Chapter Sixteen starts with Viv waking up from a dream. Some people say dreams have meaning. What do you think is the meaning of Viv’s dream?
“Gideon is a frightened little boy who feels threatened by the intelligence of the women he finds himself surrounded by… we’ve met his kind before” page 265
We learn that Gideon ran to Ravensloe to try and get rid of Viv. Do you think he told Ravensloe that he had tried to kill her?
Do you think Ralph caught Viv’s double meaning in the above quote? Will she be punished for it?
Are you just as outraged as Viv when Atlas reveals the dragonlings. Do you think that the dragonlings will survive?
Viv discovers something of great importance when it comes to echolocation. How do you think humans will be able to mimic this back to the dragons and eventually to the dragonlings? Do you think Dr. Seymour’s devices will be successful?
Why do you think Chumana is calling Viv?
Does Viv being able to decipher the code mean that the dragons are becoming aware of what the codebreakers are trying to do?
After the conversation with Chumana, what do you think will be Viv’s next steps?
Do the rebels know about the echolocation?
Who ask Chumana to spare Viv’s life/
As we have progressed further into the book, it seems it might be possible for Sophie to know what Viv had done to her. Do you think Sophie shared this with the other recruits.
Dodie was seen trying to escape. What do you think her death will mean for the other recruits?
11 responses to “A Language of Dragons Day Six”
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1. Everything that Viv is worried about is resting heavily on her mind – she’s worried about her sister, her parents and her kind-of-relationship with Atlas. She’s also afraid of failing and ruining her and everyone else’s life.
2. I think Gideon was trying to win her over to his side, so no, I don’t think he told her that he’s tried to kill Viv.
3. I don’t think Ralph would have missed it and he will definitely make her pay for her comment
4. Yes, I am. This is kidnapping and animal endangerment, not to mention the fact that this will most likely ruin the Peace Agreement for good. The dragonlings probably won’t survive and if they do, the people will kill them.
5. By recording the sounds, putting them together in a way that suits them and playing it back to the dragons, the eggs and the dragonlings. Yes, unfortunately I think they will be successful.
6. She saw that Viv was willing to break the rules and make agreements with dragons – I think she thought that Viv would help her if she went to her.
7. Yes, the dragons (and especially the rebels) are becoming more aware of the work being done in the Glass House.
8. I think she will be confused for a while before making a decision, either choosing her family and giving the code over or choosing to save the world and keeping it to herself.
9. Yes.
10. I think it would have been Dr Seymour who asked for her life to be spared.
11. Yes, she would have shared it with them, especially now that the pressure has increased and their lives are on the line.
12. They will be under more surveillance and constant security, always checked up and possibly be threatened further. -
1. I think Viv’s dream was a reflection of what she is thinking/feeling about everything that’s happening in her own world.
2. No, he obviously didn’t tell her that he tried to murder her. He went to Ravensloe to try to discredit Viv.
3. I think he was oblivious when that was said!
4. Yes, they stole those dragonlings, and that goes against what the peace maker is all about. I don’t think they will survive without proper care from their parents
5. I think they will build another machine that will enable them to emit echolocation or manipulate Dr Seymour’s devices.
6. To maybe warn her that the rebels know about Bletchley and it’s about to be made into a ball of volcano!?
7. Yes, I think it’s about to be a whole mess between the dragons and code breakers recruits
8. I think Viv will go to the prime minister, she betrayed her best friend so I think Viv only thinks about herself or whatever benefits her the most and at this point all she wants is to free her family.
9. I think they do since the rebels is both humans and dragons.
10. I’m thinking Dr Seymour since she’s been spying for the rebels for months, maybe she call in a favour for Viv.
11. Yes and as she should honestly like her best friend betrayed her. There’s no excuse for that!
12. That they need to pull up their socks because the prime minister is not playing with them.
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1. I think Viv’s guilt is weighing heavily on her mind. I think that this along with her new relationship with Atlas and the worry she has for her sister and her family is now manifesting in her dreams.
2. I definitely don’t think he would have confessed that. He knew that would have consequences for him. I think Gideon went there to undermine Viv.
3. Ralph is too smart to not catch on to the double meaning in this quote. I think that he will make sure that Viv pays for her comment and may be more subtle about the way he goes about doing it because if he hurts her like he did the last time he may not be able to blame Viv as easily.
4. I was very shocked. I dont think anything good will come of the breeding or stealing of the dragon eggs. I think they will survive but the bigger question is how will they be used.
5. I think that her device may need to be upgraded and worked on but i think that humans will be able to replicate the calls to possibly oppress dragons and create their own dragon army. I think Wyvermire may also use it to kill off certain species of dragons if she finds them lacking or disobedient.
6. I think she wants to help Viv but understands Viv needs to come to the realisation of what is going on is wrong on her own.
7. I think they are aware of what could be going on. But maybe not to the degree of how close the humans are to really breaking the code.
8. I think she will have major intraconflict and struggle to make a choice. She will need to pick her family or the entire dragon species and Britania. I think she will do some soul searching.
