Insight

"His eyes were very bright. I noticed them when he came close to shake my hand. Later on, it was always his eyes that I remembered. Later on, just thinking about those bright, cold eyes would make me shake in terror." (page 65)
This quote gives you a heads up on Dr.Franklin, and after the reader reads this they should be thinking uh-oh this guy is a bad person. It gives the reader a hint that he's going to something terrible to Semirah to make her feel that way. I mean why else would she feel that way about him if he's a good a person? In a way this quote is kind of foreshadowing that Dr.Franklin will do something to Semirah and Miranda in the future.

The Science Behind

Dr.Franklin's Island is mostly about transgenics and genetic engineering, which means to insert a gene or genes into one species from another species. Dr.Franklin first experiments with animals by putting human DNA into animlas to see what happens and if his way of making transgenics works. Then, come along Miranda and Semirah and he wants to use them to try to make a transgenic human being. They try to escape from the clutches of Dr.Franklin and avoid turning into freaky transgenic creatures by talking to Dr.Skinner and the orderlies but, it doesn't work. They have no choice, but to do as they're told and become his first human experiments. Dr.Franlkin and Dr.Skinner have no idea how Miranda and Semirah are going to look and if they'll even be able to survive the transformation, but they see it as a sacrifice for science. Miranda and Semirah end up going through the whole transformation in pain and torture and have no idea if they're going to die.

Miranda

The character that I would want to be friends with would have to be Miranda because, she is emotionally strong, smart, always calm, knows what to do in a serious situation and always prepared. She is the kind of person that can get you through any problem and has a solution for everything. She is always thinking positive and will pick you up when you're down.

Dr.Franklin's Island

Right now I'm reading Dr.Franklin's Island by Ann Halam. So far I've read to page twenty one chapter two in one day and I can't wait to see what happens next. This book has adventure, mystery, suspense, arguing and action all jampacked together. The protagonist is a self conscious shy girl who you can relate to and really have feelings for. Her and two others get stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere after a plane crash and have to deal with trying to survive.