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Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer pg. 1 - 26

The story begins with Artemis Fowl II, the main character with his butler sitting at a curbside cafe. They were waiting for a man named Nguyen Xuan who had the information of where they could find a pixie/fairy, who had this book. Ngyugen Xuan tries to disguise himself as a waiter, but Artemis catches his disguise. Artemis tells Nguyen that if he tries to run away or do anything silly, he would get killed by his butler, who is expertly trained to protect Artemis Fowl. So they all go into a Jeep and drove down the narrow roads of Ho Chi Minh City until it was too narrow for the Jeep to keep on going. So they got out of the Jeep and started walking until they reached a black triangle benteath a rusted fire escape. So they go down and they see a scrunched up old lady who is the pixie. Artemis makes a deal with the pixie for the book. Artemis makes a deal to make the pixie more younger and in exchange, she will give Artemis the book for thirty minutes. Artemis finishes reading the book and takes pictures of each and every page and the fairy gets her little booster.

Why did you select this novel? I selected this novel because all my friends that have read this book said that it was a very good and epic book. Also, it stood out of the other books because of its shiny yellow front. I noticed it right away. The review also said, "At last, one of the most talked-about novels of last year is now available in an accessible mass-market edition. I knew it had to be good.

What has happened before the novel began? Before the story began in Chapter 1, there was a prologue. So, the prologue explains that Artemis Fowl is a intelligent 12 year old boy. He's so smart that he has outsmarted the greatest medical minds. "He bamboozles every test thrown at him. He has puzzled the greatest medical minds, and sent many of them gibbering to their own hospitals." Then it asks the question why someone like him dedicates himself to criminal activities. It says it can only be answered by only one person. "This is a question that can be answered by only one person. And he delights in not talking." Then it says that Artemis Fowl came up with a plan to restore his family fortune. "A plan that could topple civilizationss and plunge the planet into a cross-species war." And that is when the story begins......

Who is telling the story? How does this person’s perspective effect the way the story is told The story is told at a third person view. It effects how the story is told by making less bland ,like the words: I, him, her, he, she, etc. It makes the story look like a report or a document. "Perhaps the best way to create an accurate picture of Artemis is to tell the by now famous account of his first villainous venture. I have put together this report from firsthand interviews with the victims, and as the tale unfolds, you will realize that this was not easy. The story was suppose to tell the reader about the person's past, instead of their life right now.

10/10 Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer pg. 27 - 52

The story continues in the Fowl Manor. Artemis was going to bring the file to his computer, but he had to check on his mother. Artemis' mother was bedridden, ever since her husband had disappeared. Artemis went to check in on his mother, but he was worried that his mother might not recognize him because of her condition. There was a gap in the curtains because Juliet, the butler, forgot the close them. Then Artemis and his mother start talking about, what Artemis did today, getting a new butler because the mom thinks that the one right now is good or nothing, and how she hear things at night crawling along the pillows and into her ears. then suddenly the mom forgets who Artemis is and tells him to go away and never to come back here again. After that, Artemis starts decode the book he took from the pixies. It was a pain in the neck to figure it out. The book wasn't read from top to bottom, it was read from the middle and then in a spiral direction. The words were very difficult to read. They were all symbols. The computer couldn't read it. Artemis had to figure it out manually. By midnight, Artemis had successfully put all his findings into his Macintosh. All he had to do now was to press decode. The file got converted and then it was printed out. He had finally done it, he was probably the first human in several thousand years to decode these magical words. He still needed to decode a lot more pages, so Artemis called upon his butler, and Juliet to finish it off. Then the book explains how the Fowls lost their billionaire status and why Artemis Fowl the Second is trying to get back their family fortune. Then Artemis is in his study inherited from his father to begin planning dastardly acts. His objective was to get gold.

What's going on as the story begins? Artemis is trying to find as much information to get back his family fortune. He is making private meetings with people to get some information on how to find a pixie, who has a book that he needs. Artemis makes a deal with the pixie and finally gets his book. Then he goes back to the Fowl Manor to decode the book. But first, he decides to check up on his mother to see how she is doing. Artemis is worried on her condition. They start chatting and when the mother forgets who Artemis is, she tells him to go away and never to come back every again. Then Artemis starts decoding the book. It was a long and hard task, but finally he completed it. Then he calls on the butler, and Juliet to finish off decoding the book. After that, Artemis goes to his study to think of some dastardly acts.

