Kimberly Monzón Book No. 1
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Plot
Exposition
Setting:
Narnia Forest.
Conflict:
They know a strange and eautiful world through the closet, they go through difficulties because there is a white witch who wants to govern that place, but they find Aslan who is the true ruler of Nardia, after a war wherethey beat the white witch, the children are crowned by Aslan as kings of this beautiful country.
Characters:
Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy, Aslan, Jadis, Mr. Tummus, Mugrim, Digory Kirke, and Mr. Beaver.
Rising Action:
They are in Narnia and they go in seach of Tummus, the Faun since they fount out that the white witch because she seducted him with delicas Turkas, then they must recue him and they know Aslan who is the one who helps and advises them.
Climax:
When Aslan is sacrificed to redeem Edmund. They shaved, tied, and murdered him in the stone table, the girls were very sad but when they realize, they heard a resounding sound, the stonetale had broken, Aslan had risen.
Falling Action
The girls ride on Aslan and went to the palace of the White Witch, Aslan goes on their way and they reign for a time in Narnia until one day they return to he real world as children again.
Main Characters:
Peter Pevensie (Protagonist)
Peter was very protective of his siblings andwas like a father figure to them because he was the oldest of the siblings. At the end of the book he is crowned by Aslan as the "Great King Peter", he was called Magnificent.
Susan Pevensie (Protagonist)
She is the second of the siblings after Peter, is the eldest of the women. She takes that role as a worried mother about her siblings and is learning how to be a real woman. She is crownedby Aslan as "Queen Susan", and Susan is called the Benevolent or the Sweet.
Edmund Pevensie (Protagonist)
He is the onewho betrays his siblings by leaving them to join the Witch because he wanted to be the king os his siblings, but he redeems himself later. Crowned by Aslan as "King Edmund", and was called Edmund the just.
Lucy Pevensie (Protagonist)
Lucy is the youngest of the Pevensie siblings and is also the first to enter Narnia through the magic closet. She was crownedby Aslan as "Queen Lucy!, and was called Lucy the Brave.
Jadis, The White Wich (Antagonist)
She is the one who calls herself Queen of Narnia, and she was the one who kept Narnia for 100 years under a constant winter, without Chistmas.
Aslan (Protagonist)
He is the Lion creator of Narnia; he is the one who helps the Pevensie siblings to liverate the country from the White Witch by not giving her the girl and because of that, he is arrested and then transformed into a stone statue. Aslan rescues him andbecomes a counselor to the Prensie siblings when they became kings and queens.
Maugrin
He is a great wolf who works for the White Witch. He was killed by Peter. He was captain of the Secret Police of the White Witch.
Digory Kirke
The elder who welcomes the Prevensie in his house. The wood of the wardrobe where the children go to Narnia comes from a tree whose seed comes from that first trip to Narnia.
Mrs. and Mr. Beaver
They are those who help the children to be able to flee from witch, they welcomed the mito their house and gave them food.
The housekeeper called Mrs. Macready, three servants called Ivy, Margaret and Berry, Faucets, Dryads and Nadiads, The hose part of them was ahuge English farm horse, an Unicorn, Bull with the head of a man, a pelican, an eagle, a great dog, leopards, Fauns: Allies of Aslan, Faucets: birds with the body of a lion and the head of wings of the eagle, Minotaurs: allies of the White Witch, Centaurs: allies of Aslan, Tigers: allies of Aslan, White tigers: alies of the Witch.
Dynamic character:
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, as they throughout the story see how they develop, how theyt learn from their mistakes, how they support each other and how to measure when happens the story they changed.
Static Character:
Would be the White Witch since she continues to be the same throuhout the story, the does not change the desire to become the queen of Narnia.
Conflict
Narnia was an external conflict since everything arises in relation to a story where several characters intervine.
It is not internal problems that effect the characters, rather it is something that is developed involving everyone.
Hero
Children, because they are like a type of heroes since they are the ones who help to finishing all the evil that was in Narnia thanks to the White Witch, but who really shows up as a hero is Aslan since he uses his wisfom to be able to guide the children adn even sacrigice for them so that they can win.
Point of view
Third person, because the narrator explains what each haracter does.
Biography:
C.S. Lewis (Belfast, Ireland, November 29, 1898 - Oxford. England 1963)
His full name is Clive Staples Lewis, and his friends called him Hack.
His father was Albert James Lewisand, his mother Florence Augusta Hamilton. He had a brother named Warren Hamilton Lewis.
He was a mediavalist, Christian apologist, literaty critic, novelist academic, radio roadcaster and essayist. Was related to JRR Tolkien who is the author of the Lord of the Rings.
He was a mediavalist, Christian apologist, literaty critic, novelist academic, radio roadcaster and essayist. Was related to JRR Tolkien who is the author of the Lord of the Rings.
Among his best-known works are his reowned fiction novelsThe devil's Letters to his nephew, The Chronicles of Narnia and the Cosmic Trilogy and his apologetic essays such as mere Chistianity. Miracles and The Problem of Pain.
Historical Background
During his youth, he lived and participated in the World War I, andin his adult age witnessed the Second World War. This greatly affected the life of Lewisas this had great influence to stop believing in God to see so many children orphans, women widowed after these wars.
