The Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalu

Blog By David Shtempel
Period 6


The Doubt Factory
By Paolo Bacigalu

3.5
I give this book three and a half stars because it is a well written book that gets reader wondering whats gonna happen o  the next page every time. But in my opinion the plot was a little disappointing. I didn't find that punch line or climax, point of major turn over, all actions happened so smoothly that it was hard to notice how and when setting had changed. 

Setting
Action took place in a little rich town where only people that had owned some sort of business could afford to live. somewhere in Connecticut. Sometimes it is mentioned how main character and her friends visited New York City is search for street art.  It was a present day story that took few weeks to happen.

Characters
There are two main character that lead us through the whole book.
Alex: she is a smart, quiet, teenage girl that realizes that everything in her life is not always true (that's why it is called "The Doubt Factory") after a stranger appears in her life and enlightens her. After that her life is never the same.

2.0: he is the stranger that stocks Alex for big part of the book. Of course that is not his actual name but I wont bother spoiling his identity. 2.0 is part of a part of a vandal group/community that closer to the end appears to be ones that try to stop evil and reveal a big secret to the world.

Main Plot Events

• In the very beginning when we get to make a first glance on out main character's. There is something that 2.0 does that really got Alex interested in him. By doing what he did, he started a flame inside her. A flame that made her concentrate only on him. She was thinking and thinking about it over and over in her head. She know that he did it no by accident and that he wanted her to see it. It was all sort of a plan, so she wouldn't resist anything that happens afterwards in the story.

• There was a very unusual scene when Alex got to meet the whole 2.0 gang. She never resisted when they took her as she wanted them to do it, and everything that they told her sounded really convincing to her. Maybe it is because she was one of those girls that had a thing for "bad boys." or because she though that her life was boring and she wanted to change something.

• Also a scene that really influenced the whole story when the "vandal" is face to face with our Alex. This happened before she got abducted. In school, when the SWAT team rushed into the building from every possible entrance, including windows. This man ran into her and a very strange moment was between them. As she described, she couldn't tell if he was aggressive or, or something else. From that moment on, she really began thinking about the feelings she might have towards the stranger/stoker.

Conflict

Internal conflict

-Our main character Alex, as mentioned before, she has a big trouble deciding to believe or not to believe the strange man she met. She has internal war going inside he because the feeling and doubt cant be in one person at once.

External conflict

-A big and well known factory is doing something very bad that is killing innocent people, but all they care about is making money. Here they stand against a group 2.0 who got influenced by the lie that the company spread.

Recommendation
I recommend this book to people who are going through tough time deciding on their feelings toward anything but keep it all inside. This book clearly shows all the feelings and thoughts a regular teenager may be going through in similar situations. I wouldn't recommend this book to people that are full head into action and drama, and all that because this book is more thinking and feeling with very unexpected events so if the person that doesn't like to think, stop and infer or predict tries to read it, they will get confused very and very quickly.