Monthly Archives: November 2023

Books/Art

‘Soul Fraud’

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By: Samson Beilhu

The author of this book, Andrew Giver, is mostly known as a YouTuber that goes by “Sigils”. His channel can be found at: Sigils-http://www.youtube.com/@sigils

This story introduces us to the word “soul fraud”, meaning, in another word, a soul thief. It also introduces us to our protagonist/main character, Matt, and our main antagonist named, Dan. Dan is a demon, a demon that breaks the rules.

I looked into this book and what it had to offer, and as far as I could understand, it’s about the main character Matt, who’s in love with a girl, but the girl is already in love with a friend close to Matt, and he’s a good friend. He says, “He would never want to see Connor and Violet break up, or worse,” but Dan/demon wasn’t going to take a no for an answer.

So, Dan decides to forge Matt’s signature, which is considered committing “soul fraud”, and leaves the main character/protagonist with a mess. In the middle of it, Matt is teleported to a supernatural world; a world he never knew existed.

Despite all the confusion, he was determined to get his soul back
from this strange world, which he was dragged to. He starts to look around when he sees monsters, monsters that are only found in folk tales. And for some reason, all the monsters are hanging out at a restaurant. And not just that, there are more demons that look like the one that stole his soul there, even worse looking ones: much worse.

For me, the details to this story at first are revealed slowly, but afterwards the story plot picks up fast. There are mysterious characters that display immense power.

Will Matt ever find his soul or will his soul be lost?

 Soul Fraud is a story about a man that got his soul taken without his consent, and now is trying to get it back. To do that, he has to face magical beings and secret forces.

If you’re interested, or intrigued, about if Matt ever finds his soul, or whether his soul will be lost forever, which personally I am, you can find the book on Amazon (at the moment, it’s not in the school library).

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Getting To Know/History, Science/Nature

How fruits have been modified to make them more pleasurable.

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By: Jefferson Palma

Image by charlesdeluvio via unsplash.com

Why did our ancestor fruits look so different? What did they look like? And what made ancient fruits transform into what we see and eat everyday?

When you go to the grocery store and you purchase some fruits for your next meal did you know that it took around 10,000 years of history to make it look like how it looks today? But how?

Selective cultivation has been a method to change our fruits to make them more tasty, colorful, and bigger.

For example, eggplant was named after the appearance of the egg shaped fruit when English speakers first discovered it, and it had more of a bitter flesh. But through selective breeding, it has transformed into a bright purple, less bitter, fleshy fruit.

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Did you know around 10,000 years ago in Mexico, people took the very first step to domesticate maize (corn). They did this by choosing which seeds to plant, and some were better than others, so they saved the better seeds for the next season’s harvest, and this is how corn has been selectively bred.

There has been a problem that occurred because fruits have been too sweet. For example, zookeepers have been feeding red-pandas and monkeys a fruit centric based diet to mimic their natural wild diet. But it has been discovered that the fruits were too sugary for their diets. The animals’ diet has been changed to a more healthier diet. But this implies that our fruits have been modified to the point that certain animals cannot eat them as they would damage their health.

“Some fruits, such as plums, have almost double the soluble sugar content than what they would have recorded 20 years ago,” said Ranadheera according to the Weather Channel. Which means that in this period of time fruits have been more modified because of improvements in technologies.

Fruits being modified have been the usual for us humans. It has been dated back to 8,000 BC. Today’s fruit have a very long history of small changes to make them bigger, tastier, and more colorful to satisfy our own pleasure.

As stated by Learn.Genetics, “Minor changes to influential genes can produce rapid evolutionary changes.”

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Travel/Food

Seasonal recipes: Pumpkin snickerdoodle cookies

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By: Austin Bailey-Zimmerman

Since the leaves have all fallen, the weather is getting much colder, and everyone is getting into the winter spirit, I thought these pumpkin snickerdoodle cookies would be the perfect way to end the fall season.

These cookies have probably been the best I’ve ever made! They are full of that delicious warm pumpkin taste, the spice of cinnamon, and are coated with the perfect amount of sugar.

I am so happy I found this recipe from TikTok @lillyluvsfall. She has created the perfect cookie for fall, that is so easy to make. I had my friends and family try it, and they said that it was absolute perfection. It really warms up your whole body, and I was delighted to enjoy this treat! Please enjoy making this treat easily from home!