This situation of the World Wars, is gie by an atmosphere of tension that is felt throughout Europe, is gien as theterrories located in the Balkans begin idependence movements which ends the peace that was in Europe, as before of this there had been much peace in Europe and very good economically speaking life.
These aspects lead Lewis to see himself influenced primarily by aspects of mythology and aspects of the occult, after having deviated from is Christian faith with which he had been inculcated since shildhood. He converted toChristianity by being a mature man and knowing what he really thought and recognized, since many of his works reflected his thoghts on Chistianity.
This book calls my attention because I watched the movie and I would like to know if it is similar to the story.
Comments:
I read the book and watched the movie, I really enjoyed it. This story shows the power of love for family and friendship.
Jeyson Linares Book No. 2
Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austen
BIOGRAPHY
Jane Austen was born at the Rectory in Steventon, a little village in north-east Hampshire, on December 16th. 1775. She was the seventh child and second daughter of the rector, the Rev. George Austen, and his wife Cassandra Leigh. Of her brothers, two were clergymen, one inherited rich estates in Kent and Hampshire from a distant cousin and the two youngest became admirals in the Royal Navi, her only siste, like Jane herself, never married.
During 1890s she wrote the first drafts of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey, her trips to Kent and Bath gave her local color for the settings of these last two books.
Historical Background
Jane Austen's brief life and writing career overlapped with one of the most transformative eras in British history, marked by revolution aroad and unrest at home.
The year after Austen's birth, signaledthestart of the American revolution, followed in the next decade by the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.
Historical Background
Jane Austen's brief life and writing career overlapped with one of the most transformative eras in British history, marked by revolution aroad and unrest at home.
The year after Austen's birth, signaledthestart of the American revolution, followed in the next decade by the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.
Main Characters
Protagonist Elizabeth Bennett
Intelligent young woman who is admiarable in they way that she understands that people are defined as much by their weaknesses asby their strengths. Interestingly, though, Elizabeth is a hero who makes lots of mistakes in how she judges people. Part of heroism is her intelligence and ability to think through the relationships around her.
Antagonist Mr. Darcy
He is introduced in the novel when he appears to an al of an inconsiderate, wealthy man.
Plot of the Story
Exposition
News arrive to the Bennet Family in Longbourn, England, about the arrival of a wealthy man in need of a wife.
Rising Actions
The Bennet's are invited to Bingley's ball at Meryton and Jane is asked to tance with him twice. Elizabeth meets Mr. Darcy who is rude and unfriendly towards her and refuses to ask ay woman to dance.
Mr. Collins arrives with the intention to become acquainted with the house he is entailed to and with hopes for a wife. He asks for Lizzy's hand in marriage, but she refuses because she will not marry someone she does not love. As a result, Collins gets married to their neighbor Charlotte.
Bingley and Darcy move to London with no explanation and Jane is discouraged because she thought her andBingley were in love. Elizabethis positive on the fact Caroline Bingley must be behind tha teven because she does not likethat Bingley loves a middle class girl.
Climax
While Elizabeth vacations in London with the Lucas', she encouters Darcy and he expresses his true love for Elizabeth. Blinded by his pride, Elizabeth rejets him. It is the most tense scene for both, Darcy and Elizabeth.
Falling Actions:
Lydia Bennet runs off with Wickham, the man who originally lied to Elizabeth about Darcy. Mr. Darcy secretly pays Wickham to marry Lidia because he cares about Elizabeth and her Family.
Mr. Bingley proposes to Jane. Jane accepts, and they later get married. Darcy proposes to Elizabeth a second time, she accepts, and they get married too.
Resolution:
Wickham and Lydia realize how horrible it is to marry for money. Mr. Bingley and Hane purchase a beautiful home near Pemberley whereDarcy and Elizabeth live and they are visited frequently by family and friends.
Literary Devices:
Irony: The use of irony inliterature refers to playing around with words such that the meaning implied by a sentence or word is actually different from the literal meaning. Often irony is used to suggest the stark contrast of the literal meaning being put forth. The deeper, real layer of significance is revealed not by the words themselves but the situation and the context in wichthey are placed.
Methaphor: In a metaphor, one subject is implied to be another so as to draw a comparison between their similarities and shared traits. The first subject, which is the focus of the sentences is usually compared to the second subject, which is used to convey a degree of meaning that is used to characterize the first. The purpose of using a metaphor is to take an identity or concept that we understand clearly (second subject) and use it to better understand the lesser known element the (first subject).
Literary movement: Romantic Period.
Country: United Kingdom.
Genre: Novel
Comments:
Reading the summary I want to read this book, it is interesting and promises a lot.
Book No. 3
Alexandra Rustrian
EMMA
Comments:
Reading the summary I want to read this book, it is interesting and promises a lot.
Book No. 3Alexandra Rustrian
EMMA
by Jane Austen
Authors Biography:
Jane Austen was born at the Rectory in Steventon, a little village in north-east Hampshire, on December 16th. 1775. She was the seventh child and second daughter of the rector, the Revd. George Austen, and his wife Cassandra Leigh. Of her brothers, two were clergymen, one inherited rich estates in Kent and Hampshire from a distant cousin and the two youngest became Admirals in the Royal Navy, her only sister, like Jane herself, never married.
