Focus+Assignment

Artemis Fowl Artemis tracks down an alcoholic sprite disguising himself as a healer in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and travels there with his bodyguard Butler to get The Book of the People—the Fairy holy book that is written in Gnommish. Captain Holly Short of the Lower Elements Police is tracking a rogue troll that has managed to reach the surface of the Earth. Assisted by a centaur called Foaly and LEPrecon commander Julius Root, she destroys the troll. However, this uses the last of her magic, and Commander Root demands that she complete the ritual. Artemis decodes the Book using a computerized translating software, and in the process, learns about the ritual, which is taking an acorn from an ancient oak tree near a bend in a river under the full moon and planting it somewhere else. Butler tranquilises Holly with a hypodermic syringe. A LEP retrieval team is sent to search Fowl Manor. The team enters the manor grounds. Artemis knew that this was going to happen so he installed a camera with a high frames-per-second rate, allowing him to detect the fairies by freezing the image. After Butler destroys the intruders, Root decides to use a time-stop and negotiate with Artemis. The ransom demand is one ton of 24-carat gold. Artemis tells Root of the knowledge of the time-stop and says that he can escape it. Mulch Diggums is recruited to break into Fowl Manor. Fairies are forbidden from entering human houses without permission, but Mulch has already broken this rule many times and is immune to it. He tunnels underground to reach the house while Foaly feeds a loop to the security cameras, allowing Mulch to explore freely. Mulch finds a safe containing a copy of the Book. The Fairy Council, thinking that nothing is working, hires a lieutenant called Briar Cudgeon to Acting Commander. Holly Short cracks through the concrete of her cell using her bed and completes the ritual. Getting her magic back, she escapes out of her cell. Artemis is finally granted the ransom. The gold is sent in, and Artemis asks Holly for a wish. He wants her to cure his mother's illness. Holly grants the wish at the cost of half the gold that Artemis received. The LEP then decides to send in a bio bomb to eliminate Artemis and get back the gold, but this fails when Artemis escapes the time-stop by drugging himself and Butler and Juliet with sleeping pills. At the end, Artemis finds his mother has fully recovered from her illness thanks to Holly's magic. The title of the book is “Artemis Fowl.” It is called Artemis Fowl because the main character is called Artemis Fowl. The story takes place somewhere between 2004-2008 in the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland. The story is told in a third person narration which switches between the human characters and the fairy characters. The central conflict of the story is when Artemis Fowl kidnaps Captain Short and now the fairies are trying to rescue her. The climax of the story is when Mulch Diggims is sent to find the source of Artemis Fowl’s information. Then Artemis is sent a 10 second loop through the security camera. Then, Brian Cudgeons sends out the troll into Fowl Manor. The climax is resolved by Artemis rebooting the computers to get rid of the loop and Butler destroying the troll with Holly’s help. I liked the plot. It was fast paced and really interesting.