LA Book Report

1. LA Book Report The Rangers Apprentice The Ruins of Gorlan

2. Why I liked this book. • This book kept me interested the entire time and had me guessing what would happen next. It shows that the least expected people to be important are and can be important,

3. Plot line/overview • Intro CLIMAX Rising action resolution

4. Intro • This story is told in medieval times. A young orphan named Will lives in a ward in Castle Redmont. As a baby, he was left on the steps of the castle. As Will grows up in the Castle ward, he is constantly bullied by a boy whose name is Horace. These boys want to become knights. Horace teases Will that he's to small to become a warrior while beating him up. Each year, all orphans who turn 15 will have a ceremony where they chose there job for the rest of there lives. Will gets rejected by all the mentors because of his size. he gets chosen to become an apprentice to the Ranger named Halt. Halt is a ranger who belongs to the ranger corps which is a group of tacticians that is council to the king. Many people believe the rangers are sorcerers because of their ability to blend away into the background. People are scared of them and they are normally isolated because of it. Morgarath is a evil lord who was run out of the country with his army of Wargals. He is currently living in the Mountain of Rain and Night. He is building an army to rebel again. He is secretly recruiting old creatures called the Kalkara

5. Rising action • Will trains with Halt to become a ranger through these months of training he learns how to conceal himself from other people shoot a bow with accuracy and speed, how to throw knives and hand to hand combat. Horace on the other hand goes to battle school and gets bullied by 3 other senior boys. This goes on for a long time unnoticed by the trainers. Horace is A natural At swordsmanship and takes favour from the battlemaster but he doesn't show it. After months of training will and halt go looking for tracks and end up finding wild boar tracks they decide to go on a boar hunt with a few knights Horace gets to go.

6. Rising action • While boar hunting a boar attacks Horace and Will jumps in front to distract it to avoid it hurting his companion After dodging halt kills it. This occurrence starts a strong friendship/respect between the two friends. After going back to battleschool Horace gets beaten by the three bullies and then decide to go beat Will. Horace gets his revenge there when Halt allows Horace to basically beat them up one vs. one. After this the two rangers go to what is called the gathering which all 50 rangers from all fiefs go to a specific location to discuss events. While there they encounter Halts former apprentice Gillan. The three receive a mission to kill the Kalkara a monster who is half bear half ape these creatures are targeting people who are important to the kingdom for the upcoming war that is led by Morgarath. Halt, Will and Gillan set out to track these creatures.

7. Rising action • After Tracking them they arrive at the plains here they hear war calls of Kalkara the companions figure that they will go to the Ruins of GorlanMorgarath’s castle in the war that is now in ruins. Will is set out for castle Redmont to get reinforcements alone. Gillan gives his horse to will so he can get there faster Halt goes ahead with no help to track the Kalkara. Will thinks the Kalkara are hunting Halt but goes anyway he goes to castle Redmont and describes his theory to Sir Rodney and baron Arald. The two men agree to go help.

8. Climax • Will brings Sir Rodney and The battle master to kill the Kalkara when they arrive the battle master rams one of two Kalkara into a fire and it dies. Halt is missing and unarmed the other Kalkara is hunting him. Halt is discovered by the last beast so he throws his only weapon left a throwing knife at the beast and hits it in the eye he then flees towards his companions the beast follows him and sir Rodney and baron Arald begin their attack baron Arald gets thrown out of the way and is injured while sir Rodney is petrified by the beasts eyes and just stops. The two are about to die when will remembers that they are weak to fire so he grabs an arrow laced it with oil lights it and shoots at the Kalkara. The Beast explodes and dies.

9. Conclusion • A few days later the plot takes place in a hall where Will and his old Orphan friends talk about what happened with the Kalkara. The next day Will gets a giant ceremony for saving the barons life and is offered to be a knight. He refuses and says he is a ranger and says he wishes to continue his training. People are surprised by his decision and he is unsure of it. Later that evening he receives a Bronze oak leaf necklace from halt that shows he is an official rangers apprentice. And that is the end of the first Rangers Apprentice series.

10. unskilled witty Brave Will protagonist Curious determined Sneaky

11. Hideous Powerful Evil Kalkara Antagonist Massive Primitive Dangerous

12. when Will defeats the second Kalkara he thinks about their weakness then acts using that as an advantage Theme Halt always criticises him about not thinking ahead and planning out and observing what is there. Plan Ahead Think before you Act Will had to catch his horse so he though about it for one moment the lured it over with an apple Dont rush into Things that are uncertain Listen to What other people are saying