Sam And Jolly example essay topic

Book Reflection: The Goodfellow Chronicles - The Sacred Seal The Sacred Seal is the first book in 'The Goodfellow Chronicles', written descriptively by British author, J.C. Mills. This audacious and cunning tale is told elegantly and brilliantly... This story commences off with a bright, curious and nature-loving 10 year-old boy named Sam Middleton, having recently experienced moving from his old home to New England, where his parents have moved there to receive better business opportunity selling their vast collection of modern, American art to the public. After lying down, attempting to sleep sadly in his new home, he encounters and meets a petit human in a diminutive mouse suit - Jolly Goodfellow, a Sage. The Sage has been on the Earth for countless numbers of years, providing unseen inspiration to humans in pursuit of creative genius and scientific advancement (such as Albert Einstein and Amelia Lockhart), being disguised as mice, so that they can move about freely and are assigned "cases" (humans).

Coincidentally, Jolly has a case he needs to attend to: Professor Hawthorne, a professor at the university, the previous owner of the home. Unfortunately, he mysteriously disappeared recently and with the courtesy help of Sam, will try to find him. Together, they overcome the many conflicts from the evil works of Professor Mandrake and his son, Basil who are inquisitive about Hawthorne's whereabouts and the Fen, who are also small and related to the Sage, only eviler and crueler and whispering words of evil to those who listen. After retrieving the Scared Seal (which Hawthorne hid in the house to ensure no one such as Mandrake could discover it) which had strange, alien-like markings.

With another clue, Jolly had to leave for England and say goodbye to Sam to search for Hawthorne and provide inspiration to him - he felt that we may be on to a discovery that could change mankind... forever! I felt that this novel has a significant and vital impact to adults and children alike. In this book, teamwork was the key aspect here in order for Sam and Jolly to succeed against the nefarious Fen and Professor Mandrake. Teamwork and co-operation is necessary to go through all points of life. This shows the readers that event though a situation may seem intricate at first, two can surmount it. In this book, Jolly is known for his phrases.

One of his phrase is 'A trouble shared is a trouble halved". This is what teamwork is all about in this book... In the novel, Sam and Jolly have to get past Mandrake and his son who are in search of any information of Hawthorne. Mandrake needed to search Hawthorne's office, but to foiled their plans, Sam and Jolly together came up with a effective plan - a diversion to stop Mandrake. There are real-life examples I would like to share. Firstly, I can relate this to a learning experience in grade 7.

I had an exceedingly hard time finishing a comparison chart between 2 animals in Science class. Together, with my buddies, we met after school and managed to assist each other at time and successfully completed it. There are other situations in my life where teamwork is involved, especially here at Allan A, where TEAMWORK is essential for success. You must learn how to co-operate with all kinds of people: your peers, your teachers, your parents and more. There is 'I' in teamwork is there? Also, teamwork also involved listening and agreeing with each other, not causing trouble and disagreeing.

Converting a problem into a win-win situation is very challenge: there are many steps that one must take to patch things up. Even though this book is fictional, many of the realistic events and situation may happen to anyone in reality. This novel has many morals and lessons that can be learned from this novel. An example of a moral I learned is "Things come to those who wait". This means that if you are patient, you will be rewarded. For example, when Sam and Jolly were hiding extensive in a broom closet in the school since Basil was bullying Sam and Sam needed an obscure hiding place.

He was rewarded when Basil gave up, hunting for him. When you wait, you will undoubtedly handsomely be rewarded. Patience is a vital quality in have in life overall. Another moral I learned is to be positive and optimistic continually, like Jolly (you can tell from the name). In the beginning, when Jolly's situation was looking bad, when Hawthorne was nowhere to be found, he was still sanguine and cheerful, until he met a new ally, Sam. Together, they both united to try and find the missing professor.

When you are optimistic in various, yet tough situations, you not only make yourself happier, but other around you as well. I would rate this novel 9/10 for several reasons. Firstly, in this novel, it had a complex, yet understandable plot, full of detail, yet easily deciphered by the reader. A variety of descriptive language is used in this novel to create images in your mind vivid and realistic. To create this effect, one of the methods that the author used was to use literary devices such as similes and metaphors. These literary devices are used for comparison.

An example of a simile is "The slippery floor was very solid, solid as a rock". An example of a metaphor is "Mandrake was boiling mad as he walked quickly over to Sam, the troublemaker... ". These are examples of literary devices. I would definitely recommend this novel anyone who wants to read a novel with tiny people that are disguised as mice, mystery / suspense and adventure / I would also recommend that you read the rest of this trilogy, the second and third books to be published at a later date. J.C. Millis is an awesome British author and I hope that she will keep writing great and interesting books for all. By the way, my reading database from Term 1 is in my portfolio for the Gordon Graydon interview = ) Hope you don't mind...