By Stephen Messer
ISBN-10: 0375893474
ISBN-13: 9780375893476
A high-flying fable event that would blow readers away!
Every kite Oliver touches flies immediately into the floor, making him the laughingstock of Windblowne. With the kite-flying competition merely days away, Oliver tracks down his reclusive great-uncle Gilbert, a former champion. With Gilbert's support, Oliver can photo himself at the crest, launching into the winds to develop into one of many mythical fliers of Windblowne.
Then his great-uncle vanishes in the course of a conflict with mysterious assault kites—kites that appear to fly themselves! All that continues to be is his prize ownership, an easy red kite. at the very least, the kite turns out uncomplicated. whilst Oliver attempts to fly it, the kite lifts him excessive above the timber. whilst he comes down, town and all its humans have disappeared. without warning the competition is the very last thing on Oliver's brain as he's catapulted right into a secret that might switch every little thing he is aware approximately himself and his world.
Inspired via the paintings of Diana Wynne Jones, debut writer Stephen Messer gives you a fable e-book for girls and boys during which the space among realities is the same as the breadth of a kite string.
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It’s notable that in the original magazine installments of the novel, the full title read The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger, of Blunderstone Rookery, which he never meant to be published on any account (814). The comic garrulity suggests that Dickens was still uncertain what genre the work would conform to, and the past tense of “never meant” implies that the narrator is dead and the document published posthumously—whereas in the final version the book is most definitely a famous writer’s public declaration of his heroism.
Murdstone flogs David “as if he would have beaten me to death” (62) and exiles him to his room for five days of separation from his mother. Even worse than the physical pain is David’s guilt at having become “an atrocious criminal” who might be hanged. In this, he becomes his own jailer. . ‘I’m a Tartar,’ ” he declares (90, 85). “He had a delight in cutting at the boys, which was like the satisfaction of a craving appetite. I am confident that he couldn’t resist a chubby boy, especially; that there was a fascination in such a subject, which made him restless in his mind, until he had scored and marked him for the day.
The child, of course, is Estella. Jaggers’s narrative affirms his powers as a secretly benevolent father (analogous both to the convict and to Pip as benefactor of Herbert), but it also shows Jaggers to be as cruelly self-deceived and as emotionally and morally self-serving as Pip. Pip had his fairytale; Jaggers, his secret history. Neither understands how fatal such narratives can be. Jaggers’s plot manipulations have brought destruction to all his characters—including the child Estella, who was emotionally deprived, perverted, and abused by her adoptive mother (who made her an unfeeling “puppet” [204] to be used in a revenge plot) and who we learn is now the victim of a violently abusive husband, a rich “gentleman” she coldly married for money and social status.
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