Question: What did Kelley do to earn her reward?
Answer: In Wondrous Strange, Kelley's reward was the safety of Sonny (her boyfriend), herself, and the rest of the world. Kelley had to fight and make sacrifices to get her reward. The first thing she had to do was accept that she was in fact a faerie princess - something she had been trying to deny. Just when she became accustomed to using her 'powers', her father forced her to give up his half of her faerie inheritance. At first, Kelley thought that she was no longer a faerie, but then she realized that she still had her mother's half of her inheritance. She used this to defeat the roan horse and his rider, saving the world and getting her reward.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Approach to the Inmost Cave

Answer: In the Harry Potter series, the approach to the inmost cave is when Harry, Ron and Hermione search out and destroy all of Voldemort's seven horcruxes (in other words, most of the seventh book). This stage helps them to prepare by making Voldemort mortal for when he and Harry meet in the ordeal. If Voldemort had even one of his horcruxes left, Harry would have been unable to kill hem and Voldemort would have continued to terrorize the wizarding world.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
The Hobbit: Road Back (ressurection, return with the elixir)
Question: Why are last three stages of the archetypal journey in this story significant?
Answer: In 'The Hobbit' the last three stages are significant because it concludes this section of the series and wraps up the book, but in a way it also leaves room for another book to be written. It is also significant because If Bilbo didn't return to the Shire, Frodo would never have gotten the ring, and the next three books wouldn't have been written.
Another reason is because it shows that even though Bilbo was changed by his adventure - he became more daring and more confident in himself - in a way, he was still the same quiet, thoughtful, Shire-loving hobbit he had always been.
"They came to the river that marked the very edge of the borderland of the Wild . . . this was much as it had been before, except that the company was smaller, and more silent; also this time there were no trolls. At each point in the road, Bilbo recalled the happenings and the words of a year ago - it seemed to him more like ten . . . And so they crossed the bridge and passed the mill by the river and came right back to Bilbo's own door . . . There was a great commotion, and people of all sorts . . . He had arrived back in the middle of an auction! . . . In short Bilbo was "Presumed Dead", and not everybody that said so was sorry to find the presumption wrong." (Tolkien The Hobbit 275, 277)
Answer: In 'The Hobbit' the last three stages are significant because it concludes this section of the series and wraps up the book, but in a way it also leaves room for another book to be written. It is also significant because If Bilbo didn't return to the Shire, Frodo would never have gotten the ring, and the next three books wouldn't have been written.
Another reason is because it shows that even though Bilbo was changed by his adventure - he became more daring and more confident in himself - in a way, he was still the same quiet, thoughtful, Shire-loving hobbit he had always been.
"They came to the river that marked the very edge of the borderland of the Wild . . . this was much as it had been before, except that the company was smaller, and more silent; also this time there were no trolls. At each point in the road, Bilbo recalled the happenings and the words of a year ago - it seemed to him more like ten . . . And so they crossed the bridge and passed the mill by the river and came right back to Bilbo's own door . . . There was a great commotion, and people of all sorts . . . He had arrived back in the middle of an auction! . . . In short Bilbo was "Presumed Dead", and not everybody that said so was sorry to find the presumption wrong." (Tolkien The Hobbit 275, 277)
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
The Hobbit: Tests, Enemies and Allies
Question: How did facing the tests, enemies and allies change Bilbo's perspective on his life?
Answer: The tests, enemies and allies changed Bilbo's perspective on his life in many ways. Firstly, facing some of the tests and enemies made Bilbo realize how dangerous the world could really be. He was born and raised in the Shire; a very sheltered area of the world, and until he started his adventure he was completely unaware of the perils of the outside world.
Another way Bilbo's perspective on life changed was that he realized how much in his life he had taken for granted. He was well off, he had a comfortable, safe and relatively normal life, and he didn't realize how fortunate he was to have all of that until it was gone.
Another thing that Bilbo learned from the tests, enemies and allies was that there was a lot more to the world than the Shire. There were so many opportunities for adventure, all he had to do was take them.
Answer: The tests, enemies and allies changed Bilbo's perspective on his life in many ways. Firstly, facing some of the tests and enemies made Bilbo realize how dangerous the world could really be. He was born and raised in the Shire; a very sheltered area of the world, and until he started his adventure he was completely unaware of the perils of the outside world.
Another way Bilbo's perspective on life changed was that he realized how much in his life he had taken for granted. He was well off, he had a comfortable, safe and relatively normal life, and he didn't realize how fortunate he was to have all of that until it was gone.
Another thing that Bilbo learned from the tests, enemies and allies was that there was a lot more to the world than the Shire. There were so many opportunities for adventure, all he had to do was take them.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
The Hobbit: Refusal of the Call

I think that the significance of the refusal of the call is mainly to introduce the reader to the main character by revealing some of his character traits. It shows that Bilbo is a shy hobbit with both an adventerous side and a cautious side, and the cautious side usually wins, untill now.
The author also seems to enjoy bringing up the refusal of the call by saying.
" 'I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!' It was not the last time he wished that!" (Tolkien, The Hobbit 31)
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Old Magic: Crossing the Threshold

Jarrod's call to adventure happens fairly late in the book when his father tries to kill himself. Jarrod realizes that Kate might not be entirely crazy, and there might be something to her theory about the curse. Kate's grandmother creates a spell that takes the pair back in time to when the curse was placed on Jarrod's family. When Kate crosses the threshold, she is excited, and can't believe she actually went back in time, but Jarrod is more interested in finding the sorcerer who put the curse on his family, and stopping him.
"I yank open the door, my heart thudding somewhere in the vicinity of my tonsils When I see him . . . I can't help but scream a kind of strangled gasp . . . He can hardly speak, his eyes sunken half into his skull, vicious dark circles surrounding them, his skin ashen grey. He doesn't say much except, 'Dad tried to kill himself.' . . . I wait silently while he attempts to pull himself together. When he does, he looks at me, his head tilted, and says, 'I want a shot at Jillian's plan.' " (Marianne Curley, Old Magic 148, 149)
Friday, April 16, 2010
The Handmaid's Tale: Limiting Beliefs

If I could talk to her, I would tell her something that she already knows deep in her heart; that her life doesn't have to be the way it is, and she has the power to change it.
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