Inheritance
Pages 20-25
Summary
Eragon drops his sword Brisingr to the ground in order to catch him. As he catches him he looks him over to see if he is hurt. Before he can look over him all the way Roran wakes up. In the end of his fall he only has a broken wrist. The reason Roran survived was he was sheltered by the eaves on the castle. However Roran is lucky because Eragon's elf leader was able to heal his wrist. As soon as his wrist was healed the party of Eragon, Roran, Arya and Blodgharm make their way to hunt down the lord of the castle. As they fought through ranks of soldiers they found him in a magical induced sleep.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
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Inheritance
Pages 14-19
Summary
As the wall fell Eragon has great anger well up inside of himself from the thought of losing Roran. Eragon has many ideas of how to save Roran, but all of them are unpractical. Before he does any of the the things he was thinking of doing he starts to run toward the castle. he goes on the rubble and jumps up to the second story. He meets one soldier that he dispatches with a punch to the gut. He then proceeds down one story where he enters the great hall and is seen by the lord of the castle where the lord promises a third of his treasure to whoever kills him. Eragon runs to the gatehouse and tries to break down the doors, but he fails the one the first try. He succeeds on the second he entered. He then runs down a passage way where he finds Roran alive, but Roran faints as he tries to tell him something.
Pages 14-19
Summary
As the wall fell Eragon has great anger well up inside of himself from the thought of losing Roran. Eragon has many ideas of how to save Roran, but all of them are unpractical. Before he does any of the the things he was thinking of doing he starts to run toward the castle. he goes on the rubble and jumps up to the second story. He meets one soldier that he dispatches with a punch to the gut. He then proceeds down one story where he enters the great hall and is seen by the lord of the castle where the lord promises a third of his treasure to whoever kills him. Eragon runs to the gatehouse and tries to break down the doors, but he fails the one the first try. He succeeds on the second he entered. He then runs down a passage way where he finds Roran alive, but Roran faints as he tries to tell him something.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
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Pages 1-13
Summary
Eragon and the Varden are attacking Belatona which has been in a siege for some time now. Eragon, Arya and Saphira, Eragon's dragon are attacking a group of men that are in the courtyard. However spells and fire have no effect on the soldiers because they are protected by a magician. Slowly and systematically they tore through the ranks of the men and killed scores of them. All too son the fighting stopped and the keep started to open and a horse and rider came out with what looked to be a common lance, but it was not for it was constructed out of a strange green material. Before Eragon could say a spell to stop the rider the elves created a gap in the road that the horse fell into. However before the rider fell too he threw the lance at Saphira and it went right through her ward and penetrated her chest. Luckily for Eragon the elves attended to Saphira and healed her. It turned out the lance is called a dauthdart and it is of elven make and its one purpose is for killing dragons. While Eragon, Arya and Blodgharm, the leader of the elves, talk a crack forms on the castle and as the castle starts to collapse Eragon's brother Roran is behind the wall as it comes down.
Pages 1-13
Summary
Eragon and the Varden are attacking Belatona which has been in a siege for some time now. Eragon, Arya and Saphira, Eragon's dragon are attacking a group of men that are in the courtyard. However spells and fire have no effect on the soldiers because they are protected by a magician. Slowly and systematically they tore through the ranks of the men and killed scores of them. All too son the fighting stopped and the keep started to open and a horse and rider came out with what looked to be a common lance, but it was not for it was constructed out of a strange green material. Before Eragon could say a spell to stop the rider the elves created a gap in the road that the horse fell into. However before the rider fell too he threw the lance at Saphira and it went right through her ward and penetrated her chest. Luckily for Eragon the elves attended to Saphira and healed her. It turned out the lance is called a dauthdart and it is of elven make and its one purpose is for killing dragons. While Eragon, Arya and Blodgharm, the leader of the elves, talk a crack forms on the castle and as the castle starts to collapse Eragon's brother Roran is behind the wall as it comes down.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Summer Reading Three
Gaelen Frink
Author: Christopher Paolini
Book: Eragon
Genre: Fiction
