The Beginning of Rome

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Memo to an Author

Dear C.S. Lewis,
Your book, The Magician’s Nephew, has been engaging and altogether wonderful the whole way through! I really like the way you write, as it feels really personal, like you are having a conversation with me. An example of this is when you put your own thoughts into the story, which makes you a very captivating narrator. Your writing is very descriptive and fast moving, compelling me to read as long as I can. I really liked your description of Charn; it was very realistic. How did you come up with all of the names for the different worlds, the Queen, etc.? They really add to the writing and make it feel mysterious. One idea you may consider is adding and describing the emotions of the characters more deeply. You do very well at this already, but I love to really feel along with the characters in your stories to the best of my abilities. The attic connector of all the houses was very creative! Did you live in joined houses yourself that had one as well? Did you ever discover one yourself? It was very well described. Your writing draws the reader in, C.S. Lewis.
Keep up the wonderful work.

Sincerely,
A Reader

The poem shown below was written by me in class. I was simply looking around for an idea-sparker, when I realized one thing that all things I saw possessed-(you guessed it)-colour! It was the first inspiration of mine to begin writing a longer short-story, which I'm working on now. You don't have to respond on this writing, but try and put yourself in the place of the person in the poem and see what the colours are representing. :)



Colours

Deep, warm, intricate, dazzling,
Colours are everywhere
How could we imagine life without colour?!
They’re everywhere we look, really,
From the plants of the ground, to clothing, houses, even the sky
There are infinite colour shades, fanned out for us to choose from
‘Red’ isn’t just ‘red,’
Its cranberry red, fire-engine red, sunset red,
Its baby blue, waterfall blue, butterfly blue, navy blue

She goes to the hardware store and stares at the hundreds of colour panels,
looking at each unique and creative name
She longs to take home one of each,
But decide it would be impossible
So she becomes destined but content to simply gaze at them,
Filling her mind to the brim with colours,
Until colours start to run over and trickle down
Her forehead,
Then her chin,
Until her entire beings is simply dripping with joy
She runs outside and wherever her smile shines,
There is colour
Wherever her music is sung,
There is colour
The colours are sliding down to her toes,
Swimming and mixing together,
Swirling and making new and undiscovered colours
She brushes past others and the colours travel on,
From person to person,
Until the whole world is lit up by colours

The Nile Rv. was an amazing resource for the Egyptians, but not just for water and agricultural reasons. The Nile Rv. also supposedly helped the Egyptians develop their beleifs of life after death. They related the 'death' of the plants after harvest to the death of people, and the 'new life' of plants after the Nile's floods to the rebirth (or afterlife) that the Egyptians believed in. They also related the setting and rising of the sun to this as well. (I thought that was pretty cool.)


Many of you may already have known this, but before I did my poster I didn't know that the Nile was actually 2 rivers! :) The 'main' Nile is made up of the White and Blue Niles, connecting in Ethiopia, flowing North to the Mediterranean Sea.


Many famous people call Egypt 'the gift of the Nile,' because without a steady source of water people probably would not have settled in that area at all! Also, even before people settled in Egypt, there were lots of animals just roaming around. Once they, (the animals), started moving over to the land by the Nile River, people followed them.

Cyberquest-book response