SPHERE is a great unpredictable and exciting novel. The transformations between Introduction,Rising Action, Climax, and the Summary is almost perfect. As the wire snagged something the crew laying the cable on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean realized they had a problem for
their were no shipwrecks on the chart. They told someone and this
went up the corporate line of command and soon the military found
out that their was something on the bottom of the ocean and that
The military put together a team of people ranging from a
psychologist to a mathematician. They called in Norman Johnson to
lead the team he was a psychologist who had dealt with many, many
disasters in his years. He comes in and comforts eyewitnesses who
can't deal with the sight and helps victims and family members
deal with the loss of friends and family.
Norman was called one day and told that their was an
emergency and that they wanted him to come in and work. He
suspected that it was another plane crash. This guess of his was
bursted when he was loaded onto a military helicopter and took
off. He flew over the dark blue Pacific ocean and flew for what
was hours but seemed to be days. Hours and hours of dark blue
water was ended with a speck of a ship that turned into an entire
fleet of navy research vessels. He knew then that this was no
The introduction of the book is very grabbing. You feel that
this is just going to keep building and become fantastic. This
feeling of amazement stays with throughout the introduction.
As the rising action starts to take off you just sink into
the same world that Norman, Beth, and Harry, the three
protagonists, are living in. You start to feel claustrophobic as
your reading about how confining the habitat on the ocean floor
is. After the rising action gets going the "gang" as we will
refer to them as will meet many hard problems and take risks.
They battl...