This assignment flip-flopped for me. On some nights when I hunkered down to map out the book, the task seemed forever on-going. Then on other nights, I zipped through the pages and mapped every node without the need to pause. I suppose that in hindsight, every night would have been easier if I could have worked on the assignment for more than fifteen to twenty minutes, but that was all the time allowed.<\/p>\n
My particular adventure was “Journey Under the Sea” by R.A. Mongomery. Put succinctly, the plot involved an undersea search of Atlantis, and the majority of the book endings left the hero somewhere at the bottom of the ocean. That is not to say that the hero drowned half the time, rather he drowned, got held prisoner or held a successful life down in Atlantis.<\/p>\n
As a child my real experience with the choose-your-own-adventure genre lay with R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series, wherein somewhere down the line the franchise joined the fad and created its own version with a choose-your-death style. Now that I’ve read one of the original series for comparison, I can say that Stine’s books more-or-less ended more gruesomely, and it was a thankful twist that for the most part Montgomery did not delight in absolutely slaughtering me.<\/p>\n
This did not leave the hero immune to shark attacks, painful injections or drowning at the bottom of an inescapable vortex.<\/p>\n
Though on the plus side, one ending did leave the hero rich and famous.<\/p>\n
Overall, I would do this exercise again. After being acclaimated to the program, I began to enjoy making the bubble maps, and now am thinking of other exercises I could apply it to.<\/p>\n
However, as of this moment, I am absolutely sick of Atlantis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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