Harry Potter is stuck at his aunt and uncle's house, nervously waiting for Professor Dumbledore, the headmaster at Hogwarts. He has almost given up all hope of being rescued from this dreadful place when the doorbell rings, and Dumbledore steps in. Harry is taken to an old Hogwarts teacher, Horace Slughorn, to convince him to come back to Hogwarts and teach potions there. After a successful visit there, Harry is taken to live with the Weasly-family until the school starts again. This year, Harry is taking private classes with Dumbledore to find out how to defeat Lord Voldemort. Harry finds out that Voldemort has ripped his soul into pieces, and created horcruxes (a piece of soul concealed inside an object). It means that to kill Voldemort, Harry has to destroy all the horcruxes first.

Harry's new potions book was a previous belonging of someone calling himself the Half-Blood Prince, which apparently was a master in potions. He doesn't find out who this person is, but his performance in potions gets remarkably better. Towards the end of Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts, Dumbledore finds another horcrux, and he asks Harry to join him destroying it. They apparate (a way of teleporting) to the cave where the horcrux is hidden, but danger lies ahead of them. In order to get the horcrux, Dumbledore has to drink a potion that makes him relive his worst memories. They barely get out of the cave alive, but even worse things are about to happen at Hogwarts. The people there are no longer as safe as they used to be…

I really enjoyed reading the book, because it is written in a very good way. It is exciting from the beginning to the end, and I was never bored reading the book. The author builds up the HANDLING in a very good way (it was several times almost impossible to put the book away). As I was halfway through the book, there were so many questions that needed to be answered. This ignorance made me keep reading until I found those answers. Nevertheless, as I did so, new questions occurred. This was one of the main things that really raised the excitement throughout the book.

I think that the ending of the book is about as good as it could have been. The author takes you on an emotional journey as you follow the main character through the ending. It is unpredictable, and the highlight of the book comes as a shock, which makes it even more exciting. After finishing the book, I'd say it's almost impossible not to read the next book in the series about Harry Potter, because the ending is written in such a masterly way.

I don't really think that this book would have made a great film, especially not for people who have read the book first, but it wouldn't have been a miserable movie either. All the previous Harry Potter-books have been made into films and, surely, none of them can be compared with the original books. The reason why I don't think this book would make a good film is mostly that the moviemakers would have needed to take away so much of the content. The history in the book would be so diminished, and the “magic” you experience while reading the book, would be gone as a film. But altogether, for people who hasn't read the book before watching the film will probably think it's a very good one, because they wouldn't know what's missing.

The author writes in a very good (almost magic) way. She makes you feel like you're not just reading the book; you're really a part of it. There's a lot of good description in the book, of both the characters and the environment. She uses a very dramatic build up, especially towards the end of the novel. It almost feels like the main character isn't just a fictional character, but someone you know. You learn to know his strengths and his weaknesses, his feelings and emotions…

One thing I really like about the authors writing style is that she has managed to keep one single question alive in all of the books; what is Severus Snape's true identity? Is he with Dumbledore, or with Voldemort? This question has haunted both the fictional characters and the readers. This question will be answered in the seventh and last book about Harry. And it is one of the things that really encourage you to keep reading about Harry Potter. I think it's amazing how she manage to make the question remain a mystery through six books…

Everyone that has read the previous books (or seen the movies) about Harry Potter, is strongly recommended to read this book. It is a top fantasy-novel, and it may even be compared with the Lord of the Rings-trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. Anyone who enjoys reading fantasy-novels will simply love this book.

• Danny Dunn - a teenager who has a great interest in science. He admires Professor Bullfinch as a mentor. He always wants to invent things.
• Professor Bullfinch - a stereotypical absent-minded professor at the fictional Midston University. The professor was also a musician who played the bass viol. He is patient and calm.
  
• Mrs. Dunn - Danny's only parent. She is a thoughtful and loving mother, and wise at the same time.
• Irene Miller - Danny's friend who just moved next door. She is interested in science, especially in Biology. She is a tough girl. She also gets mad easily when her friend, Joe, says that girls are nothing but trouble.
• Joe Pearson - Danny's friend. He is the poet of the group. He used to think that girls are nothing but trouble, but not until he got to know Irene better.
• Doctor Grimes - a friend of Professor Bullfinch. Grimes is a curmudgeonly figure, rarely taking the teenagers seriously, and often trying to antagonize the Professor. Doctor Grimes was also a musician who played the piccolo; he and the professor would on occasion play duets.
• Eddie Phillips - the snitcher. He is the villain of the story. He seems unintelligent for most of his classmates, but he's not a total idiot.
• Miss Arnold - their teacher. She is a good teacher. But, she gives plenty of homework. It is because she believes that homework is a way for the students to learn by themselves.