What is the initial or first problem faced by the main character? The first problem faced by the main character is how to decode the book that he got from the pixies. "The book was proving far more stubborn than Artemis had anticipated. It seemed to be almost actively resting him. No matter which program he ran it though, the computer cam up blank." "A normal child would have abandoned the task long since. The average adult would probably have been reduced to slapping the keyboard." This shows how hard decoding this book was.

How does the author get you to read on or hold your interest? The author gets us to read on his evil plans of Artemis Fowl and how he isgetting back his family fortune to get us to hold our interest. He makes it have some suspense to it.

10/10

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer pg. 53 - 82

The story continues describing this character called Holly Short. Holly Short is a fairy. Holly is in a bad mood because Commander Root has been on Holly's case since day one. The commander hates that the first female officer in Recon's history had been assigned to his squad. Recon is a dangerous posting with a high fatality rate, and Root didn't think it was a place for a girl. Another reason why she was in a bad mood is because her magic was low. If Root found out she was running low on magic, she'd be transferred to Traffic. Holly lives near the earth's core where there are no humans in sight. Holly got dressed into her uniform and went straight to the police station. The LEP station was crammed with protestors. They were protesting to demand release of their innocent offspring. Holly goes into Commander Root's office and they start arguing on why he keeps picking on her. Holly was about to get transferred into Traffic when suddenly the phone rang and it said that there was a rogue troll running loose. So, Holly begs for one more chance and finally Root tells Holly to do a thorough reconnaissance and report in. Holly then makes her way to Ops, where Foaly (a paranoid centaur) is waiting for her. She tells Holly where the troll is located and gives her the equipment that she needs. They then make they're way to the pressure elevators. Holly goes inside the pod and then she is shot up out of the earth's core. After she lands, she enjoys the magnificent Italian night sky. She then goes about, flying through the fair, searching for the troll. She turns on her shield so that the troll and the Mud people (humans) would not be able to see her. She finally reachers the troll and sees it crushing the town's outer wall. She then reports to Commander Root and records what is going on. The Commander tells Holly that the Retrieval team will come 5 minutes minimum. But, Holly thinks that is too long, and the whole town will explode in ten seconds. So, shes going to stop the troll herself. The Commander shouts at her because she was told not to do Retrieval. But, Holly neglects to listen to the commander and goes in.

Comment on the style of the novel. Is it easy or hard to follow the events? It is sorta hard and sorta easy to follow the events. First it starts out in the beginning with Artemis at some cafe meeting some guy to find this book so he can get back his family fortune. Then it shows him at his manor to decode the book. After that, it jumps to this fairy called Holly Short, and it talks about her life, which I have not figured out why yet. Is the language in the novel difficult or easy? GIve examples and explain. The language in the novel is quite easy to understand which makes the book much better. If the book's language was difficult to understand, then you would spend more time trying to understand what it is trying to say, rather than the plot of the story. This book isn't one of those books that go into alot of detail. Its just nice and simple. To what age group is the novel aimed? Support your answer with evidence. I'd say that the age group the novel is aimed at is about 12-16. Children wouldn't be able to understand the plot of the story and some of the content is mature for young children.

