Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS!!!!

I am currently reading a book called Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson, the 3^rd book of the Maximum Ride Series. The whole series is basically about 6 bird kids, 14 year old Max, Fang, 12 year old Nudge (Yes that is her name), 8 year old Gazzy (Yes that’s his name and note: his name is what he literally is like!) and 6 year old Angel (Gazzy’s biological little sister). So, basically Max and her Flock have a mission-to save the world, but sadly it’s not really as easy as you can say it. Many mad scientists (Ya know, the ones that experimented on Max and her Flock before they escaped years ago? Yeah. Glad ya know what I’m talking about ^-^) keep interfering insisting that their side is better and all that.  

What’s worse now? Max, many times, has been offered to keep away from the whole plan; she and her flock can just give in and rest, while the scientists destroy the world. Dr. Martinez and Ella-2 ordinary people (ya know the ones that aren’t like, scientists, ordinary, normal, run-in-mill people?)-have showed Max what it was like to be ordinary (Despite having wings) how she could just be able to do and relax. When she accidentally ends up near them again she even says: “It wasn’t as though they had saved my life or anything-Ella and Dr. Martinez. It was worse: They had shown me what life could like in Normal Land. It haunted me ever since I’d left them.” But it’s not like Max could just drop everything and go and live in Normal Land. She had a  mission-save the world, it’s not just some people but the world-where she lives, how can she just go drop that, ignore that, so she could live in Normal Land? 

Besides, how is Max going to be certain that all of what the scientists promise is gonna happen? For all of her life, Max has been lied to. The person she thought was going to be taking care of her for most of her life since he helped her and the Flock escape the School, the place where they were experimented on, had lied to her. He made it seem like he was a “good guy” and in the end, all he did was just go back to the School to help with the whole destroying the world thing. And now, after Max and Fang finished visiting Dr. Martinez and Ella-by “accident” according to Max-Max is basically in shock again. Fang has just told Max that he found a picture of the Baby Gazzy in Dr. Martinez’s office-“I needed a paper clip”-Fang-“Between two books in Dr. Martinez’s home office. Between a book about recombinant-DNA theory…and one on birds.” Max’s reaction: “Well. If sudden knowledge had a physical force, my head would have exploded right there, and chunks of my brain would have splattered some unsuspecting schmuck in a grocery store parking lot down below. Let’s just say I was stunned, and it takes a fair amount to stun me, I promise.”  

 

Clearly, this isn’t just a simple coincidence; I mean Dr. Martinez-a vet-has a book about DNA theory and birds, plus she had a picture of Gazzy, who I’m certain has never met in her life! What if Dr. Martinez is a scientist-or whitecoats as Max and her Flock call ’em. Max trusts Dr. Martinez, by being so; it would mean she hid something big from Max who has bad experiences with whitecoats. How can Max be certain now of anything anyone tells her? Sure, she can trust her Flock, but what the ones who promise to leave her alone if she lets the whole World-Destruction thing go by?  How can she make sure they really mean what they’re saying? Sure, people shouldn’t judge others based on one thing, I’m sure Dr. Martinez has a reasonable reason for having that picture and books, but when you’re Max, when you’re the girl running from everyone who wants to destroy you, from everyone who wants to use you for their own benefits, you can’t just take any chances. And if Dr. Martinez is one of the whitecoats…well, it’s better safe than sorry, eh?