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21st Century Derbyshire, England 16th Century Derbyshire, England Various Villages around rural England Kate’s old Elementary school The Byng Manor

Kate Dyer: Kate Dyer is the second main character in the novel “The Time Travelers” by Linda Buckley-Archer. She is a protagonist. The entire plot revolves around her and Peter Schock being sent into 1763 Derbyshire, London from the 21st century by an anti-matter and anti-gravity machine created by a colleague of Kate’s father.

  21st Appearance: Has fiery red hair down to her waist,

wears a long, green dress with white frills around the edges. Almost like a 16th century dress but used for farming. Wears socks and blue tennis shoes.

  16th Appearance: Same hair style and dress but wears

breeches and stockings instead of just socks.

Peter Shock: Son of a business man who isn’t always around, Peter was promised to go out for his birthday but was declined again. Their maid Gertrude brought an angry peter to the Dyer family where he met Kate and her family. Not seeing as how she can live like this he’s grown curious of Kate. Although they become good friends, it’s put to the test when they get sucked into 1763.

21st Appearance: Wears a gray t-shirt with a dark blue nylon jacket, light blue jeans and light blue sneakers. Dark brown hair, almost like a bed-head.

16th Appearance: Wears the same blue jeans and shoes, but wears a brown coat with coattails and frills around the edges of the sleeves.

Gideon Seymour: A gentleman and cutpurse, he has a very bad reputation with the Tar Man, a vicious crime lord. He is now wanted by thieves and cutpurses alike. His party was recently captured by Ned Porter. One of the most infamous highwaymen in Derbyshire.

16th Century Appearance: Wears black dress pants and a dark brown suit with long coattails, has brown hair and blue eyes. But sometimes wears a hat over his hair, as to keep his identity hidden.

Parson Ledbury: A parson for the Byng family and his sister, Mrs. Byng. He has a volatile hatred towards Gideon since he is a cutpurse. But nonetheless, Mrs. Byng hired him because of his extensive knowledge of Derbyshire’s landscape.

16th Century Appearance: Wears a white judge’s wig under a brown captain’s hat. Brown breeches and a long sleeved dark brown waistcoat.

Ned Porter: A highway man part of the Carrick Gang, but works alone. He ambushed Gideon and party, but dies from a shot to the right lung by Joe. One of the brothers in the gang. Hannah tries to tend to him, but he dies shortly afterwards, but not before telling a little about Gideon to Peter. He grows curious and scared about Gideon.

16th Century Appearance: Wears a sky blue suit with black dress shoes. The top jacket has coat tails and he holds a pistol in an inside pocket of his trousers.

Peter and Kate two ordinary kids from England meet by chance, not knowing that an incredible adventure awaits them. A visit to Kate’s father’s lab ended with them falling into the clutches of a so called anti-gravity machine. Somehow they activate it, and travel back in time to 1763. Gideon Seymour, cutpurse and gentleman, who had troubled childhood, watches with awe as the two children and the odd machine appear out of nowhere. Someone else sees it too--a villain nicknamed the Tar Man. Before Kate and Peter realize what has happened to them, the Tar Man made off with the device--taking with him their only way home. Fortunately, Gideon comes to help the young travelers after the Tar Man stole all their interesting 21st century items. With Gideon’s help, Kate and Peter might be able to find the machine again...but first they must survive being plunged into the 18th century, with all its funny smells, strange foods, and, most alarmingly, it’s terrible highwaymen...Kate and Peter slowly overcome the shock, although they want to return to their century badly. But Gideon has his own problems. He is on the run from his previous shady life--and the ruthless Tar Man is after him, determined to bring him back into the past he wants to forget.

I think the mood of my story is… curious/dangerous. Curious like an odd mood.One instance of this mood is:

“Lord Luxon eyed him with such distaste and thought of his cedar wood chests in 1763, specially imported from Italy, and the layers of exquisite silks they contained…Although the current fashion for body piercing, tattoos, and hair dyes in the wildest of colors was tempting ─ indeed, it might be amusing to have his navel pierced and a ruby, or perhaps a diamond or two inserted.”Another instance of the mood is:

“Faith! He could even have his own coat of arms tattooed on his shoulder! How deliciously unseemly! Lord Luxon looked around him, still smiling. What a transformation this new millennium had worked on him. Little wonder, he thought, that the Tar Man, his errant henchman, had become so attached to this age of wonders.”A third instance of the mood is:

“The Tar Man retrieved his throbbing hand and pulled both of Kate’s arms behind her back. The Tar Man dragged Kate backwards into the fortune-teller’s tent. The woman, still shaken from her sighting of Kate earlier, was sitting at a small table and drinking gin from a pewter mug. She looked up unexpectantly, composing her face into a pleasant smile for her latest customer. The smile withered on her face.‘I’ll thank you to hold your tongue, madam,’ He said holding the struggling Kate in one hand and a knife to the woman’s throat with the other.”

I think the theme was a destiny between two different walks of life, a boy and a girl, meeting each other and becoming friends. Than a turn for the worst when a accidental time traveling mishap strands them in 1763, meeting Gideon. Then in the next two books it has to deal with them stopping Lord Luxon from killing George Washington the night he stood in the boat to cross Delaware river. But Lord Luxon did still kill him. There was no resolution since this was a trilogy series.