Cirque Du Freak “A Living Nightmare”
Summary: This book is about a high school kid named, Darren Shan. This kid is just like everyother kid. He is on the soccer team, and has a best friend named Tommy. The only thing about Darren is that he has a huge love for spiders. Which get him into some trouble, When he comes apon a freakshow that has a spider he can not resist, and ends up stealing it from a owner that happens to be a vampire named Mr. Crepsley. Mr. Crepsley ends up having to go and bite Darren because he gets bit, by the spider that is the most posionist predator in the world. Darren has to fake his death, and become a vampire. Darren then goes to a camp that will train him how to be a vampire. But then comes up on vampires that are “bad and evil.” The book then ends there and the next book in the series starts off from there.
(#21) As I read this book I felt like I was watching this all happen, before my eyes. Because the author does such a a good job using his 5 senses. I also felt like I want to just go and find this freak show if it was real. Because being able to see a girl monkey, and a bearded lady, or all the other cool people this book would be really fun.
(#5) This character reminds me of myself because? If I had to choose anyone in this book iam most like, I would probably choose Darren Shan, the main character. I say this becasue he is the character that is always putting his nose into something bad. And that is just what I do. Iam always getting myself into bad situations and butting into things that dont concern me. We both also have dont take no for an answer. Which would be another thing we both relate to.
(#7) I think this setting is important because? Well its not really a setting. But the whole first, forth of the book. I say this because it shows alot about how darrens life was before he turned to a vampire. So it just shows how much his life wasnt as bad as he though it was. Later on in the book, when he misses his family, he realizes that.
(#11) I think the relationship between ____ and ____ is interesting because? One relationship in this book that is very interesting, but on the other hand very confusing is the relationship between the main character Darren Shan, and the spider, the one that is a pet to the vampire that Darren has seen at the freakshow he went to go watch. After he found a piece of paper on the street. When he was walking home one night. Its not that the relationship is good, but that it is mysterious, because the spider is able to kill anyone or anything it bites, in a matter of seconds. I know this because when Darren went to go watch this freakshow, the crowd he was in, was told all this about the spider. When it was performing, its act with the vampire. Darren later on in the book goes and steals the spider from the vampire that later bites Darren and turns him into a vampire. But its weird, because when the spider was stolen it was like he already knew it was gonna happen. Almost like he wanted it to happen. Because after the spider was stolen. The vampire that owns him, Mr. Crepsley comes and takes his spider back. But as he does the spider bites Darren, and at that time Mr. Crepsley has to bite Darren to “save” him. I dont know if that all sounds weird to you. But to me that sounds like Darren was almost trapped or tricked into getting bit. So Mr. Crepsley would have an assistant.