Things That Are Confusing Me

In the fifth book of the series Ranger's Apprentice Sorcerer of the North by John Flanagan I am pretty confused as to how it starts. It starts with, "In the north, he knew, the early winter gales, driving the rain before them, would send the crashing against the shore, causing white clouds of spray to burst high into the air." I have to say it starts off pleasantly, but one question, why is he in the north, you can't just change what the storyline is, this is a horrible attempt at showing us how his life is in the future. 'Cause in Battle for Skandia he is heading south, and where is Halt, or Evanlyn? Later it says, "Again, that was his training: to see without being seen; to notice without being noticed." "That was his training"? I thought he chose to be with Halt to train more. In the last book it showed Will saying, "'You do me great honor, your majesty. But my wish is to continue my training as an apprentice." What is Flanagan getting at, did he just not remind us that it's the possible future? I hate the fact that he couldn't explain that this is later in his life! Unexceptionable!

New Year, New Stuff I Guess

A lot of people have a "Resolution" for the New Year and end up failing at their goals by February, and to the people who end up fulfilling the goals, congratulations. Instead of making goals that I knew I can't complete by New Years' Eve 2016, then I will make areas where I should improve. Starting off with my grades, I know having a lot of 2's is okay to have now and really isn't bad, but I rather have more 3's in things that I am struggling with, so instead of saying I want to have 3's, I am going to say I am going to work harder to have more 3's and 4's. Also a lot of people choose a lot of goals to complete in one year, I don't want to overwhelm myself though, so I will just keep this my only goal right now.

The Character Development of Will and Evanlyn

After a long, nice and relaxed break I am ready to blog again. The blog will be the conclusion of "Ranger's Apprentice: The Battle for Skandia". Now what I've noticed with the character development is mainly Will and Evanlyn, also known as Princess Cassandra but I'll talk about that in a bit. Will and Evanlyn are a big storyline in this book since they have been captured by Skandians and later escape with their befriended Skandian, Erak. Though they made an escape there is still no support from Will since in the he was a victim of warm weed which had caused him to be ill and not be any help. Now though in the next book; Battle for Skandia, Will has gotten better and could actually help Evanlyn. Evanlyn fears as though he is still not recovered completely and should rest while she hunts for food. On one of her hunts she is captured by the Temujai invaders and is unable to return. Will not knowing where she is comes up with scenarios of what could have happened to her. The evidence to prove this is, "Deep down in the pit of his stomach, a vague uneasiness stirred as he wondered what could have become of his companion. He reviewed the possibilities." this show how he is thinking of many possibilities of what could have happened to her and how he has developed since the first book. In "The Ruins of Gorlan" Will is just a boy who has many questions and does not think much of what he could possibly do. Now he is more matured and understands how to handle situations thanks to the mentoring from Halt. Now Evanlyn's character development is astounding. From "Burning Bridge" she has developed to a brave princess fighting for her land, Araluen. Then in "Icebound Land" she becomes clever as well as brave having Will and herself escape from being slaves and nurse Will from his addiction. Now she has a huge role. Because the Skandians have realized that she is Princess Cassandra, the whole backstory behind this is that the Skandians have sworn to kill anyone of the Araluen kingdom family and Cassandra being the princess had to conceal her identity as Evanlyn, but after Skandians noticed her looks being familiar and a lady accidentally exposing by calling her "my lady" Cassandra realized that she might as well reveal her identity with all of their evidence to show it is her. An argument starts like this, "'I am King Duncan's daughter' she said with a slight emphasis on his title. 'Cassandra, Princess of Araluen.' 'Then you are my sworn enemy," Slagor said, spitting the words out. 'And I have that your should die.'" she is soon saved the Erak with these words, "Erak stepped forward. 'And I've sworn that she will be safe here, Oberjarl' he said. 'I gave my word when I ask the Ranger to help us.'" this shows how Cassandra was going to be killed by Erak saved here. This also shows how in front of a bunch of Skandians working for Slagor, she was still able to reveal her identity with ease and bravery. That is why I think Will and Evanlyn/Cassandra were the main developed people in this book.

