Genres
The bunker diary is a thriller for teens and young adults.

(Main) Characters;
Linus Weems
Linus is a sixteen-year-old boy and comes from a wealthy family. For the most of his life, he shared the house with his father. His father creates comic books, and his mother passed away when he was very young. After the death of Linus’ mother, his father started to have a drinking problem. He disliked the boarding school he had to go to as well. This resulted in Linus moving to live on the streets. There he played the guitar, begged for money or food and just tried to survive. One morning Linus wanted to help an supposedly old and blind man who was trying to lift a heavy suitcase in a van. He offered to help and climbed into the old man’s van. Before he realised there was something wrong, a cloth with chloroform got pressed against his face. Later that day he woke up in a bunker which he couldn’t escape from.

Jenny Lane
Jenny is a nine-year-old girl. She used to live in a loving family with a father and a mother. She is a sweet, brave, smart and innocent girl. In the time they were in the bunker, she got close with Linus. They slept in the same room and spent the first days together. She was the youngest one who was kidnapped and put into the bunker. And Linus was very protective of her as an older brother.

Anja Mason
Anja was a young blonde attractive woman in her late twenties. For a living, she was selling houses in the City. She was a very confident woman and used to get what she wants. She was also very selfish. When she was locked up in the bunker, she was hiding food from the people in the bunker. At the end, she was the one who got crazy and got strangled.

Fred
Fred was a huge man, tall and robust. He was addicted to heroin, and you could see the track marks on his arms. He was very helpful to Jenny and Linus in the bunker. Although, when ‘the Man Upstairs’ send down heroin, he got addicted once again. He saved the lives of the others by killing the starving Dobermann. Fred murdered Bird during their time there because Bird was trying to murder Jenny.

William Bird
Bird was working as a Management Consultant in London before he got kidnapped. He was in his late thirties, and he was an overweight man with curly black hair. He was selfish and bossy, and he only liked Anja. He was the one who got bit by the Dobermann. He got rabid, and because of that, he got crazy. There was a possibility that he murdered Anja and Russell because of that.

Russell Lansing
Russell was a quite famous author of a book called ‘Time and Staff: Natural Philosophy in the 21st Century’. Linus admired him because of his wise words and the book he wrote. He was an African American man and was quite old. Russell was homosexual, and he had one glass eye. He had a brain tumour, and because of that, he was confused at the end.

'The Man Upstairs’
There wasn’t a lot of information about ‘the Man Upstairs’, but they all said he was a middle-aged or old man with dark hair and he must have been strong. He was the one who kidnapped the six people and played with their lives. The Man Upstairs was only a nickname because no one knew his true identity and they had no idea about what his motives were.

Timeline and Setting
Setting
The setting of the Bunker Diary is the bunker itself. The exact location of the bunker is unknown but it is somewhere in the United Kingdom. The bunker has a kitchen, a bathroom, a living room, six bedrooms and a hallway that connects everything. The bunker also has a lift where the foods and new people get down in the bunker.

Time
The exact year the Bunker Diary is taking place is unknown as well, but I think it’s around 2005 – 2020 because there has been some mentions about mobile phones and internet. The days get mentioned because it’s written in diary style. It begins at the 30th of March and goes on until the 21st of March. It goes on some more pages but Linus doesn’t write the days after that. Only Saturday, Sunday and Saturday. At the end there are some blank pages.

Title explanation
Why is it called this way?
The book is called the Bunker Diary. The book is called this way because it is written in a diary style from the perspective of Linus. He was locked into a bunker with some other people in a bunker. The bunker was the main problem in this book, that’s why it is called the Bunker Diary.

Do I think it’s a fitting title?
Yes, I think it is a fitting title. It summarizes where the book is about. If you think about a Bunker Diary you immediately think it must be a diary about a bunker. I think a lot of people get curious about this title because what kind of bunker is this and what happens in the bunker?

Theme
Summarize the book in one to two words or a small sentence
‘Real’ life isn’t fair.

I think this summarizes especially the ending. The Bunker Diary has a unexpected but tragic end. There are a lot of bad events in this book and with each one it just doesn’t seem fair. You feel sorry for the characters because they die, get bitten, are starving or feel very sick. In your mind you keep thinking why it happens and there just doesn’t come up an explanation. It isn’t fair that these characters are being forced to live and eventually die that way.