Friday, December 15, 2017

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve


Pick two of these quotes and explain what they tell you about the society that Tom lives in.  What does each quote you've chosen tell you about Tom's London?  Each answer must be at least three sentences long, contain one dressup each and give your opinions backed up with facts that we have heard from the story.  Remember:
Draft your answers in Google Docs or MS WORD. Edit them for clarity and details; use Google Read and Write or Word Talk to PROOF READ them for COPS before copying them into the blog editor and posting them. Don't forget your first name on your post.


"The lower levels wreathed in engine smoke, the villas of the rich gleaming white on the higher decks."

"The Ancients destroyed themselves in that terrible flurry of orbit-to-earth atomics and tailored-virus bombs called the Sixty Minute War." 

"Tom could not get at him, because Melliphant's family had paid to make him a First Class Apprentice, while Tom, who had no family, was a mere Third."

"Tom cut through the Twenty-First Century gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal-headed gods of lost America."

"Mr. Valentine! Look! A seedy!"

"The people of the old days may only have lived in static settlements, but their electronic machines were far beyond anything London's Engineers have been able to build."