Progress Book
18.33 of 100-
The Golden
Compass is the story of Lyra and her destiny to save her world from
destruction. It’s a world similar to ours, but also really
different. It reminded me of the television program Sliders and
all the parallel universes that exist. Lyra is raised by the
scholars of Oxford College. Once a year her Uncle Asriel visits,
but otherwise the scholars are her family In this world each human has a spirit
called a dameon that is connected to them always. For children
their dameon can take any animal form. Once they hit puberty their
dameon will stop changing and remain one character until they both die.
A human cannot live without their dameon and a dameon cannot live
without their human. In this world there are witches who also have
dameon’s but they can be separated and live apart from their dameons.
Lyra cannot be more than a few feet from her dameon nicknamed Pan without
experiencing horrible pain. There is also a race of warrior bears
that can speak, but do not have dameons.
Lyra is leading
a happy childhood, running around Oxford with her best friend Roger, until
everything changes. Her Uncle Asriel has begun researching a new
thing called dust and had discovered another world through the Northern
Lights. At the same time, orphaned children start disappearing
around London. When Roger is taken, Lyra goes on a mission to safe
him. Along the way we discover she is the young girl destined to
save their world. With the help of the gyptians, Lorek the bear,
a witch named Serafina, and a hot air balloon flier named Lee, Lyra sets out to the
cold wilderness of the arctic to rescue Roger.
I really enjoyed
reading this novel. They style of writing was really easy to
follow and I like that there were witches and bears. It was a fun
little fantasy world that Pullman created. Lyra also had a natural
tendency to find herself in the company of nice people that want to help and end
up being crucial in her quest.
I’ll give this
part an A- 92%
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