After+Reading

After Reading

Review the predictions you made at the start of the novel. Were you right? Were you surprised by anything that happened? Explain.

I was right and I was wrong in different parts. I was right that Isabel was free and was no longer a slave, and I was right that she was with Curzon again, but the book ended strangely. It was a bit like part one of two parts and the second part was the second book of the series. In a way she was reunited with Ruth, because she was on the same Island as Ruth but when you found that out the book ended. There was no democracy. So I was right and wrong.

Write some questions you would like to ask the main charater. What answers might he or she give? Write an interview script using your questions and answers as the script.

Isabella: Hi Isabel, how are you? Its great to interview you for my new documentary. I am a big fan of Chains. Isabel: Oh thank you and it is great to be on the show. Isabella: No thank you. Anyway down to the questions. How did you get the courage to be so brave and be a spy and sneak through the night. Isabel: Well, I just thought about how much i loved Ruth and how much I wanted to be free and i just put all of my fears away and just did it. Isabella: Mmm it was very brave, and how did you bear the pain and agony of being branded? Isabel: I dont know. I really dont and I just oh... i dont know. It was something you can't put into words you know? Isabella: Oh i can imagine. How did you keep your temper when she, Mrs Lockton sold Ruth? Isabel: I didn't really. I was very angry and very well you know extremely upset. I will never forgive her for that or anything of the other terrible things she did to me. Isabella: How did you feel when becky didn't tell you about how she sold Ruth and how she didnt stop her. Isabel: Well i had thought that Becky was very kind and loyal and i was extremely upset that she had broken that trust although she was extremely sorry. Isabella: How did you feel about Mrs Lockton calling you Sal Lockton instead of Isabel? Isabel: Well I didn't really mind compared to the other things that she did to me. Although I was not a fan of it and I would much, much rather have been called by my real and proper name Isabel. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Isabella: Well thank you for coming on the show it was great to speak to you. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Isabel: No thank you it has ben a great experience.

<span style="color: #ff6800; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Investigate whether types of figurative language were used in the novel. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Yes some figurative language was used in my novel. Particularly Imagery. Here is one of my favourite personifications in the novel: The eastern sky was peach coloured but, a handful of lazy stars still blinked in the west. I think this brings a beautiful image to your mind.

<span style="color: #ff6800; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Write a front page news report of an important event.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Sal Lockton the young slave of 13 yrs belonging to the wealthy Locktons was chased down Wall street last week. She was caught and sent to the court where Mrs Lockton demaned she was hung. The Judge was not convinced that this was a crime bad enough for the death punishment. Instead she was branded with a hot iron on her left cheek. It is an //I// for Insolence. Sal Lockton was then sent back to her owners enormous palace where she was beated and forced to go straight back to work. Mrs Lockton is tempted to sell her and she claims that she is a weak and worthless slave. Sal seems to be ok and quite healthy in slave standards accoring to the people who sell her food and water for her Master.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">By Isabella Ryan journalist and editor of the New York News. 1776

<span style="color: #ff6800; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Write a review of your novel for readers your own age.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Chains was a fantastic book. It was quite emotional and it shocked you sometimes. It was impossible to put the book down sometimes and you just wanted to read it forever. It was one of those novels that when it ended you felt that you would miss the characters and that they were your friends and they were leaving you and you just wanted it to go on and on and on, because it was so amazing. Although i think everyone would enjoy some parts sometimes I would say to myself while reading that I'm glad my little 8 yr old sister isn't reading this because some bits were just to hard to bear for younger children. I would recommend it for ages 10 and up. I even read the blurb to my grandfather and he was interested in the book and wanted to read it. You should definately find the time to read it, because it is worth it.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Isabella Ryan childrens book reviewer.