Weekly Reading Response #4

Name: Alex H.
Title: Ella Enchanted
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Total pages this week: 58
Date: Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Time: two hours
Pages: 159-216


RESPONSE:


Ella is still looking for any way to undo her curse of always being obedient. She has found that she loves the prince of the town that she lives in and writes to him frequently. Her father has married the mother of the two girls that she hates to get more money and he has left to go sell things because he is a merchant. Ella is left at her new home with Mandy, her new step-sisters, and "Mum Olga". Mum Olga treats her like a slave because she does everything she is told. So Mandy, being a fairy too, calls Lucinda to their house and makes herself pbedient to see how its like. She finds out how dangerous it is and will never use big magic again, therefore leaving Ella cursed for the rest of her life. Ella wants to marry prince Charmont, but her curse will get in the way if she were to be a queen. Ella goes to a ball that Char hosts, but Ella is disguised as Lela. But then Char makes her go see his father and they're wondering why she wears a mask and will not take it off.

Next, I think that they will tell her to take off the mask, and she will have to and that maybe Ella will be noticed. If she were to get noticed then maybe he will ask her why she won't marry him. Then, maybe she will have to tell him about the curse. If she does tell him about the curse then maybe he will love her even more and even protect her from obeying as much by reversing the command. Maybe Ella will even somehow get Lucinda to take away the curse, but that's not very likely.

I would like to read another book by this author, even though this one has fairy's and Ogres in it. I would like to read another book by this author because I would like to see the similarities and differences. Also because I like how he makes it all seem so real even though it could never be real. The author gives a real discriptive, yet not boring, writing style and it really gives you an image of what it looks like in your head.

In the book, what really surprised me was when Sir Peter, Ella's Father, married "Mum Olga". I really thought he would make Ella find someone or something. Also, even if he were going to marry, I never thought he would marry her. Lucinda also layed a curse on Sir Peter and Mum Olga to stay maarried and happy together for ever and ever until they die. That is part of the reason why Sir Peter wanted to get away, because he never like Mum Olga, he only needed money fast. Next post should be the very end of the book, and hopefully Ella does get married to the prince and undo's her curse.