Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Guess Who! Characters

Who is the character?  What book is he or she from?

1. "If the motorcycle was huge, it was nothing to the man sitting astride it. He was twice as tall as a normal man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big to be allowed, and so wild — long tangles of bushy black hair and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of trash can lids, and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins." 

2. "She's the twelve-year-old, the one who reminded me so of _____in stature. Up close she looks about ten. She has bright, dark eyes and satiny brown skin and stands tilted up on her toes with arms slightly extended to her sides, as if ready to take wing at the slightest sound. It's impossible not to think of a bird." 

3. "_______ did not see ________ as the beautiful ten-year-old boy that grown-ups saw, with dark, tousled hair and a face that could have belonged to Alexander the Great. ______ looked at ______ only to detect anger or boredom, the dangerous moods that almost always led to pain." 

4. "_____  _____ was a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter. It was a face to be dominated by, or to fight: never a face to patronize or pity. All his movements were large and perfectly balanced, like those of a wild animal, and when he appeared in a room like this, he seemed a wild animal held in a cage too small for it."

5. "The face of _________ was ageless, neither old nor young, though in it was written the memory of many things both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the light of stars." 







from   (mixed order)

a. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (page 98)

b. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (page 274)
c. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
d. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (page 12) 
e. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling (page 8)


Answers: 1e, 2a, 3c, 4d, 5b

and 
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (page 7):
"There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while Mr. Vandemar's eyes are brown; third, while Mr. Vandemar fashioned the rings he wears on his right hand out of the skulls of four ravens, Mr. Croup has no obvious jewelry; fourth, Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always hungry. Also, they look nothing alike."




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