The 3rd & Final Post

Name: Joshua Avila
Date: Feb 12, 2010
Pages: 358
Pages Read: 131-358

Question #1: How did what you read make you feel? Why?

Response: The end of the book made me feel a little sad because at the end Ignatio Delgado sacrificed his own life to save the Rubble Space Station from the Jackals. He blew up the Jackals attack carrier by attaching a detonator to the engine of the ship while he was still inside because the detonator was malfunctioning, but in the process, he was able to stop the Jackals from taking over the Rubble. The reason it made me sad because it made me feel that he wasn't the only person to sacrifice his own life. People in our world also sacrifice their lives to save others lives and the country they protect. Another thing that made me feel different about my life form this book was when Capt Keys took down the Brute Chieftain and kept him taking over the Midsummer Night and finding the location of Earth. It actually made me feel that people can be great heroes even in times when all hope is lost. I felt excited and exhilarated when Keys took down the Chieftain.

Question #2: What surprised you in the book? Why?

Response: The one thing that really really surprised me at the end of the book was inside the Covenant's Holy City, High Charity, during a very important council meeting, the three prophets, Regret, Doubt, and Truth, where discussing what happened during the Midsummer Night and that before the Chieftain died he sent a location to the prophets and they discussed what they would do with the location. When they realized that the planet was very important to the war they sent 7 destroyers and 3 battle carriers to the location. The reason this surprised me was because the location was in the Rim the Outer Colonies and the planet was named Reach. It was surprising because they were mainly trying to reach Earth and where humans were born to destroy it but instead they found something even worse than Earth, they found the human race's military construction planet and where all the battle vehicles were made and O.D.S.T. soldiers were trained. The worst part of the Covenant finding Reach, was that they also found the mainframe for the Spartan 2 and 3 project and if they destroyed the project, along with all the Spartans with it, the war would end up in the Covenant's favor.