Summary

Danny Dunn and his friends, Joe Pearson and Irene Miller, want to get their homeworks done faster. Miss Arnold, their teacher, always gives them plenty of homeworks to do. She says that it's her way of making the students learn how to study. The three friends think that these assignments eat up so much of their time.

Professor Bullfinch, the scientist who Danny and his mom live with, has gone out of town. He left his precious invention - Miniac - under the care of the teenage boy. The professor trusts Danny a lot since he has seen him work on Miniac. One night, Irene was asking Danny about their English homework. He didn't know how to do it, so he suggested that they ask Miniac about it. The machine printed out the answers fast and easy. This scenario gave the threesome an intelligent idea. Voila! Miniac the Homework Machine - perfect! They loaded everything on their books to Miniac's memory so that the machine will know how to do all their homeworks in every subject. This was supposed to be a spotless master plan of the three amigos. But then, Eddie Phillips, the snitcher, sensed that something was going on. So, he followed the three on the way to Professor Bulfinch's laboratory. He overheard everything and told Miss Arnold about it. The three friends hated snitcher more for what he did. They got back on him. This made Eddie furious. That's why, using what he learned while eavesdropping, he changed the temperature of the machine. This was a very big problem since, that same day of Eddie's sabotage, two representatives were with the professor to check on his latest invention. One of them was Dr. Grimes. This scared Danny and Irene. Luckily, just in the nick of time, Danny finally figured out what was wrong with the machine and fixed it. This made Miniac famous and proved her significant and useful.

Going back to the problem with Danny and his homework, Mrs. Dunn had a wise idea to fix it. She told Miss Arnold to give them higher level homeworks. This was an agony for them because they still had to input all the data on the high school books on the machine. At the end of the school year, the three were awarded “HOMEWORK CHAMPIONS”. This disappointed Danny, because he didn't expect that they were working a lot harder than everybody else.

The Conflict

The conflict of all conflicts in the story was, of course, caused by the villain - Eddie “Snitcher” Phillips. He was so mad at the three friends for setting him up. So, he planned sabotage. Having overhears what Danny was saying to her friends about Miniac when they were making their homework, he learned a way to cause malfunction to the machine. He changed Miniac's temperature to make her cold. Danny was telling her friends about warming up the machine before using it. Because of this, Miniac had trouble on processing data and solving problems loaded to her. The worst part is, the professor just got back from his trip, with two scientists to check on Miniac. Professor Bullfinch thought that it was the right time to make Miniac known to the world. But how can that happen when Miniac was not working well? This was a big problem for Danny. The professor trusted Miniac on him. But now, she was out of control!

The Climax

While the scientists and Mrs. Dunn were having dinner, Danny and Irene silently went to the laboratory to try fixing Miniac. But, they weren't able to figure out the problem. The professor and the two evaluators have already arrived in the laboratory. Danny felt very nervous about it. The two evaluators began testing Miniac. For the first problem they gave, she gave jammed answers. The professor was surprised by this since Miniac was working just fine when he left. Danny was trembling because he was given full responsibility over the machine. One of the evaluators lost his patience over Miniac. He said that it was just a total waste of time because - once again - Professor Bullfinch made a failure in his invention. Danny was shaking, freezing cold. He didn't know what to do. He didn't know what to say. And one evaluator was about to step out of the lab door.

The Resolution

Danny was getting ice cold. Irene told him that he sounded just like her when she was reading a jammed answer printed by Miniac. This gave Danny the idea that the machine was cold. He checked on the temperature of Miniac. The label said that she is in fine temperature. But inside it, it was actually adjusted. And with this, only one suspect came into the mind of the teenager - Snitcher Phillips. The professor warmed up Miniac and the machine did well again. The impatient evaluator went back in and both scientists were amazed by the speed and accuracy of Miniac's answers. They congratulated the professor and told him that Miniac will be introduced to the world as soon as possible. As for Danny, he confessed that they've been using Miniac to do their homework. He thought that this was a wise idea. But, Miss Arnold made him disappointed when she gave the three amigos a special award - Homework Champions. The teacher said that they were actually doing a lot more work than everybody else since when they load information to the machine, they are sort of studying.

