Elijah


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__Brisingr__ By Christopher Paolini

I think it is a very good book for two reasons,one the subject and the storyline and two,how the author writes it. He uses such detail and he really has a feel of how the books going to go. The amazing thing is he was only 15 when he started writing the books.

 One time I saw the word coronation. I was not sure what it meant so I had to make an inference. I had no background knowledge. The sentence was "Even if Saphira failed to repair Isidar Mirthim, She should be present for the **coronation ** of the dwarves' new ruler. From that I thought that it meant election.

I am almost done with Brisngr but I still have a few pages. With the inference I was able to make since of the text. One example of when he is descriptive is when Eragon receives his new riders sword. He goes in great detail with the carvings and color and the scabbard.In the book I found a part that I thought was really neat. It was were the Chistopher Paolini said "He thought he could live on scent alone". Another thing I think is good about the book is all the names he comes up with for the characters. Some of the really neat ones are Eragon, Arya, Islanzadi,Nasuada,Ajihad,and Blodhgram. It is my favorite book and I have read it 4and a half times and I would suggest reading it highly. **Elijah, I'm glad to read that you are making inferences to figure out the meaning of words. Even though coronation doesn't exactly mean election, that was a very logical inference with the information in the rest of sentence. Were you able to understand the meaning of the overall text using your inference?

Make sure that you "tell me more!" For example, what is the subject of your book that is so interesting? Could you provide an example or two from the book where the author uses a lot of detail to enhance the story? I agree that it is amazing that the author was only 15 when he started this successful series.

Ms. McCarthy **

First Light January 25 It is about a boy who goes with his father to Greenland. The neat part about the book is that it has two stories going on the same time. The other part is about a girl named Thea that lives under the ice or something like that. I'm guessing that the two stories meet up or intertwine somehow but I'm not sure. There is this one part were The boy Peter has this sled dog in Greenland. The book says "Peter had been warned over and over that sled dogs weren't pets in Greenland. Here dogs were fed and tied to stakes outside until needed for travel or to hunt". Even though Peter hears this over and over he still acts like his dog Sasha is a pet. I have a text to self connection. I have seen many animals that even though they are wild they still seem like they should be pets. The author uses some neat languge. For example he is explaining there tent and he says "a golf ball half submerged in ice". I also have a text to text connection with city of Ember. Both books have a civilazation under the ground with a shortage of every thing. Both also have a kid about 15 trying to save the civilazation and get suplies. I started reading he book because Jack suggested it and because it is a Caudile. So far it is a really good story.

1/25/10 Elijah, You are doing excellent thinking about your book! I too would imagine that the two stories will connect at some point, otherwise it would seem like the author should have written two different books. As an animal lover myself, I would find it difficult to not treat the sled dogs like pets. What are some themes that you have been able to infer in //First Light//? With //First Light// and //City of Ember,// it sounds like the authors might have messages about our world right now and what they think could happen if we don't make some changes.

Ms. McCarthy

The white girrafe In my book the main character hardly has any friends. Her parents got killed in a fire and she had to go to africa and live with a grandmother she never knew she had. Therefor she feels like an out cast. There is this one boy named ben that also has almost no friends. She keeps saying she will try to make friends with them but her courage keeps deserting her. Since this is the case my advice to the question "if you were the main characters best friend what advice would you give the main character is to try to make friends with Ben.It might just be that you turn out to be best friends since your both lonely. Plus he may help you get over losing your parents and except that you live in Africa. That is the advice I would give the main charater if I was her best friend.

February 9, 2010 Dear Elijah, Your book sounds interesting and unique. I can understand why your character feels like and outcast and why her courage deserts her. Personally, I can't imagine what it would be like to loose my parents and then to loose everything that was familiar to me by moving to a new place and live with an unknown relative. Your advice that she try to connect with Ben is smart. It sounds like they are both lonely and could use a friend. Even if Ben didn't lose his parents and have to move, he might relate to the main character because of the loneliness. Are there clues or foreshadowing in the story that make it seem like the two of them might become friends? Sincerely, Ms. McCarthy

2/16/10 The main theme to my story is lonleness and friendship. I think this because it often talks about how lonely martine is. Another reason is that she keeps making a better relationship with the girrafe. They are becoming best friends. A thing in the book that helps my point is when the auther says"all martine knew was that she needed a friend". This is right before she finds the white girrafe.That is why I think that is the main theme.

2/17/10 Dear Elijah, You do a great job supporting your ideas about the theme with proof from the book. I think you will notice over time that there are some basic themes such as friendshipa and good verses evil that occur frequently in popular stories.

Has your character developed any type of friendship with Ben as you suggested? If so, how is that going?

Sincerely, Ms. McCarthy

2/22/10

Right now I am reading a book called Dolphin song. It is the sequal to The White Girrafe. It is about a school trip martine goes on. Right now Matine isn't in any trouble. Recently though she was having very bad dreams about sharks since the trip was watching the sardine run on a boat for ten days. She deals with it by trying not to fall aslep. She positons books so that they will fall and wake her up if she falls aslep. The problem is that she was so tired that she didn't here them and had the nightmares.I would try sleeping in half hour or thirty minute shifts so I wouldn't have time to start dreaming.

3/15/10

In my book the main character, Jack is a bards apprentice. One day when he is swimming he finds a box. He takes it to the bard and he says that they are gathering. A couple days later one of the towns people spots a n aproaching wolfship. The villagers all go to the forest and the bard and Jack call up fog. The Berserkrs still capture Jack and his 7 year old sister lucy. Before they captured them there was a couple seconds Jack could of escaped, he didn't. I would of done the same thing. I would of done this because Lucy was captured and she wouldn't stand a chance. I would have thought that even if we die we can die together. 4/16/10 If I could be any character i would be Bree. Bree is a talking horse from Narnia in the Horse and His Boy. I would want to be Bree because he is a talking horse. It would be neat to be a talking horse because every one would respect you. That is one reason I would like to be Bree. Another is that when you could talk you could commincucate with people. THAT IS WHY i would like to be Bree. 4/20/10

Right now I am reading The Lone Wolf. It is the Wolves of the Beyond series. It is about a wolf pup that was abandoned and how he survives. He was tacken in by a grizzly but the bear got killed in the earthquake. I want to know what happned to the bear. He is also in the outercast looking for the bear whos name is thunderheart. He met some wolves and scared them off. They were an unorganized pack and it dosen't mention them again. I wonder what happened to them. That is what is happening in my book.