you can skip grades. Then when you think that you might finally get your chance to get into the school you needed to go into space your father claims to have made it work. After he tells you, you try and schedule him an appointment with the psychiatrist so you don’t miss your one chance, but then the government shows up, takes your father, blows his lab sky high, and made you run into a place that was said to make you go insane. The book that I am reading is called Magisterium by Jeff Hirsch. Magisterium had a lot of important events, but the most important was when Glen (you) told her psychiatrist that her father needed help.

One thing that happened was that after Glen had told her psychiatrist what her dad had said she acted as is Glen were right, but really knew that her father had a potential weapon of war. After their chat, she had told the head of the government what Glen had said, and they went to go retrieve it from Glen’s father, and that caused Glen to have to run into Magisterium.

Another thing was that the place that her father spoke of, the Magisterium, was going into a downward spiral, because their leader was becoming more and more evil, something that the Magisterium would do to anyone in the royal line, and Glen’s father was trying to get her out. Everyone who wasn’t in the Magisterium, believed that the Magisterium was a dead zone, which is why Glen thought that her father was crazy. In addition, if it weren't for Glen telling the psychiatrist she may have never went into the Magisterium and saved their world.

The final thing that happened was that the government actually began a war between the two places, and would’ve been the biggest war that had existed in the book, even before the government created the Magisterium. They would’ve also gained so much power from the Magisterium that they would’ve been able to take over the entire world.  

As you can see, all of these things were caused by one little event— her trying to save her father. And if it weren’t for that, the government may not have found out and destroyed most of her father’s work, forced her to go into a mysterious place, and had her save the world.