Thursday, April 30, 2009
The Wrong Door
My prediction is that the story is going to be like The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe but cut in half. Instead of two boys and two girls, it’s going to be one boy and one girl. I think that because the book is called The Magician’s Nephew and a nephew is a son of a mother or father’s sister or brother and the boy in the story will need help if he goes to the land of Narnia.
I read through the first chapter and found out that my prediction was sort of correct. It was about a boy with a help of a girl, but they didn’t get to Narnia yet. Instead they got into a tunnel in the girl’s house (Polly) and accidentally found themselves in the boy’s house (Digory). That was his uncle’s study room.
I have three questions. What is Digory’s uncle’s job? I think he might be a librarian because he has a lot of books and also my grandmother is a librarian.
Do I think Digory’s uncle is a bad character? Yes because he shut the door were the children appeared and now they are all locked.
My third question is: Why did Polly disappear when she touched a ring? Maybe she disappeared
because she might have crossed the portal into Narnia and she didn’t notice.
I have problems with the word grubby. I thought it meant stinky and dirty. I thought that because I reread the sentence and the evidence [clues] were ‘’It would have been grubbier if he had first rubbed his hands and then cried and then dried his face with his hands’’.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Rabadash the Ridiculous
I’m reading the last chapter of The Horse and His Boy. My prediction is that the Narnians will ground Rabadash by making him feel ridiculous.
After reading this chapter I figured out that I was right. Aslan appeared in the middle of Rabadash’s trial and turned him into a donkey.
I have a few questions. Why do people call him Rabadash the Peacemaker? Because if he went 10 miles away from Tashbaan’s temple even if he were human, he would once again turn into a donkey forever. And he never had a fight or war ever again. That is why he never fought again.
After his death, why do people call him Rabadash the Ridiculous? They called him Rabadash the Ridiculous because people in Tashbaan saw him turning from a donkey into a human and that was really funny.
Did I like this book? I liked it very much because it isn’t just about ordinary animals that we can’t understand them, it’s about talking animals and people going into adventures; and about forest where trees can talk. This is not a normal book, it’s an extraordinary book.
I didn’t know the word kennel, so I read the whole paragraph and I found a clue that helped me find the definition of the word. The clue was “doggy hands”. The word Kennel means a big cage for dogs.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
How Bree became a wiser horse
After reading this chapter, I figured out that Bree became wiser than before, first because he finally met Aslan and second because he figured out that his friend Shasta was a prince of Anvard, son of King Lune and prince Corin’s brother.
The names of twin princess or princes in Archerland have to be at least close to being the same. For example, in this story Corin found his brother Shasta and now Shasta’s name is Cor. If I were a prince in Archerland my brothers’ names would have been Gab (for Santiago) and Gabr (for Cristobal).
My favorite part in this chapter is when Aslan appeared behind Bree when he was not noticing. Since Aslan is a legend in Narnia, he can moves anywhere he wants quiet as a Mouse. I would love to met Aslan and he to tell me more adventures about him.
The word I have problem was halberds and it means a pike fitted an ax head. I used the online dictionary to find this definition.