pentiumxp4000 Mite
6 Sep 09 - 11:12
Whew, many many many replies! Thank you for the inordinate number of excellent comments everybody.
I completely agree, and that's the reason why the Trilogy has been on my list of possible choices. In actuality, I've already decided upon the Trilogy as the heart of my essay, and its coming along quite well =P.
Thank you very much.
As for the coming of age angle, I too felt that it was somewhat stale for my tastes... I'm sticking with my symbolistic tale interpretation.
As for details.... I've come up with an incredible interpretation for the "circular" motif in all three main objects throughout all three books - the Amulet, the Eye, and the Gate... which I refuse to put on here since my school uses an internet scouring plaigiarism service, and woe is me if I get accused of plaigiarizing... my own words. XD Just to be safe. ;P
Thank you so very much.
Don't die, eh? It's quite alright, zombies don't die, and I'm already a zombie from doing 4 HLs.... fuhuhuhu
Thank you very much for the advice.
Hahaha, thank you for the compliments. Actually, after the IB Programme is done and dusted for me, I think I'll consider sending the essay to whoever wants to read it... The thought of writing an essay simply for the grade and not to actually make a statement of something unnerves me for some reason =P.wrote:
I think this is definitely a viable idea, and a good one too. If you do end up writing the essay, I'd be really interested to read it!
I think that the reason the Bartimaeus Trilogy is considered some of the best children's/teen books out there is because behind all the action, adventure and magic, there is meaning, there is definitely commentary, perhaps not only on social class but also on literature (JS mentioned that he wrote the trilogy because the idea came into his head to reverse the traditional idea that the demon is in control of the magician, and not vice versa). Honestly, now that you've mentioned your possible topic, it makes me want to go write an essay on the trilogy too, incorporating some of the things I've mentioned ^^ and lots of information about the perception of 'magic' and 'magicians' in history.
If you decide to write this essay, good luck and enjoy! It sounds like a challenging but fun endeavor. :)
I completely agree, and that's the reason why the Trilogy has been on my list of possible choices. In actuality, I've already decided upon the Trilogy as the heart of my essay, and its coming along quite well =P.
Thank you very much.
I do agree, however making it too all encompassing would completely bust me over the 4000 word limit ;P My introduction alone is about 800 words... I'll need the rest of the words for the symbolism in all three books, I think XD.wrote: The Bartimaeus Trilogy should be classed as a work of fiction, not children's literature.
But, hey, it is.
That being as it is, I agree with everything posted above, and, while I'm not in the IB program (have friends who are, I'm near an AP diploma, for what it's worth) I think would be a good idea to make it fairly all-encompassing - not a problem in an essay like this.
Archetypes are always nice, as is the underlying mythology.
This was commented on by my mother after I asked her to read the trilogy (She loved it) and she went on quite a rant about Stroud, praising him for drawing from mythology (I particularly like the naming schemes) and his attention to detail in the government.
Stroud's use of alternate history, and fictional explanations for actual, but mysterious events (Atlantis and Nouda's hand in the destruction of the Aztecs) were some of my favorite aspects of it. The opening sequence in Golem's Eye and the flashbacks in Ptolemy's Gate were, by and large, my favorite parts of the series.
The nice thing about having the Master-Slave relationship throughout history allows for the cautionary tale you mentioned to applied to anything you can come up with - much of the Trilogy's idea and lessons work for history.
And... I caution against coming of age angle.
It's old.
Nice, but boring.
Least, says every english teacher I've had.
Stress detail.
Rosemary, Iron, Silver, Cat's sight on two planes, all of it.
Have fun, good luck.
As for the coming of age angle, I too felt that it was somewhat stale for my tastes... I'm sticking with my symbolistic tale interpretation.
As for details.... I've come up with an incredible interpretation for the "circular" motif in all three main objects throughout all three books - the Amulet, the Eye, and the Gate... which I refuse to put on here since my school uses an internet scouring plaigiarism service, and woe is me if I get accused of plaigiarizing... my own words. XD Just to be safe. ;P
Thank you so very much.
Aha, another fellow sufferer. XD Mmm yes, that's a point I'm well aware of - English EE's tend to deviate from the original subject, and to go on tangents about topics completely unrelated to the English grading rubric. Which is why I am doing an English EE on how Stroud uses English devices (i.e. symbolism in my case, plus other things hopefully) to achieve the goal of serving as a cautionary tale.wrote: I did the IB program!! OMG IT WAS TERRIBLE!!! I was awarded the diploma but barely. Now doing it on Bartimaues will be hard. I'm only saying that because you're gonna need a very strong thesis that will take you to 4000 words, and I read through the EE curriculum, and it is tough. Now you said you were gonna write about social classes. Well this is not an English thesis statement. That is more political. So If I were you, I would rethink about English and go into Political Science category. But I can definitely help if you need anymore help, being that I gave up my whole life for IB, and I know quite a bit about it. GOOD LUCK!!! And don't die.
Don't die, eh? It's quite alright, zombies don't die, and I'm already a zombie from doing 4 HLs.... fuhuhuhu
Thank you very much for the advice.
