Reader Bias: Lake of the Dead

Readers have personal opinions and feelings (bias) that influence the way they interpret a story. Record your interpretation of characters, situations and events in the text and describe how personal bias affected

Characters/situations/events

• The characters of the story is Greer,Vinnie,Carlos,Tom and Matt.
• The event was about them going on a big journey to Mt Darius but only 2 of them make it out alive.
• The situation was that they starved for 48 hours and had to eat a dear that was lying dead in a valley of smoke.
• Some other events were,as they try to survive they bury an old man because they didn’t want to leave lying around.
• I love the fact that this story tells us about 2 brave teenagers surviving for their lives to get away from the volcano
• That their friends get buried under the rocks but they journeyed this far from home. Were the 2 friends that survived get along so well because didn’t sound like they were getting along very well.

My Interpretation

•  My Interpretation is how old were they because this story sounds more like a teens story. 
• It was so sad that the characters died from a big volcano that spread lava out of nowhere and suddenly the ground starts to shake as well.
• Why do they really have to go to see Mt Darius for they already knew that there was a big volcano that erupted for over a few years back.
• Mt Darius is a mountain that has creepy things that stay and live there, but one of them is called a serpent and   it lives inside a lake that is called the lake of the dead.
• The characters in this was brave enough to go on a journey to Mt Darius but they die but it was so sad just watch them lose their  lives.
• I thought that Mt Darius didn’t even exist because people haven’t talked about it much but now it’s becoming a legend.

How personal bias affected my interpretation

• How there were like heaps of girls with the boys but they all die but except for one girl.
•     The way how Greer  was trying to get the meat out of that dear but if that were me I would cut it crucet like his one.
•     I think that the volcano that lives on Mt Darius is the first volcano that ever lived since we weren’t born yet.
• How far is Mt Darius from New Zealand because the volcano that lives on Mt Darius is really suspicious.
• Is Mt Darius a dangerous place, their are mysterious things  

•  Was it really beautiful on Mt Darius because it sounds really nice just listening to them say it.