During the 1790s she wrote the first drafts of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey; her trips to Kent and Bath gave her the local color for the settings of these last two books.
Plot
Emma woodhouse is convinced that she will never get married, she is a twenty years old resident of the town of Highbury, she imagines herself as a matchmaker expert in love relationships. After thje self-proclaimed success in the process of pairing between her governess and Mr. Weston, a widower from the village, Emma is responsible for finding an eligible couple for her new friend, Harriet Smith. Although the ancestry of Harriet is not known, Emma is convinced that Harriet deserves to be the wife of agentleman and puts the glance of her friend in Mr. Elton, the vicar of the tow. Meanwhile, Emma convinces Harriet to reject the proposal of Robert Martin, a wealthy farmer for whom Harriet clearly has feelings.
Rising Action:
Emma's plans go away when Elton makes it clear that his affection is for Amma, not for Harriet. Emma realizes that her obsession with making a pazrtner for Harriet has become complicated. Mr. Knightley believes that Mr. Martin is a worthy young man with whom HGarriet would be fortunate to marry. He and Emma argue over Emma's crazy idea of looking for Harriet's partner.
Climax
Emma remains to comfort Harriet, at which point a new candidate appears, Frank Churchill, Emma does not know anything about Frank, Mr. Knighley immediately suspects the young man, Emma, finds Frank charming and notices that her charms are directed mainly towards her. Although she plans to discourage these charms, she feels flattered and flirts with the young man.
Jane appears in the story that is beautiful and accomplished, but Emma does not likeit because she is Jealous of her, there are suspicions, intrigues and misunderstandings. Mr. Knightley shows too much importance in what is happening to Emma, which possibly comes from romantic feelings, to which Emma resists.
Falling Action
Harriet decides to tell Emma that she fell in love with a man of her same social level, Emma thinks she means Frank. Knightley beginsto suspect that Frank andHane have a secret relationship, and tries to warnEmma, but she does not believe.
Resolution
Frank's aunt isdead, this fact reveals thetruth, Frank and Hane have been secretly engages; his attentions to Emma have been a screen to hide his true preference and now they decide to marry. Emma is worried that Harriet will be crushed, but she soon discovers that Harriet has been in love with Knightley. Harriet believes that Knightley shares her feelings. Emma finds herselfupset by Harriet's revelation, and thus realizes that she is in love with Knightley.
Emma waits for Knightley to tell her that she loves Harriet, but, to her surprise, Knightley declares her love for Emma. Harriet is committed to Robert Martin, with whom he has always felt something special. Thenovel concludes with the marriage of Harriet and Mr. Martin and Emma and Mr. Knightley.
Protagonist: Emma Woodhouse
Point of View: Third person
Literary Movement: Romantic Period.
Genre: Novel, considered comedy.
Comments:
I thimk, this book teach us to view the ridiculous with amusement rather than disdain.
Comments:
I thimk, this book teach us to view the ridiculous with amusement rather than disdain.
Book No. 4 Patty de Leon
Around the World in 80 Days
By Jules Verne
Jules Verne was a writer, poet, and dramatist. Was famous for his adventure novels.
Verne was born on February 8, 1828, in Nantes, France and dies on March 24, 1905, in Amiens, Third French Republic. He was tge sib if a prosperous lawyer, Poerre Verne and his wife Sophie.
He is one of the most important writers in France and throughout Europe thanks to the evident influence of his books on avant-garde literature and surrealism.
His interest in writing arose when a teacher tells him anecdotes about her sailor husband. Verne was interested in poetry and science. He read and collected scientific articles, demonstrating an almost sick curiosity that would last him a lifetime.
Jules Verne was a writer, poet, and dramatist. Was famous for his adventure novels.
Verne was born on February 8, 1828, in Nantes, France and dies on March 24, 1905, in Amiens, Third French Republic. He was tge sib if a prosperous lawyer, Poerre Verne and his wife Sophie.
He is one of the most important writers in France and throughout Europe thanks to the evident influence of his books on avant-garde literature and surrealism.
His interest in writing arose when a teacher tells him anecdotes about her sailor husband. Verne was interested in poetry and science. He read and collected scientific articles, demonstrating an almost sick curiosity that would last him a lifetime.
A rich London gentleman, obsessed with punctuality and accuracy, makes a bet where he puts half of his fort stake.
Accompanied by a spontaneous butler, he leaves London to stay an incredible race against the clock, he has 80 days to go around the world either by air, by sea and by land.
The two protagonists will be delayed in their project by an inspector, who relates the fact of the sudden departure of Fogg. With the robbery of the Bank of England and persecutes him convinced that he was the author of the crime.
Literary Movement: Realism.
Country: France.
Genre: Science Fiction.
Comments
This is a classic, I have read this book more than once. It is fascinating how Phileas Fogg achieves his goal of goint around the world in 80 days.