The Impact of the Story on the Readers

The story is a very interesting one, especially for students. I never thought that it would end the way it did. What the three lead characters did was not plain cheating. They wanted to save time in doing their homework. But, they still had to exert effort to enable the machine to know the answers. They had to load the information and program them by themselves. It was an additional task for them, but they didn't realize it. They only felt the convenience of having a machine print out all their homework. Because of such comfort, they forgot all about the process of loading information. And their act of loading information to the machine was a way of studying. The machine might've printed out their homework but they know everything that the machine knows. This is the reason why they were crowned Homework Champions. Such a splendid award, don't you think? However, this made Danny disappointed. He thought it was a wise and cool idea but it turned out to be geeky. They were studying - he never realized that. I guess, sometimes, people look for shortcuts but end up taking the longest path there is.

Okonkwo is born to a lazy man named Unoka who has no rank among his people, and develops a hatred of the qualities that his father exhibits. In chapter two, Achebe writes, “… his (Okonkwo's) whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and weakness….. It was fear of himself, less he should be found to resemble his father….. And so Okonkwo was ruled by one passion-to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness.”(13). Because Okonkwo lives in spite of his father, and therefore in spite of idleness, and he is ruled by fear, he is driven to act impulsively and violently. This is displayed when Okonkwo's wife leaves his home without feeding her children, and he reacts as follows, “He walked back to his obi to await Ojiugo's return. And when she returned he beat her very heavily. In his anger he had forgotten that it was the Week of Peace.”(29). This shows both his drive towards violence in beating Ojiugo, and his impulsiveness in forgetting the Week of Peace. As the story progresses, you see more instances like this one, and you can plainly see that through hatred of his father, Okonkwo develops fear, which leads to pain and suffering.

In chapter eight, Okonkwo undergoes a significant change in character. When Achebe writes “Okonkwo did not taste food for three days… his eyes were red and fierce like the eyes of a rat… He did not, sleep at night.”(63) he is modeling the breakdown of Okonkwo's physical self caused by internal turmoil. The death of Ikemefuna brings Okonkwo to doubt the lifestyle that has brought about great success for him, causing him to shut down like a confused animal. Further evidence of this is given on page 65; “When did you become a shivering old woman… How can a man who has killed five men in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their numbers… you have become a woman indeed”. Okonkwo is so lost in his uncertainty that he is even skeptical of his own self-appraisal. By going through all this, Okonkwo has reached a point in his life where he may rethink his lifestyle and undergo great changes in character. That or he may become more benevolent and insecure. Either way, Okonkwo's disposition marks a significant transition in the story.

At The end of Things Fall Apart, the main character Okonkwo is driven to suicide by his inability to adapt to a changed society. Okonkwo was raised in a violent and tribal society, where he gained prestige by managing his compound with an iron fist, fighting for glory and fame, and filling his barns to the very brim with yams. Life changes for Okonkwo on page 24 when Achebe writes, “In the center of the crowd a boy lay in a pool of blood… Okonkwo's gun had exploded and a piece of iron had pieced the boy's heart.” After this happens, Okonkwo is exiled, and loses everything he has gained in Umuofia. In the years that he is exiled, white missionaries begin to arrive in Umuofia and Mbanta, his current home. By the time Okonkwo returns to his homeland, new religion and culture brought by the white man have manifested in society and caused major changes in Umuofian life. An example is given on page 174, as follows, “Umuofia had indeed changed in the seven years Okonkwo had been in exile. The church had led many astray… apart from the church, the white men had also brought a government.”

Okonkwo resists these changes to society and holds to the ancient customs he was raised with. Okonkwo and other Umuofians rebel against the white man, but aren't able to gain any ground in their favor.. In the end when Okonkwo kills the missionary's messenger, he realized that his society has faltered, and will not fight the white men as he believes they should. Over the course of his life, Okonkwo's lifework is repeatedly shattered to pieces, by events like this. Because his lifestyle isn't socially accepted anymore, Okonkwo loses his lust for life and suicides.

All of the situations above show the destruction of Okonkwo's life, piece by piece. They show how the power of uncontrollable influences like family, culture, emotions, luck, and change are able to control one's destiny more than oneself. Despite his best efforts at succeeding in life, Okonkwo is continually shamed and diminished to the point of suicide. All in all, the point illustrated in the text is how the things that make up ones life can simply fall apart despite the intent one has in holding them together.