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup unsalted butter
  • 2/3 cup pumpkin purée
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup + 2 tbsp brown sugar
  • 2 large egg yolks
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 2/3 cup flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp pumpkin spice
  • I tsp baking soda
  • I tsp cream of tartar
  • 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 350F.
  2. Brown the butter in a large pan then let cool, once done, in the fridge.
  3. Once the butter is cool, whisk in the sugar and brown sugar into a large bowl.
  4. Whisk in the egg yolks, vanilla and dried pumpkin purée (to dry the purée, just press it on a plate with paper towels) .
  5. Fold in the flour, pumpkin spice, salt, cream of tartar, and baking soda then set the bowl in the fridge for 5 mins.
  6. Then create the cinnamon and sugar topping by mixing the 1/3 cup of sugar and 1/2 tsp of cinnamon in a small bowl.
  7. Roll the dough into balls (about the size of a golf ball) then coat the balls in the cinnamon and sugar.
  8. Bake for 10-11 minutes or until baked all the way.
  9. Take out to cool.
  10. Sprinkle the extra cinnamon and sugar mix onto the tops while still warm.
  11. Enjoy!
Advice/How To

Fun things to do during fall

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By: Cleo Newton           

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There are plenty of things to do during fall like, bake, make art, go camping and more. Here are some activities I think would be fun to do.

Have you ever been in a corn maze before? If not, then here are some mazes in Minnesota you could visit.

One maze, from an article from ‘Family Fun Twin Cities’, that stood out to me was Afton Apple Orchard’s Corn Maze. The main maze here is 15 acres, and for each year, they incorporate a different theme into the maze. If the big maze is too hard for you, or if you want to do a maze that’s better for kids, they have a couple smaller mazes. They have a straw-bale maze, a “No Left Turn” maze, and a Garden hose maze too.

For those who are 2 years old and under, the admission fee is free, kids ages 3-10 cost $10 and must be accompanied by an adult, 11-year-olds and adults cost $12.00.

A few other corn mazes available in Minnesota are, Sever’s Corn Maze, Fresh Acres Corn Maze, and one at Pearson Family Farm.

If you like arts and crafts, here are some fun and easy crafts you can do. One way to make a splatter paint tree is to drop a drop of paint onto the paper then blow on it to create branches. Take an old or unused toothbrush and dip it in tempera paint, then flick onto the branches of the tree to create leaves.

Another craft you can make is the leaf lamp.  It’s really simple and easy, you use mod podge to glue leaves to the outside of a glass jar, then you put a small candle on the inside of the jar and light it.

One last fun thing you can do during fall is baking. A few fall foods from Southernliving.com include: pumpkin bread, apple pie, apple bread, corn bread, and apple cinnamon bread.

After reading this, I hope you guys found some new things you can do this fall. Of course, if you can’t do some of these, you can always rake up some leaves in your yard and jump in it, or take a walk around your neighborhood to admire the falling leaves and trees. I hope you guys have a great fall!

Editorials/Student Voice, Tech/Games

‘New Horizons’, quarantine, and Joe Biden

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By: M. Ahmadad

My own current avatar in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

On March 20, 2020, ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ was released on the Nintendo Switch, allowing for one island to be shared on multiple accounts per console. The game revolves around building and enjoying your own customized community and life on a deserted island. You can have homes with your friends or family, or invite humanoid animal villagers to live and participate in daily activities with.

The game was not meant to be released during the COVID crisis, and the Nintendo developers for ‘New Horizons’ stated that it was quite disappointing, but hoped that it could help as an escape for the mundane and isolated feeling that came with the stay-at-home requests. People were a little under 2 months into practicing social distancing, so the game was very well received.

‘New Horizons’ was not only the best selling game in the Animal Crossing series, but the best selling game of all time in Japan. It is also the best selling Nintendo Switch game, and the 14th best selling video game ever.

The 2020 quarantine is generally perceived as a major playing factor as to why so many people joined the Animal Crossing fanbase. The idea of creating your own dream town, and decorating a community, was extremely appealing for those feeling down because of COVID creating a shift of what social interactions were okay, and what weren’t.

The creativity of ‘New Horizons’ allowed players to have digital social events, such as going fishing with friends, having picnics, going to watch shows or meteor showers, building together, gardening, and more.

The game also served as a temporary replacement for events that were canceled due to COVID, like couples throwing wedding ceremonies in Animal Crossing, or having a graduation party in the game instead of in real life.

The game was also used as political marketing by Joe Biden, having his campaign team create an island that people could visit using his Island’s code. Both him and Kamala Harris were living on that island, and you could visit them and see “their version” of Animal Crossing America.

