Reading Response 1

Name: Ethan Chan
Title: The Fire Within
Author: Chris D'Lacey
Total pages this week: 115

Date: 10-31-07

Time: 1:04 Hours

Pages: 158-273

Response:

This book, The Fire Within, makes me wonder about a lot of things, mainly if inanimate objects will come alive. When they do, it's probably just imagination at work, but it might actually be moving. It's about a 20 year old guy named David who needs a place to stay, so he stays at the Pennykettle's. He is surprised to find clay dragons there, and later on he begins to get suspicious about wether or not they are real, as they act unusually. If dragons could come to life out of clay, I would be amazed, perplexed, and speechless. I would surely hope that they wouldn't set fire to anything in my house, but still have fun with them. If dragons could be animated, then other things could probaly act as if alive as well. I would be astonished if my book spoke to me and walked around. The book itself is very good, and it's exciting and interesting. One of the most exciting things that has happened so far is that David had a dream where he was going to enter the Dragon's Den (the place where dragons were made and kilned, and where David wasn't allowed), and oddly, wearing a coat over his pajamas, with a tea cozy on his head, a pair of oven gloves on his hands, and a burned slice of toast in his pocket. Whenever he touched the doorknob of the Dragon's Den though, it scorched his palm, so he looked through the keyhole, and saw a dragon. He bribed him with toast to get by (folded up toast that could fit through a keyhole), but the dragon realized he was being tricked so he quickly set the doorknob with flames so he got burned, and then he finally woke up. He woke up, and pretty much thought he was going insane.