The city of Ember Review

                                    

                                   Review

 "The City of Ember" is a story about an underground city whose citizens must get away since  the generator, the machine that gives light to all the city, is working worse and  worse  every day. But there is a problem: the instructions to get out got all broken and the message cannot be easily deciphered. Two young citizens, the protagonists, must  decode it and find the way out.

One of them is called Lina  Mayfleet, a 12-year-old  girl that works as a messenger. She is good at sports, especially at running, her legs are really quick. She found the instructions that would lead them out of the city in her little sister´s mouth and she has been trying to make  sense of the message inside, with  the help of Doon, the male protagonist. Harow Doon is twelve too, he enjoys studying bugs and electricity. He is really clever, but unfortunately he couldn´t use his abilities because he works at the pipeworks. Yet, his perseverance will  help him  find  the way out  of Ember!!!

This book is interesting, in my opinion, better than other school books, it is compelling when the characters get into problems!!!

I recommend it for students of my age or younger since the characters are around our age, and that makes the story catching!!!

Group: Valen Molinari- Cande Zupan- Anna Hisch- Ángeles Aracama 

Colegio  Arrayanes 

HULLABALOO IN THE GUAVA ORCHARD

Today I would like to discuss one of the novels we‘ve just finished reading with the students  from year 10 and year 11 attending  Babar Bilingual School: “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard”, the dazzling critically acclaimed fiction written by  Kiran  Desai who tells us a  poignant story about an Indian family, in an ingenious wryly hilarious way. In  “Hullabaloo”  the author  creates characters  that reflect freshness and tenderness;   characters who  show  attitudes towards life that even when being incredibly absurd, and hyperbolic, make the reader adore the hilarious situations in which they are displayed. . I’m referring to simple but delicious characters, constantly striving for escaping the mundane; their monotonous and dreadful lives. Sampath, the protagonist represents the spirit of the Indian people in a constant  search for the natural and spiritual world.

  Conversely, other characters like Mr Chawla and the spy, are shown as the embodiment of obscure figures whose actions would frequently depend on their self-benefit and welfare,  regardless of the consequences they could bring about in other people’s lives. But even when these characters are selfish,  resented and inflexible, Desai manages to make them seem more likeable thanks to the humorous way they are presented.

Hullabaloo  in the Guava Orchard delights the reader for its fresh wittiness, its incomparable inventiveness and imaginative, amusing outcomes.  Enjoy the short video essay below!