I liked ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ a lot when it came out; it was a fun way to pass the time during online school. I mostly only gardened and covered all my villagers’ houses with flowers everywhere, but I later moved on to terraforming cliffs and rivers and placing bridges to make an actual structured town.

I named my island Akkala, after the ‘Legend of Zelda’ region.

Music/Concerts

‘Let’s Start Here’ review

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By: Ricky Perez Cardoza

One of the most talked about albums of this year ‘Let’s Start Here’ by rapper Lil Yachty is considered by a lot of people as either album of the year or at least a contender for it. Lil Yachty, before this album, hadn’t seen success like this before and was never really taken seriously for his music and was entirely focused on rap/trap music. That’s why people were shocked to listen to this experimental, melodic alternate rap album that sounded nothing like Lil Yachty at all.

The first track “The BLACK Seminole” had everyone hooked to hear the rest of this album and might even be one of the best intros to an album we’ve heard this year. The track is the longest on the album at almost 7 minutes. It starts the song off strong with a slow tempo with minimal instruments like synths, slow drums, and eventually a guitar riff/solo that makes the instrumental perfect. Added with the auto-tuned vocals by Lil Yachty, this makes the first part of the song sound amazing.

Added to this, Yachty takes a different approach to this song and does not rap like he’s used to but instead sings about equality and his hard work as an artist. Another thing we’ve never seen before is Yachty having deeper meanings behind his lyrics.

The second part of the song elevates the song into a theatrical experimental song where we have a great explosion in its instruments and vocal performance by singer Justine Skye. She makes this second part of the song sound majestic with its explosive drums, synths, and overall volume of.

“The Ride-“ is the next song that follows in the formula of the first song with slow tempo drums and has a vocal performance and verse by artist Teezo Touchdown that has great chemistry with Lil Yachty, who himself is vocally perfect on this song. Like the rest of the album, it’s an unpredictable good mess, like the pitch of the electric guitar in the background, and there are so many different sounds on this song even just random futuristic sounds that makes it the good mess that it is.

“Running Out of Time” is a turn on this album where we get a beachy, or summer anthem, for an instrumental sounding like a song produced by Calvin Harris. The song really sounds like a song from Calvin Harris’s album ‘Funk Wav Bounces Vol.1’ but Yachty adds the sounds we keep hearing which are stuff like distorted instruments pitching up or just some futuristic sounds/synths

“pRETTy”. The next song opens up with a great line and this is also where we get Yacthy’s best singing on the album with his auto-tunes distorted and a great feature by artist Foushee that goes perfectly on this song. It’s all about partners and relationships as well as self-love. The song doesn’t have those futuristic sounds but instead has distorted drums as well as background vocals by both Foushee and Lil Yachty.

“:(failure:(“ is more as an interlude where Yachty reflects on his failures and also reflects on how it is to fail. He talks almost like he’s talking to a therapist or even in the position of a therapist giving advice on things that he’s experiencing now like being rich and famous, but also how you should deal with freedom. He gives his own perspective on what failure means to him.

“THE zone~” goes back to those slow-tempo songs. The song elevates this formula higher by keeping it slow the whole time and adding in some great instruments like electric guitar and has Lil Yachty go in more emotionally and vocally perfect once again. This song has way deeper lyrics than the rest of the songs and it makes more sense given the emotion Lil Yachty has behind his singing. One of the most underrated songs on the album that really makes you feel something with the song kinda like the artist Tame Impala.

“WE SAW THE SUN!” is part two of “THE zone~” with the same beat and even having the best transition in the album. It builds off nicely from the previous song, and being also one of the longer tracks at 5:31 of runtime, it fully immerses you into the vibe of this album. Even when mostly just the instrumental with background humming by Lil Yachty, it’s a song that makes you feel great and there is nothing more a song can accomplish than that.

“drive ME crazy!” is the most popular song on the album and it is deserved by the amazing and upbeat feeling this song has from its great instrumental that incorporates a bassist and violinist that elevates the instrumental and makes a difference to the sound altogether. The artist: Diana Gordon takes this song up a level with her phenomenal vocal performance on the song. She brings this great vibe that Lil Yachty mimics in the song, completely having a great first half. The second half is a little Yachty where he goes and raps on the previous instrumental with most of the instruments gone.

