So You Want to Be a Wizard (Action, Diction, Theme, Imagery, and Tone)

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A. Rose Miller March 6, 2012 So You Want To Be a Wizard Aspects of a story, such as: action, diction, theme, images, and tone make this story an entertaining and well-thought-out story. In the book, Nita Callahan is a thirteen-year-old girl who discovers a book titled So You Want to Be a Wizard while hiding from big bullies in a library. She brings the book home with her and discovers that it is about the art of wizardry. She does not completely trust the book's claim that she can become a wizard if she takes the Wizard Oath, but she takes it nonetheless. The next day when she is out trying to do her first spell she meets Kit Rodriguez, another wizard. After they successfully complete a spell together, Nita's doubts are gone: she is a wizard. And the story continues. The most enthralling part of the story is when the enraged Lone Power comes after Nita and Kit on the back of an eight-legged, skull-faced beast. (Duane, 151) They flee for awhile, eventually passing through the worldgate into their homeworld with the Lone Power behind them. To stop this enemy from destroying their Universe, Kit and Nita quickly summon a wall of animated trees and statues and begin to read from the bright Book by moonlight, to undo the wrong that the Lone Power has done. Obviously this is an important scene of the book, even the most important part, for it was the climax. As for diction, Christopher "Kit" K. Rodriguez, one of the protagonists, is picked on for his Spanish accent. He says specifically, “I’m getting tired of being beat up just because I have a Spanish accent,” (Duane, 26) And so, because of this “accent” he started practicing magic to stop the bullies from bothering him. While practicing this magic, he met Nita, and without doing this, the conclusion of this story may have never been possible. The ability to extend sympathy and understanding to anyone, even

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