Essay about The Rides Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman
This novel tells the story of a sixteen year old named Blake. One day, when Blake
went to Six Flags with his two friends, Maggie (with whom Blake is in love with)
and her boyfriend, Russ, and his brother, Quinn, Blake received an invitation to a
carnival from a strange, gorgeous girl, Cassandra. Blake thought that the idea of
going to the carnivalis stupid, until he realized his brother stole the invitation. Blake
convinced his two friends to tag along with him, so they could go find Quinn. As
the characters entered the carnival, they learned that they have to survive seven
deadly rides by dawn. The first ride that the characters experienced was a carousel.
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After the bumper car ride, Blake, by himself, made his way to the next ride. As he
kept exploring the area, he found a swinging boat obviously the next ride. It
seemed like a regular swinging boat ride at first, however, then, turns into a real
life ship, out at sea, with a blue whale trying to destroy it. After trying to survive on
the ride for a while, Blake realized that his mother?s boyfriend, Carl, was actually
the captain of the ship, which did not seem to be true. Blake finally found Quinn
clinging from a rope up atop the boat and they linked arms and jumped off the edge
of the boat, into the deep blue sea. Four rides done, three to go, Blake kept telling
himself. The next ride was a mirror maze, the kind you would find at a local
carnival. As Blake stepped into the mirror maze, his slim, teenaged figure slowly
transformed into different creatures. Blake saw this clown, this extremely ugly
clown, following him. As Blake took a close look at it, he realized? it was Maggie!
Maggie told Blake about how Russ and Maggie crashed their bumper car, so they
split up. Maggie and Blake quickly dodged through the different mirrors together,
so they could get out of that ride as soon as possible. As Blake and Maggie were
just about done with the whole maze, Blake accidentally let go of Maggie?s hand?
and Maggie went through a mirror and could not hear or see anything Blake did that
tried to attract her attention. Her eyes were locked