“IVE OFFICIALLY LOST ViSiON!!!!” is the most abstract song on the album beginning with elevator music and transitioning into distorted screams by Lil Yachty, with the instrumental slowly turning into chaos as it gets heavily distorted. 1 minute after this, the real song starts, and is a great explosion of many instruments. This is one of the best songs on the album by far. It has everything great about every song previously and has great transitions within the song that just add to the amazing experimental instrumental. Yachty talks about mental health on this and does it well by singing with straight emotion in the second half of the song. The instrumental stands out because of its use of electric guitar, which instead of being a background instrument, is the loudest in the whole song making it sound super explosive and colorful.

“sAy sOMETHINg” pulls back on the explosiveness of the previous song and it’s all about a relationship of Yachthy’s which makes the song more vibey than immersing. It’s overall a great song but it just doesn’t stand out enough, other than the topic of the song, except at the end of the song where Yachty makes a great transition into more of an R&B song which flows perfectly and is something Lil Yachty should do more of.

“Paint THE sky” starts off super slow with trippy sounds and Yachty with vocals so autotuned and riverbed that they sound super futuristic and echoey. The song then transitions into the main instrument that incorporates the drums we’ve heard previously on many of the songs from the album, and this song takes the same sound we heard at the end of “sAy sOMETHINg” and makes it more fleshed out with Lil Yachty still singing about the same topic of a relationship that didn’t work out.

“sHouLd i B?” is another amazing track that gives us that explosiveness from the track “IVE OFFICIALLY LOST VISION” but pulls back a little on the heavy electric guitar and pulls back a lot in the verses from Yachty where the instrumental becomes more quiet giving emphasis on what Lil Yachty is talking about, which is regular struggles for a lot of people and also talking about how to keep going forward in those moments. By the end of the song, the guitar picks back which makes a great transition into the next track.

“The Alchemist” starts off really upbeat with the very loud guitar and is a mix of Lil Yachty’s part where he’s talking to everyone who doubted him, and how people would kill for the position he’s in, and how he’ll never listen to the hate a lot of people give him. This message translates into the sound of the song where it sounds like it’s meant to bring out that emotion of confidence everyone has and is one of the most upbeat songs on the album. The artist Foushee, whom we’ve seen a lot of, helps on this track to serve as an interlude and outdo on the track. The parts where Foushee is singing the instrumental go a lot more silent and give even more of an effect for Lil Yachty’s parts of the song by having these quiet moments on the song before going back to the loudness and upbeat instrumental.

“REACH THE SUNSHINE” starts off with artist Nick Hakim singing on purely just an acoustic guitar which Lil Yachty does the same, but then completely transitions into an explosion of a lot of different synths which then go away again to just the acoustic guitar. Nick Hakim then has another verse with amazing ad-libs from Lil Yachty and things pick back up after this verse where we get yet again an explosion of instruments. This song serves its purpose as an outro where it doesn’t provide much lyricisms but brings back the fundamentals of the whole album which is explosiveness, synths, and overall emotion in the instrumentals.

The album starts and ends melodically with the ending of the song bringing back sounds from all the previous songs almost like a conclusion summarizing all the paragraphs in an essay. It’s done theatrical and is something Yachty was going for and that is making you feel something with the music, and it’s something he accomplishes well.

‘Let’s Start Here’ by Lil Yachty is a rich immersive and experimental album that is easily one of the best albums from 2023 and one of the more unexpected successes in music, which is talked about in the album by Lil Yachty. The album does what most albums should focus on and it brings out an emotion or feeling from listening. The album is a modern theatrical experience that most people should listen to, especially those who were already fans of Lil Yachty, and can see his change in sound to that of Tyler The Creator on his similar experimental album ‘IGOR’, which even inspired Lil Yachty for the making of this album.

Editorials/Student Voice

The greater need for free mental health resources

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By: Chloe Rocha

The national suicide hotline is 988. This is a 24/7 hotline available in many different languages. There is also a texting method; the number is 741-741, text Home to start the conversation.

Mental health issues are something that almost everyone deals with. It is not uncommon to experience some signs of mental health issues at one point in your life.

Common signs of mental health issues can include, but are not limited to:

  • A sense of feeling sad or down.
  • Confused thinking or reduced ability to concentrate.
  • Excessive fears or worries, or extreme feelings of guilt.
  • Extreme mood changes of highs and lows.
  • Withdrawal from friends and activities.
  • Significant tiredness, low energy or problems sleeping.

There are also many more signs, these are just a few I have listed.

