Empress Theresa

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A very good example of this is the Army-Navy game. Theresa participates in the Army-Navy game, which is hyped up to be a massive event. When it actually happens? Theresa just mentions it within a sentence and calls it a day. Similarly when she's married at 19, she spends more time describing her dress than the actual ceremony. Marine Biology: Theresa's tampering of Earth's fragile ecosystem warms the oceans and decreases their salinity. There's no mention of marine organisms dying en masse. No Celebrities Were Harmed: Prime Ministers Peter Blair and Benjamin Scherzer are blatant stand-ins for Tony Blair and Benjamin Netanyahu, respectively. If you don't desire a heavy dose of negative attention, do not give readers and reviewers alike a reason to give you negative attention. Look at Norman and his antics and, beside getting a heavy case of schadenfreude, learn and grow from his mistakes.

Theresa arrives at West Point to the excitement of her parents, seeing them after so long. They discuss what’s happened since she last saw them, including the flight. A notable point is that the media speculates that she contrived this crisis to make herself look like a hero, which is not far off from the truth. But she ridicules it as stupid and shrugs the idea off. Her parents would return to Boston, but not before watching the crazy Army-Navy football game.Boutin also mentions that neither mystery nor crime appears in Empress Theresa. One sentence later, mysterious events are listed as being in the book. After it lands, with Stinson waiting for whatever is inside to come out, the coffin opens to reveal… Theresa and Steve! And with them are a large group of what looked like ten-year olds. Over three hundred children, suspended in a state of pre-puberty but very mature, spilled out, and since they look exactly like Theresa and Steve, it is surmised that these are their children. It turns out that Theresa had managed to absorb the other HALs, and after creating these children, had made them live long enough to be genius and to develop ideas far beyond what the human race would have done. After leaving the ship, Theresa claims they will all age again, and be able to live out their lives in peace, with their children taking over Theresa’s role. “Steve and I were smiling. Our work was done.” Two hundred and four white spheres hovered miles over Eastern Massachusetts.” Theresa is as confused about this as anyone else, and waits patiently to see what happens next. The Hartleys are worried at what might happen if they begin to merge with people. In a matter of minutes, they merge with onlooking spectators, and, suddenly, there are now 205 people with HAL inhabiting themselves. Many of the new HAL habitators are in hiding, with less than two hundred expected to report themselves. Theresa is unbelievably mad at this development, knowing that the idiots who have these powers would destroy themselves and each other in the process. Destructive Saviour: She oftentimes comes up with solutions to problems (Or what she thinks are problems) by making drastic changes to the planet that by all rights should result in the deaths of millions at best and the extinction of all life at worst. Because of the nature of the story however, any adverse effects are brought up as minor inconveniences at best. In response to critic TL Knighton, who had been publisher of The Albany Journal, Norman replied: "So you took a dying newspaper out of print and put in on the internet? Well, that’s a great accomplishment! Who will remember it twenty years from now? Empress Theresa will be remembered forever." [24] In the same response, Norman states that "quotes from the book will be part of the vernacular."

Angelic Abomination: HAL is a ball of pure white light that is for all intents a stand in for the Holy Spirit... that also happens to be an alien and "not made of matter or energy". Eldritch Abomination: HAL, who according to the author "isn't made of matter or energy" and is a shapeless white blob that grants mysterious powers. Norman responded as he had throughout the entire forum: he quoted a small section and played the "You haven't read the whole book" card (see below), and completely dismissed everything said. [16]A common criticism against Empress Theresa and Norman Boutin's rants is that he covers a wide array of topics (religion, politics, government agencies, etc.) and yet exhibits very little working knowledge of how they operate, or how they would work in a certain situation. A variety of situations are full of plotholes when compared to how such situations would actually operate in real life (e.g., guards permitting Theresa to lug a bag of coke bottles around up to her execution), while the solutions given for certain dilemmas make absolutely no sense (e.g., all of Israel leaving their homeland). Boutin also blithely delights in how people react to his own trolling: "I'm gratified that people hang onto my every word. Great writers have that effect on people." [42] And "Five replies in fifteen minutes! How people hang on my words!" [43] Tu Quoque [ ] The first chapter explains that the first chapter will introduce the main character, while the second and third chapter will set up the story's premise, and the fourth chapter is where the action starts. The fifth and sixth chapters, by the way, are mainly just recaps of the fourth chapter. Whole schools of literary criticism could be structured solely around attempting to explain this level of self-referentiality. Theresa says in Chapter 4 that Psalm 23 is "not a standard church prayer". Almost every church uses Psalm 23 at some point in their services, and it's one of the most recognizable prayers in the entire Christian and Jewish faiths. note It’s “The Lord is my Shepherd,” if you don’t know the chapter numbers. Considering Boutin is a devout Catholic, you'd think he'd know better.

Threatening Shark: Theresa ends up falling into shark-infested waters and HAL uses its powers to cause mass cannibalism amongst the sharks, creating a huge bloodbath that Theresa nevertheless gets out of in one piece. This is meant to be family-friendly by the way. Fun with Acronyms: The secret government organization monitoring Theresa is called the Office of Orbital Phenomena Surveillance. This is played completely seriously. One of Norman Boutin's most used responses against critics who couldn't finish Empress Theresa is to tell them that, since they haven't read the whole book, their opinion doesn't matter. He claims that they can't judge characters, plot, how good a story is, etc., because they haven't seen the full scope of what happens.Theresa does so well in the fifth grade that she skips to the seventh grade. Jan Struthers and the other agents continue to monitor her. http://www.writingforums.com/threads/133885-Empress-Theresa-is-here?p=1571442&viewfull=1#post1571442 A red herring is when a person responds to an argument by bringing up a semi-related topic in an effort to divert the flow of logic into a realm where the person feels more comfortable. In his response to critics, Norman Boutin employs a number of logical fallacies, especially when pressed into a corner or called out on his illogical reasoning. These tactics do not prove Empress Theresa is a good book (as he assumes); they merely serve to further reveal Norman Boutin's immaturity.

Apathetic Citizens: The world's population doesn't seem too concerned about the consequences of the weather system stopping or that they will run out of food somewhere down the line if things don't get fixed. I didn’t have to do research. It was all in my head. Of course I looked up a few facts like the amount of gold in Fort Knox, the tectonic source of Antarctica, and the density of xenon, but 99.9% of the story came out of my memory. [25] Omnipotence [ ] At a crucial point in the "action", Theresa compares herself to the heroine of The Hunger Games. And whines about how her life is so much harder. More often than not, he'll simply question the intelligence of the person critiquing his book. Some examples:What Happened to the Mouse?: Theresa's family seems to disappear out of existence. Same with the Parker family's children who only appear a couple of times before being forgotten about again. Oh, so very much. Rather than use her powers to save the world, Theresa basically goes on an extended holiday and complains about everything in France. She also misses chipmunks while there. It must be remembered that, according to Norman Boutin's mind, his book is the greatest that has ever been written. To him, it is absolutely perfect, and above all criticism. It is imp