Book Blog #2 Foundling

Rossamund now has to set off on his journey in order to get to his new job as a lamplighter he has to travel on the hogshead a large vassal for the emperor. A challenge that the boy faces this time around is that he has to make the journey alone when mister Sebastipole, the man who recruited, him has other jobs to do. It is a significant event because all of Rossamund's life he has been sheltered and now he has to travel a long distance all by his lonesome to get to a job he does not even want but is forced to take. His experience is much like that of a person who is forced from their home and given a place far off to stay. A hard experience like this may as well be a very important path to his future life and not just a physical path but an emotional path that will ready him for many hardships he will probably encounter in his life time. Sebastipole says to Rossamund "I have other tasks to attend to here in Boschenburg. You will see me again some day not too distant, I’m sure. Just head down the stair and along five berths. A lamplighter's life is independence of thought and deed my boy. You will need to get used to this as soon as possible. Welcome to the lamplighters!" (D.M. Cornish 58) this was the only introduction to the world he was about to enter, I myself would be uncertain and maybe unable to continue on in such a hard manor, showing how strong of a character Rossamund is.

Book blog #1 Foundling

Recently i started the book Foundling. While i am not far enough in the book to understand the plot i can sense were the book may be headed. The Main character, Rossamund is an orphan boy who lives at a military school in a different fantasy world; He is often wishing for the one chance to get out of the school. Like in the first Star wars movie when Luke is not happy with where he is, Luke wanted to go with his friends and join the rebellion; Rossamund wanted t0 join the marines. The two characters from different story's never actually get what they originally wanted, in the case of Luke it ended up better then what he had hoped for. Rossamund is not offered with his dream job of a marine but instead as a lamplighter. I do not know what the job is like yet because I have not read that far, but I'm sure that if the story is about being a lamplighter than it must be a honorific job that is very dangerous. there is a boy in the book that is played out as a monster, his name is Gosling. he was thrown out by his family because he wasn't as good as their standard, there is also a rumor that they couldn't afford him and their racehorses so they had to choose. Just as in a real life situation the boy is hurt inside and he converts it into anger his target is Rossamund. Gosling is hated by everyone because of the way that he is unable to give up his pride and his pain from being abandoned. The author Cornish describes how others think of him when the fighting coach yells "get back you miserable child." (Cornish 5) after Gosling attacks Rossamund because he wins in a stick duel. Gosling is a character to represent a sense of brokenness in the world and maybe a foreshadow of not a demon being the worst foe, but a man who has been destroyed.