The Castle in the Attic

    Hi guys!
    Today I will write about my book's climax.
    The climax of my book is when William arrives at Alastor's castle. The castle is guard by a dragon. William heard that he can defeat the dragon ONLY is he looks straight in his eyes. Then he will start seeing horror scenes. If he can resist looking at all the scenes he will have the control of the dragon. He resist so he had the control of the dragon. Then he entered the castle. Alastor was looking for a fool so William thought that will be an awesome opportunity for him to enter the castle.
     He met Alastor. Alastor told him to show his skills so William start doing his gymnastic routine. Alastor was amazed so he decided to keep William at the castle. William was showing Alastor new things every day. One day when William was doing his routine he did something strange: He jumped over Alstor. He hit Alstor in his chest with his knee, but that wasn't enough. William needs to do one more step: to do like with the dragon, to look straight in his eyes and resist at horror scenes. William resist again and he killed Alastor.
     This is the climax! Hope you enjoyed!
     P.S Comment please!!!

ME, THE MISSING AND THE DEAD

Author: Jenny Valentine

This is my new story, as a mentioned in my previous posts. It is very intriguing, and as I said before, it is very mysterious. I am enjoying it so far, and I hope it turns out to be an interesting, and a nice wrap up and solution. Now what is the problem in my book? Well there is one main problem, and another not so important one, but still plays a crucial part in the climax. First of all, I would like to mention the setting: London, England. Characters: The main character is Lucas Swain. He is a sixteen year old boy looking for answers, which ones? You will find out later in my post. His mom is called Nick. he has an older sister named Mercy, father Pete (missing) and little brother Jed. The three live in a house located in London, England.

The main problem, is definitely Pete. Under mysterious circumstances, 5 years ago Pete, was going to work one day, he where never to come back again. An investigation was led, but nothing was found, now 5 years later, the 4 struggle to battle versus the tide. With no Pete, Nick is the engine of the house. She does all necessary things for her 3 children to manage. Jed is small, and relies on being tooken care of by his bigger brother, Lucas. Lucas is described as a large handsome man, with a big heart.  Mercy is not really described, and Nick is said to be pessimistic and sad, due to the family loss..... She always shouts how Pete is mean and he abandoned them, but the truth is different, and I will not talk about it.

The second and less important problem is finances. The budget is extremely limited, and the 4 rely on what they had from the past. For example, Lucas, always wares his fathers torn and small shoes, he needs to. But Lucas, believes that his father is still alive, and there is some sort of hope inside him. Here is a sentence, that might appear pessimistic, that proves his point: "......I saw a film once about an alien who landed on earth in a human body in a mental hospital. He had all this amazing stuff to teach everyone and he kept telling the doctors who he was, where he was from, and what he had to offer in the way of secrets of the universe and stuff; but they just thought he was crazy and pumped him full of drugs and he stayed there until he died.Maybe something like this happened to my father......" We shall see what happens in my next post, thanks!

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Post 4

      Hello everyone, I finally FINISHED the book, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', which was written by J.K. Rowling, and I read 734 pages out of 734 (YES! FINALLY!).

This is a scene/part when Harry Potter is getting the golden egg/Triwizard clue from the Hungarian Horntail in a task.
Picture source: imgur.com

      I think the main climax of this book is when Voldemort returned and dueled with Harry, which caused a strange gold connection of their wands. This part or climax or scene is near the end of the book, and is in the chapters: 'Flesh, Blood, and Bone', 'The Death Eaters', and 'Priori Incantatem'. In the climax, Harry Potter, the most important main character in this book (the protagonist), and Cedric Diggory, another Triwizard Tournament champion and one of the characters in the book, grabbed the the Triwizard Cup because that is the Third Task: finding the Triwizard Cup (Quick explanation of the Triwizard Tournament and the three tasks: the Triwizard Tournament is a friendly tournament between the three famous schools in Europe, which are 'Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry', 'Beauxbatons', and 'Durmstrang'. The the Triwizard Tournament is held every 5 years.). The Triwizard Cup appeared to be a Portkey, which is one of the things used for Magical Transportation. Harry and Cedric gets teleported to an old graveyard in Little Hangleton, near Tom Riddle Sr. (Voldemort's father)'s grave. Wormtail (one of the friends of James Potter, Voldemort's spy, a traitor, an Animagus, and also known as Peter Pettigrew) and Voldemort appeared to be there, and Wormtail killed Cedric following Voldemort's order to kill Cedric: 
      "Kill the spare."
      It turned out that this was all a scheme attempted to return Voldemort and give him a new body made and planned by Voldemort and his present supporters, who were Barty Crouch Jr. and Wormtail. They had to prepare a special potion to bring Voldemort and his body back, and the ingredients of this potion was: Harry's blood ("... Blood of the foe, forcibly taken..."), a bone of Tom Riddle Sr. ("...Bone of the father..."), hot, boiling, enchanted water, and Wormtail's hand ("... Flesh of the servant,willingly given..."). Voldemort and Wormtail needed to bring Harry to the graveyard to break the protection Lily Potter (Harry's mother) gave to Harry, which flowed in Harry's blood. Since Voldemort got and took Harry's blood, he was able to inherit the protection of Lily Potter, and by that, he could touch Harry.
      Due to Voldemort's return, the Death Eaters (Voldemort's supporters and Dark wizards) returned to Voldemort. Then Voldemort forced Harry to duel with him (with magic and their wands), and Voldemort and Harry dueled together with spells, Voldemort using the Unforgivable Curses, and Harry simply using Expelliarmus, the Disarming Spell. When Voldemort attempted to kill Harry with Avada Kedavra, the Killing Curse, a strange connection between Harry and Voldemort's wand happened, connected by a thin gold thread which formed a webbed, gold circle around them. Then some ghosts of the victims of Voldemort (all killed by Voldemort) went out of Voldemort's wand and helped Harry escape Voldemort and the Death Eaters to the Quidditch field in Hogwarts. 
      I thought this was the climax of the story, because this part was when the most important part of the book was, and was the part when all of the secrets and mysteries found or made throughout the book was solved. This was the part when everything in the book was waiting for and was about, and by this part, the readers and Harry learned an important part of information: Harry and Voldemort's wands were connected, and when they try to harm each other fatally, it would cause that strange connection and the webbed, gold circle. 

