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The Bunker Diary

The Bunker Diary

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The Bunker Diary made me think of my seriously unsettled view of True Art Is Angsty. The Bunker Diary is relentlessly miserable, depressing, and unforgiving. Think of the worst ending you can think of and triple it. It's well written, it's well structured, but it's not good. The group comes up with various escape plans. But as they’re constantly watched, escaping proves to be near impossible. When their plans are discovered by the mysterious capturer, they’re punished with starvation or tear gas. Other times, deafening noise plays throughout the bunker, or their food turns out to be poisoned. One day, the captor sends down a rabid Doberman Pinscher to antagonize the group. The dog nearly kills Bird before Fred kills the dog. As further punishment, "the man upstairs" stops sending any food, until one day he sends a steak down in the elevator with a note: whoever kills another person in the bunker will be set free. Shortly after, Jenny dies in Linus's arms. He reports that she simply 'goes to sleep and doesn't wake up'. Linus '[skins] dry' and eats Jenny's body, rationalising that it's all just meat. It is then implied that Linus also dies, as he writes that 'it doesn't hurt anymore'. The diary abruptly finishes mid-sentence. Ambiguous Situation: One day, the power to the bunker is cut off, leaving the remaining captives to slowly die. They never find out if the kidnapper died and was unable to look over the bunker, or if he just simply gave up on this game.

The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: When listing off the group's best qualities, Linus describes him and Russell as smart, Fred's strong, Jenny's kind, Anja's beautiful, and Bird's... fat. El libro es muy decepcionante si se piensa en la estructura del mismo, existen entradas del diario que no aportan nada, parece que los escribió un drogadicto (y casualmente logró escribir sus ultimas palabras). And the next... he's here. Wherever here is. It's underground (he thinks), has no windows, no doors out, no ways out. It's inescapable. Shady Real Estate Agent: Anja is an unlikeable, selfish real estate agent, seeming to lie (although the actual truth is not revealed so it's left ambiguous) and hiding food from the others when they're all starving to death

Foreshadowing: Linus notes that, after he slapped Bird across the face, that he should have done better. He should have headbutted him because, by doing this, it would have created a lasting impact. Indeed, Fred does this very technique that kills Bird.

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Now honestly speaking, what Kevin Brooks textually presents in his 2014 Carnegie Medal winning dystopian young adult novel The Bunker Diary is certainly brilliantly penned (and with main protagonist and diarist Linus' narrative voice shining brightly, authentically and brutally realistically). And as such, yes indeed, I definitely do consider The Bunker Diary as absolutely worthy of its Carnegie Medal designation and that Kevin Brooks as an author is with regard to his penmanship amazingly and spectacularly talented (and also, that for the right type of audience, that for readers from about the age of fourteen or so onwards who enjoy hopeless and hard hitting, brutally dystopian fiction with no happy endings, with nothing but depicted pain and suffering, suffering and even more suffering, The Bunker Diary will probably, will likely be a total reading fit so to speak). Our group leader would not let any of the younger readers borrow this from the library, but fully explained to them the reasoning behind this decision. At book group meets we still left the book out on the table with the other shortlisted novels and discussed it as a group. What they definitely would not do, however, is remove this book from the group or the shelves as this is tantamount to book banning which is never appropriate at any level, and to exclude the younger students from taking part in the discussions would not be acceptable either. Even though The Bunker Diary is chosen by a panel of librarians I honestly think that this will go on to win other awards chosen by readers themselves. Books such as The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and Slated by Teri Terry have won awards many times because the readers themselves are so passionate about the books that they read and this has nothing to do with the concept of the story or the content, just that they are undeniably well-written books which appeal to a diverse audience. He wakes in a bunker where there are 6 of everything, so you do suspect that more people are going to come. And soon enough 5 more people come to join him in the bunker.

The Bunker Diary is very bleak and unusual, but the characters in the story are what made this book important. Their breakdown, because of the helplessness of the situation they find themselves thrust into is what, we felt, drives the story forward to its frustrating and thought-provoking end. For the past few months, Linus has been living as a runaway teen in London. He’s the son of a famous illustrator, and he found his life to be a bourgeois bore. He fought constantly with his father and decided it was better to live on the streets. Habran leido otro? Puede que existan varios con el mismo nombre. No existe otra explicacion. No puede ser, escapa toda logica.

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I concede: it's incredibly suspenseful and many of the clues (were there multiple kidnappers? was one of the 'hostages' actually an accomplice themselves?) are fascinating, so I can't give it one star. Brooks IS too good a writer for one star. Cut-and-Paste Note: The kidnapper sends a few notes to the group telling them that if one of them can kill another of the group, then that person may be free. Room meets Lord of the Flies, The Bunker Diary is award-winning, young adult writer Kevin Brooks’s pulse-pounding exploration of what happens when your worst nightmare comes true – and how will you survive? I absolutelly dispised the ending. Not because it was bleak and depressing,(I love bleak and depressing. I hated it because it just seemed like Brooks run out of ideas and didnt know what to write but had to end it somehow. I offered no answers, and it didnt even give any hints. The ending is not ambiguous as some readers suggest because it is obvious that Linus dies in the end. This would have been completelly ok, if there was some revelation behind it which would give the book some meaning or depth The Bunker Diary (2013), by British author Kevin Brooks, follows the lethal trials of a 16-year-old teenager, Linus Weems, who is inexplicably captured and thrown into a bunker. The novel received the 2014 Carnegie Medal, the highest honor in the U.K. given to children’s literature. The award created a lot of disagreement in the U.K., as The Bunker Diary has much violence and no positive ending, and the lessons it imparts are perhaps unhelpful to teens. The premise was heavily influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre’s play No Exit (1944) , in which several adults are forced to live together in a room where they can never close their eyes.



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