Dark is Rising

For this week, I chose to write about Dark is Rising.

I liked this reading because it is the way I always wanted to start my day as a child. I always wanted to wake up in another work or dimension and explore. When Will wakes up on his birthday and he is in another time, he wanders with a magical horse that helps him. His journey is to collect the six signs. The dark attacks him and he fights back.  I think this plot line is very popular with young children's fantasy because they always believe that there is another world because of their imagination. Will goes through any battles to get all six signs with the help of friends.  I love Merriman's role as a character because of the roll as Wills helper. Many kids play games like this with their friends so I think many kids can relate. That is the great think about fantasy.

This adventure is also well known in older movies, for example, the princess bride and many others. Journey to the Center of the earth, Eragon and many other movies are based on the same idea. A child needs help to complete his quest to get back to his own work.

I was never really into fantasy as a really young child but as I got older, I started to get more into reading and thinking into fantasy and the ideas behind everything I read.  Even in movies that show the same thing, they don't leave to to have your own idea or picture because the movies show these things to you. The great thing about reading a book like The Dark is Rising, is that you can picture the characters as you like.