Weekly Reading Response #2

Name: Alexandra Harris
Date: 11-09-07
Title: Ella Enchanted
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Total Pages read this week: 53
Time Read: aproximately 2hours and fifteen minutes
Pages: (NA)

Review:
In the book, Ella just got to know Char a little bit more, but then Ella's father sent her to finishing school after she broke a wine glass because she is clumsy. She recieved a book from her cook, Mandy, who is a fairy. The book has a lot of letters to her and other people which keeps her intact with the life back home. She went to finishing school with the bratty, snoby girls that she met, Hattie and Olive. Hattie has figured out about her curse and uses her as a robot. Ella tries to get back at her by doing the wrong thing or by out-smarting her with her demands. Ella just escaped from finishing school and met some nice elves that helped her with her traveling to get to Lucinda, the fairy that gave her the curse, to see if she can reverse it even though Lucinda isn't ery easy to make a deal with. Then she met some Ogres who want to eat her but as she tries to escape, the curse won't let her. So she is currently dinner.

Next I think that Ella will make a deal of some sort of deal with them. Maybe she will trade them her life for one of her precious items. Maybe then the Ogres can help her get to where she needs to go. If that happens maybe then Lucinda isn't even there and then she will have to make anoher deal with the Ogres to get to where Lucinda will be next. And Ella can find out where Lucinda is next with her magic fairy book. Then maybe Ella can become friends with the Ogres.

If I had to chose a character to be in this book, it would probably be Ella if she didn't have a curse and her mother didn't die. But because that just happened to her, I would probably be Ella's cook, Mandy. I would like to be her because she is a fairy and can do a lot of things with her magic. In the book, Ella broke a pot and as she started to pick up the peices, Mandy just make them go to the trash can. That would be really usefull in my life and probably a lot of other people.

I think that the theme of this book is to not give up. Like I said on my first book review post, they made this book into a movie in which at the end she finally breaks the curse. This shows to not give up because Ella keeps trying to get something done that she really truly wants to happen and that she believes in. I think this is a great lesson in life because you can use it in many things and if it's what you believe in and you don't give up, you can make a difference.