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Book Report: Animorphs Name of Book: Animorphs #26: The Attack. Author: K.A. Applegate. Number of Pages: 145. Submitted by: Yael Weisberg. The book’s plot Animorphs is a series of 54 books. Only the first 18 of these books were translated into Hebrew, so far. The story is about six kids fighting aliens: Jake, Marco – Jake’s best friend, Rachel – Jake’s cousin, Cassie – Rachel’s best friend, and Tobias – who didn’t really have any connection to anyone, he just happened to be there. (It started with five Animorphs, the sixth one joined in later.) It all started when the five kids were on their way home from the mall, going through an empty, isolated road. While they were walking, a spaceship landed right in front of their astonished eyes. Inside the spaceship was a dying Andalite (Andalites are aliens that look like blue unicorns with scorpion tails, and their technology is way better than ours). The Andalite told them about the Yeerks – another kind of aliens, which has already started to take over Earth. In their natural form they look like snails and are defenseless. The only problem is that they can get inside people’s heads and control their bodies. The Andalite gave the five children only one weapon to fight the Yeerks – the morphing power. It is an Andalite technology that allows you to become another person or animal – to morph – only by touching it once and thereby acquiring it. But you can not remain in one morph for more than two hours at once. If you do, you can never demorph (morph back to your human morph), you are stuck in that morph forever. That is what happened to Tobias – he is stuck in the body of a red tailed hawk. After he gave them the morphing power, the Andalite died, and the five kids were alone. They couldn’t tell anyone anything about the Yeerks, because there is no way of telling who already has a Yeerk in his head and who doesn’t. No way of telling who can be trusted and who can’t. Marco was the one that came up with the name “Animorphs”. It is cut out from the words “animal morphers”. A bit later, the sixth Animorph joined the group – an Andalite named Aximili Esgarrouth Isthill, or for short – Ax. Ax’s spaceship crashed on Earth, and he had become an Animorph. This state is only until other Andalites would come to help Earth, and will take him with them to the Andalite planet. This specific book (#26: The Attack), however, does not involve the Yeerks much. This book is told through the eyes of Jake, and is about a mission given to the Animorphs by a creature named “The Ellimist”. The Ellimist is to humans what humans are for ants – he is something beyond our understanding. He is something so complicated, so deep and advanced, that we are not able to understand him, what he is doing, what he wants, and why. It isn’t clear if he is one creature, or a whole species. It isn’t clear what he is made of – not flesh and blood (as far as the Animorphs can see). There are rules he must obey, but it isn’t clear who made those rules and why. He can do and understand things we can’t even imagine. The Ellimist has got into a fight with another powerful being as himself named Crayak – the Ellimist must stop Crayak from destroying a far- away planet not known to humans. They couldn’t fight each other directly, because that kind of a battle would lead to serious damage to everything around. So, they decided that each of them will choose seven warriors, these two groups will attempt to kill each other, and the group that stays alive – wins. Crayak chose seven Howlers – a species he had created especially to hunt and kill and destroy. The Ellimist chose the six Animorphs and a powerful android called Erek. Together they must kill all seven Howlers – or be killed themselves. Right when they took the mission, the Howlers and the Animorphs were transferred to the planet endangered. There they have had a few battles, from which both teams came out unharmed. The Animorphs had learned more and more with time: the Howlers were too powerful to be killed by force. They had a collective memory – whatever happened to one of them, the others remembered immediately as well. In addition – the Howlers didn’t know their victims had feelings. Crayak would not let them know that – because the Howlers weren’t cruel or evil, they were like little kids playing games, and didn’t realize what suffering they were causing. Also, the Animorphs had learned about the Iskoort – the species whose planet they were saving. They found out, for example, that the Iskoort had the technology to copy one’s memory, and show it to someone else. They also found out that the Iskoort were actually made of two different creatures: the Isk and the Yoort. The Isk were brainless bodies. The Yoort were Yeerks – the evil snail-like aliens that took over people’s minds. However, the Yoort were somehow good Yeerks – instead of enslaving other species, the Yoort had created a special species – the Isk – to live inside their bodies without hurting anyone. The Animorphs knew they had to keep the Iskoort alive, for if the Iskoort stayed alive, they would probably meet the Yeerks one day, and the Yeerks would realize there is a better way – and would leave the humans alone.
