Independent+Novel+Study+4


 * Birthmarked**
 * p.g. 218-300**

This story is third person. It is centred on one person's actions and thoughts, the person being Gaia. Therefore, it is most likely the narrator is telling the story. This person's perspective affects the way the story is told because it is more intense and interesting this way. I can't tell what the other characters are thinking, which makes me suspect that they're hiding something from Gaia. Also, when Gaia is with Capt. Grey, I don't know what he's thinking, wether it be how ugly she is, or how brave. This person's perspective effects the way the story is told because it makes it more suspenseful.
 * Who is telling the story? How does this person’s perspective effect the way the story is told?**

The novel is believable because it takes place in the future, where anything is possible.
 * Is the novel believable? **

The major and minor conflicts are solved by another event occurring that just ends the preceding problem. For example, when Gaia's mother's water breaks in the middle of her rescue, the problem in the end, which is how to get her mother out of her prison, is resolved by her passing away due to blood loss.
 * How are the major and minor conflicts solved?**

This section of the story starts out with Gaia finding the baker who the baker outside the wall had said she could trust. Gaia stays there for a while, because she doesn't know what to do and can't go anywhere else because she is considered a criminal. When Capt. Grey shows up where Gaia is hiding, Gaia thinks up of a plan. She plans to go rescue her mother and take her to the "Dead Forest," even though it's a place which most people believe doesn't exist. When Gaia goes to rescue her mother and sees hr for the first time, she's shocked and worried, because she learns that her mother is pregnant. Halfway to freedom, Gaia's mother goes into labour, so Gaia is forced to stop the rescue and give birth to her sister. After being delivered, the baby is named Maya. After Gaia's mother's blood doesn't stop flowing out, Gaia begs her mother to go get a doctor for her, but Gaia's mother refuses. Once Gaia's mother passes away, Gaia takes her sister and tries to escape from the prison she is currently in. She is caught along with Capt. Grey, who was trying to rescue her.