9/10

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

pg. 83 - 240

Holly goes in and she fights the troll. She does whatever she cans to fight it. She withdraws a small sphere and places it in the middle of the restaurant and it brings the building to shambles. Later, when Commander Root and the retrieval team comes, Holly and the commander argue about her trying to fight off the troll even though she wasn't invited. Commander Root realizes that Holly hasn't done the ritual in 2 years, and thats the reason why her magic is low. So, Root tells Holly to do the Ritual tonight because tonight was a full moon. Later that night, Holly goes to an ancient oak tree to pluck a seed and plant it far away so she would get her magic back. But, Artemis knows about the ritual so he goes to find a fairy and capture her that night, to finish his mission. Holly hears human voices, and they seem to be talking to her. Holly is dumbfounded on how the humans could see her and know about the ritual. Then Holly shot with a hypodermic dart and she faints. Root is at the lab with Foaly and she tells Root that Holly has been kidnapped. Foaly plays a video recorded from Holly's video camera on her helmet. Root immediately goes out and find Holly. While in the car, Artemis studies the fairy technology that Holly is holding. He places the tracker that Holly had somewhere on a dock and Artemis heads back home to the Fowl Manor. Commander Root is up on the surface of the Earth and he starts tracking Holly. Holly then wakes up in this room with Juliet and she starts talking to Juliet on why she is here. She then asks how they know so much on fairies but Juliet wouldn't tell her. Root then comes to this dock and he enters a ship. He goes into lots of hallways and rooms until finally he comes to the room where his tracker is beeping bright red. Root only finds Holly's helmet. Artemis had set him up. Artemis then comes on the speakers and talks to Commander Root. Root now knows his name is Artemis Fowl so he tells Foaly to do a quick research on him. Artemis tries to kill Root by setting off a bomb, and Root runs away. Root barely made it. Root goes back to the headquarters and he asks Foaly for the information that she got on Artemis Fowl. She then tells Root that the Fowl family lives in the Fowl Manor and Artemis is really intelligent and is a criminal mastermind. Root then sets up a Retrieval team to go to the Fowl Manor and get Holly back. Foaly thinks its weird on why Artemis would tell the Commander his name. She thinks that he knows that Commander Root will come to the Fowl Manor and try to get Holly back, but Root doesn't care. They then come to their destination and then plan on how to get inside. Artemis knows that the Fairies are outside so he sends out Butler to deal with them. Suddenly, one of the team members of the Retrieval team is down and a huge human comes and starts to talk to the other fairies. The fairies wouldn't listen to the Butler, so they start attacking him with their gadgets. But Butler is too strong for them and everyone is down. Butler tells one of the fairies to never come back and stay out of their way. Back at the room, Holly tries to plant her acorn (magical seed) to finish off her ritual and get her magicback, so she tries to plant it in one of the furniture. She knows that Artemis is watching her through a hidden camera, so when Juliet comes in Holly says that she's hungry and wants her to get some food for her. So Juliet goes and gets some food. Then back at the headquarters Root is thinking to stop time, so daylight wouldn't come.He knew that daylight would make them weaker and lessen their magic. So he gets Foaly to stop time and then he goes back by himself to the Fowl Manor. Artemis then sees that the fairies had stopped time like it said in the book. So, Artemis waits for the fairies to come back. Root arrives at the Fowl Manor and Artemis comes out himself and tells him he wants to have a conversation. Artemis tells Root not to do anything and he he knows everything about them. He also tells them that he knows how to get rid of their time stop. Root thinks he's lying about stopping the time stop. So Root gets professionals to watch the video he had recorded secretly, and when he gets to the part where Artemis tells him that he knows a way to destroy the time stop, they say that he is telling the truth. A new character is then introduced, and his name is Mulch. Mulch is a dwarf and he is a criminal. Mulch just digs tunnels and thats what dwarfs do. Then a goblin comes buy with his gang and starts making fun of Mulch. They then get into a fight when suddenly their fight is interrupted by LEP officers and they want Mulch to go to Commander Root. Commander Root assigns a job to Much to break into the Fowl Manor.

Describe any new characters that are introduced? What is their purpose? A typical cavern-dwelling dwarf is introduced to the story. He is a criminal. "From then his luck had turned, and he'd been arrested more than twenty times to date. A total of three hundred years in and out of prison." Mulch is then wanted by Commander Root. Commander Root dislikes Mulch but he needs him for a job. Mulch's job is to break into the Fowl Manor. If the fairies did it, they would lose their power. But, Mulch wouldn't. "It's obvious. I'm a house breaker. That's a house, You can't go in because you'll lose your magic, but my magic is already gone. Two and two." Mulch refuses to take the job but finally he gives in.

Is the novel believable? I would say the novel is not believable. It is full of goblins, dwarfs, fairies, trolls, and magic. The whole story are full of mythical creatures. Their technology is impossible. A machine can not stop time. The fairies live underground. That is not true, because if they lived underground in the Earth's core, they would be dead from the lava.

Why would you (or why wouldn't you) recommend this novel to a friend? I would recommend this book to a friend. It is full of adventure and fun. Their is not a lot of complicated parts in the story, where the author starts describing complicated words and where the story has little dialogues, like the Series of Unfortunate Events. The story is full of excitement. Its full of action. There's not much boring talking in the story. So that is why I'd recommend this book to a friend.