9. Yes i think so.
10. Dr Seymour. I think she sees potential in Viv and sees her as a possible ally.
11. I think she could have. There is a lot of hate for Viv and now that the pressure has risen i think that everyone is only looking out for themselves.
12. I think it will make their situation more ‘real’ to them. I think it will increase the pressure and we will see more conflict between the recruits.
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1. I think that Viv has a lot weighing on her heart. She brought all this trouble to her family and friends and I think she is so afraid of failing. Its all there with how second class kids are pressured into passing the examinations or they get demoted, they cannot step one foot out of place or it will have repercussions. There is a lot of pressure and now with the codebreaking and the potential loss of her new friends and Atlas, I think she is slowing cracking.
2. I don’t think he did, he is a coward but also frightened about losing too.
3. Oh he definitely did.
4. I felt so sad for them. I do think Atlas will take care of them the best way he can. But Viv has changed the way she sees him because of this. And again, the rules govern the way Viv feels about a lot of things and she knows this is breaking a big one.
5. I don’t think they will be able to imitate the echolocation, and the reaction towards the use of it with Chumana was not received well. I think the devices need improvement on many levels to make them efficient in understanding the language.
6. Hopefully to rescue them all and to bring warnings and news about what is happening in London.
7. I don’t think so, they have kept the language secret and don’t think the humans are intelligent enough to decipher it.
8. She is going to have a lot of inner conflict, save her family and friends or think about the bigger picture and save a nation and species.
9. I think so, there are too many main characters who seem to know more than Viv does.
10. Could have been Dr Seymore or even Atlas.
11. Probably.
12. That they have zero chance for failure or escaping. And they don’t mean anything to Wyvernmire. They are expendable. -
I think the meaning of Viv’s dream is that she feels guilty about a lot of things she has done but she also possibly feeling confused about how to feel or on which side to be as everything she thought to be true is changing and she is seeing another side
Gideon is definitely to much of a coward to confess to Ravensloe that he tried to kill Viv and that he was more worried about himself and the consequences. He probably went to Ravensloe too lie about Viv so that if she said he attempted to kill her, Ravensloe wouldn’t believe her because of what Gideon already said.
I don’t think Ralph is stupid, he is an awful person but not stupid, so I do think he caught on to her double meaning but I don’t think Viv will be punished for it as the leaders/guardians have more important things to worry about with the war appearing to be closer.
Yes I am even more outraged than Viv when Atlas reveals the dragonlings, because it is not right to take them from their parents, I think that maybe some of the dragonlings might survive but I don’t think they will be as “great” as other dragons without their parents teaching them the dragon way and giving them the necessary things to thrive.
I think humans might be able to mimic the echolocation to the dragons but to the dragonlings might be more difficult however they probably will only be able to this with the help of Dr Seymour’s devices.
I think Chumana is calling Viv because she realised Viv was different to other people, and could possibly help the rebels but she didn’t want to force the ideas and choices onto Viv she wanted her to come to these conclusions herself.
I do think the dragons are smarter than humans and that they are aware of what the codebreakers are trying to do and that could be why Chumana came to Viv as well.
I think Viv is still going to have deliberations about what to do as she seems to still have internal confilct about what is the right thing to do. She probably is going to try figure out a way to save her sister first and then try figure out what she can learn about echolocation and whether or not she will share the information she discovered.
Yes the rebels know about the echolocation as the rebels is made up of humans and dragons and they are not wanting the government to learn about it.
I think it could be Dr Seymour who asked Chumana to spare Viv’s life but I do possibly believe that because her parents are rebels it could have something to do with them.
I don’t think Sophie shared what Viv did to her with the other recruits. As there already is a lot of hostility within the group.
I am firstly so sad Dodie died, she had the strongest dragonheart. I think her death will be a turning point for all the recruits and that they have to figure out how to escape and not just break the code of echolocation.
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1. She’s filled with guilt over what she did to Sophie and can’t forgive or forget that.
She is so terrified about Ursa and wants nothing bad to happen to her; she feels as if she could lose her to the dragons.
2. Definitely didn’t mention she tried to kill her!
3. Ralph doesn’t strike me as someone educated and witty, so he definitely didn’t catch on to what she said. I feel if he had, then he would have retailated.
4. I do think it was a bad idea to take the dragonlings, especially since it goes against the peace agreement
5. I think they will find another way to use echolocation.
6. Dr. Seymour is probably a mole and could be apart of the rebels.
7. Yes, after Vivs encounter with the Bulgarian dragon, they are suspicious of humans understanding their language
8. I dont think the decision will be too hard to make.
9. Yes i do -
There is a lot going on in Vivs life at the moment so it make sense that her dreams are a mixture of everything happening but I dont think it means anything significant.
Absolutely not. I think he went to Ravensloe to gain something sympathy and to bad mouth Viv.
Ralph is the type of individual who doesnt miss anything. He will make Viv pay for it at a later time.
