Animorphs Re-Read #3

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Animorphs #3 - The Encounter

Summary

One of the Animorphs, Tobias, has been trapped in hawk morph. Facing the possibility that he may be a hawk for the rest of his life, he soon begins to lose his grip on his inner humanity. He and the Animorphs still have many battles to fight, but he can’t morph like they do anymore. He wonders if maybe he should just give it up, live like a hawk, and forget everything else…

Prompt

I’m sorry, I can’t think of anything. ^_^;;

Questions

- Later in the series, we learn that the Andalites usually treat their nothlit (morph-trapped) warriors as casualties, as if they were already dead. Why do you suppose this is? Does it make sense in some ways? What do you suppose it’s like for other nothlits? How could their situations be improved?

- A hawk isn’t such a bad morph to be trapped in. If you had to be trapped in a morph, which would you like most, and which would you like least?

Rules

- Common sense: be nice, be literate, be mature. If you can’t handle that, we’ll ask you to leave.

- Start on topic. If your conversation takes you into the land of ferrets and their evil quest to take over the world, run with it. But please at least start off talking about the book or subjects at hand.

- The questions and prompts are optional. Do not feel obliged to keep your comments only to what we have posted. They are a guide, a starting point, not a limitation.

- There is no time limit.

- Don’t delete your comments, unless it’s for the purpose of fixing typos.

- Keep your discussion to the current or previous books.

Comments

[tygerwulfe.livejournal.com]

PROMPT: (suggestion) Write a day in the life of Tobias in between when he disappears at the end of Book 1 & when he resurfaces to tell Jake that he's been trapped. His first realizations of his Nothlit status.


OMG, to this day, this is my absolute favorite Animorphs book. It's what made me fall in love with Tobias. I've even been in what I believe to be the mall mentioned in this book, seen the area where they DO occasionally hold gymnastic competitions... and seen the skylight. South Coast Plaza mall, in SoCal, for anyone who's interested. :)

So much to think about in this one... There's Tobias' evolution from just a trapped boy in a hawk's body, to a pure hawk with the brain of a human. There's the last line of the book that still brings tears to my eyes, and I still hear any time I see a bird of prey soar.

There's his evolving relationship with Rachel. There's the AWESOME open scene with him releasing the female hawk, and Rachel stomping cars. There's Marco's excellent line regarding that, too:

"Don't say the word 'cage' around Tobias," Marco said. "He'll do some guerrilla-commando-Ninja-SWAT-team-hawk-from-hell attack on the Center. And he'll talk Rachel into stomping your house flat."

That was the first time I'd laughed out loud at the series. :)

God.. there's so much more... I love this book.

[julygreen.livejournal.com]

OMG, to this day, this is my absolute favorite Animorphs book. It's what made me fall in love with Tobias. I've even been in what I believe to be the mall mentioned in this book, seen the area where they DO occasionally hold gymnastic competitions... and seen the skylight. South Coast Plaza mall, in SoCal, for anyone who's interested. :)

Haha cool!
Was the Animorphs home area ever stated? We know that they're on the west coast of the US from a bunch of clues (eg. hitching a ride of the tanker bound for Singapore) but I haven't reread (most of) theseries in ages, so I can't remember if their location was ever narrowed down much.
I always saw them as Californians, though.

[tygerwulfe.livejournal.com]

I THINK it was stated that they were SoCal residents... Not in the books, but by K.A. at some point after the series. Considering it's the only area that fits everything described in the books, (which I can vouch for, since I live here), I think it works.

[julygreen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it definitely fits, since we know there are mountains and stuff nearby.
I have a friend that lives in Orange County, she's probably been to that mall!