Book No. 5 Marian Ralon
LITTLE WOMEN
by Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Her father was an enthusiastic transcendentalist philosopher, abolitionist, and teacher. Louisa studied informally with family friends.
She had an older siste, Anna, and two younger sisters, Lizzie and Abba May. She worked as a domestic servant and a teacher to help support her family when she resided in Massachusetts. She went to Washington, D.C. during the Civil War to work as a nurse.
She plublished poems, short stories, thrillers, and juvenille tales since 1851, under the pen name Flora Fairfield. She began to publish stories under her real name in Atlantic Monthly and Lady-s Companion and took a rief trip to Europe in 1865 before becoming editor of girls´ magazine, Merry´s Museum.
In 1862, she adopted the pen name A.M. Barnard, and some of her melodramas were produced on Boston stages. But it was her account of her Civil War experiences, Hospital Sketche, 1863, that confirmed Alcott´s desire to be a serious writer.
Alcott caught pneumoia while working as a nurse in the Civil War. The reatment gave her mercury poisoning. For twenty years she was wiak, suffered intense pain, and had hallucinations that could only be controlled with opium. She also lost her hair because of the illness.
Alcott died on March 6, 1888, and was buried inSleepy Hollow Cementery in Concord, Massachusetts.
She was the best selling novelist of the late 1800s, She tried her hand at adult novels.
Historical Background
The American Civil war was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. It was the result of a controversy over slavery. War broke out in April 1861 to 1865. It was the result of a controversy over slavery. War broke out in April 1861, when confederates attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, shortly after President Lincoln was inaugurated. They faced secessionists of the confederate States of America, who advocated for states rights to expand slavery.
Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March are four sisters living with their mother in New England. Their father is away serving as a chaplain in the Civil War, and the sisters struggle to support themselves and keep their household running despite the fact that the family recently lost its fortune. In the process, they become close friendswiththeir wealthy neighbor, Theodore Laurence, known as Laurie.
As the girls grow older, each faces her own personal demons and moral challenges. Jo, must tame her tomboyish ways and learn to be more ladylike while pursuing her ambition to be a great writer. Meg, the oldest, must put aside herlove of wealth and finery in order to follow her heart. Beth, the shy one, must conquer her bashfulness, while Amy, the youngest, has to sacrifice her aristocratic pride. The girls are guided in their personal growth by their mother, Marmee, and by their religious faith.
Jo goes to New York as the governess for a family friend, Amy travels through Europe with her wealthy Aunt Carroll and cousin Flo, Laurie goes to Europe accompanied by his grandfather.
In New York, Jo meets German expatriate Professor Bhaer, whose intellect and strong moral nature spark her interest. Laurie and Amy discover that they lack the genius to be great artist, but they make an excellent romantic pairing. Beth, who has never been strong, dies young. Jo returns home to care for her bereaved parents and learns to embrace her domestic side.
All the loose ends are tied up as Jo and Professor Bhaer marry and start a boarding school for boys. Amy and Laurie marry and use the Laurence family wealth to support struggling young artists. The novel ends with a birthday party for Marmee, celebrating the extended March family.
Literary Movement: American Romanticism
Country: New England. Concord, Massachusetts, United Stated.
Genre: Didactic genre
Book No. 6Mayra Guerra
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë, Ellis Bell (July30, 1818, England - December 19, 1848, Haworth, England).
She was an English novelist and poet, wrote only one novel "Wuthering Heights" considered a classic of English literature, is about passion and hate.
Emily was the third of Brontë siblings, her father was Patrick Brontë who was Irish and her mother was Maria Branwell.
In 1944, Emily recopies all the poemsshe had written into two notebooks, One was labeled "Gondal Poems", the other was unlabelled. In 1845, Charlotte discovered the notebooks and insistedto published them. Eily refused, but then her sister Anne revealed to Charlotte her own poems that she had been writing in secret and published them with Emily as co-authors of Gondal Stories. On that time Emily wrote her most famous poem, "Nocoward Soul is Mine".
They adopted pseudonyms for publication, Charlotte as Currer Bell, Emily was Ellis Bell and Anne was Acton Bell. Charlotte contributed with 19 poems and Emily and Annewith 21 each one.
Plot:
This story is mainly about revenge. How Heathcliff does everything so that Catherine marries him, but when she does not, he does everything to ruin Edgar's life. At the end, he becomes thewoner of both granges, Wuthering heights and Truschross Grange, he ends alone and in despair as he realizes how many paople he indirectly killed and he still does not get what he always wanted, to be married to Catherine.
Literary movement: Victorian Period
Genre: Romanticism
Country: England
Book No. 7Silvia Bonilla
HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER¨S STONE
By Joanne Rowling
Joanne Towling (July 31, 1965 -) who goes by the pen name J.K: Rowling, is a British author and screenwriter best known for her seven book Harry Potter, children's book series.
J.K. Rowling was living in Edinburgh, Scotland and struggling to get byas a single mom before her firs book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was published, Rowling published the novel The Casual Vacancy in 1012, followed by the crime novel Cuckoo Calling under the pen name Robert Galbraith in 2013. In 2016, she releaseda play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and movie, Fantastic Beasts and Where to find Them.
