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Today is a testing day. They are the wickham test, and they only come every few month, often by surprise. When i awoke in my glass-walled bedroom this morning, I expexted the usual: reciting genus and species list to Uncle Antonio, Comparing algae specimens under microscopes with Uncle Jacob, followed, perphaps, by a long swim in the pool. But instead, I was greeted by Mother, who informed me that Uncle Paolo had decided to hold a test. She then breezed out the door and left me scrambling to get ready. I didn't even have a chance to tie my shoelaces. Hardly ten minutes later, here I am. The bird in my hands fights relentlessly, scratching my palms with his tiny talons and snapping at my fingertips with his beak. It does no good. His claws are sharp enough to break the skin-just not my skin. That's probably why Uncle Paolo told me to carry the bird instead of doing it himself.The last week I took, four months ago, didn't involve a live animal, but it was still difficult to past. I had to observe five different people included non scientist residents

This is passage is talking about a group of scientist that is establish in the middle of the jungle.And there was a girl who was created by the scientist group.She was told that she's perfect, and immortal.she was the only one that was created to be immortal and unbreakable skin.The girl never went any further then her glass house. scientist was trying to create could penetrate the skin for gene therapy race.They choose her to lead the new race.Every month they would take people specially non scientist or animal alive, and put them under microscope and try new plants to see if they would live forever, most of the time they would die.

The author does a really good job of foreshadowing that the reader could have guess what was about to happen. The purpose of this quote is that scientist is working to bring immortality to mankind. Scientist find a super rare flower. The scientists are afraid to test it, they gave it to her while she doesn't know what she's doing. And the author shows that to live immortal and alone would be uncomfortable.

In this dystopian novel, to be human you can live forever. If you live outside of the jungle, you would have to die. In opinion, the author show scientist is only working on to bring an immortal race. Scientists is also working on how to prevent disease such as unbreakble skin. I can see that happen in the future. I have read scientists is coming with a skin lotion that will penetrate the skin for gene therapy. The skin cream can be be useful. It will prevent all kinds of invaders from entering the body. The researchers have already try it on mice and human, and found no mass effect. http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-07/future-body-lotions-could-soak-genetic-therapy-along-supple-skin

Social critique, the author used the term genetic engineering as of direct manipulation. Although the world building is extraordinary. The girl think she is living a perfect life, she is unaware of what she's doing. The author is this quote as warning which could happen in the future. The lengths people would go for science.