Halo: Contact Harvest Essay

This book is takes place in the year 2552 on a planet named Harvest, which was given it's name because it is a farming planet that supplies 60% of the solar systems grown foods such as corn, rice, and any other vegetables, fruits, or grains. Most of the planet is covered in fields of wheat, and the rest is a giant ocean. The covenant have just reared their ugly faces and are heading towards Harvest with means to glass the planet. Glassing is when multiple ships fly around a planet shooting liquid hot plasma, burning the surface until it's as smooth as glass and uninhabitable. The mode of literature for this book changes because it follows three different people. The first one is Sergeant Major Avery Johnson.

Avery is one of the top Sergeants in the UNSC, the future human military. His story takes him from morning after his dead aunt to him fighting on a covenant cruiser that is trying to destroy the planet Harvest. This stories mode of literature is comedy because in the beginning his life is normal. The second plot point is when his aunt dies. The third is when the Covenant attack Harvest, and the last is that he helps repel the covenant. Now for the story of Da'daab.

Da'daab is an alien known as the unggoy, short creatures with 2 arms and 2 legs and an exoskeleton that is really strong. The second story follows this creature, and the mode of literature has to be tragedy. The first plot point would be normal life. The second point is when he makes a new friend who gets him a promotion so he won't have to be on the front lines. The third is when he gets demoted for not lying to the leaders of the covenant. The last plot point is when he betrays the covenant to help the humans to kill his captain that demoted him. The last story follows another alien named Tarterus.

Tarterus is an alien known as brutes by the humans. They are a mix of human, rhino, and gorrila. They are 1.5 times taller than the average human, with muscles so huge the could rip a tank to shreds. His story is half as long as the others but it just explains how he dies, why he demoted Da'daab, and why he killed Da'daab for betraying the covenant right before he died from human gunfire.