Friday, February 18, 2011

A Wrinkle in Time.

In chapter 1, It explains about Meg Murry's (who is the main charater) family. She has a younger brother named Charles a mother and a pair of twins , Sandy and Denny. Meg does not really know about her father, who dissapered one day. One stormy night, when Meg decieded to have a midnight snack, Charles was waiting for her. Minutes later mother came down. Charles was explaining about Mrs.Bumcombe, and that this robert stole her "information paper", and that the rober would be wandering at this stormy night. Mother could not stand it so she told Meg that she would go out and find the rober and that she would offer he/her that he/she could stay for the night. Later, she came in with this lady beside her called Mrs. Whatsit. Meg finds out that Chales and Mrs. Whatsit knew eachother because Mrs. Whatsit stole the papers because she needed it. After Mrs. Whatsit warmed up a little bit, she left saying that a tesseract exist. What is a tesseract?

Meg wanted to find out what a tesseract was, because it made mother very frightened. She and Charles went to Mrs. Whatsit's house but insted there was Mrs.whatsit's  friend, Mrs. Who. Then she meets a boy named Calvin who is older than her. Charles invites Calvin to his house for supper, and Calvin seemed excited

After supper,Calvin said that she was lucky to have a great mom.He also kept asking questions and Meg could not handle it so she cried. Charles went to them and said that it was it. Later, Mrs.Whatsit, Mrs. Who appear with their other friend named Mrs. Which. Mrs. Which says that so much to do. So much of what?

In  chapter 4,Meg, Calvin, and Charles got to expirence time traveling. They came to a unkown plante and than Mrs. Whatsit gave them a flower to use it when she said so. Then Mrs. Whatsit got  wings and said   they were going to somplace. They saw this mysterious black thing but never talked to it but kept on looking at it. After Mrs. Who landed and when they could not see the black thing anymore, someone had said that Meg/Charles father was fighting that black thing.


This chapter was basicly about what a tesseract was. They also met this other person called Happy Medium showing about the black thing with her ball. The black thing was covering the earth and it had war with the stars for some reason and the stars won but they lost their lives. The balck thing is just evil so he could live. That was why Meg's Father was fighting it.

In chapter 6 the crystal ball explained that the black thing got to have war with the stars somehow. The stars had won but they had lost their lives. They also found out that Mrs. Whatsit used to be a star and now I am guessing that all the stars who died transform to a person/thing like Mrs. Whatsit. Then after they had said goodbye to Medium, they continued their journey. However the 3 ladies, (the Mrs's) had said that Meg Charles and Calvin should continue without them. They gave them some clues and said that they had to go to this capital city named Camazots.. One of the clues was that Charles would be in the most danger and that Calvin would be able to communicate. Not physically ...

 While they were on their way they saw these people jumping balls without missing a beat. They also talked to a boy Charles age but did not sound like a child. The child had also talked about the CENTRAL Central Intelligence was located in the Camazots. Charles demanded that he had the feeling and that he had to get in that place but on the other hand, Calvin said that he had a terrible feeling.

When they went inside the central park, Charles asked this random man what the concept was around this place. When he explained it, Meg, Charles and Calvin told him that they didn't get it. Frustrated, the man told them that he would be reporting to the IT which they didn't get either. The next thing they knew was that they were in front of lots of machines and the mysterious man wth red eyes was sitting on the chair. He was talking to them, but his lips were not moving. They noticed that he was talking in their brains. He said lots of complicated things, but Charles replied as if he knew what to say.When Charles asked who he was, the man said that he would tell if he followed him. And that moment Meg realized that the man might know about her father. When she asked he said that if only Charles followed him then he ( Chrales) should know . He also promised Charles that he could come back. So Charles agreeded even before Meg could stop him. Meg had to think of something to say before the 2 went. She quickly said that she was hungry and that she wanted food. When the man did give her food, it was pretty delicious according to what Meg and Calvin was saying. However to Charles it tasted like dust. The man said that it was because Charles believed in him. When Charles was about to leave, Meg dropped her bowl and shouted in Calvin's face that the Charles we they were talking to, was not the real Charles they used to be with.

When Meg demanded where the real Charles was, the man replied that the real Charles was the one who Meg was seeing. However, somehow, Meg knew that the Charles he was seeing was fake. Calvin realized that the red eyed man was talking trough Charles. Hso, Calvin asked the man if he can lead the 3 to Mr. Murry. The man replys that Charles with conduct them. And later Meg realizes that they are following Charles. Meg then asks Calvin if he might be able to communicate with "Charles" somehow remembering what the old ladies told the three. While Calvin was almost about to succede the conversation, Charles turned away. They kept walking... Util they saw a transparent colum. And in there, there was...
                                             Mr. Murry.

