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Rich of adjectives and descriptions Poor of action Describes mostly the main character's (Ebenezer Scrooge) arrogance, stinginess and hatred towards Christmas and towards people (also close relatives for e.g. his nephew Fred) Scrooge, at the beginning, seems misanthropic because he has not many relationships with people
Notes on the Second Quarter
Action starts taking place because the main character starts going in the past Christmas Character starts changing perspective of life Very sad because he sees how were his past Christmas of when he was a child, a teenager and young man Description lessens More dialogue- especially between him and the Phantom of the Past Christmas
Notes on the Third Quarter
Much less dialogue More description Less action Main character seems a different person There is the Ghost of the Present Christmas
Notes on the Last Quarter
More description More dialogue Bit more action Ebenezer Scrooge is finally a changed and different person He is no more stingy- he gives half a crown to a boy and a gigantic turkey to the family of one of his employees and the increase of salary to the same employee to whom he gave the turkey He doesn't hate anymore Christmas- he goes to shout through the streets to the people to have a good Christmas and a Happy New Year Traditional ending - they all lived happily ever after
Introduction to a new world in comparison with others: city (Capitol) controlling other smaller (districts) and imposing its supremacy over them in many ways Poor family- hunts and trades illegally to stay alive Hunger games- 24 adolescents (2 from each districts) from 12 to 18 years are forced in an arena to kill each other and there is only one victor Lots of description in comparison with the action There is some action at the end of the first quarter when they go in the gymnasium of the Capitol and exercise in all ways of survival (from killing to the use of plants to traps) Themes: friendship, family, survival and brutality
Notes on the Second Quarter
Very strong difference between the districts and the capitol Capitol has very advanced high-technology and people are all strange with every type of surgery on their skin Capitol citizens are all sadistic- they enjoy watching the kids of the districts kill each other Lot of action the real hunger games begin The Game makers need to give a grade respect to the level of strength of the person: the main character isn't given the attention she wants so she shoots in their direction fixing with an arrow the apple that was in the mouth of the pork to the wall behind leaving them all in disbelief and flabbergasted- she scene is very amusing and funny Themes: friendship, brutality, death, action
Notes on the Third Quarter
Lots of deaths Lots of action Tributes are transported in a land full of trees and full of strange animals like mockingjays that if you sing well enough they sing your tune back; there are also hostile animals like tracker jackers that are wasps that kill you with stings or drive you to madness with the venom; there are also strange plants like nightlocks that are blueberries that kill you instantly when you eat them
Notes on the Last Quarter
Hunger games are different this year they have two victors that both come from the same district The victors go home More description as they leave the arena and go home The action becomes lesser and lesser There will be another two books because the hunger games is a trilogy: catching fire, mockingjay
The main character is called Haytham, an Arabic name for a British boy The chapters are divided in sections, that vary in number respect to the length of the chapter itself It is like the other main characters of the series that assist to their father's death from such a tender age Different because the main character is neared to the order of the Templars instead of the creed of the Assassins He changes place frequently: he moves around Europe to fond his kidnapped sister This child is very unlucky because the parents have died and the sister has disappeared from many years now He is now a Templar knight, very strange for a book called Assassin's creed, but also because the arch-enemies of the Assassins are the Templars
Notes on the Second Quarter
The book is also very strange because the son, Haytham is a Templar; the father instead is an Assassin Lot of writing Lot of description There isn't a lot of dialogue between the characters of the book Many settings; they go in many places like in France, in Spain, in the Czech Republic, in England, in the island of Corsicôa, in Italy, in many cities of The New World also known as America and many other ones There isn't a lot of action in this book The book begins to become more descriptive with less action
Notes on the Third Quarter
There is less action in the book The scene changes completely to America where they help natives held prisoners free from the English troops They want to find a temple that should contain something of incredible from the infinite powers Main character starts having feelings for a woman, a native woman The main character finds and sees a known historical person by the name of George Washington The main character starts understanding what has happened the night of his father's murder and wants to do the same thing that was done to his family that night to the people who put in act the whole ambush to the house