Near the end Guy thinks that the fire chief has found out that he has the books so he starts to freak out about it. He tell his wife about it because he never told her that he had book before. He remembers that he once met a retired English professor named Faber sitting in a park, and he decides that this man might be able to help him understand what he reads. He hands some of the books over to his fire chief because she knows he has some but she gets a call and the call is from Guy Montag's own house to find out that his own wife had betrayed him. So his fire chief makes him burn down his own house than she puts him under arrest but while she is talking to him he turns his flame thrower upon his fire chief and burns her.

In conclusion, I would recommend this book to high schoolers that like suspense novels about rebellion . Also high schoolers would enjoy this book because theres a lot of action in it and the book portrays a lot about what can happen in the future if the human race isn't careful. So if u are interested about what u have heard u should go read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury because it is a very good book and is interesting.

His mother even went so far as to make him eat his baby brother's fecal matter. Also she tried to burn him using the stove, but he managed to delay her burning him until his brother got home. The argument is that kids should be treated nice and respected. They are the future of a nation. Do we want to be a nation of child beaters or a nation of nice, caring people. I know what my answer is, do you?

I could not put this book down. It is essentially a page turner. I personally enjoyed it and yet it sickened me about how there can be people that cruel in this world. It showed me that not all parents are kind and loving. Some are beating children daily. There is probably a child being beaten right now. I think everybody should read this book to show them not everyone has a great family life. Be thankful for what you have. If you're an abused child there is still hope. I believe the abuses in this book were premeditated; In order to lock a child in a bathroom with chemicals takes prior planning. This is a really good book and I would hope I have the same amount of will power in me as he had in himself.

I believe the author achieved his response if it was to appeal to readers' emotions. His writing was very effective and showed me that there are kids being beat in what seems like everyday families. His book was very powerful .It was a sad book. I personally did not think the book was difficult others might think it was. This book was not beautiful but it was not supposed to be. This book has many strengths and not many weaknesses. This book is one of the best books I have ever read. I think the only reason the author was allowed to write this was because it was an autobiography. I agree with the author's arguments they are strong and have good points. I found this book to be very interesting.

It was no where close to being dull. The book was very moving in emotional response. It was really powerful. I think every one should read this book when they reach an age that they can handle and understand it.

The story begins when a pirate happens to come to Jim's house. There he is treated and receives medical treatment from the doctor. The doctor warns him not to drink rum, but the pirate refuses and drinks it anyway. The pirate dies awhile after he had received the black spot. The dead pirate's fellow pirates, who gave him the black spot, storm into Jim's house in order to get the chest. Jim escapes with the chest before the pirates could get to it.

Jim discovers that inside the chest was a map to buried treasure. He decides that he wants to go on a search for the buried treasure. So Squire Trelawney, he, and Doctor Livesey go in search a boat and a crew. They find their crew and start their journey to find the treasure. However, they accidentally recruit the pirates that were after the chest. During their voyage, Jim hears the cook, Long John Silver, talking to the pirates and then Jim finds out that there are pirates.

When they reach the island the pirates break of from the loyal seamen and go in search for the treasure. The seamen lose their ship and are forced to go on land. They have battles with the pirates and many men die. Jim kills two pirates in order to take back the ship. Then when Jim goes back on land he is captured by the pirates. Jim and the pirates go on a search for the treasure. When they get to the treasure they get ambushed by the loyal seamen, who have already dug the treasure and set a trap.

Then the loyal seamen travel to the boat and return to the mainland and live their lives.

Jim Hawkins is the main character in this story. He must learn who to trust and who not to trust. Captain Long John Silver is very deceiving and that leads to trouble for Jim. Jim likes Captain John Silver because he “made himself the most interesting companion” when Jim first meets him. Also, when he first meets John he believed the “innocence of Long John Silver.”

Jim realizes his mistake when he hides in the apple barrel. He hears Long John Silver talking about mutiny. Long John is “using the same words of flattery as he had used on me (Jim)” on the mutineers. However, Jim makes another mistake when he trusts Long John again.

The story began when Lucy and Edmund were visiting Eustace on Earth. While they were looking at a picture of a boat in the ocean, suddenly it became real. After they fell into the picture and began to drown, sailors from the boat rescued them. Lucy and Edmund discovered that the boat belonged to their friends in Narnia, Prince Caspian and Reepicheep, a talking mouse. The three children from Earth joined the sailors to find the seven banished lords and possibly sail to the end of the world.