The children's fantasy novel became an international hit and Rowling became an international literary sensation in 1999 when the first three installments of Harry Potter took over the top three slots of the New York Times Bestseller list after achieving similar success in her native United Kingdom.
The series has sold more than 45o million copies and ws adapted into a blockbuster film franchise.
Characters
Harry Potter, Hermione Grange, Ron Weasley, Hagrid, Albus Dumbledore, Voldemort, Draco Malfoy.
Plot
Harry Potter is not a normal boy. Raised by his cruel aunt and uncle, and tormented by his bully of a cousin, Dudley, he has resigned to a life of neglect. On his eleventh birthday, a half-giant called Hagrid, comes into his life and announces that Harry is a wizard. Together they journey to London to get school suplies for Harry's first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and wizandry.
Harry takes a train from King's Cross station to Hogwarts school, where he meets Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. The three are sorted into the same house, Gryffindor, and although Harry and Ron find Hermione bossy and annoying at first, the three soon become best friends.
Some useful slip-ups from Hagrid lead them to research a man called Niccholas Flamel. When Harry uses his father's invisibility cloak to search at night, he happens upon a curious mirror which shows him his dead parents. Headmaster Albus Dumbledore reveals to him that this mirror of erised shows the beholder their deepest desires and that what Harry wants most in the world is a family.
Later in the year, Hagrid obtains a dragon egg, and Harry, Ron and Hermione know that once it has hatched, he can't keep it because it is illegal. Harry and Hermione arrange to give it away one night but are caught, along with Harry's enemy Draco Malfoy and their fellow Gryffindor, Neville Longbottom. The four are given detentions, which they carry out with Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest. Harry and Draco come across a slain Unicorn, and crouching over it is the dark wizar, Lord Voldemort, theman who kelled Harry's parents and who Harry supposedly defeated as a baby.
Hermionerealizes thatwhat is hidden behind the trapdoor is the philosopher's Stoe, which makes the person who possesses it inmortal. The three guess that Voldemort wants the Stone and thatthe suspicious professor Snape is helping him.
They journey through the many obstacles that lie behind the trapdoor to get to the Stone, but Harry finds that it is Professor Wuirrell who was helping Voldemort allalong. He manages to defeat Voldemort and save the Stone, but not Quirrell's life. After Dumbledore explains all to him, Harry leaves Hogwarts at the end of the year, retuning to his Aunt and uncle.
Setting: Hogwats School
Genre: Chldren's literature
Country: England
Book No. 8Evelyn Girón
I AM MALA
Malala Yousafzai was born in July 1997 in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Her family came to run a chain of schools in the region. She was particularly inspired by her father's thoughts and humanitarian work. In early 2009, when she was 11-12, she wrote a blog under a pseudonym for BBC URDU detailling her life during the Taliban occupation of Swat. The following summer, journalist Ellick made a New York times documentary about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region. She rose to prominence, giving interviews in print and on television.
Plot:
On the morning of Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Malala boarded her school bus in the northwest Pakistani district of Swat. Agunman asked for Malala by name, then pointed a colt 45 at her and fired three shots. On October 12, a group of 50 islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwa against those who tried to kill her, but he Taliban reiterated its intent to kill Yousafzai and her father. United Nations launched a UN petition in Yousafzai's name, using the end of 2015 a petition which helped lead to the ratification of Pakistan's first right to education bill.
Place: Pakistan
Genre: Popular notification/biography
Dynamic Character: Malala and her father Zlauddin Yousafzai.
Literary movement: Post modern
Author's Biography: Christina Lamb.
Book N0. 9Vivian Obregón
ROSE IN BLOOM
By Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Her father was an enthusiastic transcendentalist philosopher, abolitionist, and teacher. Louisa studied informally with family friends.
She had an older siste, Anna, and two younger sisters, Lizzie and Abba May. She worked as a domestic servant and a teacher to help support her family when she resided in Massachusetts. She went to Washington, D.C. during the Civil War to work as a nurse.
She plublished poems, short stories, thrillers, and juvenille tales since 1851, under the pen name Flora Fairfield. She began to publish stories under her real name in Atlantic Monthly and Lady-s Companion and took a rief trip to Europe in 1865 before becoming editor of girls´ magazine, Merry´s Museum.
In 1862, she adopted the pen name A.M. Barnard, and some of her melodramas were produced on Boston stages. But it was her account of her Civil War experiences, Hospital Sketche, 1863, that confirmed Alcott´s desire to be a serious writer.
Alcott caught pneumoia while working as a nurse in the Civil War. The reatment gave her mercury poisoning. For twenty years she was wiak, suffered intense pain, and had hallucinations that could only be controlled with opium. She also lost her hair because of the illness.
Alcott died on March 6, 1888, and was buried inSleepy Hollow Cementery in Concord, Massachusetts.
She was the best selling novelist of the late 1800s, She tried her hand at adult novels.
Historical Background
The American Civil war was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. It was the result of a controversy over slavery. War broke out in April 1861 to 1865. It was the result of a controversy over slavery. War broke out in April 1861, when confederates attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, shortly after President Lincoln was inaugurated. They faced secessionists of the confederate States of America, who advocated for states rights to expand slavery.
