Nils's+book+report

__ **Book Report** __ **Directions: Answer all 8 of the questions/statements in complete sentences. Feel free to add a related picture to your report.** **1.** ** What is the title of your book and who is the author?** The book I read was __Inkheart__ by Cornelia Funke. **2.** ** Name and describe two main characters.** Although there are several characters in __Inkheart__ the two most important have to be Mortimer and Meggie. Mortimer is Meggie's dad. He is brave and cares about Meggie very deeply. You also find out that he has a special power, and he can read characters out of their books. Meggie is a very brave girl. She cares about her father and is usually with him. You can tell how much they love and care for each other in this book. In the end it turns out that Meggie also has the same power as her father.
 * Name:Nils Veidis Date:** 11/30/09

**3.** **Write a summary of your book.** __Inkheart__ by Cornelia Funke is mostly about a girl and her father's adventures. Meggie's father Mortimer, or Mo as Meggie called him, lived together. Mo never told Meggie the truth about where her mother was. He just said that she was traveling around finding stuff. But why didn't she call, or come home?

One night Meggie sees a man standing in their front yard in the rain. Meggie's father Mo seemed to know the man. Meggie heard that the man's name was Dustfinger and Dustfinger had called her dad Silvertongue. Dustfinger came into Meggie's house and Mo and Dustfinger went into Mo's workshop. The next morning Dustfinger had left and Mo told Meggie they were leaving. He told her that they were going to be visiting their aunt Elinor. As they packed up their stuff and got in the car Dustfinger came by and entered the car. He had a marten in his backpack whos name was Gwin. They drove all the way to Elinor's house and spent the night there.

The next morning they ate breakfast and Elinor showed them her library. Elinor's house was filled with books. Elinor was very had a very strict policy on her home and her books. Dustfinger ordered Meggie to go see what they were doing in the library. Meggie obeyed. In the library Mo handed Elinor some type of book wrapped in brown paper secretly. Meggie left the library and told Dustfinger that Mo handed Elinor a book in brown paper. Later that day Meggie found Dustfinger outside with playing with fire. Meggie was so amazed that she was going to come and see some more tricks that night. It was midnight and Meggie went to see Dustfinger's fire show. During the show she heard loud talking. She heard Mo's voice and some other type of mens' voices. Meggie ran inside toward Mo's room but Elinor put her hand over Meggie's mouth and pulled her into her room. She said that they had barged in and that she, Elinor hid in her room. They listened to the wall and they heard them talking about a book. They led Mo into the library and he took the book covered in brown paper.

The men took Mo out of the house and Meggie ran out of Elinor's room. She tried to chase them and save Mo but the car was already down the street. After a while Meggie went back into the house and Elinor calmed Meggie down and Meggie went to bed. Elinor had told her that her father would be back. Early the next morning Meggie left her room. She planned to go find Mo. As she passed Elinor's room she noticed that Elinor had really switched the books and Mo took the wrong one. Meggie jumped onto Elinor and took the book away. Elinor explained to her why she snatched the books. Then they had breakfast and Dustfinger told them more about Capricorn, a man Mo mentioned to Meggie once or twice. Dustfinger told them that Capricorn always gets what he wants and he loves to see people's pain. Capricorn wanted the brown paper covered book this time which title had been __Inkheart__. They all decided to go find Mo. Dustfinger told them that he chased the car that Mo was in and found the village they took him to. Capricorn's Village.

They all looked at a map then set off. When they reached Capricorn's Village Basta, one of Capricorn's big, strong men, greeted them with a shotgun. He led them to Capricorn himself. He took the book from Meggie and locked them in the same shed as Mo. Mo explained that when he read aloud characters came out of their story but a person or thing from their, Mo, Meggie, Elinor and so on's, world had to go into the book. He explained how he had once read to Meggie's mother aloud from __Inkheart__ and Capricorn, Basta and Dustfinger came out while Meggie's mom went in. He couln't read characters back into their storys though. Capricorn wanted Mo to read money and gold out of books that Darius, Capricorn's old reader, had picked out. And so the next morning Mo read money and gold out of __Treasure Island__ but accidently he had also read a boy named Farid out of __Tales From the Thousand and One Nights__. As he read Farid out one of Capricorns men went in. Then Capricorn took out all the copies of __Inkheart__ and burned them right infront of Mo.

It turned out that Dustfinger had betrayed Mo, Meggie, and Elinor but he didn't like it in Capricorn's Village so he helped them escape. Then they also decided to take Farid along. After that they ran up hills to an old shed where they slept. Then Basta and Flatnose, Capricorn's men, came up the hill searching for Mo, Meggie, Farid, Elinor, and Dustfinger. Then Mo jump on Basta and got his gun and he was pointing the gun at Basta. Elinor also jumped into action and got Flatnose's gun and soon enough she also was pointing the gun at Flatnose. They tied Basta and Flatnose up and threw them in the old shed. Then they went farther until they reached a town where they bought new clothes and got food. Elinor decided to go home and so she did. But before she left she gave Mo an address to Fenoglio, the author of __Inkheart__'s, house. Mo and Meggie met up with Dustfinger and Farid and then they were off to Fenolio's house.

