Week 3 Blog 4/18/11-4/22/11

Understanding my character(s)

(Be sure to include quote and page number!!)

You must use at LEAST 2 quotes from the book.

Understanding your character is a good way for you to really get into your book and see from another person's perspective. In your response this week, describe your character. Think about and discuss:

-1. your main character's personality

- 2. how they act/behave

- 3. what they look like

- 4. how old they are

- 5 what sort of education do you think that they have

- 6 who their friends and family are

- 7 what their financial (money) situation is

- 8 and what their job is (if they have one).

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In my book Dragon Keeper by Carole Wilkinson it has a main character named Ping. Ping is a brave little orphan girl. She believes in freedom although she doesn't have any. She acts as if she lives a life worth 1,000 dollars. She doesn't care if she looks horrible, some would say she has high amounts of self pride.  She is a very uneducated little slave girl. I'm even surprised she can speak at all, because she has a hard time as it is when she tries to talk to anybody. She doesn't even know her own age!  

Her friend Danzi (Imperial Dragon) has now had to leave her and fly away to freedom. She is now getting to know the Emperor so maybe she will become friend with him. She has no idea who her family is. She is poor in her personal financial situation but being with the Emperor she gets what she wants . She has a job as the Emperor's little assistant. The Emperor really wants her there so she stays as they are now traveling to a temple of which name I don't know.

Week 2 - April 4 - April 8, 2011

Review the book description found on the back cover of your book. Using the information, and this information alone, construct two alternate titles for the book that appeal to you.Pick one of the two titles and create a catch phrase and movie poster. Describe (using language that will explain what you are talking about so that we can "see" it) the movie poster to sell the new titled novel.
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My back cover of my book Dragon Keeper is really boring but it gives a great hint or hook to keep the reader wanting to read the book. From this description I can easily make alternate tittles. 


Alternate tittle #1: She Is The Keeper
Alternate tittle #2: Within Me It Waits
If I were to give a catch phrase for this book it would be: Girl on the surface keeper within.


I would prefer to use tittle #2. The poster I am imaging is a dark maybe pitch black background with a golden dragon's face emerging. At the side of the dragon face is a tiny little helpless girl wearing a wore down dress stained with dirt and cooking oil. She would be trapped in a cage, and she would look afraid to face anything. Behind her would be a darker shaded version of herself but the version is standing proud and strong waiting for destiny to release itself. Toward the bottom of it would be the catch phrase in a mix of  silver gray color with white clouds at the bottom of the words. The second alternate tittle would fade in from the side in a light shaded silver gray with a wind blowing it into the picture.