The Journey

Recently I started reading "The Capture" by Kathryn Lasky, I posted the beginning part of this summary in the previous blog post. This book is extremely short and the summary in the previous blog post is sufficient to understand it. After finishing it I started reading "The Journey", this book is the second book in its series and is about when Sorren, Gyflie, Twilight and Digger, escape St. Aggies academy for Orphaned Owls, and go in search for the Great Ga'Hoole tree where each night owls go do something good for the world, and do noble deeds. Along the way they find a peculiar burrowing owl named Digger, who has also heard about the legendary tree and wishes to accompany the lot. When they finally reach the Great Ga'Hoole tree, Sorren is enlisted as a fighter under his mentor Ezylrb. Ezylrb helps Sorren become a mature owl, and teaches him how to fight smart, using fire as a weapon (the "harvest" fire by collecting it on twigs from forest fires, kind of a far out concept). But Sorren has dificulty focusing because he wonders what has happened to his sister, and if his brother pushed Egaltine out of the nest like he had to Sorren. That's all I read for now, I might get a different book though this series is extremely weird.

The Capture

After concluding that Fahrenheit 451 was a horrible and boring book, with an extremely confusing story line (with the soap opera wall and etc.). I decided to read a new book called The Capture by Kathryn Lasky. This book is the first one in a long series. The story revolves around a fantasy world of owls. But these are extremely sophisticated and intelligent. At a young age these owls go into different "careers" such as search and rescue (to recover owls lost in battles). The story starts out as Sorren is in his tree with his family waiting the arrival of his new baby sister. When she does hatch out of the egg Soren is obsessed with her (Egaltine) and cannot bear his excitement. That night Sorren falls out of his tree (which is found out to be his evil brother Kludd).One fledgling, named Soren is kidnapped by a different "evil" group of owls and starts being brain washed, along with hundreds of other young owls. Sorren befriends one of the owls who is resisting the mind-wipe, named Gyflie (along with himself). And the two of them explore the canyon they are in (the canyon prevents the owls from flying out because they (aren't strong enough yet). Gylfie and Soren are both assigned duties in the pelletorium, (they dissect pellets to find pieces of metal to make metal talons to battle with) where they learn that that at every new moon that bats suck the blood from the breasts of the owls so their bones become brittle and they can't fly (the moon-blinked (mind-wiped) owls think this is wonderful). And that was were I left off, I think I'm gonna have nightmares tonight because this is a really creepy book.

Fahrenheit 451 (pt. 1)

This book written by Ray Bradbury, is a depiction of a futuristic United States where nuclear wars have ruined the entire world. The book begins with a grim scene showing firemen burning all the books in a house, and the house itself. One of the firefighters name is Guy Montag; he wears a helmet with the number 451, which apparently is the temperature that paper burns. On his uniform there is a salamander and a "phoenix disc" on his chest. On his way back from his job, he keeps looking back, sensing a presence. He finally sees a girl named Clarisse McClellan. Clarisse is able to identify Guy as a firefighter because of the smell of the ashes. She then says that she is crazy, and does abnormal things such as talk with her family, and walk places instead of driving. This passage sets the glum tone of the book, and shows that the future isn't going to be good. Clarisse also says that in the past firefighters used to put out fires, instead of start them. Guy is intrigued by his new neighbor, and randomly starts laughing while Clarisse is talking.

End of a Paradox

So I finally finished Artemis Fowl, and this is my analysis of it:

As always Eoin Colfer begins his book, with a confusing and intellectual conversation. Except this time it's between Artemis Fowl and his baby brothers (their extremely young because he was caught up in a time stream along with a demon Warlock named No. 1). I found this interesting because it seems to be a hook that always works on me, and makes me want to keep reading. Further into the book, when Artemis and Holly have traveled back in time, Holly meets with Commander Julius Root (deceased in the present time), and has an emotional breakdown because she didn't get to see him a few days before he died. This made for a good conclusion to a side story going on between Holly and Root since the first time they met (Root thought it was a joke that a female was trying to be part of the LEP). The story line however, was a bit too confusing at the end when Artemis Jr. comes into the future, and that he has been planning on this paradox to occur for over 13 years. It seemed to me that Colfer ran out of ideas to make this work, and was forced it include something, which he knew that most of his readers would not understand. There were many other good techniques used in the book, which I don't have time to talk, about.

Hint for my next book: has a number in it

Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox (pt. 4)

In Loving Memory of Sudhir Sawant. God wanted the best for himself.

When Artemis rescues Holly and himself from Opal she says that Opal has mesmerized the Extinctionists to bring her the lemur which will give her the ability to control time. Holly and Artemis fly to Fowl Manor, but are followed by Koboi. When Artmis Jr. confronts Artemis he is forced to reveal his identity. Holly and Artemis return to the present with the lemur, after getting some help from the People, and Holly has a emotional breakdown when she sees her old captain (now deceased). Artmemis is about to inject the potion into his mother when he finds out that Opal Koboi has possessed his mother and caused her disease (not Artemis).
When Opal explains how this has happened Artemis reveals that he is actually Artemis Jr.. The older Artemis, meanwhile, fights with the real Opal (with Butler's help) and tranquilizes her. Since she has gained so much power, however, she recovers quickly and chases Artemis as he runs away with a decoy lemur. emis takes Jayjay and flies away from the Manor grounds in a plane, luring Opal away. She destroys the plain that Artemis was in, and Artemis is forced to cross a rope bridge and two large boulders. When Opal finally catches him, she realizes that the lemur is fake. Holly arrives at the scene and Artemis shoots the boulder which Opal is standing on and which is revealed to be the shell of a mysterious kraken, that the People were having trouble finding. The Kraken is about to shed its skin (an island) but explodes prematurely when Artemis shoots it. Opal ends up getting buried in the rubble. When the Lower Elements Police (LEP)go to find her, they find she has disappeared. After the lemur is securely in the hands of the People, Artemis visits his recovered mother, and finds that she remembers everything even though they tried to wipe her. Artemis Jr. has his mind wiped and is sent back 8 years in time.