When they reached Fenoglio's house Dustfinger begged for Mo and Meggie not to mention his name. He waited in the car wih Farid and Gwin. Mo accidently mentioned Dustfinger's name to Fenoglio. Then they told him about how Mo can read character's out of books. Fenoglio begged to see Dustfinger. As Fenoglio came up to Dustfinger, Dustfinger ran away into tall grass with Farid. Then they all went back inside and Elinor called. She told Mo how every single book in her house had been burned and the ashes layed in her garden. Mo went to see Elinor and left Meggie with Fenoglio. Fenoglio gave Meggie a room in his house to sleep in. Later that day Pippo, Fenoglio's son, came into Meggie's room. He asked her if she wanted to play. Then he pulled her by the door. The door opened and Meggie was looking into Basta's eyes.

Basta picked up Pippo by the neck as Flatnose grabbed Meggie. Then Basta carved his name into the wooden table. He thought that was all he had to write for Mo to understand. Basta got Fenoglio and brought them all to his car. While they were in the car Basta told them how Dustfinger had bumped into them and told them where Meggie and Mo were. When they reached Capricorn's Village Meggie found out that she also had Mo's powers. She read Tinker Bell out of __Peter Pan__. Then she read a tin soldier out of a book to Mortola the Magpie, Capricorn's wife. She found out that she could also read characters back into their books. Meggie was supposed to read the Shadow out of Capricorn's last copy of __Inkheart__. The Shadow would execute Dustfinger, who was caught, and Resa, Capricorn's maid that Darius had read out of __Inkheart__. But Darius had to be replaced because the characters always had minor problems. For instince Resa was read out of he book with no voice.

Fenoglio came up with and idea. He wrote a page about Capricorn dieing and all his men and same for the Shadow. Meggie was supposed to put it in her sleeve and secretly take it out while reading __Inkheart__ and read that page. And so she did. At the time that Meggie was reading from __Inkheart__ she quickly took out the piece of paper Fenoglio had written. She had read the whole thing until it came to the words, "...a//nd Capricorn fell down on his face, and his black heart stopped beating, and all those who had gone burning and murduring with him disappeared - blown away like ashes in the wind."// But then Mo came up from behind her, took the book and read the last sentence. Then Capricorn fell on his face dead and same with all of his men except for Basta and the Magpie. Every single creature that Capricorn or his men had killed came back to life and the Shadow had also died. But sadly Fenoglio had been sucked into __Inkheart__ because of that side affect of reading characters out of their books. Remember, the one where one must go in the book before one comes out??



**This book is good because of all the discriptive writing and action. I also like the charecters personal traits. All together this book is good because of the great thought put into it.
 * Big Question #1: What makes this book good? 1. **

What made __Inkheart__ by Cornelia Funke a good book was all the details. It felt as though I was in the book. Cornelia Funke described practically every little noun. I could really see a clear picture in my head. Also the character's personality also made the story more interesting. For example, Mo always cared about Meggie through-out the book. Then there was Elinor who cared less and less about her books and more and more about her relatives torward the end of the book.

Big Question #2: What would make this book better?** As a critic, it’s important to be honest. And honestly, some parts of some books are pretty bad.
 * As a critic, I think that Cornelia Funke could have gotten many more copies sold if the action had started earlier. The action started about 80 pages into the book. That was the only thing I would have to say as a critic because everything else was amazing about __Inkheart__. I can't wait to read the sequels __Inkspell__ and __Inkdeath__, but I really hope that Cornelia Funke writes another book to go on with the series.

Big Question #3: What’s the one most important thing the author wants you to know?** This is the main idea. It’s almost as though you could squeeze a whole book down to a __single sentence__ and say that’s what it was all about.


 * The most important thing that Cornelia Funke wanted you, the reader, to know and notice the relationship between Elinor, Meggie, and Mo and how much they cared about each other.**

**Big Question #4: Why did the writer write this?** Why did the author bother to tell this story? What is it about this particular story that the author thought was so important? Was it just for fun or to teach something?


 * I think that Cornelia Funke wrote this book to show what an amazing imaination older people have too because she really wrote a lot about fantasy things in __Inkheart__. I think that Cornelia Funke wrote this particular story to introduce her characters and their personalities and relationships. I think that Cornelia Funke didn't think that __Inkheart__ taught something, but I think it did. I think that __Inkheart__ taught you to be nice, care about other people, don't be greedy, and you don't always get what you want.**
 * Big Question #5: What does the audience need to know to understand and enjoy the book?** In other words, what background knowledge would be good to have prior to reading this book?


 * To understand __Inkheart__ by Cornelia Funke the audience needs to know that what a betrayer is because there is one in __Inkheart__ and it makes a big deal in the book. You also have to know to look closely at the details because some are important to the book.**