If mental health is something that everyone can experience but can’t control, then why should we have to pay for the resources to help get better? There may be some resources already available for free, but just because it’s free doesn’t mean that it’s good quality. To get the best out of these resources, it takes money.

I have been on the side of needing mental health resources but not being able to acquire them because of cost. Just recently, I wanted to seek help for something going on in my life, but wasn’t able to receive it because we didn’t have insurance or the amount of money that it would take to pay without insurance.

In Minnesota, the average self pay price for therapy is about $130 according to an article by Talktomira.com. However, the cost of seeing a therapist depends on the number of sessions you desire and book, your location, and many more other factors.

Although therapy is the most common mental health resource there are other alternatives that include:

  • Exercise
  • Meditation
  • Art
  • Music
  • Journaling
  • Reading
  • Peer support
  • Eco-therapy
  • Medication
  • Self help books

Some of these alternatives don’t require money, and are something that you could do on your own time, and in your own space. But these alternatives may not be effective, depending on the person that does these methods.

Events, Getting To Know/History

The history behind Thanksgiving and traditions

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By: Aliana Romo

Thanksgiving is a national holiday that takes place on November 23rd, and is celebrated mainly in the United States and Canada to celebrate the blessings of the year. According to Britannica.com, Americans believe that Thanksgiving is celebrated because it represents the 1621 harvest feast that was shared between the Wampanoag people and the English colonists known as pilgrims. It is also celebrated to give honor and show respect to the Wampanoag people for their support. Canadians though, believe that Thanksgiving has been celebrated in their culture since 1578, because of an expedition by Martin Frobisher in which he gave thanks for his safe voyage. In both countries, Thanksgiving is celebrated to share a meal with loved ones and be thankful for each other.

It takes place in the fall and this overall represents how it’s celebrated, mainly with pumpkin flavored things. Family’s decorate their household with pumpkins, leaves, and turkeys, along with colors such as yellow, orange, brown and red. The decorations provided with Thanksgiving make the feel of it a lot more comfy. Thanksgiving is also, for some people, the last day to celebrate fall, since almost a month later is Christmas, which many people love to start celebrating as soon as possible.

On Thanksgiving day, many traditions are celebrated such as the large meal that is shared and gathered with family members. The food provided on Thanksgiving is supposed to represent a feast. Foods such as turkey, pumpkin pie, ham, mashed potatoes, cornbread, vegetables and much more are usually provided, although it varies in each family.

In my household, everything on Thanksgiving is shared, which usually means my grandfather cooks the turkey and my grandmother makes mashed potatoes and pies. This is done in my household because we all provided something for dinner which makes us all more thankful for each other. Along with that, family members that live in other states and countries come to visit to spend time for Thanksgiving.

Not only on Thanksgiving is a meal shared, but family members also gather together to watch football. Usually on Thanksgiving, there’s many football games and especially in America, football is very important. In my family football is always being watched, so on Thanksgiving there’s a tradition to wear jerseys with fall decorations on them. Thanksgiving is special in my family because we love to cook and be together.

There’s many things about Thanksgiving that make it special. Gathering with loved ones to eat favorite and delicious foods, while being thankful for each other creates a special feeling for people. It gives people a moment to relax with family and friends.

Music/Concerts

‘1989’ album review

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By: Sophie Johnson and Addie Strack

Taylor Swift recently came out with a re-recording of her 5th album, ‘1989’. This was an exciting moment both for her fans and herself as it is one step closer to her being able to own and profit off her own music. This is an achievement that she has been working towards for many years, and since she wasn’t previously able to own her music, she decided to re-record her albums and call them (Taylor’s Version).

‘1989’ is one of our favorite overall albums and we were super excited when she announced the release of ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ last summer. The newly recorded album was released on Friday, October 27th, 2023. Not only did Swift record every single one of the tracks from the original album, but she added five new songs that she had written during the era of this album but chose not to release at the time. These five tracks are called: (from the vault).

One of the vault tracks that we both love is called “Slut”. This song, despite the title having a derogatory meaning, has a beautiful melody and almost a nostalgic sound to it. When listening to the new vault tracks for the first time, this one stood out to us because of the smooth and angelic tone of it. Her voice is almost softer this song but it still holds so much emotion which adds to the effect of the song. This song was our favorite out of all the 5 new vault tracks on the album.

Another one of the vault tracks that we really enjoyed was a song called “Is It Over Now?”. This song has more of an upbeat rhythm than the first one, and we really liked the use of different background instruments to pull the lyrics and the song together. This was our second favorite song out of the vault tracks on ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’.

