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.

                                          ////::::WARNING SPOILER ALERT::::\\\\

       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.