Independent Reading Post 2

NAME Nate Kling DATE 2/2/10
TITLE Pendragon: The Lost City of Faar TIME 3.5 HOURS
AUTHOR D.J. Machale PAGES 168-285
TOTAL PAGES THIS WEEK 117

QUESTION 1:Make up a motto that one of the characters seems to live by. How and why does this fit the character?
RESPONSE 1: "That's the way it was meant to be." This is what one of the main characters, Uncle Press, seems to live by. He is always telling his nephew Bobby, "That's the way it was meant to be. He usually says this when he is talking about their "Traveler" duties. When Bobby's parents went missing, that's what he said. When he has to keep working as a Traveler, that's the way it was meant to be. He always believes that it was right to do, or that it was planned by some kind of god. That isn't what he said, but the way he believes makes me think of the way people believe that there is a god and has giant plan for us all.

He usually tries to use this as a way to calm Bobby down. To make him know that even though it may all seem crazy and that's never going to be okay and he's going to die, it will always be okay. The thing is, Uncle Press sometimes doesn't even it himself. He just tries to make it better for every body else. He has a way of being able to make them feel better and not scared of what will come in the future. He knows that eventually it will all become right or wrong, and whatever happens, "That's the way it was meant to be."

QUESTION 2: What has surprised you in the book? Why?

RESPONSE 2: The thing that surprised me the most is that one of the character was NOT the shape-shifting antagonist Saint Dane. This character that I suspected to be Saint Dane was the leader of the lost city of Faar. The way Saint Dane seems to be every scares the main character and makes the book much more unpredictable. Not only was he a woman who poisoned the crops of the territory Faar, he was also the man who tried to destroy an entire floating city by running it into another. It seemed like it would be too easy for a man like Saint Dane. It seemed like the perfect, scary, unexpectable thing from Saint Dane. He's just such a great villain.

He was also the man who caused the over turn of another territory in the first book. This was just another one of his incredibly evil schemes that he used to bring all of the territories, which the Travelers call Halla, to destruction. He always becomes the person that you would least expect, which just makes him a even scarier villain. The lady who poisoned the crops was too evil for me, but something like becoming the leader was just too horrible. Maybe something like making all of the Faarians try to evacuate would be one of his very evil schemes.