Blog #13 Anticipating Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I wish I could say I am excited to read The Goblet of Fire, but unfortunately I'm not.  I think it's mostly because I have never been interested in reading the Harry Potter books.  Also, I would rather be reading from the beginning of the series, but like we discussed it will be interesting to see if I feel like I am missing out on any information from the previous three books.  However, I have seen the first three movies so I am hoping that will help me out a little bit.  Everyone who reads the Harry Potter books absolutely loves them so I'm sure I will as well.

I read the blog about reading the first sentence of the book and then the last so I got my book out and did that.  I didn't really get much from it.  However, from reading the first sentence, I think the book will give enough details to fill on what the reader missed in the last three if they didn't read them.
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Blog #12 Notable Moment in The Magician's Nephew

The most notable moment for me in The Magician's Nephew was definitely how the women were portrayed so negatively.  While I was reading the book, this occurred to me several time to me, especially the way Queen Jadis or The Witch, treated Polly.  It made me SO angry that she ignored her when she first came back to life.  The fact that she is a women herself irritated me.

Also, Uncle Andrew disrespected Polly and his wife on several occasions. When he need money from his wife, he didn't ask for it, he demanded it! That situation was very odd to me overall because usually the male provides most of the income for families.  Uncle Andrew disrespects Polly by using flattery to trick into taking the rings and misjudging his character.
"It's not every day that I see a little girl in my dingy old study; especially, if I may say so, such a very attractive young lady as yourself." pg. 16

Digory even treats Polly cruelly when he wants to ring the bell in Charn.  He grabs are arm and pushes her to the ground.  Throughout the entire book he constantly puts her down.
"Before Polly's hand reached her pocket, he grabbed her wrist, leaning across her with his back against her chest." pg. 56

Blog #11 Anticipating The Magician's Nephew

I am the most excited to read this book! I have never read any of the Chronicles of Narnia books, but I've always heard how awesome they are. When I told my roommate that I was going to get to read it, she gave me an entire summary of the whole series. I researched online to find some information on C.S. Lewis and I was surprised to learn that he was a Christian author.  I had never heard that before. I am anxious to read how he uses fantasy to connect to Christianity.

Blog #10 Notable Moment in The Phoenix and the Carpet

A notable moment for me in The Phoenix and The Carpet was when the children decided to do something good during the holiday times.  During one of the classes, we talked about negative and positive views on the children in the book.  I always had a positive view of them and the "Doing Good" chapter really made me love them.  I feel like this moment in the book that could change the views of the children for a lot of people.  Many people argued that they did it for selfish reasons, but I think highly of the children for thinking of others during the holidays.

"You know there's something about Christmas that make you want to be good- however little you wish it at other times.  Couldn't we wish the carpet to take us somewhere where we should have the chance to do some good and kind action (pg 138)?"