Their first destination was the Lone Islands which on Caspian and the children from earth were captured and were made slaves. However, Caspian was sold to one of the lords. Caspian was freed and formed a plan that they would make the king of the Lone Islands think they had a large army and make him surrender his throne. After they do this, the lord is made king and the children are freed.

On the next island, they found one of the lord's arm bands and assumed he had died on this island. When they left that island they confronted a sea monster. The ship almost was crushed but they escaped. They came to another island on which they found a pool. There was a statue of a man in the pool. They figured out that the statue was a lord whom the water had turned to gold.

Once again, they traveled to an island and helped invisible people become visible by reading a magician's spell book. When they left that island they came to a black mist. After traveling through it they heard a voice. Because the voice was from one of the lords, so they brought him onto their ship. They docked on a small island where they found the three remaining lords were asleep at a banquet. Caspian learned that in order to waken them, he must travel to the end of the world and leave one member there. When they got to the end of the world, Reepicheep was left behind because he thought that after the end of the earth was Aslan's country. The three children went with Reepicheep and Aslan sent them back to Earth.

In the beginning of this story, Eustace was annoying and disrespectful. In front of Reepicheep, the mouse, Eustace blurted out, “I hate mice, they're silly and vulgar and-and sentimental.” Again, he said to the mouse “what on earth's that. Take it away, the horrid thing.” When Eustace asked “whether there was a sign of the storm getting less, but Caspian said, "What storm!"” This showed us that Eustace was being annoying when he kept on complaining.

However, after Eustace had been a dragon he became courageous and useful. He makes this change because when he is in the dragon's cave he thinks he is seeing the dragon. He is really looking at himself. Then he realizes how horrible he had become. When Eustace started to help the sailors “it was clear to everyone that Eustace's character had improved.” When the sea monster was attacking the ship Eustace “now did the first brave thing he had ever done. As soon as the serpent's body was near enough he began hacking at it with all his might.” When Eustace was on the island as a dragon he “was very anxious to help. He flew over the whole island and found that it was inhabited by only goats and droves of old swine. Of these he brought back many provisions.”

The setting in the beginning of the story was populated and corrupt or dangerous. The islands were full of corrupt leaders and society. As the story went on the setting became less populated but remained corrupt or dangerous. In the beginning of the story, when they landed on the Lone Islands, “there was slave merchants dressed in black.” The three children “were rowed out to a slave ship and taken to a long, rather dark place.”

The next place they went to an island with a dragon. Eustace “had been surprised at the dragon's behavior” on the island. The dragon “that came out of the cave was nothing he would have imagined.” The population got smaller; there was only “goats and droves of wild swine” besides the dragon.

They landed on another island. This island had “water that turned things into gold.” This was dangerous because a lord they were looking for “undressed at the top of the hill and dived into the pool.”

They traveled to an island inhabited by a small group of people. The people that inhabited this island were “wielding spears” and threatened them to do what they want. Then they traveled to an island “surrounded by a dark mist.” The island was “an accursed place.”

Because Eustace changed from useless to useful and the setting changed from being corrupt and dangerous to less populated but still corrupt this means that Eustace always had the capability to do evil actions because the corruptness was still there. However, since the population got smaller and smaller Eustace started to have more control of his actions and stop himself from doing evil actions.

Through an opening in a wall at their school two young students, Eustace and Jill, enter a passage into Narnia. They are given a mission by Aslan, the mighty lion, to find the missing prince, Prince Rilian, son of the old king, Caspian. They are given clues which are to help them find Rilian. These clues were 1: Eustace will meet an old friend to whom he must greet immediately, 2: They must journey till they reach the ruined city of the giants, 3: they will find writing on a stone; follow the commands on the stone, 4: The man who asks them to do something in the name of Aslan is the prince.

When Eustace and Jill are traveling in the forest on the mountain they continually argue. They are literally blown off the mountain and land in a distant city. They converse with an owl and are later carried off by him to a meeting place where there were numerous intelligent owls. The owls help Jill and Eustace by flying them to the land of the Marsh-Wiggles, who were “a people who like privacy.” They lived by “little islands covered with countless channels of water.” They meet a solemn Marsh-Wiggle named Puddleglum who is “all arms and legs”. He had “greeny-gray hair over his large ears, had a sharp nose, and was with rather sunken cheeks.” He desires to help them and they let him join in their quest.