Overall, we think that the album improved from the original album released in 2014, but there were several tracks on the new album that we wished had stayed more similar to the original. One of these tracks is “I Know Places”. We both loved this song from the original album, and when we heard the new Taylor’s Version of it, we thought it used too much auto tune. However, the auto tune was mostly used in the beginning of the song, and the rest of the song gets better as it goes on.

A lot of the songs were even better that we imagined. “Clean” was arguably the best song on the album and we agree that this was the most improved from the original ‘1989’ album. The bass in this song was really defined and once again the instruments in the background added many different factors to the song.

Another song that we think is better now than the original is a song called “You Are In Love”. The high notes in the song “You Are In Love” were really amazing and a big improvement that we noticed from the original song. In the bridge of this song her voice sounds especially strong and we think that her vocal range and skills have generally improved in these past nine years since the original ‘1989’ was released.

After listening to the newly recorded ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ as well as her other re-recorded albums including ‘Speak Now’, ‘Red’, and ‘Fearless’, we think that the majority of the music sounds better than it did before. The background music fits better with her vocals and overall we think that her singing and vocal abilities improved as she got older, and she also got more talented.

Movies/TV/Theaters

‘FNAF’ movie

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By: Stephanie Caballero Benitez

*Warning: This article contains spoilers

Today, I will be reviewing and summarizing one of the most awaited movies of this year, ‘Five Nights At Freddy’s’. ‘Five Nights At Freddy’s’, also known as ,FNAF’, was originally a game. This game came out during 2014 and gained a large amount of attention from a young audience. Ever since, the game has been rising in popularity. The popularity allowed for this game to continue to make 9 more games starting from 2014 all the way to 2021. The creators of this game also made some books in addition to the games; the books explain some of the lore behind the game.

In this movie, we start with a scene of the main character, Micheal Schmidt, also known as Mike. Micheal Schmidt is an adult that has custody over his sister, with no other family to care for her he takes the responsibility to do so. Mike struggles to keep a job and suffers from the same nightmare every night. His nightmare every night is about the day that his younger brother Garret was taken. He allows these nightmares to happen and continue because he feels as if he pays more attention to every detail that he will somehow figure out who took his younger brother.

After consulting a work counselor, Mike gets offered a night job as security at a place that shut down. He isn’t told a lot of information about this place besides having to keep people out at night.

At first he refuses it as he has his younger sister to take care of during the night, but later on he accepts. He leaves his sister with one of his neighbors and takes the job.

This job is more unusual than the other jobs he has had; there are animatronics that give off a sinister vibe. During the night he falls asleep and has the same repeated nightmare but this time 5 different children appear; they stare at him and run away when he tries to approach them. During these nightmares he tries to stop the children, and each time he tries he gets hurt in the dream but also out of the dream. Soon he finds out the animatronics aren’t just animatronics, they also have the souls of children trapped in them making these animatronics aggressive.

We also find out later that Mike’s younger sister has been talking to the souls of those children. In  return for information on who was responsible for his younger brother’s disappearance, the souls ask him to give them Abby, his younger sister. He agrees but later on regrets it. The animatronics try to get Abby into a suit that would kill her and turn her into one of them.

Mike and Vanessa stop them. Vanessa is a town sheriff that meets Mike on his first night of the job. While all this happens, another person shows up, a person in an animatronic suit. This person turns out to be the job counselor, also known as William Aston, also known as Vanessa’s father. William controls the children with fear and makes them attack everyone who enters the place. William gets upset at the fact his own daughter is helping Mike, so he stabs her, leaving her in a coma.

Abby communicates with the animatronics on what the truth is behind their deaths through drawings. She draws them a picture of William killing them which makes them turn on him. When they turn on him the spring locks on his suit go off causing him to be in extreme pain. As the animatronics attack William, Abby, Vanessa, and Mike get out of the pizzeria.

The movie overall is a really good movie, although I feel disappointed in the horror theme. Their animatronics weren’t as off putting as they are in the video games and they didn’t have many scenes where I would call them scary. As a fan of many years, I also think that the lore they chose to follow is a bit confusing as William is supposed to have a son named Micheal but in the movie instead he has a daughter. Some theorize that the movie followed the books more instead of the games, which is a bit disappointing as most of their audience follows the game lore. Overall, this movie gets a 8/10.  You can see ‘FNAF’ in theaters and on Peacock.