For this book report I read the Strange Case Of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger. This book is about a group 6th graders who believe in a origami Yoda that tells the future and give advice about various topics. There are multiple characters that have problems that are resolved by origami Yoda. There are three main characters. One, Dwight has a big imagination, but sometimes he can do some really weird things. He is the maker of the origami Yoda.
He was inspired to make the origami Yoda from the movie Star Wars. The second main character, Tom becomes friends with Dwight and believes that Dwight’s Yoda gives real advice. The final main character is Harvey who doesn’t believe that Dwight’s origami is real. He plays the antagonist because he bullies Dwight and wants him to admit that origami Yoda is fake and makes an advanced copy of origami Yoda. With their being two Yoda’s people started going to Harvey because it looked more advanced and had a better Yoda voice.
It was never proven that Harvey’s Origami advice was true. Dwight sends a challenge to Harvey demanding a battle of the origami Yoda’s at the 6th grade dance. At the school dance Harvey and Dwight face off by having students ask questions about different scenes in the Star Wars movies. The final question of the battle was in regards to Tom wanting to know if Sarah would like to go out with him. Dwight’s origami Yoda said yes and Harvey’s origami said no.
Since Tom always believed Dwight’s origami Yoda was real, he walked right over to Sarah and asked if she would go out with him. Her answer was yes and this proved that Dwight’s origami Yoda was real. I would recommend this book to kids who like Star Wars. The grade group can be 3rd grade to 8th, it’s a good book and has some interesting parts and overly enjoyed it. I would rate this book 8. 5 out of 10. I would recommend this book to a person who likes action and a it of mystery.
Character Analysis Of Odysseus
Character Analysis: Odysseus Smart, yet Arrogant In books 9-12 of Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus shows three prominent character traits: quick-wittedness, hubris, and self control. Odysseus has gone down in stories and history books for his life-saving quick-wittedness. An example of his quick thinking is in the scene where Odysseus and a few of his men are trapped in Polyphemus’, a cyclopes, cave and Odysseus devises a cunning plan to help them escape.
He gives Polyphemus all the liquor he has to get him drunk and tells Polyphemus that his name is Nohbdy so when Odysseus stabs his eye out and Polyphemus calls for help, he ends up saying “Nohbdy, Nohbdy’s tricked me, Nohbdy’s ruined me! ” (9. 44). Therefore, his fellow cyclopes go home thinking that Polyphemus is just crazy. Another part of his escape plan from the same scene that displays his wits is when, the next morning, Odysseus and his men put ram pelts on their backs and walk out with all of the other rams.
This works because, since Polyphemus cannot see anymore, he feels each ram go by instead and Odysseus can sneak by, undetected. A second noticeable characteristic of Odysseus is his hubris, or arrogance. For instance, after he has escaped from Polyphemus’ cannibalistic nature he goes on to yell back to the cyclopes that “if ever mortal man inquire how you were put to shame and blinded, tell him Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye: Laertes son, whose home’s on Ithika,” which put not only Odysseus in danger of the cyclopes retaliating, but also his crew (9. 49-552). Another example of Odysseus’ hubris is when he insists on being the only one of his crew to listen to the sirens’ irresistible voices so he can boast to people in the future that he has been the one of the only mortals to ever resist the magnificent melodies of the sirens. At times when he is not busy being arrogant, Odysseus is showing self control, such as at the beginning of his trials in book 9 when Odysseus and his men raid a coastal village of Ismaros.
They have killed and enslaved plenty of men and women when Odysseus shows self control and decides that it is time for them to leave before the real army comes. Unfortunately, Odysseus’ men do not have the self control he does and they continue to plunder the village, giving a few fugitives enough time to alert the main army, which ends up killing many of Odysseus’ men. Another example of Odysseus’ self control is on the island of the Lotos Eaters when he resists the enticing thought of being content staying on this wonderful island and remembers he is needed at his home on Ithika.
A third instance when Odysseus shows self control is after making it through three difficult trials, the sirens, Skylla, and Kharybdis, he and his men are extremely tired and famished. Yet, when they pass Helios’ island, which holds ample cattle, Odysseus tells his men that they cannot hunt on this island because he has been warned by Kirke and Teiresias that their fate shall not be good if they do. Unfortunately, his crew, yet again, does not listen and they kill some of Helios’ cattle. And, just like Odysseus told them it would be, they had consequences.
Relationship To Each Other Is Very Important
The importance of relationships consists of disagreements, respect, common interests and also their opinions. The Waknuk community all can relate to each other because they all follow the same religion, the “True Image” or the “Nicholas Repentances”. In the Strorm family they all have different opinions, religious views. David and the telepaths all need to stick together because they all share the same secret. In the novel The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, the theme Relationships, relationships are very evident in people’s life’s, it creates the way people communicate, and who they communicate with.
In Waknuk people with deviations are not accepted. People who live in Waknuk who have deviations need to contain there deviations in order to contain their relationships with others. When Alan a boy who lives in Waknuk found out about Sophie’s six toes, David got punished by his father for knowing and continuing to see her. Everyone in Waknuk follows the same religion. (The Definition of Man) ‘…and each leg shall be jointed twice and have one foot, and each foot five toes and each toe shall end with a flat nail…’ (13). The relationship between Waknuk and the Fringes is very gruesome, they have very much different opinions.
When the Fringes came an invaded Waknuk they came to take props and food because they don’t have as much as them, they are not treated the same. The Waknuk community has difficulty acknowledging people who are different. The Storm family is over powered by Joseph Strorm, David’s father. Joseph has a big impact on their family. Joseph gets extremely angry when people talk about Blasphemy/Deviations. When David said that it would be a lot easier if he had another hand his father freaked, because he thought David was wishing for another hand.
This makes David feel not very accepted because of his own abnormal abilities. In the Strorm family Petra is the center of attention, she is the favourite. In the book the Chrysalids David says “I loved her- everybody, even my father, conspired, to spoil her, with an endearing lack of success (83). Aunt Harriet is treated different than the rest of the family; she cannot produce “normal” babies. Aunt Harriet went to the Strorm house and asked Emily Strorm, Davids mom to switch babies for when the inspector comes. Emily was shocked at this favour.
Joseph came home and heard what was going on and was furious, he told her to get out and he said “accursed is the mutant in the sight of God and Man” (76). Joseph Strorm had a lot of power and control over the Strorm family. David and Rosalind control the way the group connects with eachother. David and Rosalind are the main characters out of the telepath group. They make most of the decisions. David awoke suddenly from a signal telling him that some of the group members have been captured, immediately he wakes Petra and they meet up with Rosalind, and flee to the Fringes.
When Anne and Alan got married the group didn’t support her because their secret could get out. When Anne told the telepaths she was getting married they found it very difficult to believe that she was serious. The group tried reaching out to her but she simply blocked them out. In a result Alan was murdered. When decisions are made they affect relationships. Anne hung herself because Alan was killed and she believed it was the telepaths who did it. In the book Anne left a note, and in it, it releases who they really are even Rachel, Anne’s sister.
Also in it she accuses them of collectively planning Alan’s murder. It was very important for all the telepaths to stick together, Rosalind and David understood this, therefore they controlled the group’s decisions. The importance of characters and their relationships consists of disagreements, reverence, common interests and their opinions. The Waknuk community had battles against the Fringes creating conflict. David Strorm was a great believer in religion. In the end he picked what he believed in over the relationship with his family. David and the telepaths all support the same thing and all stayed together.