The Compound #3. S.A. Bodeen. Pages 101-147.

In this blog post, I will be talking about patterns that take place within The Compound. Patterns are shown mostly through secrets that people have within The Compound. As life goes on within The Compound, Eli has to help his father out when it comes to the chore inventory. Inventory is when all of the food and supplies within The Compound are counted. Then Rex takes these results and figures out how much more time they have within The Compound before they run out of these supplies. Rex estimates that they will run out of supplies a year before they were scheduled to leave The Compound. After a shouting fight between Rex and Mom, Rex took Eli to his office to show him a lab. He talked to Eli about increasing the food supply within The Compound which was to clone a human being. Eli’s response was immediately no saying that “It goes against nature! You know that. Besides, none of those animal clones lived more than a shot time.” (124) He also said that “It’s just weird, you know? Cloning people. And besides, don’t you need a human host at some point?” (125) This is where the pattern of secrets comes into play since Rex had already talked to Lexi without nobody knowing. He has shown her the lab that Rex has been using to figure out how to clone a human being and he had already spoken to Lexi about her being the “human host.” She was on board the entire time. Eli was so outraged that she was on board with the process that he went to persuade her to go to his side. During that time, Eli spilled his guts of everything that he has found out which includes the Internet access. The pattern of secrets is also shown here because Lexi was stunned at the fact that Eli was on the Internet and she had always thought there wasn’t Internet to go on. She gave Eli a day to gather enough information to persuade her to trust him.