The Magician’s Nephew
The Magician’s Nephew is the introductory book to The Chronicles of Narnia series. This book is fiction and 183 pages long. The Magician’s Nephew is about a young boy named Digory Kirke and the adventures he has with his neighbor, Polly Plummer.
Digory Kirke is a young boy that lives with his family in London, England. Polly Plummer is a young girl that lives with her family, and next to the Digory. Uncle Andrew is Digory’s uncle and also a magician in his spare time. Uncle Andrew had the rings that lead them to the other worlds. Jadis, otherwise known as the wicked witch from the dying world. Digory’s mother is very ill and so they are staying with his Uncle Andrew in London, England during the summer of 1900. Polly
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An entire world is born before their eyes, and a lion walks towards them. Aslan, talks to each of them except the Witch and Uncle Andrew because they ran away. Aslan makes the cabby a king and makes his wife appear in Narnia and told him that his family would rule over the land. Some of the animals were given the ability to talk to the humans and to be smarter. Digory asks Aslan if he knows a way to save his sick mother. Aslan sends Digory and Polly on an adventure to a tree with magical apples. They take the cabby’s horse, which was turned into a horse with wings. They get there and see the Witch eating the apples from the tree. She tries to get Digory to take an apple and eat it because they give immortality, but Digory takes it back to Aslan. Aslan plants the apple and a tree immediately sprouts. He gives Digory an apple and sends them all home, with Uncle Andrew’s memory erased. Digory gives his mother the apple, and she immediately is healed. Digory plants the seeds left over outside and grows a huge tree. When he is older, the tree falls down because of a huge storm. He builds a huge wardrobe out of the tree and puts it upstairs in his house in the
Her physical journey includes her having to survive working at the Derby farm, and her escape to freedom. Due to her fathers death Polly has to work as an indentured servant for 14 years and is purchased by Mr. Derby. Polly thought, “If I could get assigned to the main house, she thought I would sneak into this room during every free moment” (Draper 139). Her physical journey at the Derby plantation ends with her, Amari, and Tidbit escaping. She grows as a character that even when she asks to work at the main house she realizes that not everything worked out.
Janie's "tree" gets cut down and strangled and destroyed throughout the book in several different events until the day someone walks in and takes the time to repair it. c. THESIS STATEMENT: Janie experiences love in harsh words and beaten down sprit. Never in her marriages has she experienced the unconditional love she desperately craves, until Tea Cake walks in and shows her true love. II. FIRST POINT- MARRIAGE TO LOGAN a. The marriage to Logan began sweet but ended with bitterness.
The boys killed a mama pig horrifically and offered it to the Lord of the Flies. Then Simon died by being stabbed and beaten to death. At the end the boys hunted Ralph and were planning to kill him, until the officer came to the rescue. The schoolboys have lost their innocence and nothing will ever be the
“It had loomed in my memory as a huge lone spike dominating the riverbank, forbidding as an artillery piece, high as the beanstalk” (13). When Gene referred to the tree as an “artillery piece” it is assumed that this tree may have caused destruction. The foreshadowing continues as the story moves on. Gene and Finny seem as though they are best friends, but it is starting to go downhill.
“Mom and Dad smiled at each other and laughed. It was a sound that Tree hadn’t heard from them in the longest time” (132). This shows how Tree wasn’t sure his parents were ever going to get along again, but they end up having a good time. This is an example of how family matters most and hope is always around. This situation gave Tree strength to preserve.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle (Napoleon Hill). In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the tree is an important symbol of growth and courage through difficult times. The main character, Melinda, went through a series of unfathomable events over the summer that put her into a troublesome position. She was raped by a boy named Andy at a party while she was drunk. Scared and confused, she called the cops to come help her, resulting in her losing all her friends.
The author uses of “leaping”, “bounding”, and “generous” to show some of the positive tone shift. This positive tone help show the happy memory that their ancestor experience because of the tree. Because of this sole reason, the characters treasure the tree and decided to keep it there because of the bond it share with the family. The mother and daughter also know that they would, "crawl with shame in the emptiness" meaning that they would be ashamed if they cut the
All of the boys start dancing around the fire and chanting’ “Kill the beast, slit her throat, spill her blood.” and everyone goes into a frenzy. Simon comes out of the forest to tell the boys crucial news, but they are all ready in a delirium. They circle around Simon as if he was something they were hunting, as if he was the beast. They begin to stab him and poor Simon ends up dying.
Not too long after that Ralph saw a ship in the book but a helicopter in the in the movie on top of the mountain. In both stories a big storm occurs. While the storm destroys the island in both the movie and the book, Jack and his tribe steal Piggy's glasses. They eventually gave them back. In both stories Jack and his tribe go after another pig but, this time it’s a sow.
Tree gives the boy his branches so he could build a house. Tree trunk to build boat because the boy wanted to travel. When the boy was young the tree would feed the boy apples and let the boy climb up the trunk and when the boy was tired he would lie in the shade and when the boy was older the tree gave the boy all the apples for him to sell so the boy could have money and have fun
“The bark is rough… the crown reaches for the sun, tall and healthy. The new growth is the best part” (196). The tree represents her finally coming to terms with her emotions, and how she realized that she is strong and has scars that can be outgrown as
The four of them come across a beaver on there journey in Narnia. He takes them home and tells them the truth about Narnia. So they go on there journey to save there brother and Narnia. The book was amazing.
In Narnia, Digory is responsible for bringing in evil through Queen Jadis, who is in actuality a Witch. He put all of Narnia in peril by his action. Now Aslan has to deal with Digory and put things to right. This is the testing point for the young boy. In the same way that in Genesis 1, God said to Adam and Eve that they were not to eat of a certain tree, here Aslan speaks to Digory and says, “But I have to think of hundreds of years in the life of Narnia.
In the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Pip, an orphan raised by his cruel sister, Mrs. Joe, and her kindly husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith, becomes very ashamed of his background after a sudden chain of events which drives him to a different social class. Pip's motive to change begins when he meets a beautiful girl named Estella who is in the upper class. As the novel progresses, Pip attempts to achieve the greater things for himself. Overtime, Pip realizes the dangers of being driven by a desire of wealth and social status. The novel follows Pip's process from childhood innocence to experience.
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