Notes on the Last Quarter
Lots of action in this last part of the book: very fascinating and interesting Liked how the Templar and Assassin forces unites to form an indestructible team but hated when they fought and eventually one of them died Oliver Bowden is a fantastic author Fantastic finale of the book Liked how this fantasy story intersects with real history the American revolution in this case At the last part there is the epilogue in which the narration is switched to Connor, Haytham's son All the story is in a journal done by the main narrator and it is all for his son to show him who he really was and not who the false image of him in Connor's head
It is the continuation of the second book of Assassin's Creed with Ezio Auditore The main character needs to go back to the once fortress of his creed in Masyaf and find the legendary library of the Assassin's creed, "a source of knowledge and power" A flash back is used: at the beginning it says of him trying to enter the fortress but finishing in a cell; it then uses a flash back to make the reader understand how he arrived to Masyaf There are a many changes of settings: Masyaf in Syria, Constantinople, Rome, etc... There are many new characters especially new characters that are members of the Assassin's Brotherhood like Ezio Auditore
Notes on the Second Quarter
The main character is stable within the Brotherhood in Constantinople (at that time was called like nowadays Istanbul) and feels home and very confident (like very close friends) with them even though he has seen them from few weeks; he refers to them as "fast friends" Ezio Auditore needs to find four keys in Constantinople and get the fifth from a Templar soldier in order to open the secret chamber of the Assassin's legendary library in Masyaf Up until now he has found two keys: one in a cell; the other in a secret passage in a library The Mentor meets the Prince during a party believing him a scholar after having had a conversation with him on a ship
Notes on the Third Quarter
Every time he gets a key, there is a flash back in which he is transported to the time of when Altaïr reigned over the Brotherhood and there is an explosion of light He finds another key in an underground secret passage Ezio Auditore helps the Prince to kill an officer suspected of treason, but that was in reality innocent Ezio Auditore finally changes place from Constantinople to Mersin, in the south of Turkey, then at Nidge and finally in Derinkuyu They are getting more technological because they the soldiers are using less the traditional weapons like swords and daggers and using more frequently pistols, muskets, grenades and bombs
Notes on the Last Quarter
He gets back the first key from a Templar Main character changes life: from Assassin to life with his wife Sofia in a villa near Florence- he begins cultivating vines and making wine
Notes on the First Quarter Story set in the countries around the Arabian peninsula mainly following Islam Main character is different from the other two books: his name is Altair There are always many kills and tortures like in the previous ones Many gruesome parts Talks about the Brotherhood that wants to bring peace in the Holy Land The narrator is a character of the story that tells a person something that was told to him by the main character: it is a story in another story
Notes on the Second Quarter Altair tells the story of his childhood from his father's death to the enter in the Brotherhood as a novice- the author uses a technique called flash-back Many changes in the setting of the place: Masyaf, Acre, Jerusalem, Damascus There is a flash-forward in which it tells something that needs to happen; then it returns back to normality When the main character passes in front of another character, the author describes tension between the two; in the next chapter it describes what has happened to them for that hostility to sprout It is also mentioned a group of famous knights in Medieval history: the Templars
Notes on the Third Quarter After the middle of the story, it seems like if the story finishes but then a new one starts The setting of the story changes a lot of times- from Masyaf in the Arabian Peninsula to the island of Cyprus and its little cities More description taking place and less action respect to the other half of the story"Bad" is overpowered by "Good"There are characters of the Middle Ages that have really existed like Saladin (in the story Salah Al'din) and King Richard the Lion Heart
Notes on the Last Quarter Setting changes another time: the main character returns to the headquarters, Masyaf, then travels to the East till MongoliaFirst time character has feelings for a womanThere are many jumps in years-he leaves Masyaf and then returns ten years later; he leaves Masyaf again and returns twenty years later There are many changes in years- the story is told by a narrator called Niccolò Polo and the narration is altered between short pieces related to the narrator himself and many chapters to the life of the Master Assassin AltairAt the epilogue it anticipates the fourth book going forward in years (from the 1200s to the 1500s)
Notes on the First Quarter
