A Book Review on Northern Lights :: English Literature

A Book Review on Northern LightsNorthern Lights is an adventure and a envisage 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 otherplace is in the North. In the North, armored bears rule the ice andwitches fly in the skies. These places are in another world than thatwe live in. In this world, people have daemons, a sort of pet, whichis accustomed to them by an invisible force. Daemons can also changeinto different animals.Lyra is a young girl who goes on an adventure with around 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 criminal 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 just saves him from poison. When they are debating or so it, one of the people there is M rs Coulter who asks for thechild and is given her. Just before Lyra leaves, she is given analethiometer, which is like 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 agree 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 send the children home and Lyra walks off into the sunsetas the book ends.The three main characters featured in Northern Lights are Lyra, herdaemon Pantalaimon, and Mrs Coulter.Lyra was brought up in Oxford at Jordan University, where she spentmost of her time causation mischief with a b oy called Roger. She is avery determined girl who is prepared to risk 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 mindgetting dirty. She is also very nosy and inquisitive, because she goes