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

pg. 241 - 396

Foaly searches for an iris-cam to give Mulch. After it was inserted Mulch's eye, he goes off and digs a tunnel to Fowl Manor. When he exits the tunnel, he comes into a dark wine cellar. Mulch tries to open the door but its locked. So, he pulls out a sturdy hair from his beard and the piece of hair twisted to become a perfect pick. With one little jiggle, he unlock the door. The corridor had three cameras. Mulch tells Foaly to do something about the cameras. So, Foaly broadcasted a loop of the last ten seconds to every camera though their dishes. Mulch sneaked down the hallway and went up a flight of stairs. He suddenly felt dwarf digestion, which can be quite explosive. Mulch tried to hold it in. He sees more cameras and tells Foaly where the cameras are pointing to. They were pointing to the painting. So, Mulch goes behind the painting and finds a safe. He tells Foaly to open it, but only finds human currency inside. Then Foaly finds something wrong. If Artemis was so clever, why would he put the safe behind a painting? Mulch finds another safe inside the painting. Inside he finds a copy of the Book. He hears footsteps and suddenly a huge figure comes up behind him. Mulch suddenly releases his gas and blows the Butler away. Artemis looks at his monitors. They were empty. and Butler was at his post outside Holly's cell. He asks Butler what he is doing. Butler coming up on the safe room and he is waving at him now. Artemis doesn't see anything on the monitors. He then sees that the cameras on going on a 10 second loop. He tells Butler to quickly get to the safe room. Artemis then tells Juliet to go to Holly's cell and check up on her. Artemis reboots his computers to get rid of the loop. Holly is still banging away, until she sees a small patch of earth. She quickly plants the magic seed and finishes the ritual to regain back her magical powers. Juliet comes into the cell and sees nothing. Then, out of thin air Holly appears and drugs her. Mulch is running away and meets up with Captain Short. They talk and Mulch goes back to escaping while Holly is exploring the manor. While Mulch was digging a tunnel, a hand reaches for him. It was Butler. But, Mulch releases his gas once more and sends him flying off. Mulch continues his digging. While he was digging he pretends he died by killing a rabbit and placing the iris cam on the rabbit. Cumulus and Argon finally finds out by watching the video from the conversation between Commander Root and Artemis that if Artemis Fowl died, the door would be wide open. Root sends an approval to the council for the gold. Root sees Cudgeon with a team and asks what he is doing. Cudgeon tells Root that he is going to destroy the Mud People by releasing the troll they captured before and save Captain Short himself, just so he could get promoted. Root is enraged by this. The troll is released and comes thrashing. Butler tries to save his little sister, Juliet, who is still drugged, and fights off the troll. But, the troll is too strong, and Butler gets seriously injured. Holly then comes in tries tries to fight off the troll because she wants to protect the Mud People for some reason. But the troll was also too strong for her too and she gets injured badly. Her magical powers heals her injuries but instead of healing herself, she heals the Butler. Butler comes back feeling as good as ever. Butler tries once more to defeat the troll. Finally, he defeats it and saves his sister. Commander Root talks to Artemis and Artemis tells Root that if he doesn't bring the gold in thirty minutes, he will not release Captain Short and he will let her die by the bio bomb. Root agrees to bring the gold. Butler goes running back to Artemis. Artemis tells Butler that Holly will be sent back to the people and everything will be over. But, the fairies will send out a bio bomb so they would get back their gold after they receive it. Butler asks if any harm would be done to Captain Short because she saved her life and his sister, Juliet. Artemis tells him no. Back at the headquarters, Cudgeon gets mad at Root because Holly helped a human and ruin his plan. They argue once again and Cudgeon gets demoted. Cudgeon is then hit with a tranquilizer dart from the gadget that Root had. Root then sends out the gold immediately. Back at the Manor, Holly tells Artemis that he cannot escape the bio bomb because on one has ever done it before. But, Artemis tells her that he knows a way. The gold arrives at the Manor and Butler and Juliet starts to unload the gold. Artemis then asks Holly if she can grant him a wish. Holly says she will if she can have have of the gold back. Holly then leaves the Manor with the gold and is sent back to Commander Root. The fairies then releases the bio bomb. Artemis drugs Juliet, Butler, and himself with sleeping pills and they all become unconscious. The bio bomb hits. Then a team is sent out and sees if Artemis, Butler, and Juliet actually died or if they survived. If they survived, they would get to keep the gold. If they died, the fairies would get back their gold. Holly finds them still alive. The game was over. The fairies left and went back home. Artemis wakes up and Butler gets mad at him because he wanted to know why he drugged him without telling him. Artemis tells Butler that if he told him, he would try to fight it off. Butler forgives him. Artemis goes up to check on his mother. He finds his mother all healthy and looking fine.

What plot twists or unexpected events happen as the novel goes on?' The part when Mulch escapes and tries to fake his death was unexpected and when Holly helps out Butler and Juliet to fight the troll.

What is the climax of the novel? The climax of the novel is when Mulch is sent out and steals the copy of the book from the safe and escapes and then the troll is sent out to destroy Artemis but Holly comes to help butler fight him off.

Why did (or didn't) the novel meet your expectations? The novel did meet my expectations. The novel was action packed and I couldn't put down the book. The use of mythical creatures, advanced technology, and cool weapons/gadgets really made the book more enjoyable. media type="custom" key="8073708"