Genre
Fictional novel
Setting and Context
The book is set in 2014, at the University of California, in Santa Barbara, in immigrants.
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person point of view
Tone and Mood
Pessimistic, triumph, sentimental
Protagonist and Antagonist
The four undocumented students are the protagonists.
Major Conflict
The main conflict occurs when the four undocumented students throw themselves into an ocean robot making competition. These four immigrant characters have never seen the ocean, and they have only studied in unfunded public institutions. Ironically, they are competing with students from technologically advanced institutions.
Climax
The climax is when the four undocumented students successfully make ocean robots that win in the competition.
Foreshadowing
The determination in the four immigrant students foreshadowed their ability to go against the odds to achieve their set goals. For instance, they easily win a competition that seems like an impossibility.
Understatement
The public secondary schools are understated when compared to their boarding counterparts. In most cases, the public secondary schools are underfunded, implying that they lack critical facilities that enhance student success. However, the four immigrant students who won the robot making competition came from public secondary schools. Therefore, public secondary schools should not be underrated.
Allusions
The story alludes to the challenges immigrants go through in accessing quality education globally.
Imagery
The mentioning of the funny-sounding Germans words is imagery depicting the sense of hearing to readers. Similarly, the book is full of images that depict the sense of sight to readers.
Paradox
The main paradox is that of the four immigrant students who studied in a public secondary school but defeated the MIT team in a competition with all the privileges the world could offer.
Parallelism
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
The ocean robots are personified as having human abilities.
