Blogger Reflection

Click here to view my best blog post. In this blog post, I anylize how the complex characters of the book change over time. I also state variouse differences bettween charaters prior to main events in the book. I tell how Eragon transforms from a poor farm farm boy, to one of thr most powerful people in all of Alagaesia. I also give comparrisons to him and other major character in the series. I explain how his tanformation advances the plot and carries the theme. And finally, I give textual evidence to support what i have just said.
One of the struggles i had with blogging was that my book was just to big. It was almost impossible to get specific evidence from the text unless i had read some within the day. Also if i could not find any, I would resort to going to one of the prior books for help. One of the easiest ways of overcoming it was just to google things instead of having to look through several hundred pages of book. One strength that i did have, was that having a big book meant having a lot more information and things to use. Although it was hard finding some thing that exactly fit, it was still a lot easier to blog with.

Characters of the Inheritance cycle

In the first book of the series, eragon is just a poor farm boy, he can barely fight and is pretty freaking stupid. Now in the last book , Eragon has spent months with the gratest warriors in all of Alagaesia. He has also spent a great amount of time studying with some of the greatest elvish scholars. He has the the finest armor and even a dragon riders sword of his own. To make a comparison, in the first book, His cousin Roran was only two years older, but twice his size and strength. Now, Eragon is stronger and taller than Roran. Theses things have greatly advanced the plot and theme by changing out comes that normally would not have happened if the character would not have progressed.

Russian meteor chunk recovered from a lake near Chelyabinsk

Days ago, scientists recovered what would be largest part of a meteor in the last century. The meteor that fell in February injured more than 1,600 people with its shock wave. The blast was estimated to be stronger than 20 Hiroshima blasts. The meteor weighed 570 kilograms ( 1,256 pounds) and was recovered from a lake. The chunk is just believed to be a small portion of the meteor. 

Starting up Inheritance

WOW. I started reading Inheritance, the last book in the inheritance cycle, and thought to my self :"This is going to be a challenge". This book is 849 pages long! There are about 250 words per page, so that means that there are 212,250 words in this book! I also averaged that there were six letters per word (not including space) which mean that there are a total of 1,273,500 characters in the entire book! WOOOOOOOW. The other books were bad enough. The first was 509 pages, the second was 668 pages and the third was 749 paged long that makes the total character count EVER to 4,162,500! I never knew that was even possible to read that much... I think I might eventually read the Game of Thrones series. They are all just as long and there are SEVEN of them...

Tone and Mood of Inheritance

In the book so far , nothing really happy, has happened , there has just been battles and a lot of killing.Half the time it talks about goring a rival soldier or being stabbed in battle... I'm am going to say that the mood of this story is morbid. Every one is miserable. The have been fighting non stop to reclaim Alagaesia while they get little done. On the other hand, I will say the tone of the story is gruesome. Everything is blood or gore, killing vast amounts of petty soldiers or one on one duels with shades. Indeed is it gruesome. So far, that's all this book has been, but I'm only a third of the way through it, so I hope that will change.

"Abandoned gold bars at train station baffle German police"

So today, I read a story on the huffington post about suitcase full of gold and euro bills found at a German train station. At Cologne's main railway station, workers found a bag including several kilos in gold and a stack of euro bills with a six digit worth. Authorities were baffled, especially since someone just left it there.  Police said that they could not trace it to any know crime. If no one claims it, the gold will be sold

I'm going to talk about the characterization of the book The Enchantress. The two main characters of the book are the twins, Josh and Sophie. Both of them love adventure, discovering new things and meeting new people. A crucial part of them is that the stick together and that is when they work best. they a care deeply about each other and when something bad happens as seen in this quote, you realize how important they are to each other: "I will never forget you, Sophie whispered. I will always remember you, Josh promised"(Scott 491).

 My summer reading book was: the Night Circus. During the book, we see the two main characters grow up; literary. the book begins when they are small children and ends when they are in their thirties. We see them change due to the stress of the competition and the byproduct of  magic. the characters fall in love, but tensions will the contest test their love. They soon realize they cannot be together because to win the game, a player must die. Many of the side characters affect the characters as well. For instances, the death of Lainie Burgess occurs, the entire circus stops.

1. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/11/night-circus-erin-morgenstern-review