Acting, Shakespeare, Plays, Puck, Love, Arby, Sickness, Fishers

King Of Shadow
By:  Susan Cooper
I read from chapter one through chapter three.

My blog post this week is just barely going to tell you about the beginning of the book, and then it is going to talk about the eight words in my title.

The book starts out with boys playing tag.  There were about 20 boys who were picked to do something at the Globe Theatre in London (read the next paragraph to find out what.)  The main character is Nathan, or Nat and he is telling the story.

The boys are picked to act in two Shakespeare plays because they are amazing actors.  One of the plays is  A Midsummer Night's Dream and the other one is Julius Caesar.  Nat is playing Puck who is the most important character in  A Midsummer Night's Dream.  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play which for Shakespeare meant not really funny, but that there were a couple of couples that ended up getting married in the end.  That is where the love part comes in.  There are two human men and two human women.  Both of the men like one of the women, and the other women who nobody likes, likes one of the men.  In the end they all end up getting married, but Puck tries to fix things first. It gets confusing, so I am going to move onto the word Arby in my blog title. Arby, is the director of the play.  He is the one who tells people what to do, and he is the one that made them play tag at the beginning.  Towards the end of chapter two, Nat ends up getting sick.  Earlier on in the chapter, he was acting a little funny, like things were spinning and dizzing.  The result of that was that he ended up pucking and going to be sick.  Nat is staying at the Fishers house. Some of the other boys are staying at other families' houses or somewhere else, but Nat is staying at the Fishers house.


Question:  I wonder what the Fishers house looks like?  Is it big, or is it small?

Prediction:  I predict that Nat will end up getting hurt when he actually jumps off of the stage in the real performance.  (That is a part that I didn't explain in my summary of the chapters I have read.)

Connection:  My connection this week is not from me personally, but from somebody else.  The VanderBeeks who are in Costa Rica for a year.  She commented on her blog how good it was to be able to see her mom (or grandma to the kids) just through Skype.  They have been away from their family for ten months.  Nat has been away from his aunt for awhile just like the VanderBeeks have been away from their family for a while.

Key Question:  There is no Key Question this week!!!  :)  :)

Visit this link to see a picture of the book.

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I am also still reading Cheaper By The Dozen