King of Shadows (part 3)

   

        I am on page 97 in the book King of Shadows by Susan Cooper. Many people have changed in this part of the book! It makes me want to keep reading!

        Back in Shakespeare's time, Nat was going to move to live with Shakespeare! While Nat's there, somebody comes to their door and barged into Shakespeare's study! Nat listened in on them. The other man was talking about A Mid Summer's Night Dream. This was the same play that the queen was going to see secretly. The other person was trying to get Shakespeare to not let the queen go to the play because she wasn't allowed to and would have to sneak in. This means that she could be kidnapped or something since there would be no guards! Nat was practicing plays with the ,one and only, Shakespeare  Roper and Nat kept on arguing. Roper was Nat's enemy and he didn't try to hid it. But one day while they were back stage, Roper took a bite of an apple. He started choking on it! Nat did the Heimlich maneuver to him, and saved his life. The only problem was, the Heimlich wasn't invented yet! Nat just told the people watching him that his aunt taught him how to do it. Roper went over to Nat and told him that pretty much he's been a jerk.

        A question that I have for this part of the story is why couldn't the queen come to the theater with guards without sneaking in? I think that the queen might have people that worry about her a lot and care about her a lot.

         I predict that Roper will be mean again later. I think this because the kind of people Roper are usually too proud to actually like somebody after they hated them. They just can't do it.

        My connection for this part of the book has to do with Nat listening in on Shakespeare and the man. This reminds of how I put on my detective shoes:) near Christmas-time and Birthday-time to find out what my presents are! Last Christmas, I found out what my aunt was getting me about a month before Christmas(my dad's phone!.. SHH! :). 

King of Shadows (part 2)

                                  King of Shadows part 2                                   

     I have read through chapter 6 in King of Shadows by Susan Cooper. Many very weird things have happened to Nat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Summery:                                                                                                             

     While Nat was asleep, he felt everything turning! Suddenly he woke up, but he knew something was wrong. He was in a different bed, in a different room(creepy!). He woke up and found someone named Harry looking over him! Harry asked him if he was okay and that he had to get to the theater! Nat was very confused, but soon realized that he went back in time! He was now in the time of Shakespeare!! Nat figured out that he was living with someone named Master Burbage. Nat and Harry went down to the globe theater(old, real one!), and Harry said that Nat was going to try out for the part Puck in A Mid Summer's Night Dream. This was the same part and play that Nat was going to be in hundreds of years later. Nat saw Mr. Shakespeare!! He didn't know what to say! Shakespeare was going to decide if Nat was going to be in his play. Nat had to compete against a lot of other boys, including this boy named Roper. Roper did whatever he could to make Nat look bad, but Nat was the best out of all of them and got the part. Later on, Nat went out into the streets and saw many interesting things, and was really different compared to the life that Nat was used to! Nat also saw this fight, where people would fight/torture bears for fun. People would bet on who would win. Back in normal time(while Nat was having fun 100s of years earlier , Nat was sitting on his bed, shaking with HIGH fever! He was taken to the Hospital, and the doctor thinks that he has the Bubonic Plague!

Question:                                                                                                                                                   

     A question that I have for this part of the story is Why was Roper so mean to Nat? I think that he was mean because he was jealous that Nat was better than him at acting and gymnastics.

Prediction:                                                                                                                                                

     I predict that the people in Shakespeare's time will find out that Nat was from the future! I think this because Nat doesn't really know what people did back then, and I think that it will be easy to be found out.

Connection:                                                                                                                                              

     A connection that I have for this part of the story has to do with the people killing bears for fun. This reminds of how in "How to train you dragon" the vikings would kill dragons for a game.

King of Shadows (part 1)

I've read to the 3rd chapter in King of Shadows by Susan Cooper. I can't wait to see what happens to Nat!

Nat was chosen out of many boy actors to be in 2 Shakespeare plays that they would perform in the Globe Theater in London, England! Nat loved acting, and was CRAZY excited! They would perform the plays how they would in Shakespeare's time. There would be no girls, because the young boys whose voices hadn't changed yet would play the girl parts. When Nat got with all of the other boys, he met their teacher. He was named Arby. They all played a game to show trust. Nat got in the middle of 4 other boys and fell. He trusted the others to catch him, but one boy just was letting him fall, and then caught him at the last moment. Arbythrew him out of the play!!! Later on they all went to London to practice the plays. While they were practicing at the globe, Nat felt all weird, smelled flowers, and was about to fall over! This happened 3 times! What was going on? Late that night Nat also barfed, and finally went to sleep. 

A question that I have about this part of the story is what was so special about the Globe Theater? I researched online and found out that it was Shakespeare's theater, and that it was destroyed. They made another one(a replica) and that was where Nat was. 

I predict that Nat will go back in time. I think this because on the cover of the book it shows part of him in modern day and part a loooooooooong time ago. I also think this because he was having all of those weird feelings, and I think that he's going to fall asleep and turn up back in time.

A connection that I have for this part of the story has to do with Arby sending the kid away. Arby was really strict on trust. This is like how God is strict with us trusting in Him.