Plot
The story egins when Rose returnshomefrom a long trip to Europe. Everyone has changed. The youngest Jamie, accidentally mentions that the aunts want Rose to marry one of her cousins to keep her fortune in the family.
Rose is very indignant, for she has decided ideas about what her guture holds. From the beginning, she declares that she can manage her property well on her own and that she will focus onphilanthropic work. Charlie has already decided she is marked oput for him, with the approval of his mother.
Phebe also comes home no longer the servant and she is readily accepted as part of the Campbell clan until Archie falls in love with her, The family feels that Archie would be marrying beneath himself.
After the three months are up, Tose begins to focus on her philanthropic projects and convinces Charlie to try to refrain from alcohol and other frivolous things, in order to win her love and respect.
She tries to help Charlie overcome his bad habits with the help of her uncle, but fails. Charlie's life ends tragically in an alcohol-induced accident onthe eve of his voyage to see his father and restore his good character.
Several months after Charlie's death, Rose finds out that another cousin, Mac, is now in love with her. At first, never thought of him as anything but "The worm", she refuses his love; but she does declare the deepest respect for him.
While Rose is discovering her heart, Steve and Kitty, engaged to marry. This creates a new sensation in the family, and Kitty beginsto look to Rose for sisterly guidance.
Rose encourages her to improve her silly mind, and Kitty is a very willing pupil. Rose continues to wait for Mac's return but reaches a crisis when Uncle Alec becomes very sick while visiting Mac; Phebe nurses him back from the brink of death, sealing her own engagement with Archie with everyoe's blessing.
This homecoming is completed for Rose when she is reunited with Mac and finally declares her ownsentiments. The book closes with three very happy couples and much hope for their felicity.
Characters
Rose Campbell, Archibald Campbell, Charles C. Campbell, Alexader Mackenzie Campbell, Stephen Campbell, William and George Campbell, James Campbell, Phebe Moore, Uncle Alec, Uncle Mac, Aunt Plenty, Aunt Myra, Aunt Clara, Aunt Jessie, Aunt Hane, Kitty Van Tassel.
Setting: United States of America
Point of view: Third Person
Protagonist: Rose Campbell
Antagonist: Charles C. Campbell
Theme: Love
Hero: Mac
Dynamic: All fo them
Static: Charlie
Genrte: General fiction, Romance
Literary Movement: Realism
Coments:
I think all Loisa May Alcott characters are similar. For me is a beautiful book, I liked this book because Rose is independent, yet desires toserve others. She is a good model for girls because she is very selfless and fighter girl.
Book No. 10Lesly Contreras
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
By Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 in London. She was not given a formal education. Her mother died when she was thirteen.
She started her work as a tutor and wrote reviews for some books, here reviews were published.
She became a member of the People's suffrage Federarion and of the women cooperative Guild. She married Leonard Woolf, who was a writer too.
Summary
Part one spans approximately seven hours and takes up more than half the book. It's set at the Ramsay's summer home, where the Ramsays and their eight children are entertaining a number of friends and colleagues. The novel begins with James Ramsay, age six, wanting to go to the Lighthouse that's across the bay from the Ramsays' summer home. His mother, Mrs. Ramsay, holds out hope that the weather will be good tomorrow so they can go to the Lighthouse, but Mr. Ramsay is adamant that the weather will beautiful. Charles Tansley, one of Mr. Ramsay's visiting students, chimesin and supports Mr. Ramsay's view that the weather will be rotten. He's a very socially awkward young man who is obsessed with his dissertation.
Numerous small bits of action occur. For example, after lunch, Mrs. Ramsay takes pity on Mr. Tansley and asks him to accompany her into town. By the endof the rip, Mr. Tansley is in lovewith the much older, but still beautiful, Mrs. Ramsay (by the way, she is 50). Later, as she sits ina window and reads a fairy tale to James, Mrs. Ramsay remembers that she must keep her head downfor Lily Briscoe's painting. Mrs. Ramsay has the fleeting through that Lily will have a hard timegetting married, but she likes Lily anyway and decides that Lily should marry William Bankes, and old friend of Mr. Ramsay's.
William Bankes, who is also visiting the Ramsays, comes up to Lily and the two of them go for a walk. They talk about Mr. Ramsay. Meawhile, Mr. Ramsay walks along the lawn and worries about mortality and his legacy to humankind, and then pesters Mrs. Ramsay to soothe his ego. Mrs. Ramsay does calm her husband, and thenstarts worrying about Paul, Minta, Nancy Ramsay, and Andrea, who are not yet backfrom the beach. She hopes that Paul has proposed to Minta.
At dinner, Mts. Ramsay triumphs. The food is delicious, she is beautiful, Mr. Bankes has stayed for dinner, and Paul's proposal to Minta has been accepted. She wishes she could freeze the moment but knows it is already part of the past. She tucks her youngest two children into bed andthen sits with her husband as he reads. They makesmall taks andshe knows he wants her to say, I love you, though she refuses. She gets out of it by smiling at him and tellinghim that hewas right - The weather will be bad tomorrow and they will not be able to visit the Lighthouse.