Yes! The whole point of the Peace Agreement is for everyone, dragon and human alike, and having orphaned Dragonlings in Bletchley Park to perhaps do experiments on them goes against the Peace Agreement (or well the Peace Agreement that the Citizens know of).
I dont think the dragonlings will survive with their mother as we have seen previously that dragonlings need their mother.Dr Seymours devices will be succesful, perhaps a tweak here and there to make it work to its full potential and thus humans will be able to mimic back the echolocation to dragons.
I think Chumana wants to pass on some pivotal information to Viv.
Not necessarily. The rebel dragons probably know something but not the dragons that are patrolling Bletchley Park.
Viv seems headstrong on completing the task at hand and freeing her parents so I dont see her doing anything with the information that Chumana provided her with. Viv seems to think that trusting President Wyvernmire is the way to go not realising that this is so much bigger than rescuing her parents.
I have a sneaky feeling Vivs parents asked Chumana to spare her life. Something isnt adding up because who else could it be.
Initially she didnt but now that things have kicked up a notch Sophie most likely shared it with the other recruits.
They’re all going to realise that if they dont work together none of them will get out of Bletchley Park alive.
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1. It could be premonition or something similar, or it could just be the stress of everything.
2. No he won’t do that, he is too much of a coward. When his plan didn’t succeed, he tried something new.
3. He is smart enough to catch it, but I think he will get her back when we least expect it.
4. No, somehow I was not surprised that they were there. As Atlas said, it forms part of the government’s bigger plan and learning anything and everything about the dragons will be beneficial to the government. I understand now why Atlas was reluctant to join the recruiting.
5. With enough understanding, it is possible for the calls to be duplicated and sent back to the dragons. Even though Dr Seymour knows her invention can be used for this, I think she might find a way to destroy it, but she might be too late because there is a possibility there is a duplicate somewhere that they all don’t know about.
6. Yes.
7. It is possible, she’s not always very subtle about what she is doing.
8. Her goal has always been to save her family. I think she is still naive and believes the government is doing this for a good cause, so I think she will give up the information and then realise that she has made a grave mistake when either her family has already been killed or the dragons turn on them.
9. They may know of it, but the dragons guard it with such ferocity that it is possible they have no clue about it.
10. It could be Dr Seymour or maybe Atlas
11. No I don’t think she would, but in a way to hurt Viv she might let it slip closer to the end.
12. It might serve as a warning or a premonition. Whether they succeed or not, they might be killed either way. -
1. Vivs dream reflects her guilt about what she did to Sophie, her worry over what will have to Ursa and her relationship with Atlas with has some lingering interest. (WHEN SHE SAYS SHE’S ADMIRING A MINIATURE MASTERPIECE AND HE SAYS SO AM I!!)
2. I doubt her mentioned that he tried to kill her.
3. Ralph doesn’t strike me as someone intellectual so I don’t think Viv will get punished because he didn’t understand her.
4. Stealing the dragonlings from their families was cruel and selfish of Atlas and goes against the Peace Agreement which we later find out that Wyvernmire had him do. I think Atlas will keep them alive (he’s a jack of all trades) as it’s more beneficial in that way.
5. Finding out that dragon Language is passed down from family generations will direct their study of echolocation and make it easier to understand.
6. I think it could be Chumana.
7. Yes
8. I don’t think Sophie would have shared what happened with the other recruits. -
I think Viv’s guilty conscience of what she did to Sophie is showing itself in her dream.
No, Gideon wouldn’t confess something like that.
I think Ralph has kept this comment in his memory bank, to be used against her at a later stage.
Yes I was! It’s abduction and cruel. So much for peace… I think it is very unlikely that the young will survive away from their mothers.
Dr Seymour’s machines will need some improvements first before they can successfully use them to mimic back to the dragons and more so to the younglings.
To warn Viv that the rebels know all about Bletchley, and yes the rebels do know what is going on in the glasshouse regarding code breaking.
I think Viv will do what ever is necessary to save her family. That is her priority. Even if tht means handing over the code to the government.
Yes I do think they know about echolocation.
I think is must have been Dr Seymour.
Given the icy atmosphere between all of them and with the pressure increased, yes I do think Sophie has made it known to everyone.
It was a strong warning to the recruits to get a move on and find some answers – or else more of them will die.
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1) I think her dreams are a reflection of everything going on in her life, it’d taking a heavy mental toll on her.
2) No because if he did , it would make him look weak and incapable of adding value to the team because he’s scared Viv will Crack the code before him.
3) it seems likely that he did catch it and won’t punish her per say but torment her.
4)Yes I was, I don’t think they’ll survive.
5) I think they’ll be able to mimic echolocation with Dr Seymours machines. And thus be successful.
6) because she’s a criminal dragon on the run and probably needs Viv’s help with something.
7) very much so, which could cause an uprising
8) I think she’ll go back and fourth on what the right thing to do is before making her decision.
9) Yes it seems like they do
10) it could have been Dr Seymour
11) I think she might have after the comments Viv received from the other recruits.
12) I think it will cause them to panic and realise that the task that they have is very serious and the prime minister isn’t playing around with her “consequences”.
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