Book Report: Animorphs Name of Book: Animorphs #26: The Attack. Author: K.A. Applegate. Number of Pages: 145. Submitted by: Yael Weisberg. The book’s plot Animorphs is a series of 54 books. Only the first 18 of these books were translated into Hebrew, so far. The story is about six kids fighting aliens: Jake, Marco – Jake’s best friend, Rachel – Jake’s cousin, Cassie – Rachel’s best friend, and Tobias – who didn’t really have any connection to anyone, he just happened to be there. (It started with five Animorphs, the sixth one joined in later.) It all started when the five kids were on their way home from the mall, going through an empty, isolated road. While they were walking, a spaceship landed right in front of their astonished eyes. Inside the spaceship was a dying Andalite (Andalites are aliens that look like blue unicorns with scorpion tails, and their technology is way better than ours). The Andalite told them about the Yeerks – another kind of aliens, which has already started to take over Earth. In their natural form they look like snails and are defenseless. The only problem is that they can get inside people’s heads and control their bodies. The Andalite gave the five children only one weapon to fight the Yeerks – the morphing power. It is an Andalite technology that allows you to become another person or animal – to morph – only by touching it once and thereby acquiring it. But you can not remain in one morph for more than two hours at once. If you do, you can never demorph (morph back to your human morph), you are stuck in that morph forever. That is what happened to Tobias – he is stuck in the body of a red tailed hawk. After he gave them the morphing power, the Andalite died, and the five kids were alone. They couldn’t tell anyone anything about the Yeerks, because there is no way of telling who already has a Yeerk in his head and who doesn’t. No way of telling who can be trusted and who can’t. Marco was the one that came up with the name “Animorphs”. It is cut out from the words “animal morphers”. A bit later, the sixth Animorph joined the group – an Andalite named Aximili Esgarrouth Isthill, or for short – Ax. Ax’s spaceship crashed on Earth, and he had become an Animorph. This state is only until other Andalites would come to help Earth, and will take him with them to the Andalite planet. This specific book (#26: The Attack), however, does not involve the Yeerks much. This book is told through the eyes of Jake, and is about a mission given to the Animorphs by a creature named “The Ellimist”. The Ellimist is to humans what humans are for ants – he is something beyond our understanding. He is something so complicated, so deep and advanced, that we are not able to understand him, what he is doing, what he wants, and why. It isn’t clear if he is one creature, or a whole species. It isn’t clear what he is made of – not flesh and blood (as far as the Animorphs can see). There are rules he must obey, but it isn’t clear who made those rules and why. He can do and understand things we can’t even imagine. The Ellimist has got into a fight with another powerful being as himself named Crayak – the Ellimist must stop Crayak from destroying a far- away planet not known to humans. They couldn’t fight each other directly, because that kind of a battle would lead to serious damage to everything around. So, they decided that each of them will choose seven warriors, these two groups will attempt to kill each other, and the group that stays alive – wins. Crayak chose seven Howlers – a species he had created especially to hunt and kill and destroy. The Ellimist chose the six Animorphs and a powerful android called Erek. Together they must kill all seven Howlers – or be killed themselves. Right when they took the mission, the Howlers and the Animorphs were transferred to the planet endangered. There they have had a few battles, from which both teams came out unharmed. The Animorphs had learned more and more with time: the Howlers were too powerful to be killed by force. They had a collective memory – whatever happened to one of them, the others remembered immediately as well. In addition – the Howlers didn’t know their victims had feelings. Crayak would not let them know that – because the Howlers weren’t cruel or evil, they were like little kids playing games, and didn’t realize what suffering they were causing. Also, the Animorphs had learned about the Iskoort – the species whose planet they were saving. They found out, for example, that the Iskoort had the technology to copy one’s memory, and show it to someone else. They also found out that the Iskoort were actually made of two different creatures: the Isk and the Yoort. The Isk were brainless bodies. The Yoort were Yeerks – the evil snail-like aliens that took over people’s minds. However, the Yoort were somehow good Yeerks – instead of enslaving other species, the Yoort had created a special species – the Isk – to live inside their bodies without hurting anyone. The Animorphs knew they had to keep the Iskoort alive, for if the Iskoort stayed alive, they would probably meet the Yeerks one day, and the Yeerks would realize there is a better way – and would leave the humans alone.
