Halo First Strike Essay Response

Jackson Wolf

2/16/11

Language Arts

Essay Response to Halo: First Strike

Halo, the best game, and best orchestrated, best novels you could possibly read in your entire life. In my opinion, this book is the best of all of the Halo chapter books. It’s a story that is about wins, losses, and teamwork. By the sounds of this story, it’s comedy. And we’ll prove its comedy.

It’s all about a secret military program that trains children to become super soldiers. The program was code named: Spartan II. John #117, one of the first of thousands to become a “Spartan”, him and his friends Grace, Li, Anton, Linda, Sam, and their latest addition, Sam, were sent to Planet Reach one of humanities inner colony planets. But they soon discover that The Covenant, an unknown species of unknown origin, is hot on their tail. Led by their leaders, The Prophets, they will stop at nothing to annihilate the entire Human race. (If you want to know more, go to your local library and check out ‘Halo: The Fall of Reach’).

Anyways, now that you understand the story, we’ll talk about the plotline and as I mentioned earlier, prove that it’s tragedy. In Halo: First Strike it starts out after the events about the terrible flood, and Halo, the ring world. Chief is in a Type-43 Bomber, or Longsword Fighter headed back for earth, the last planet humanity has. This is part 1 in the plotline, known as normal everyday life (No he doesn’t stay stranded in a Bomber in space every day, but still). Then there is a conflict, he discovers some covenant ships on Patrol and soon finds John. But then he get’s backed up by a nearby pelican (No not the bird, it’s a kind of gunship, like the F-16). Eventually, him and his new crew that were aboard the pelican take over the covenant ship and destroy the other one.

So then, John takes the recently hijacked Covenant Cruiser to Reach, their lost home. Taken over by the covenant, John gets in a Covenant drop ship and heads to Reach, hoping that his team is still alive. He eventually finds them, and Dr. Catherine Halsey, the original creator of the “Spartan II” Program, and John’s best friend. They soon find an artifact, deep underground under their only sanctuary on Reach, ONI: Castle Base. Finally, last in the plotline, Conflict resolved or something like that, is when John and his team delay a Covenant invasion force getting ready to start their way to earth. Chief and his team destroy one of the ships, that causes a chain reaction of explosions, and then they head back to earth, hoping they have enough time to warn earth about the covenant.