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- Summary
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- Plum Island is a fictional book about the murders of
the Gordon's, who were biologists working on Plum Island. The book starts
out with a detective, John Corey, who was shot in New york and was in rehabilitation
in the country at his uncle's house. The gordon's lived down the street
from his uncles house and were shot while he was staying there. Although
Corey was rehabilitating he decided to check out the scene at the Gordon's
house anyway because he was a friend of theirs. At the scene Corey sees
that there was no breaking and entering into the house of the Gordon's.
The only evidence was an expensive speed boat with shovels inside of it.
Corey, along with the sheriff Sylvester Maxwell, assumed that they were
shot as they were walking up to their house. The gordon's worked on Plum
Island where there they tested animals for diaseases like Ebola and Mad
Cow diasease. Corey, Maxwell, another detective Beth Penrose, and two other
FBI agents decide to investigate Plum Island to find out why the Gordon's
were shot and killed. The reason they suspected that Plum Island had something
to do with it was because the Gordon's usually carried a cooler in their
speed boat and it was missing when they found the Gordon's dead. They figured
that there was probably a cure in it.
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- When they arrived at the Island they were greeted by
two men. One of the men is the head of the labs and he gives them a tour
of the different sectors. The other man is the head of security who is
a little suspicous because he dodges some questions and does not seem to
happy that they are on the Island. The sectors of the Island were divided
in to five sections.
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- The first sector is for civilians and is safe, the second
sector is more dangerous and you need to wear gloves and a mask, sectors
three, four, and five are lethal five being the worst. Sector five is where
all of the serious diaseases, like Ebola, are studied, which the Gordon's
were studying at the time of their death. After a lot of investigation
Corey and the others came up with the theory that the Gordon's either had
a vaccine for Ebola and were forced or hired to sell it and were shot instead
of paid or they were hired to steal a strain of the diasease for destruction
purposes and were killed so that no one would ever find out.
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- The book ends with a completely different story. Basically,
the Gordon's being shot had nothing to do with Plum Island. Instead, they
were shot due to a treasure that they knew the location of and they were
about to go and dig it up with the shovels that were in the boat. A woman
named Emma Whitestone had soled a piece of land to the Gordon's and she
knew the story about the treasure and that is how Corey and the others
discovered the reason for the Gordon's death.
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- Opinion:
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- I read this book because a friend recommened it to me.
I really enjoyed the book because it was adventurous and interesting. The
book kept me so interested that I read it in about two days. What I enjoyed
most about the book was the suspicousness of Plum Island. It seems as though
the studying of diaseases on a secret Island made me curious and I think
it would do the same for others. This book was political and fun because
the studying of diaseases and who has control over them is a very political
issue, yet almost every body wants to know more about diaseases and where
they come from and how and if we can cure them. For these reasons Plum
Island was one of the best fictional books I have ever read.
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- Grade:
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- I think that everybody should get the full thirty points
if they actually read a book related to biology and proved it by giving
a good summary of it. Jensen said that the point of the assignment was
to read a book. Therefore I believe that if you read the book and wrote
the summary that you should recieve all of the points possible. I obviously
read a book related to biology and wrote the summary, therefore I deserve
all thirty points.
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