Meg rushed to her father but bonked her head instead because it was a transparent glass. Then she used a glass the ladies gave her. Meg met his Father and they both came out un the colum safely. Meg explained that this was not the real Charles... Charles was keep on demanding that they had to go see IT. Father had said said no but minutes later, they were facing IT. ..

It was a brain

IT was keep on persuading Meg and Calvin to come to his side. Eventually when they were about to. Mr. Murry saved  them right in time by moving out of Camazots. However they left Charles alone.

While Meg was in pain after the traveling and while they were in a unknown place, they met three giants. The giants said that they would help them and so Mr. Murry agreed. They healed Meg and gave Calvin and Meg's dad plenty of food. However Meg had kept saying that she had to save Charles. The giants considered her to call out for the 3 old ladies. And at the of the chapter, Mrs. Which was calling out that they were there.

Mrs. who, Whatsit, and Whitch was expaining that the only person who could save Charles was Meg. Meg had to go alone back to Camazots to save him. After all the fighting, the solution was that Meg would go by herslf to save Charles. After Mrs. Whitch moved in to Camazots with Meg, She told her that Meg had sometimed IT did not have. Then leaving those last words, Mrs. Witch was gone..

Facing IT would probably be terrifying for Meg.  When she faced him, Charles was the same cold child. Then Meg suddenly realized what she had... and it was love. She kept saying to Charles that she loved him, so the real Charles came back. They came back to Earth safely with Calvin and Father. The old ladies came to but it seemed likr they were in a rush. They said that they were sorry that they could not say properly good-bye. They were about to say more but their sentence were cut off because..

                                                                                                                        They turned into dust.

                                                                              

Saturday, February 5, 2011

A Single Shard

My first book I want to introduce is called "A Single Shard". The main character is named Tree- ear who is an orphan boy and he likes to watch Min who is a Master potter making pottery and who lived in the twelfth century. For a very long time he has lived in a town called Ch'ulp'o with Crane-man barely living with a little bit of food. However one day Tree-ear sneaked into the workplace when Min was not there. He investigated the whole workshop and he spots one particular box and opened it. However at that moment Min spotted him and Tree-ear accidentally broke it,  being very surprised by getting caught by Min. Now he has to work for the Master (Min) to pay the damage he has made. From that moment and on, Tree-ear is searching for his dreams. He continues to work even though the days are over to work for the master. Min  and his wife gives him plentiful of three meals for him to  eat. However he saves half of it and gives it to Crane-man. The days are now improving on him.


It is very unlikely to have one Master potter in a village. Another honorable potter people know in the village is a Master potter called Kang. He has lots of ideas on his pottery, and Tree-ear always checks out on what he is doing and tries to figure out his ideas. He's dying to tell Min about these ideas but he considers it of "stealing" someones idea. Kang is working on something very special, which explains why Tree-ear started the spying. He also noticed that an emissary, named Kim came along on a boat to choose a Master potter to show the King's court his work. Now Tree-ear understood why Kang and Min were working on their pot so hard- to impress the emissary. Kim looked at Kang's display the longest which made some potters give up. He then looked at Min's and he seemed pleased.

Kim had finally made a decision to spend more time visiting the potters whose work most interested him.

Min does not care on what Kang is doing but concentrates on his own ability. Meanwhile, Tree-ear tries to help and do his best for Min and his pot. However one day, Min's wife told Tree-ear that Min needed more clay. Her face told him that something was wrong. He soon figured out that lots of pieces were laying on the ground which meant that Min had smashed his own vases with frustration.

Surprisingly, Kim had came earlier than they had expected, and had to choose Kang having no choice. However,
Kim had still asked if Min could bring his work to Kim. Tree-ear had volunteered to bring it to where Kim was. It was a long  and dangerous journey for him...


While he was more then half way, he met some robbers and ended up having the vases smashed. Tree-ear still carried on with the broken vases. When he arrived to Kim, (who was ALOT disappointed) I was not sure if he described that the robbers broke it. When he came back, he was heard that Crane-man had died because of a sudden heart attack.So, from now on Tree-ear had to live with Min and his wife.He was now called Hyung-pill because Min-used to have a son but he died.

Even though lots of things happened, it was a great book. :-)