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     There weren’t many uses of flashback and foreshadowing in this book, but there were some very important examples of it. One time after they had left a city, Johnny, Harry’s partner in making “The Flash” had a very uneasy feeling that something very bad was going to happen to “The Flash”. Harry and Johnny are accompanied by Charles on their trip around the world. Charles is responsible for making sure they go the full distance around the world. Harry keeps blaming Charles that he is trying to harm the car to make sure Harry doesn’t make it around the world. Harry has three people betting that he cannot make it. His father also said if he doesn’t make it, Harry has to give up motorcars forever and get back into school. This uneasy feeling about “The Flash” turns out to be true. “The Flash” breaks down and they waste a couple of days fixing it.

Another foreshadow is when Johnny keeps having horrible headaches about “The Flash”. Johnny believes that these headaches are a sign that something bad is going to happen. Johnny is right. Harry and Charles are asleep in the back of the vehicle and Johnny is getting very tired. Elizabeth, an undercover person, offers to take the wheel. She then purposely runs into a boulder to damage their car and delay their trip. Back when Harry’s father and Elizabeth’s father were younger they made a bet against each other. Elizabeth’s father lost the bet, and with it a lot of money. Elizabeth’s family wanted revenge on Harry’s family. Elizabeth continued sabotaging their journey, such as, claiming her purse had been stolen and putting a nail into the gears to damage the whole car. Both of these things delayed the trip because of the time spent looking for her purse and fixing the gears. All of these delays cause them to be late for their ship to cross the sea to Europe.

A flashback occurred when Harry’s mom told her story about how she escaped India. It started by telling Harry that he was half Indian. Then she flashed back to remembering the arranged marriage in India. She didn’t want to be married to someone that she didn’t know. One day she met a man who later became Harry’s father. This man knew she was in distress so he helped her escape India.

Foreshadowing and flashbacks can make a story very interesting. In this book they enhanced the details of each story line.

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     My main character Harry is a creative fun guy who dropped out of his school because he thought it was too boring. Harry likes to work with moving parts of cars, such as, engines. Harry’s mom is from India and Indians in England are treated very poorly. This forces Harry’s mom to mostly be a house mom. Harry didn’t want his life to be very tough like his mother’s so he changed the spelling of Hari, to Harry. Harry could fit in because his name wasn’t too different and he wasn’t as dark in color as the majority of Indians. Harry had always wanted to go to India one day so he could see where his mom grew up as a child.

            Harry is a fairly strong man, who can handle tougher stuff than at least half the men in England. Harry has a pretty good personality, he is fun to be around, and very creative when it comes to motorcars. One of Harry’s main goals is to go around the world in one hundred days in his motorcar that he built with the help of his friend Johnny. The only exception of him not being in the motorcar “The Flash”, while traveling, was when he had to cross the oceans and large waterways. Harry’s thoughts are mainly on his motorcar throughout the journey around the world. He is always thinking about how many miles they need to travel in one day to get somewhere, or hoping that the motorcar “The Flash” wouldn’t get a flat tire. Harry is self assured, he is always saying that everything will be okay, and that even if something goes wrong with “The Flash” that they will get through it and be able to get back on schedule. Harry is also very confident, he is always sure that “The Flash” won’t break down, or nothing will go wrong with “The Flash”. I think that Harry could be considered admirable, but only when he is being calm and nice, sometimes he can be a little pushy and frustrated with things. Harry is not very self absorbed, he normally cares about other people and makes sure they’re okay before he makes sure he is okay. Harry is very considerate. He is mostly caring about other people and again he makes sure that everyone is okay before he is. I liked this book very much and hope other people get a chance to read it!