Dark Side Of Nowhere Essay, Research Paper

This book starts out with a boy named Ethan dieing and everybody said it was

appendicitis however later Jason and some others realized it wasn?t. Jason

didn?t like his life because he thought it was too boring and he thought his

parents were too nice because they never punished him too badly. Also at

Ethan?s wedding, Jason wondered why Ethan?s parents didn?t cry but his dad

said it was shock however later Jason learned Ethan hadn?t died at all. At a

Little League game in Billington, Jason got in a fight with a boy because that

boy was insulting the pitcher who was the girl that Jason liked. He got badly

beat up and he went to the restroom to take care of the bruises that he had

gotten. Then his school janitor, Mr. Grant, walked inside the restroom and gave

Jason a glove that shot out BBs however Jason learned that the glove shot BBs by

himself. He also told him to meet by a barn in a place called Old Town to learn

what to do with it. The next day, Paula, the pitcher that Jason liked, went to

Jason?s house and told him he ruined her no-hitter yesterday. She was turning

to leave but Jason wanted her to stay there so he decided to show her the glove

Grant had given him even though Grant said not to show anyone the glove. He went

to the back of his backyard and showed it to her. Then they went to Old Town

because they got carried away in a ?game? when Paula took the glove because

she wanted to know where Jason had gotten the glove. They went into Old Town and

they found many sightings that were ?weird? such as a picture of a person

that looked exactly like Billy Chambers who was a kid that went to their school

and they saw a message carved into a wall that said, ?God Help Us?. At

school the next day, Jason said he had to get his monthly shots so he couldn?t

help Paula search around Old Town. Jason and everybody else who did receive them

thought they were for health however they learned later that they were to keep

their natural bodies and not their alien bodies. The next day was the day that

Jason was supposed to meet to learn about the glove however Paula wanted him to

help search for the truth about Old Town however he said he had a meeting and

Wesley saved him by saying it was a Boy Scout meeting because Wesley also had to

meet there. Wesley had received his glove 2 months before and he along with many

others was sent to go there. Jason realized that these were all people who had

parents that were their parents? closest friends. At home, his parents said

they were moving and they were not going to stay in Billington. Jason wanted to

know why and he pulled out the glove that he got from Grant. His dad furiously

wondered where he had gotten that and he got very mad. He finally went out and

went to a storm cellar in Old Town that was actually a space ship. There,

Jason?s dad told him everything: about how he was an alien and how they got to

Earth and about them stealing the faces of the human civilians that previously

lived there before they were killed. At school the kids talked about them being

alien because most of their parents had told them. Also Jason learned that the

monthly shots were turning into weekly shots. Also the kids learned that Ethan

really hadn?t died, he was just in alien form so he couldn?t come to school.

Also they turned the meetings for the aliens into everyday since it was summer

and the people begin thinking they were better than everyone. A few days later

people rushed to Jason?s house because they were becoming the aliens in the

form that they actually were. They wanted to know what was happening so they

went to Grant?s house. Grant said it was test to see if Jason could unite all

of them and he showed Jason what Ethan looked like because he thought Jason

would make a good leader. The next important thing was that the people who were

aliens had moved to Old Town to live and they could get a new weapon that burned

holes in things. Also Jason was told by Ethan that he needed to dump Paula so

Jason tried to. He went to her house and said that he needed to talk to her

however she started talking about how she didn?t think Ethan was really dead

and she dared Jason to dig up his grave. However she tricked him and she sort of

dumped him because he had been lying to her. The next thing that happened was

Jason started using the old medicine so he would stop growing into an alien.

Also they learned the plan that the aliens would follow to invade the world.

Jason didn?t like it but he in fact didn?t like anything about being alien.

When Mr. Grant came in the room that they were discussing, the plan, he told

Jason to take off his shirt and then he told him to go to Doc Fuller because his

treatment wasn?t going well because he had less hair than everyone else. When

Jason was at Doc Fullers? lab he ran from it because he didn?t want to be an

alien and the Transitionals ( the other kids that were becoming aliens) chased

him until he led all but one away. Wesley was the only one who knew where he was

and he sold out on his best friend by telling everyone else where Jason was.

Finally he ran down the road to the only place he knew was safe and that was Ms.

Pohl?s house because Jason had gotten his body from the man named J.J. Pohl.

The next morning, Ferrari and Paula came to Ms. Pohl?s house and Ferrari said

they needed help getting Wesley out of the space ship because he had stayed down

there shooting anyone who went to try to get him out. Jason thought he could

take advantage of this moment so he went and he talked to Wesley but he

couldn?t help and he saw that Ethan had died. Wesley had turned on the launch

sequence and the ship would launch any minute so Jason hit Wesley over the head

and dragged him out of the ship. Grant went inside to try and stop the ship

however it didn?t work and the plane was seen by everyone in Billington and

reporters came from everywhere . After the plane shot off, Billy Chambers was

about to kill Jason with his new weapon however Paula stopped him. However,

Jason was still having pains and he didn?t know what they were. When he woke

up, he was at a Holiday Inn and his parents were there along with Paula and they

told him what had happened. They went to the State Capitol and talked to the

governor about how Jason was an alien and the story ended by saying basically

that Jason wanted to be human more than anything.