Monday, March 29, 2010

Magic for Beginners

So I am supposed to talk about "Magic for Beginners." Overall, I thought the story was really interesting and engaging. It was also somewhat confusing and left me with questions. Some of these include, and many may just have been an oversight on my part:
  1. So The Library (with the people in the Free People's World Library) is a TV show, yet Jeremy and his friends are also part of a television show? Is that correct or did I misread that. If so, does that make The Library a show within a show, or a parallel universe, or what?
  2. So is Fox dead?
  3. Will Jeremy and his mom go back home to the dad?
  4. What was so bad about the book his father wrote? I mean, change a name, publish it, and be done with it. No reason to split up the family.
  5. Was someone really listening to Jeremy when he called his phone booth? Was it Fox?
I really have no insight, only questions from this story.
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4 comments:

  1. ClaireMarch 29, 2010 at 9:48 PM

    I'm undecided on the reality of the library. Maybe it's filmed (documented?) in a parallel world that is colliding with our own and that's how Fox was able to get a hold of Jeremy?

    As for your fourth question, well...the guy wrote his own son's death. Not some character that resembled his son, but Jeremy himself. I would have flipped, too. If it were just some character with a passing resemblance that would be one thing. Change the name and publish, no big deal. But for a father to be able to plot out his own son's death is indicative of bigger issues.

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  2. deirdra3March 31, 2010 at 11:17 AM

    Yea, the show was really confusing to me. Because no one knew who created it and who the characters were, I was confused as to what exactly it was or supposed to be. I mean that's a complicated show when the characters aren't always played by the same people. Yet, it seems like people can wind up in the show. For instance, Jeremy. Odd..

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  3. Charlie NewmanMarch 31, 2010 at 2:28 PM

    I think it is a show within a show. It's weird since they have the same name but different stories. Link does repeatedly say that what is occurring in her story is happening on a tv show called The Library. There is also a point in the story where the question "What do TV characters watch?" is posed.

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  4. Elizabeth HowellMarch 31, 2010 at 2:30 PM

    I like to think that it was fox, and that their two lives are some how connected. I felt like the story sort of started to connect the real world and the library world and then would draw them back apart. This really aggravated me.

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