For my book project I chose to create a makerspace button. The symbol on the buttone is a raft, and the words are a little difficult to see from the picture, but they say, “Because I’m not alone… maybe I never was.” The main character, Robie, was in a plane crash that left her and the co-piolet, Max, stuck on a small raft in the middle of the ocean. Max wasn’t much of a talker, and he was mostly very sick. Robie was forced to do most things by herself, and she wasn’t very great at surviving alone. She had trouble finding water and food, and by the end of the book she was starving and severely dehydrated. During Robie’s time on the raft, there was a large leak that was bringing on lots of water. She was forced to push “sleeping” Max off the raft, but made sure he was still floating. A little later after that, Robie loses sight of him and cannot find him anywhere. Robie then finds and island where Max somehow appears. Robie gets rescued by a ship and learns that Max was basically a figment of her imagination. Robie remembers when she pushed Max off the raft and realizes that at the point he was dead. He did save her after the planewreck, but after that he didn’t last long. Robie finds his necklace that had his fingerprint in it of him and his girlfriends from a bag the washed up on shore. She cherishes that necklace forever, which leads her to the quote on the button that says, ” Because I’m not alone… maybe I never was.” Robie knows that Max will always be looking out for her even if he isn’t there, and now she has something to remember him by. All of that time on the raft when she was alone, she still had Max…well… in her mind.
