Blog Entry 10- Book Report and Notes

Fablehaven is an imaginary world of Kendra who seems like an orphan or may be an innocent. She is morally good, trustworthy, a survivor, but she also is very suspicious, thinks negative, and is a whiner as well.

It looks like Fablehaven is a story about a wondere and a warrior, but it’s not. Because the whole story is based on Kendra’s imagination and she doesn’t have any quality of either a wondered or a warrior. she is a kind of  kid who always follows the rules. She is not brave. She is naïve and she is seduced by easy answers. She doesn’t like travelling. For example she asks her parents,” Won’t you get bored stuck on a boat for seventeen days?” (Referring to a Scandinavian cruse)

Symbols:  Narrow road, no sign of houses, old metal gate, warning sign such as “Private Property,” “No trespassing,” “Certain Death Awaits,” tall wrought iron fence, double gate, old house, bubbly glass, long white beard, long ears etc. All these symbols are trying to lead us to something scary!

Milk- milk is a very special thing in the story. The house keeper, Dale feeds the animals and insects with milk without letting their boss,Mr. Sorenson know. The secret journal tells Kendra to drink milk. After drinking milk, Seth claims that he could see the fairies (he could be lying), but Kendra believes him and she dinks the milk. Now she starts to see things that she has never seen, which again could be just her imagination.

Butterflies- Turns into fairy. (Butterflies sometime symbolizes fairy)

Sacred animals- Talks about animals and birds appear many times in the book which could represent extinction on animals from this world.

Truth- Mr. Sorenson (the grandfather) doesn’t tell the truth to kids. But the kids eventually finds out the truth and now they don’t believe their grandfather anymore. So may be its better to tell the truth to kids. It turns out that kids should not be told just half truth, becasue then they can't wait for the half to be told.

Language- Adults must be careful when talking and selecting the words, because some kids take their word and the language seriously. For example Kendra hears her grandfather telling her mom, “I suppose we could find a place to lock them up.” We know it was a joke but, Kendra thinks it its serious which make her think that her grandfather is wired and scary.

Talisman- salt, milk mixed with blood,

Symbolic action- fold both hands, place hands on someone’s shoulder, keep finger on one’s lip, keep one’s hand on head etc.

so, Kendra the main character of the story is imagining things that are pretty similar to reality, but not real. The sacred animals like monkey, goat, butterflies, different kinds of birds exist, but Kendra's imagination goes beyound these animals and she creats some new imaginary animals based on the things she has seen and heard.
Kendra Vs Seth
Kendra is not grown up at all. she acts like she is younger than her brother even though she is 2 years older than him. For example there were signs on their grandparents property saying NO Trespassing and Trespassers Will Be Persecuted. Kendra found these sign creepy where as Seth who is just 11 years found these funny. There are many things where Seth is ahead of Kendra and she knows that which makes somehow a little jealous. In a back of her mind she wants to be like Seth, unfearful, strong, smart and adventurus.