The Worst Christmas I Ever Recieved

Well, I wouldn't say it is the worst gift. I would say this gift was a redone gift which kind of was embarrassing. My aunt had gotten me a brand new video game and I had not told my mother. But through the year I was bugging my mom about the game that I had been wanting. She said she didn't have the money to buy so I was game less for good amount of the year. On Christmas Day though she had finally got me the game, I was so pleased and I played that game all day. I guess I had talked about wanting the game so much that my other relatives had also heard about me wanting the game that they also had bought me the game after I recieved the original. I didn't want to return the gift and look stubborn so I kept the game and now in case I lose my game I'll have three back ups.

Predicting and Uncertain Future for Will in Ranger's Apprentice Icebound Land

In "Ranger's Apprentice Icebound Land" by John Flanagan I predict that will begin to have on and off moments from addiction to warmweed, the reason why is because in one sudden moment he wakes up from a nap remembering everything with no side effects. It really bothers me because it felt sped up and it seemed like he just wanted to get over with the storyline. And it's kind of a repetition at this point where he will make a storyline of a book too rushed that you can't seem to enjoy it at times. My evidence to prove this is, "A jolt of fear hit him. Evanlyn! What had become or her?" this shows that all of the sudden he can remember Evanlyn and in the paragraph before it he doesn't quite remember much. "But there was no memory there. Nothing but a blank wall that defied all his efforts to pierce it." this is the paragraph before it, now I know that at times a surge of memory can come to you, but he woke up from a nap, has no idea where he is and you'd think that he would try to figure out what happened to him first. But besides that I think John Flanagan had thought of something fresh for a storyline that the good old "Good guy fights all the bad guys and saves everyone."

The Theme of Ranger's Apprentice Icebound Land

In "Ranger's Apprentice Icebound Land" by John Flanagan there is a lot of friendships that begin to grow throughout the book or grow from the book before. And I think that the theme of this book is "Great friends will stick by you" and the reason why I think this is mainly because of Evanlyn and Will. They had been traded to become slaves and then splitter up because of their friendship. The slave owners saw they were friends and decided to break them up and without each other's supervision they wouldn't know what the others were doing. Will had became so sore from the work he was doing as a slave that the other slaves gave him warmweed to make him feel better. As soon as Evanlyn found out she was saddened because she thought she lost a friend. Erak had helped her stop his addiction by slowing down his doses and when he was finally snapped out of the warmweed she had become so happy she cried. The evidence to support is, "And, saying it, he wondered why her eyes had filled, and why her shoulders were shaking as tear after tear spilled uncontrollably down her cheeks. After all, he couldn't really see that there was anything to cry about." this is important because of how Evanlyn had become so drawn away from him thinking she lost a friend. Once will snapped out of his addiction she cried from joy knowing her friend was back. This theme also goes for Halt and Horace because of their friendship that grows from the same goal they have, saving Will and Evanlyn. They had gone through facing a power hungry warrior and in the end they felt accomplished knowing they were one step quick to getting Will and Evanlyn. The evidence to support this is, "'Good,' said Horace, and there was a world of satisfaction in the single word. Together, they turned their backs on the memory of Deparnieux. They urged their horses forward and the little cavalcade moved off, Tug following close behind the two riders. 'Let's go and find Will,' said Halt" this is important because it is reminded of their shared goal that sprouts this friendship and throughout the journey of finding Will, they stuck by through thick and thin problems and went straight ahead, that is why the theme is Great Friends will Stick By You

Quote Blog

"Remember; we can hear the bands we want to hear" CM Punk. This means ignore people who bring you down and listen to the things that will make you happy. And I feel that I have had people who would try to bring me down and tell me things I rather not hear. But I listen to the things I want to hear to help me on my own.