Part two compresses ten years. Mrs. Ramsay, Prue Ramsay, and Andrew Ramsay have died. . There also happens to be a war going on , World War I.
Part Three takes place at thesummer house andbegins with Mr Ramsay and two of his children, Cam and James, finally going to the Lighthouse, and Lily working on the paintingof Mrs. Ramsay that she never finished. Via Lily's thouhts, we hear that she never married, but remained good friends with William Bankes, Paul and Minta's marriage fell apart. Mr. Ramsay, Cam, and Jamesactually make it to the Lighthouse. Lily finishes her painting. Throughout this last part of the novel, it's clear that Mrs. Ramsay is sorely missed.
Characters:
Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Ramsay, Lily Briscoe, James Ramsay, Charles Tansley, William Bankes, Augustus Carmichael.
Static: Mrs. Ramsay
Dynamic: Lily Briscoe
Point of view: Third person
Conflict
Intern: James Ramsay
Extern: Lily Briscoe
Heroine: Mrs. Ramsay
Literary Movement: Modernism
Country: England and Scotland.
Book No. 11Guillermo Guzmán
INFERNO
By Daniel Gerhard Brown
Daniel Gerhard Brown (June 22, 1964 -) American author of thriller fiction. His novels are set in a 24 hour period and feature the themes of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into 52 languages, and as of 2012, sold over 200 million copies. His novels had the character Robert Langdon, also included historical themes and Christianity, and as a result have generated controversy.
Plot
Professor Robert Langdon wakes up in a hospital with a head wound and no memory of the last few days. His last memory is walking on the Harvard campus, but he quickly realizes that he is now in Florence. Sienna Brooks, one of the doctors tending to him, tells him he suffered aconcussion from being grazedby a bullet and had stumbled into the emergency ward. Suddenly, Vayentha a female assassin who has been following Robert, breaks into the hospital, shoots the doctor in charge of Robert's care, and approaches Robert's room. Sienna grabs Robert and they flee to her apartment.
While at Sienna's apartment they discover a hidden pocket in his jacket which contains a biohazardcontainer containing a small medieval bone cylinder fitted with a hi-tech projector that displays a modified version of Botticelli's map of hell.
Robert and Sienna head toward the Old City, believing the cylinder must have something to do with Dante, howereve, they eet by Venice police and the same soldiers and forced to sneak through most of the city.
Sienna later explains that Zobrist was a geneticist who advocated the halting of humanity's growth, due to it is out of control population. And that he was rumoredto be working on a means to dosousing an engineered disease.
Robert is captured by a group of black-clad soldiers while Sienna escapes. Robert is taken to Elizabeth Sinskey, the director-general of the WHO feared he betrayed them and was working with Sobrist to unleashthe plague.
Sobrist had paid a shadowy consulting group called The consortium to protect the Cylinder until a centain date.
Thevideo claims that the worldwill be changed the following morning. When Elizabeth took it away, they were obligated to protect whatever the bone cylinder pointed to.
Robert, the WHO, and the Consortium team up to stop her. From watching Zobrist's video they conclude that the bag containing the plague will be fully dissolved by the date the video specifies and that Zobrist's clues point to its location: The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. However, Robert and the others find the plague is in the Cistern where Sienna already is.
After Sinskey hears everything she decides to let Sienna help her address the world andanswer future questions that may arise from the world leaders. Langdon and Sienna say their goodbyues before she has to leave with Sinskey.
Characters:
Dante, Virgil, Lucifer, Pope Boniface VIII,
Point of view: First person
Genre: Mystery, Conspiracy fiction
Country: United States
Book No. 12Jessica del Cid
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
The Magician's nephew
By Clive Staples Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis was a medievalist, literary critic, novelist, academic. He was born in Belfast, Ireland on November 29, 1898, and dies in Oxford England in 1963.
Lewis was related to Jrr Tolkien who is the author of the Lord of the rings, so he was influenced to abandon his Christian faith. He became an atheist, he took interest in mythology. After an internal war with himself, he converted to Chritianity once again.
He wrote fiction novels "The Devil's letters", "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "The Cosmic Trilogy".
He lived and participated in the World War I and witnessed the Second World War. This affected his life and had a great influence to stop believing in God to see the damages.
Plot
The story begins in London during the summer of 1900. Two children, Digory Kirke and Polly Pummer, meet while playing in the adjacent gardens of a row of terraced houses. They decide to explore the attic connecting the houses, but take the wrong door and surprise Digory's uncle Andrew in his study. Uncle Andrew tricks Polly into touch in a yellow magic ring, causing her to vanish. Then he explains to Digory that he has been dabbling in magic and that the rings allow travel between one world and another. He blackmails Digory into talking another yellow ring to follow wherever Polly has gone, andtwo green rings so that they both can return.
Digory finds himself transported to a sleepy Woodland with an almost narcotic effet; he finds Polly nearby. The woodlandis filled with pools. They decide to explore a different world before retuning to England and jump into one of the nearby pools. They then find themselves in a desolate abandoned city of the ancient world of Cham. They find a bell with a hammer, an inscription inviting the finder to strike the bell.
