Essay Response

Jackson Wolf
3/9/11
Language Arts







Halo: Ghosts of Onyx:

By Jackson Wolf
Have you ever heard of Halo, the game that sold 2.5 million copies in 1999, and Bungie, the creator of Halo, kept the franchise going for a decade. Well, before you can play the games, you can read the books. Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, is a good book, which is what we’re going to talk about today.

Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, is about a team of super enhanced soldiers wearing their infamous MJOLNIR Armor, Blue team. This team consists of John 117, Linda, 058, Kelly 065, and Kurt, 051. Together, they are walking tanks. Blue team was dispatched to Earth to look at the abandoned shipyards on the dark side of the moon. Things go wrong when 051, Kurt’s jump pack failed in a deep space mission accident, was actually considered an ‘excuse’ by The Office of Naval Intelligence, to have Kurt lead the new generation of Spartans: Spartan III’s. Though I haven't said everything about the story yet, this story relates to Tragedy almost exactly. Today we’ll prove that this is tragedy.

Example #1: Conflict. At the start of the book, it tells about him and his team of Spartans going against Beta Company. Then after wards he and his group are exposed to radiation from the FENRIS War heads nearby. Kurt saves his group and fights Beta Company. Then they leave. Example #2: Rise to power. Kurt soon goes back to Beta Company, and gets revenge. Then he leaves, though mortally injured, he lives. Example#3: Tragic Flaw. Kurt and his team of Spartans find Forerunner Technology in the Planet Onyx. Soon later, after they discover whats in the planet, they finally meet an army of their worst enemy, The Covenant.

Example #4: Tragic Fall, Kurt and his team of Spartans have finished off the first wave of Covenant, 3 of his Spartans die, everyone else is WIA (Wounded In Action). And finally, Example #5: Death or Death Symbolism. The team of Spartans find a Slipspace Rupture, Kurt tells his team to go to the Portal, but Kurt stays behind. Staying Behind, he Arms the FENRIS Warheads, and about to be slaughtered, fires the Warheads. Tragedy, Like I told you.