Bibliography:

Some small information: Harry Potter Wiki: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Most of the information: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (book)

 Monster

By: walter dean myers

I have read 381/381

The climax of the book is in the last days of the trial with Steve Harmon.

The prosecutor brings new and new evidence and tries to prove Steve is guilty. 

His defender tries hard to prove the opposite.

At the time of the jury desisions there is plenty of tention but at the end the jury proclames Steve not guilty.

Pretties

Pretties

By: Scott Westerfeld

I have read all of the 370 pages of the wonderful novel "Pretties". The climax of the novel "Pretties" is Tally Youngblood's and Zane's escape to New Pretty Town. When they arrived at The New Smoke Tally and Zane had a complicated time, because of Tally's past relationship with David. Afterwards the specials attack The New Smoke, and Shay, Tally's friend is one of them.

Hey sixth graders,

I have finished reading the book Whittington by Alan Armstrong. The book got better and better towards the middle. When I finished t I researched a little bit about Dick Whittington and his cat and was surprised with what I found out.

The main climax in my book was... Well, there was nothing to special that happened in the book. It was all pretty much the same thing. Animals telling about their lives in a barn and a cat telling history tales.

I guess you could call teaching the boy to read a climax. In my book the animals in the barn were trying to teach a boy how to read. He had dyslexia, which is a disease were people see letters all turned around and backwards. This made it harder for him to read. In the end he got pretty good at reading and the animals felt really accomplished. That is the only thing that I can think of as a climax, when the boy learned how to read. It was interesting because whenever he could not read a word correctly he would get really upset and angry, sometimes he would even throw things. It was interesting how barn animals taught him to read, animals can not talk. in this book apparently the animals could talk and that is how they taught the boy word by word how to read. I found this strange since this was not a book about magic.

I found out that Dick Whittington was not a real life person, neither was his cat. They were both based on real life people though. I think this makes the book plenty more interesting because you know what you are reading is true.

I hope you like my blog post. I am sorry I did not have a clearer climax but nothing different really happened in the book. I know this sounds boring but it is actually pretty good.

-Erika Anne Brotzen-

(AKA Firestar)

Dick Whittington and his cat.

Dick Whittington's  real name is actually Richard Whittington.

Call it Courage - The part of the book that we read for!

Hello people!

As you all know already, I am reading Call it courage, a novel by Armstrong Sperry.
But today I am here to explain the climax of this particular book. I would say that it is a bit complicated because there are a lot of conflicts and then in the last ten [pages the cannibals come to sacrifice Mafutu (did they fail?)

So the actual climax in my eyes (or opinion) is when Mafutu saw the black ships coming forward, arriving at daybreak, seizing him and finally..!

(sorry, can't spoil the story)
\(did he escape?)

OK, OK, let's get real.

Mafutu jumped on his beautiful (just crafted) canoe and tries to escape. The cannibals chase him, but the sea is in his favor. The cannibals (or obvious antagonists) really try to chase but Mafutu's canoe is just too good for them to even try catch up. The cannibals needed to sacrifice something,,, and they did not want to miss this opportunity. They tried hooking on to his craft but it did not work. they tried human propellers but it did not work resulting that Mafutu peacefully sailed back to his own island; Hikueru and he was awarded a boar-toothed necklace, for the courage he had shown.

They try, but they failed as I would say.


Thank you for reading this post and my last one of this School Quarter!

(written by Cosmo Kuhling)