Eragon is a farm boy who lives in a town called Carvahall that is in the upper northern reaches of Alagaesia. Eragon lives with his Uncle Garrow and his cousin Roran. Eragon and his family are not the richest nor the poorest they get by on what they grow and sometimes buy. Eragon lives with Garrow because before he was born his mother Selena came to Carvahall and gave birth to Eragon. She then pleaded with her brother, Garrow, and his wife, Marian, to keep Eragon. For some untold reason she could not keep him. However she did name him after a great person. He was named after the first dragon rider. Eragon knew nothing of these things until his Aunt died and she told him. No words can explain how Eragon fulfilled his namesake or how he had no idea how destined he is to fulfill his namesake
Eragon is out hunting dear in the Spine, a mountainous forest many people do not dare enter. He is abut to kill a deer with his bow and arrow when explosion scares all the dear away. In the center of the explosion is a sapphire colored rock.Eragon takes the rock home. Then a couple of weeks later the traders come in and the ones who specialize in odd trinkets didn’t even know what it was. Except that it was hollow. Then two nights later he hears something in his room and the rock is moving and out comes a baby dragon. He takes the dragon outside and makes it a shelter in the trees but it soon is too big and he makes it a larger shelter on the ground. Soon two strangers come around looking for what Eragon found. Soon Eragons Dragon, Saphira, takes him deep into the spine to get away from the two strangers. While they were gone Garrow gets killed by the Strangers. Soon he and Brom the Story Teller run away from Carvahall and it turns out Brom was a rider and he teaches Eragon.
Summer Reading Two
Gaelen Frink
Author: Walter sDean Myers
Book: Sunrise Over Fallujah
Genre: Fiction
The Main Character in Sunrise over Fallujah is Private Robin Perry A.K.A. Birdy from Harlem, New York. He joined the Army and is put into CA or Civil Affairs. He is then put into a squad with Jonesy, Marla and Captain Coles. Robin or Birdy Joined the army with no blessing from his father. He wishes Robin was going to college instead of into the army. However even though his dad doesn’t think Robin doing a good thing for his country, his mom thinks he is. Robin writes letters to his parents but he also writes letters to his uncle Richie who went to Vietnam. At the end of the war Robin understands why his uncle never wanted to talk about his experiences and apologized for asking about what happened many times.
Sunrise Over Fallujah Starts out with a roll call. When your last name is called out you say your full name and where you are from. Then some of the high officers made speeches on what the CA unit would be doing over in Iraq. The Brass or head honchos also said how much faith they had in the CA unit. How this new concept they had hoped it would work. The soldiers then left and had some R and R. After the soldiers had been put into their units they had to decide what people would do what. Jonesy would drive. Marla was on the squad gun. Captain Coles would ride shot gun and Birdy would switch out with Marla on the squad gun.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Summer Reading One
Gaelen Frink
Author: Robert Kurson
Book: Shadow Divers
Genre: Fiction
Shadow Divers has two main characters, Richie Kholer and John Chatterton. John Chatterton was in the book from the start he was on the first dive of the sub. However he had been diving off the Seeker, Bill Nagle’s boat who received the coordinates of this mystery wreck. Richie Kholer would have been invited to the first dive of the submarine if not for the bad blood between John Chatterton and himself. This bad blood was from the time the Seeker dove the Doria, another deep wreck. John Chatterton went into the 2nd class area where no one had ever been before. Only Chatterton had been able to get tinto that area because he squeezed under a steel bar. So john and Nagle formulated a plan to cut this bar so everyone could get into the 2nd class section. When Richie and his friends the Atlantic Wreck Divers found out about this they were going to go into 2nd class and take tons of dishes. When John finds out about this he and a friend make a gat that looks weak but is very strong and can only be opened with a special wrench. The bad blood dissolves between them as they research and dive more together.
Shadow Divers starts out by a trade of coordinates a thing that rarely happens. This trade is between Bill Nagle, captain of Seeker a dive boat, and Skeets, a local fishing captain. Bill Nagle was once one of the greatest deep wreck divers, but he could no longer dive because he was in such bad shape from excessive drinking. So Bill Nagle and his friend John Chatterton each invite 7 people on this mystery deal. Many people decline because some captains have these mystery deals and it is a garbage barge. When john returns to his hme he goes to D.C. to go into the captured U-505 to memorize the layout of a submarine. The divers hoped to identify the wreck on the second dive which they don’t it is 1991and the in 2000 they identify the boat as U-869.
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