Inkheart
Cornelia Funke
Zoe Lison
English 1st hour
Characters
Mo (silvertounge)
Wise, stubborn, has the ability to bring things and people from stories to life (in a literal sense), loving especially towards his daughter Meggie, protagonist in the story, mends books as his occupation.
Meggie
Curious, young girl twelve yeas old, loves to read and learn new things, smart, stubborn.
Capricorn
Mean, stands for all things evil, antagonist of the stor, evil guy who Mo accidently brings to life from a fictional book long ago.
Elinor
stubborn, old, sometimes crany, doesn't like children all that much, she can be a negative person, she cherishes her books more than anything.
Dustfinger
Can be deceiving at times, naive, foolish, lost in his mind, all he wants is to be brought back into his story book where he belongs, he along with Capricorn was also accidentally read out of his book by Mo and wants nothing more than to be back in his book.
"Go on, admit it, the book whispers its stories to you at night."
-Mo says to Meggie
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Setting
This story takes place in current time.
Mo's house is just an average if not small home where Mo and Meggie live, the story starts here.
Ellinor's house and her personal library in her house is the next place the story takes us. Her house is very large almost like a mansion, and it is very dark and uninviting from the outside, with black sharp gates all around her house, but on the inside it is very nice. She also has her own personal library which is very orderly and narrow, filled with many, many books.
Capricorn's Village is where the characters end up, there are no pretty colored leaves on the ground, no signs of people, only a cold feeling, a feeling of evil lingering in the air, no one in that place has good intentions or unselfish intentions for anyone who dare enters or gets sent to this area.
"Capricorn can't bind books like your father," Dustfinger went on. "in fact, he's not much good at anything except terrifying people.."
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Plot Line
Exposition
Dustfinger comes along, tells Mo he needs to do something about the book he has (Inkheart) before Capricron is able to get it.
Rising Action
Mo hides the book at Elinor's house
He is betrayed by Dustfinger and taken away by Capricorn's two helpers.
Elinor and Meggie reluctantly go with Dustfinger to save Mo.
They're all locked up and tortured by Capricorn after he comes in possession with the book Inkheart .
Capricorn breaks his promise of putting Dustfinger back into his story after he gets what he wants.
Dustfinger is very upset when he realizes this.
Mo has to read stories about getting money to Capricorn in order to make it Capricron's new reality.
He brings him some fortune, and a person, whom they immediately lock up.
Over night Dustfinger gets the keys and frees Mo, Meggie, Elinor, and the new kid brought out from his story and they all make a great escape.
They end up going back to Capricorn's village.
Climax
They write a story that includes the death of Capricrn and read it to him, he dies.
Falling Action
They all become friends afterwards.
Things begin to seem more normal again.
Resolution
Writing can be magical too.
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Person Vs. Person
Conflicts
When Dustfinger gets Mo sent away because he thinks he is going to get sent back to his story and Meggie and Elinor go looking for him and end up getting locked up Mo ends up having a conflict. That conflict is Mo Vs. Capricorn when Capricorn won't let Mo's loved ones free.
Person Vs. Society
Mo is afraid to read out loud, in fact he stopped reading stories to Meggie and everyone else many ryears ago for the fear that he will bring a story to life like he did in the past. Therefore it is Mo Vs. Society, because bringing a book to actual life is not a normal thing in society and he struggles with it.
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Point Of View
1st Person Omniscient
You can see int o the minds of some characters, but not all of them. And you can only see into the minds of certain characters at some times, not any time.
"Very well," he said. "Then I'll tell her about Capricorn myself."
Themes
The major messages in this stories is to never underestimate or feel discouraged when it comes to your own power. Also, never underestimate the power of reading and writing.
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Recommendations
I would recommend this book to anyone of the age of 8-17. All the content is appropriate and it is a very intriguing story. It is a very long story and not a necessarily easy read, but it's not a difficult read either. One of the main characters in this story is about twelve years old. It isn't a book that is easy to relate to if you are an adult, in my opinion, that's why I put my age range as 8-17 years old. I would recommend this book to anyone in that age group, personally I enjoyed the book.
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