Despite protests from Polly, Digory rings the bell. This awakens the last of the statues, a witch queen named Jadis who, to avoid defeat in battle, had deliberately killed every living thing in Cham by speaking the deplorable world.
The children realized Jadis' evil nature and attempt to flee, but she follows them backto England by clinging to them as they clutch their rings, in England, she discovers that her magical powers do not work, although she retains her superhuman strength, Polly and Digory grab her and put on their rings to take her out of their world, dragging with them uncle Andrew, Frank the cab-driver, and Frank's horse, since all were touching one another whem the children grabbed their rings.
They then all witness the creation of a new world by the lion Aslan, who bringsstars, plants, and animals into existence as he sings. Jadis, as terrified by his singing as the others are attracted to it, tries to kill Aslan with the iron rod; but it rebounds harmlessly off him, and in the creative soil of the new world it sprouts into a growing lam-post, Jadis flees.
Aslan gives some animals the power of speech, commanding them to use it for justice and merriment. Aslan confronts Digory with his responsibility for bringing Jadis into his young world, and tells Digory he must atone by helping to protect the new land of Narnia from her evil Digory picks one of the apples forhis mission, but their overpowering smell tempts him.
Uncle Andrew reforms and gives up magic, but still enjoys bragging about hisadventures with the witch. Digory plantsthe apple's core with Uncle Andrew's rings in the backyard of his aunt's home in London, and it grows into a large tree, Digory family inherit a mansion in the country and the appletree blows down in a storm. Digory has its wood made into a wardrobe, setting up the events in the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Characters:
Digory Kirke, Polly Plummer, Uncle Andrew Ketterly, Queen Jadis (The witch), Aslan, The Cabby/King Frank, Strawberry/Fledge, Sarah/The housemaid, Aunt Letty
Genre: Juvenile fantasy
Location: Narnia
Jeannette Rodríguez
THE GREAT GATSBY
By Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940).
Was a short story writer and novelist considered one ofthe pre-eminent authors inthe history of American literature due almost entirely to the enormous postumous success of his third book, The Grat Garsby, perhaps the quintessential American novel, as well as a definitive social history of the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby has become requiered reading for virtually every American highschool student and has had a transportive effect on generationafter generation of readers. Atthe age of 24, the success ofhis first novel, This Side of Paradise, made Fitzgerald famous. One week later, he married the woman he loved and his muse, Selda Sayre. However by the end of the 1920s, Fitzgerald descended into drinking, and Zelda had a mental breakdown.
Following the unsuccessful Tender is the Night, Fitzgerald moved toHollywood and became a scriptwriter. He died of a heart attack in 1940, at age 44, his final novel only half completed.
Plot
While the Buchanans live on the fashonable East Egg (Long Island, New York in the 1920's) Nicklives on the less elite but not too shabby West Egg, which sitsacross the bay from its twin town. We are soon fascinated by a certain Mr. Jay Gatsby, a wealthy and mysterious man who owns a huge mansion next door to Nick and spends a good chunch of his evenings standing on his lawn and look9ing at an equally mysterious green light across the bay.
Tom takes Nick to the city to show off his mistress, a woman names Myrtle Wilson who is, ofcourse, married Myrtle's husband, George is a passive working class man who owns an auto garage and is obblivious to his wife's extramarital activities. Nick, who has some good old-fashioned values from his childhood growing up in the Middle West, is none too impressed by Tom.
Back on West Egg, this Gatsby fellow has been throwing absolutely killer parties, where everyoneand his mother can come and get wasted and try to figure out how Gatsby got so rich. Nick meets and warily beriendsthemystery man at one of his huge Saturday night affairs. He also begins spending time with jordan, who turns out to be loveable in all her cynical practicality.
Moving along, Gatsby introduces Nick to his business partner, Meyer Wolfsheim. This is starting to sound fishy. Next, Gatsby revelas to Nick that he and Daisy had a love thing before he went away to the war andshe married Tom, after a serious episode of cold feetthat involved whisky anda bath tub. Gatsby wants Daisy back, and he enlists Nick to help him stage an accidental reuniting.
Nick executes the plan, Gatsby and Daisy are reunited andstart an affair, everything continues swimmingly until Tom meets Gatsby, doesn't like him, and begins investigating his affairs. Nick meanwhile, knows all about it, Gatsby grew up in a poor, uneducated family until he met the wealthy and elderly Dan Cody, who took hi as a companion and taught him how to act rich. But Dan isn't the one who left him the money.
Daisy and Tom take off, leaving their mess behind, Nick, who by now has had just about enough of these people, ends things off with Jordan in a way that's about one step up from breaking up via text message. He arranges Gatsby's funeral, which is very sparsely attended - although Gatsby's dad doesshow up with some more info about his past. Standing on Gatsby's lawn and looking at the green light.
Characters
Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Jordan Baker, George Wilson, Myrtle Wilson, Meyer Wolfsheim, Owl Eyes and Klipspringer.
Setting: New York
Point of view: First person
Literary movement: Novel
Protagonist: Jay Gatsby
Antagonist: Tom Buchanan
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