Jill, Eustace, and Puddleglum travel together to the seemingly bottomless gorge where they come across frightening giants. They proceed to a giant bridge where they greet a strange knight in black and a young woman, both on horseback. This encounter may seem meaningless but is involved with the story later on. The black knight is actually the prince and the woman is a witch. They stop at a city called Harfang. Harfang is no ordinary city but a home to seemingly peaceful giants. However, these giants were actually scheming against Eustace and Co. the entire time.

While running away from the cunning giants they fall into a dark tunnel which slopes significantly downward. They are surprised to see hundreds of thousands of different creatures (mainly gnomes) living in a dark, underground kingdom. Again, Eustace and Jill are continually arguing. They talk with the same knight they saw on the bridge. They learn that every night he becomes wild and mad. So each night, they would tie him to a silver chair in order to restrain his rampage. While they are in the room of the rampaging knight he fulfills clue given by Aslan by speaking the words “in the name of Aslan” that identified him as the prince. The prince had been put under a spell by a witch (the lady next to him at the bridge) and the silver chair continued to renew the spell. The prince destroys the chair by using his sword and the curse is lifted.

After the spell is broken, the witch enters the room and tries to place a curse confuse them by hypnotizing them. However, they resist her spell by enabling pain and the prince kills her. They journey through the tunnels with a meager amount of light. They make it out of the underground kingdom and into a fruitful land with peaceful inhabitants. Here they are healed of their injuries and Rilian returns home. Jill and Eustace are then sent back to their school.

The connection I found between the setting and character study was that every time the setting is comfortable, Jill and Eustace get along with each other. Whenever the setting is uncomfortable, they have a hard time getting along.

Jill and Eustace were in a “very lonely forest” and “there was not a breath of wind, there was a sort of background of immense silence.” While they were here Eustace talked to Jill in an unkind way by saying, “What are you doing Pole? Come back- blithering idiot!”

They were underground in a “hot, dirty cave” and “it was a very sad place”. It was also a “very nasty place” and “it was hot. Jill felt she was being smothered.” This place “was full of a dim, drowsy radiance.” This place was almost unbearable to Jill, “And when, as they went on, the cave got lower and narrower, and when, at last, the light-bearer stood aside, and the gnomes, one by one, stooped down (all except the smallest ones) and stepped into a little dark crack and disappeared, she felt she could bear it no longer. "I can"t go in there, I can't! I can't! I won't' she (Jill) panted.'” Eustace tried to calm Jill down while there are in this place but Jill responded, “Oh, you don't understand. I can't,” wailed Jill. Again we see Eustace and Jill struggling to get along.

I think what C.S. Lewis was trying to show was that the things around you, both physical things and people can alter how you think and act. Eustace and Jill's actions and thoughts are indeed altered by their surrounding environment.

The Mountain of Aslan, at the beginning and end of the story, is the Mountain of God because Aslan is God. Aslan is shown to be God because when Eustace “set his teeth and drove the thorn into the Lion's paw. And there came out a great drop of blood, redder than all the redness that you have ever imagined. And it splashed over the body of the dead King. And the King began to be changed. His white beard turned to yellow and his wrinkles were smoothed, and his eyes opened, and suddenly he leaped up and stood before them- a very young man.” Jesus Christ died for us and his death (blood) saved us from sins.

Because we were saved from our sins we will be born again or renewed and we will become better than we were before. Jesus, the Son, is God so his blood is God's blood. Therefore, Aslan must be God because he uses the blood of himself to renew the dead king and make him born again. Also Aslan says, “He has died. Most people have, you know. Even I have.” This proves that C.S. Lewis was trying to point to Jesus' death because Aslan tells us that he has also died. And because he is living then he has resurrected.

Eustace and Jill are at the Mountain of God, the dwelling place of God, at the beginning and end of the story which means that they have been reborn and become better people by confronting Aslan at the mountain for a second time( Christ's second coming, they have matured. This is true because the Mountain Of God symbolizes Heaven and when we are born again by God we go to Heaven. This is what I think C.S. Lewis was trying to get at. However, we are Catholics and do not believe in being “reborn”. C.S. Lewis was Protestant so he had different beliefs.

