Checkpoint #3: Reading Skills

    No matter how much greed you have, as long as theres a little bit of hope inside of you, you can recover.

      Artemis Fowl is a book I liked so much I read it again, I really like the magical univerese. When I was reading this book I was thinking about the life lesson it taught me, or the theme. So what I came up with for Artemis Fowl was: No matter how much greed you have, as long as theres a little bit of hope inside of you, you can recover. No, its not the best life lesson in the world. But I thought it fit very well with the book. This book was really good for me because I guessed and I was utterly wrong in every single way and that was cool for me to see me proven wrong and to have a good plot.

     In the very beginning of the book Artemis was overrun by the thought of "We need more money" just like in the short story the "Rocking Horse". It was neat to compare the two books in my head as I was reading along the novel. Artemis really badly wanted back the money that his father had lost, and to compensate the loss of his father. He believed that his father was still out there.

     In the middle of the novel Artemis was still overcome by greed and had started his plan to get the gold from the faires. It reminded me of when I was a kid, I would go outside and play with friends, Tag. You may be thinking how in the world does Tag relate to a plan to steal gold from faires? Well the anwser to that question is... It doesn't. It relates to whats happening while hes trying to steal the gold. He is really just playing a giant game of tag with the faires making them think that they are a step ahead of him, when really Artemis is a step in front of them.

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       Lastly at the end of the novel, Artemis has stole all of the gold, but made a bargain with an officer on the opposing side for a "wish". He used this wish to actually to not help himself but to help his mother, he helped her depression caused by her lost husband. How this relates to the world is sometimes countries go and help other countries, such as the Haiti earthquake the USA helped out tremendously in the effort to rebuild the country.

Checkpoint #2: Book reccomendation

 


  I have just finished reading this new book, or rather collection of books called Sciencia which I got for a gift. What it is, is a collection of Mathmatics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Astronomy. From reading this book along with my dad, I think that people who want to learn more about Math and science would love this book. It even includes some of the things that we are learning about in Math class. It has formulas from Pythagoras, Isacc Newton, Galileo Galilei, and a whole ton more. There are things you wouldnt expect in a math book such as animals of life and other things in nature. It really intrigued me how much I am actually enjoyed this book, I guess its because math and science are my favorite subjects.

A Confusion of Princes: Continued from last blog

Prince Khemri's character change impacted the theme of the story in such a way that it changes where he went, who he met, and how he saw the universe. Because of how his character developed throughout the story, he was able to meet a girl named Raine, which changed his fate drastically.

Raine changed his life tremendously because of how Prince Khemri began to fall in love with her, and how there was a pirate fleet attacking her planet. As Prince Khemri began to look into the Pirates attacking her home, they were not in fact pirates, but the Imperial Fleet! Because of the situation, Prince Khemri ended up killing himself defending the planet, along with saving Raine. "My eyes were already shut. They had been the whole time. But I felt a darkness come as if I had squeezed my eyelids tight, a spreading darkness that brought with it a biting cold. I guessed I'd failed the test to become an adjuster. But I’d passed the test for being human."(NIX 277). This quote enforces the fact that his personality changes so much that he almost changes from thinking like a Prince to thinking like a human.

Having the perks of being a Prince meant he was soon reborn again with all his memories (a little farfetched I know).  He was soon called to a banquet where 999 other Princes would be joining him at the capital of the empire. As it turns out the Prince who lead the imperial fleet to battle against Raines planet was there and was receiving a medal for her honor!

":Citation. On 212-4456 Prince Atalin 1 <<Identifier>> in

command of ISN Khouresk on routine patrol was attacked

by an illegal squatter fleet of twenty vessels in system

Odkhaz, and destroyed the squatters without loss:"(NIX 286).

        Prince Khemri, soon after he received this message, was appalled by how Prince Atalin was awarded for killing helpless people. So he goes and tries to make it right. Because of the people he met, he started to become more of a human than a prince.

Characterization in A Confusion of Princes

        In A Confusion of Princes Garth Nix begins to develop the character Prince Khemri at the very first chapter of the book. Prince Khemri has a very selfish attitude at the beginning of the novel, and ignores most of the people around him.
     
        An example of this is, "Also, it would mean putting myself into a hierarchy of Princes where I would be the lowest of the low. It would be much more fun to simply go somewhere interesting and be a prince at large, preferably the only one around. Then I could do whatever I wanted." (NIX 16). This shows very well how Prince Khemri was a very arrogant person at the beginning of the story. He does not want to put himself into a position where he would not be at the top.

         Prince Khemri is a dynamic character an example towards the end of the book shows his interactions with people, "But it Would also be the first step away from Raine. Did I really want to leave Raine and return to the empire?"(NIX 250).  This shows that Prince Khemri cares for someone and he isn't the selfish person he was at the beginning of the novel. He is questioning himself about staying with Raine or doing his duty and returning to the empire of which he owes his life.

       Prince Khemri is a dynamic character because Prince Khemri has changed from who he was into a different person. He also has changed his personality along with his thinking process. This is how I realized that theme was in fact don't let arrogance blind you.