1st book of Series of Unfortunate Events

Honestly, I read this book because I couldn't find any good books in the library, and it was one of the few books that I have in my house. However, I have never thoroughly read this book, so I decided to take a stab at it. The theme I think is depression, because the children suffer depression while being in the Count's house.

Lemony Snicket wrote this depressing book which seems sort of amusing to me. I liked his sense of humor, and telling the meaning of random vocabulary words and relating it into the story. In this story, a children of the Baudelaire family heard the shocking news. Their parents died from a terrible fire. Because of this, they were sent to a house of a terrible distant relative named Count Olaf, a theater actor. After suffering quite a while from being a "captive" of the house, the children discovered the real purpose of the Count's hospitality of the kids. For their family heritage!

This is as far as I got to. Although I just started this book, I don't plan on finishing it because it seems pretty childish, and would like to enjoy more classic books.

Post #4 of RedWall

Today, I finished the book RedWall. Overall, I didn't like this book. The battle between the RedWall citizens and Cluny the Scourge seemed extremely unfair. Cluny never succeeded in defeating the RedWall citizens until the very end, where he eventually died. There was no suspense at all, so as a reader, I wasn't very entertained.

Although the story was toward its finish, Matthias made more friends. While on his quest, Matthias became friends with some querulous creatures called Shrews. They were like mice, but were weird looking. They always argued with each other, and Matthias was often annoyed because of that. With the Shrew's help, he found out where he could find the long lost sword which was stolen by a giant viper. While searching for the whereabouts of the viper, he became friends with an owl named Captain Snow, and a cat. With their help, Matthias was able to kill the viper, and retrieve the lost sword. 

While this was taking place, Cluny sent a spy inside RedWall, and made him open the gate door while all of the city's citizens were sleeping. Everyone seemed to be helpless under the captive of Cluny's horde. Matthias, the only warrior of RedWall who still had liberty gathered up all of his friends (shrews, sparrows, owl, cat) and killed all of the enemy mercilessly. Cluny was killed, and Matthias was greatly honored. RedWall was victorious.

In the beginning, I planned to finish the entire series. However, after finishing the first novel, I don't think I want to read a book by Brian Jacques again. Although the vocabulary and sentence structure was higher than the level of an elementry student, the plot was very childish.

Post #3 of RedWall

In this part of the book, the sparrows are introduced. When Jess (a squirrel that is expert at climbing) was fulfilling the  request of the Abbot to climb to the tip of the castle and retrieve a long lost sword, she was raided by a group of sparrows. In their attempt to scare away the sparrows, the archers started to fire arrows at the sparrows. One of the arrows accidentally hit a sparrow named Warbeak, a belligerent sparrow that hated mice. While it was held captive, the sparrow threatened every creature within its vicinity that it would kill them once it is freed. If she doesn't succeed in doing so, then her group leader would. Matthias at the same time searched for the long lost sword. He had an idea that the sparrows might have taken the weapon, so he seeked Warbeak for help. Warbeak wasn't as kind at the beginning, but on their trip to the top of the castle where the sparrow nests were, they grew intimate with one another, and eventually became good friends. When the sparrow boss tried to kill Matthias, it was Warbeak who saved Matthias.

The leader of the sparrow tribe is depicted as an unfit ruler who took advantage of his power too much. He was very mean to Matthias also. He took Matthias' sword belt that too was legendary, and took all of the goods that Matthias had at that time. The only way Matthias was to be granted freedom was if he was to bring more goods to the boss. Although the sparrows had the same opinion as Matthias, they couldn't do anything because they were afraid of the boss' excellent fighting skill. Together with Warbeak and her mother, Matthias plans to escape the captivity of the sparrows.

Post #2 of RedWall

In this part of the book, the antagonist camed Cluny is more thoroughly introduced. As a reader, I was able to get more of an idea about Cluny, and what type of person (rat) he is. He is good leader who is very persistent, endless, and very picky. Although he would be a favorable charater if hewas a good guy, because he is the evil rat who is trying to disrupt the peace of RedWall, he is impossible to be liked. The theme of the parts of the book, where it is told on Cluny's view, is curruption. Everything that Cluny has in charge of is currupted: from his base to every single one of his battle tactics. On the other hand, everything in RedWall is perfect. They never lost a single battle yet. When the rats had unfair advantage over the mice of RedWall, the mice just won. To make the matters worse, the mice oversaw every single tactic that were planned by Cluny, and successfully defended themselves from getting into any peril.

I personallydon't like these kinds of books where the good guys win without even breaking a sweat. I enjoy books in which the main characters struggles yet never gives up, and due to his determination, he either wins or loses.

RedWall by Brian Jacques

Right now, the feelings evoked by the book is very peaceful and happy. The main character Mathias has his life set. The village RedWall is a community in which everyone accepts one another. They don't have any prejudices toward others. One family, the Churchmouse family is very poor. However, instead of abandoning them of their social status, Mathias' dad tried to help them by secretly handing Mrs. Chuchmouse some food from the party that he hosted, in which everyone was invited. The theme of this book is peacefulness is good. Mathias dreamed of becomming a great warrior. However, his father discouraged Mathias of having such a dream, because he didn't want the village to go into a war again. He enjoyed the peace that he was experiencing in the village, and wanted to keep things that way. Later, an evil mouse named Cluny is introduced, who is the destroyer of the peace. Because of Cluny, the village suffers from the "darkness".
I am currently very fond of the main character Mathias. He is very loyal to his father. Even though his father makes him do errands, Mathias doesn't complain, and get straight to his work. In some ways, Mathias relates to me. I too am a great person, and would try to do anything that would satisfy my parents. Because Mathias is such a sweet child, his father Abott has nothing to say against him. One thing that I differ from Mathias is the way I treat my sister, and the way he treats his brother. I sometimes abuse my sister, and I think that I would need to fix this.
Overall, I believe that this book would be a great reading for my leasure times, and think that I would need to finish the rest of the trilogy after I'm finished reading.

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The pigs broke many of the rules that have been written by Snowball. The rules are called the seven commandment, and it is as follows.
1. whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy
2. whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend
3. no animal shall wear clothes
4. no animal shal sleep in a bed
5. no animal shall drink alcohol
6. no animal shall kill any other animal
7. all animals are equal

Pigs have always broken these rules, and told a pig named Squealor to make convince their fellow animals that what they have done is right. So, Squealor always went into the barn secretly, and changed the seen commandment. Here are the revised commandments.

1. No animal shall sleep in a bed WITH SHEETS
2. No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE
3. No animal shall drink alcohol TO EXCESS
4. Four legs good, two legs better..
5. All animals are equalbut some animals are more equal than others.

The pigs have proven themselves to be hipocrites big time.