A Book Review on Northern Lights :: English Literature

A Book Review on Yankee LightsNorthern Lights is an adventure and a fantasy story written by PhillipPullman in the third person. The story takes place in Jordan College,which is in Oxford. The Master rules Jordan College and the oppositeplace is in the North. In the North, armoured bears rule the ice andwitches cut down in the skies. These places are in another world than thatwe live in. In this world, concourse have daemons, a sort of pet, whichis attached to them by an unseeable force. Daemons can also changeinto different animals.Lyra is a young daughter who goes on an adventure with some gypsies, totry and stop some people called Gobblers from kidnapping children tosee what happens to the child if their daemons are cut away. TheGobbler who started this illegal action was Mrs Coulter, whose daemonis a golden monkey.First of all, Lyra was going to go to the North with her Uncle, SirAsriel, when she mediocre saves him from poison. When they are debatingabout it, one of the p eople thither is Mrs Coulter who asks for thechild and is given her. Just out front Lyra leaves, she is given analethiometer, which is want a compass, but you can ask it questions bymatching up symbols and then the needle swings round and points to asymbol as a reply.When Lyra finds out who she is at a party, she runs away to find somegypsies who check out to take her with them to the North. The leader iscalled John Faa.Unfortunately, Lyra is kidnapped by the workers of Mrs Coulter and istaken to their hospital where they perform the slicing, but Lyra findsa plan to escape from there, just before it is too late. Before sherescues the other children and escapes, she sets all the daemons freefrom their glass jars.The gypsies air out the children home and Lyra walks off into the sunsetas the book ends.The three chief(prenominal) characters featured in Northern Lights are Lyra, herdaemon Pantalaimon, and Mrs Coulter.Lyra was brought up in Oxford at Jordan University, where she spe ntmost of her time causing mischief with a boy called Roger. She is avery determined girl who is prepared to luck her life for what shethinks is right. She never gives up, always ready to go. Lyra nevercomplains about anything, she just goes along with everyone else. Sheis also very caring and secretive. She is a tomboy, who does not promontorygetting dirty. She is also very nosy and inquisitive, because she goes