Courage

Courage.

Courage is, judging by Encarta dictionary, “The ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action.”

Courage is the theme of the Alex Rider Series.

Alex rider works hard doing hard tasks and solving mysteries. While he’s doing this he usually in danger. He needs a metaphorical ocean of courage to do so. He has so much courage he races evil multi billionaires, at 100 mph, in a unprotected Go-Kart and then could it again the next day.  His metaphorical ocean seeps into the whole book series, making the theme courage. After that Alex Rider still has courage to spend, getting ignored by his employers when he’s in danger and then almost being directed by an evil  Doctor, doesn’t dry his metaphorical ocean of courage. In fact he evens forgives MI6 for ignoring him and helps them more later!  

Like Alex Rider, Eragon Shadeslayer from the Inheritance series has a whole metaphorical  castle of courage. He rode a dragon without a safety harness and happily did it again. He also leads battles against evil king Galbitorix. He also gets injured  during battles and that doesn’t even takes out a metaphorical brick of courage.

I am awed by Alex Riders still Metaphorical ocean of courage.

Courage is important in characters in books because you don’t always want your knights fleeing from battle like demons fleeing a holy man. No, you don’t want that you want your characters standing up for themselves fighting bears and saving lives. As you now see, courage is important in fictional characters but courage is still important in real life too. It is healthy to be courageous In real life. You may not have to fight zombies or defeat evil.  But you may have to go down into the “haunted”  basement full of weird groans and moans.

“60 seconds later” narrator said.

Alex was tightrope walking between  buildings.

He took another step, feeling the heat of the burning building behind him.  He tried not to rush, one wrong step and he could have a long fall to the ground.

He was in the middle of the wire. He didn’t try to think about his sooty sweaty hands that could possibly drop his counterweight. He was scared the roof behind him was melting and the pole that hold the wire was burning. He was almost there. a fire truck came  wheoooeooeing towards him.  He was a yard away.

 Suddenly all H-E double snooker sticks broke loose!  The roof exploded sending debris towards him. He ducked losing balance and dropping his balancing stick. The pole holding him snapped sending him falling towards the hard ground. “At least I tried,” he thought grabbing for the wire.  He grabbed it. Wham! The rope tightened out. Alex’s fairly short life flashed before his eyes. He Thought, “ Uggh! I should have never became a spy.” Alex was rammed against a window head first, breaking it.

He fell into the broken window unconscious and  lacerated.

I think this could happen because  Alex is very athletic and he always tries to try his hardest to survive. Also this could happened because there was a wire connecting the two buildings and the roof was going to burn. This reminds me of a person in  one of the twin towers while they were burning . Everyone tried to get out of the towers.  Plus this could happen because the roof was tar and that means it could melt. As well, I think this could happen because I read ahead after I wrote the prediction and this almost happened. 

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David Rain

In The Fire Within, the main character, David Rain, a quite normal 20 year old guy,  moves in to a house as a tenant.  The moment he settles in the house he starts changing.

He gets used to things

·         He gets used to seeing inanimate clay dragons everywhere in the house.

·         The daughter of the owner, Lucy, is annoying, always  yammering on about squirrels and running around the garden looking for them. David gets used to it and after he gets used to Lucy yammering, he actually becomes friends with her and starts liking squirrels.

·         He gets used to His neighbor Henry, A strict squirrel hating Librarian

·         When a mysterious Aunty Gwyneth comes to stay and David is moved to a different room, he gets used to it.

·         He gets used to the Pennykettles Cat, Bonnington.

·         After he is affected by aunty Gwyneth’s potion he gets used to being able to talk to dragons

 He changes his habits.

·         The owner of the house (Liz Pennykettle)  doesn’t like him to chop carrot peels into the sink.

He learns.

·         You mustn’t Make a dragon cry. it’ll cry its fire tear and it won’t be special anymore.

·         Bonnington Likes Chunky Chunks Cat Food

·         He learns how to speak dragon.

·         He learns how to see Dragons move.

David reminds Me of Eragon Shadeslayer from Eragon, They both change a lot in their books also they both have something to do with Dragons.

As you can plainly see, David is no longer a normal 20-year-old guy.

The sinking

In the life of pi, lots of interesting things happen,  and most of them are cause and effect cycles ( when someone does something and that effects something and that effects something else). The main event is when the ship sinks.

                pi wakes up and notices something isn't right.
                So the ship starts to sink and that’s the cause. So pi and everyone on the boat wants to get on the lifeboat and that’s an effect. There’s a hyena  on the boat because it jumped in there before everyone else, and that’s a cause.If the hyena didn't get in everyone else would and later everyone would probably be eaten By Richard Parker or they might have starved. Subsequently, pi is let on the lifeboat first  because no one wants to get in (pi doesn’t know there are animals in the lifeboat)and that is another effect. If pi didn't get in he would have died.   A lion gets in the lifeboat, that’s a cause. Then the hyena, a zebra and a few mice get eaten, that’s an effect.

                

Every day

Every day I make lots of choices. Yes or no, Should I or shouldn’t I, 5 or 973.596, and true or false are some of them. there are so many things that happened in my life  and most of them required a choice and that choice and what happened after I made my choice is also known as Cause and effect.

                One day I, a young boy of 6, wanted to watch Godzilla. So I decided to ask my mom. And she decided that I could watch Godzilla. I was psyched, I never watched Godzilla  before so guess what I did? I chose to run around my couch until the movie was ready. Next, my feet decided to slip on the ground so I slid into my wooden banister and bit my lip very hard. So then My mom chose to get me a small cloth to hold on my lip. After that we drove to the Doctor ( it was my mom’s great decision). The doctor decided that I didn’t need stitches so we went home.

Bold + underline= decision word (cause word).

Bold + underline+ italics= What happened.

conflict

Harry Potter (entire series) Conflicts

The main conflict is Person vs. person. Which is Harry vs. Lord Voldemort and the conflict is resolved when harry kills lord Voldemort with Voldemort’s own spell (in Harry potter and the Deathly Hollows).

Another conflict is person vs. society. The person vs. society topic is Harry vs. society when everyone thinks he opened the chamber of secrets (in book 2) and  keep being petrified. For many weeks harry is being shunted by many other kids an. The conflict is resolved when harry solves the mystery and figures out that a basilisk has been petrifying all the muggle-borns. 

Inheritence series reveiew

When young eragon found a stone in the woods whilst he was hunting he never knew it would be a dragon ( a seemingly extinct animal) egg. When he touched the dragon he got a weird mark on his hand, the mark of a dragon rider a group  of people who used to look over the land but evil king galbitorix and this army killed every last one.  now a year later eragon and the varden are trying to over through king galbitorix , who will win the last fiery war , will the elves help eragon will eragon slay king galbitorix will the varden protect analgesia. But before you get  all excited about this book  I suggest reading the first 3 where gragon goes on his first adventures as a dragon rider and meats friend and sadly also loses friend I high ly suggest the Inheritence series by Christopher Paolini.

A small lake

If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter. - Terry Pratchett

This is a weird quote i take it as it means to use logic.
I agree this is a logical quote 1+1=2 salt+ butter= salty butter
at home when i eat corn on the cob and i put salt and butter on it it tastes salty buttery.

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