In conclusion, this book was meant to tell us that we must allow ourselves to be continually converted by God. We cannot allow our environment or our culture of death to influence us in anyway. If that happens, we will not be able to open ourselves to God After they have already been influenced by their environment, they go through the process of opening themselves up to God when they are being taken care of by the Dwarves and the Centaurs by giving them food, water, and shelter because it as scarce in the tunnels and be converted. Eustace and Jill began their journey on the mountain to represent that we all come from God and to return to God.

During one night, Charles Wallace's father receives a phone call from the President telling him of the threat that Mad Dog Branzillo made. He had threatened that he would start a nuclear war that could potentially destroy the world. During that same night, Calvin's mother, who was the mother-in-law of Meg, gives Charles Wallace a strange rune meant to help him along his mission to stop Branzillo.

Charles Wallace goes to his star-watching rock and says the first part of the rune. Immediately after a unicorn, Gaudior, appears to help Charles undertake the journey that lay ahead. In order to stop Branzillo, they must travel through time and change a Might-Have-Been, which are events that could happen or might have happened, and stop Branzillo. In order to change the Might-Have-Beens they must find out about Mad Dog's past. But they can only travel through time in that spot and cannot control where they go in time. Also, while they are traveling through time Echthroi, the source of all evil, will try to disrupt their travel and throw them into oblivion. Charles has the ability to go “within” people, which means he can become that person but can't control them. This would enable him to find out about Branzillo's past.

Charles and Gaudior travel through time and end up in a time where Charles becomes within a boy, Harcels, who was a Native American who was over a millennium ago. Charles also becomes Madoc, a man who traveled; he becomes Brandon Llawcae, a settler who was from Wales, Mrs. O'Keefe's brother, Chuck Maddox, which takes place during Mrs. O' Keefe's childhood. Lastly, Charles goes within Matthew Maddox, a talented writer during the Civil War who wrote a story about someone connected to Mad Dog.

All these people have connections with Mad Dog but a greater connection is discovered when two Welsh princes come to America to avoid civil war at there own country. During their stay at America, one of the brothers, Gwyddyr, turns on his brother, Madoc, and tries to conquer the land they had just found. When Madoc defeated Gwyddyr, Gwyddyr flees to South America, to a city were Branzillo is from, and settles there. Both of the brothers were married to natives and become part of the Indian culture. Hundreds of years later, descendants of both brothers marry and Branzillo comes from them eventually. However, thanks to Charles changing a Might-Have-Been, descendants of the Madoc line marry resulting in Branzillo being born in a peaceful environment, thwarting the nuclear threat.

This book contains stories which parallels to the story of Cain and Abel. Gwyddyr causes trouble when he grows jealous of his brother, Madoc, is in love with someone who is also loved by him. Gwyddyr fights Madoc but eventually losses the battle. Cain grows jealous of his Abel just like in the book. This theme repeats throughout the story, for example, the story about Chuck. Duthbert Mortmain loved Chuck's mother and was jealous of her husband. Once Chuck's father dies Duthbert marries Chuck's mother. Even though Duthbert didn't make an attempt on Chuck's father's life, which happened in the other stories, he did fight his opposition. His opposition was Chuck, who had always been against the marriage. He hits Chuck which results in Chuck receiving a mental disability.

The hero of the story, Charles Wallace, travels through time with Gaudior, but they can't control the “wind”, which is what controls their time travel. Oddly enough, whoever Charles Wallace goes within is similar to him which came from Gaudior saying to Charles, “You know, you are who you have gone within.” This plays into the theme that if you are around someone you can be influenced by that person. In this case, Charles is influenced by good a person which is why Charles matures throughout the story.

The rune in the story symbolizes a prayer which I think is St. Michael's Prayer. This prayer was developed to call on Michael to defeat the temptations of the devil which is what Charles is doing, he is calling for help. While “Goodman Higgins and Pastor Mortmain led Zylle across the dusty compound and up the steps to the gallows,” Brandon, who at the time was Charles, called “to Heaven and all its power….and the lighting with its rapid wrath.” Brandon is calling on Heaven (St. Michael) to save from Zylle from being hanged and Michael saves Zylle. This is one example of many examples of Heaven helping Charles, in fact, in every chapter.

In conclusion, this book is teaching us the power of prayer, in every adversity that Charles Wallace and Gaudior faced; they called “to Heaven and all its power”. The theme of jealousy was telling me what makes people avoid prayer; the jealous people will not take into consideration what can accomplish for them when you ask for their help like Charles did.