The children are kept in a separate room and Eli avoids ever meeting them, knowing that his father plans on using them as "supplements" for the family's diet. Yet Eli is desperately unhappy, as his twin brother Eddy and his grandmother aren't there with him, as they were left outside the compound when his family fled.Īs time passes in the compound, Eli's mother, Clea, gives birth to three children and is ready to give birth to another. It even has the capability to raise livestock, enabling the Yanakakis family to maintain a stable food supply for at least fifteen years, the time it would take for conditions outside the compound to return to habitable levels. The facility is fully furnished and contains everything from a movie theater to an extensive library. His father, the exceedingly wealthy Rex Yanakakis, built it in anticipation of a world-shattering nuclear attack. Bodeen came up with the idea of including cannibalism in the novel after watching a television show where "a dinosaur fed a favorite offspring the bodies of its less fortunate brothers and sisters." Synopsis Įli Yanakakis is a teenage boy who has been living in an underground compound for the past 6 years since he was 9. The book was first released on April 29, 2008, through Feiwel & Friends and centers upon a young man named Eli who has been living in a compound for six years. The Compound is a 2008 fictional young adult novel by S.
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