Book Review: King of the Shadows

For Literature we have to do book talks once a quarter. Book talks are a book report, a speech and a creative model. This quarter I read the book King of the Shadows by Susan Cooper. For my creative model I wrote a short story which I would like to share with you. If you are looking for a book to read I would highly recommend this one. If you would like to read an actual book review here is one from Wikipedia that I liked:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Shadows




Well as you know Nat Field came to live with us from St. Paul’s School. A few days after he got here he got the plague so we sent him to bed with the gravest thoughts. We thought he would die but he didn’t. But, he didn’t seem like the Nat Field we knew before he got the plague. I thought nothing of it at the time. Now that he is gone well… Harry

Since you want me to say something about Nat, I guess I must since I am apprenticed to you. My name is Roper and Nat and I don’t get along well at all. Nat is good at gymnastics and I guess he is a tad bit better than me. But on the contrary he is terribly bad at fencing where as I am on of the best in the company. Well apart from you and Master Burbage I suppose. What’s that you say??? I have to talk about Nat???? Well Nat is a bothersome boy and a coward. One time we went to a bear-baiting and he ran away crying like a baby. Am I done now? Roper


Well now I am going to write about Nat even though I am the writer. Nat is a dramatic young boy. Now that we know what happened I was sad to see him go. Well see let me explain from the beginning. Nat Field was a boy who did go to St. Paul’s School and he got the bubonic plague. Now if I had gotten it from him and died I wouldn’t have written anymore plays for the company to perform. So somehow I sent him to the future to get the care he needed. Well he did and luckily got switched with a Nat Field from 1999. Strangely enough he knew the lines to the plays we did. Well so after he had been here for about a month, he got switched again with the Nat Field from now. We will always miss Nat Field from 1999 in our hearts. William Shakespeare