Sunday, May 22, 2011

Angel factory, finished

Now I have finished Angel Factory. In the end, Thomas finds his real mom and finds out about these discs that can "shut down" angels and their spirit goes back to The Presence on the angels home planet. Later on, Thomas's friend Gip who helped with the taking of the encrypted files, does research by asking other adopted kid's parents do the same thing and behave the way thomas' s parents do. He finds out that The Project, the project to save mankind, is bigger than he expected, as all the kids show that their parents are angels. Then Thomas goes to meet the president, who is also an angel. He starts off as a friendly person, but when Thomas says he will not participate in The Project, things get creepy. He suddenly turns creepy evil and sort of implies that Thomas has doomed mankind. When Thomas gets home, Cy, another angel, says that The Project is leaving mankind. Just after Gip says he knows a way to blow The Project's cover, he is revealed to be an angel and deactivated. All of the angels go to the Angel Factory (Yay! now we know the significance of the title) and are filled with all of humanity's faults, to wipe out all traces of The Project's influence. The president then resigns and disappears. Then Thomas meets Gip, who was reactivated by other angel friends of his and says that now he is a fallen angel. He also thanks Thomas for deactivating him because now it gave him the strength to fall.
One important line was from Thomas's sister Amy. She said that when the angels went into the angel factory, their derms (marks of their angel-ness) faded but didn't completely go away. I think this is trying to say that no matter how faulted people are, there is still some angel goodness in them. Which contributes to the bigger theme that humanity can only be saved by humanity...

2 comments:

  1. Great post Nico! I really enjoy the way that you write your posts. It feels like you are talking to the reader and that is good because I can follow your train of thought! Way to Go!

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  2. This is a really good post Nico! I read the book, and it seems that you really enjoyed reading it. If people who haven't but will read this, you probably shouldn't read this post because Nico does give away the ending... but Nico you did a really good job!

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