Rangers Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan: A look at the Author

Hey guys. Been a week already huh? Anyway its Sunday and time for me to do my blog post again. This week I have decided to vary things up a bit. For the part three weeks I have done reviews after completely finishing a book. I realized (with Mrs. Bross pointing it out) that this could get boring after a while so this week I am doing something else. Plus that was just taking way to much of my teams that I could sorely use for doing homework :).  


This week I have started a reading a book called The Ruins of Gorlan by an Australian author called John Flanagan. I actually got to meet him at my old school, and believe me it was quite interesting.

Mr. Flanagan had come to our school i would say mid way last year. He was a pretty popular author and his series (yes this is a book series) has had more than 2 million copies sold. That's quite a lot and you could probably imagine my surprise that this author was coming to me my school. He came to talk to us about his book and he was pretty funny. The reason I chose to read this book now and not sooner? Well to put it simply I forgot about all this happening until my friend brought it up when i was at his house. Opps. Oh well I guess. Hey I'm only human (no I am not referring to the song).

So what will this weeks blog post be about? Well if you guessed its about one of the characters you guessed right :).
 Just by looking at the cover the book seems to be vary mysterious and unique. It is quite interesting but this week I want to go into the Main Character's background. This is the first book of the series, fortunately, so I learned quite a lot about Will's background and characterization (yeah that's his first name and no he doesn't have a last name).

Will is an orphan that lives in a ward during Medieval Britain. Through the baron of that estates's kindness, all the orphans on his land are being raised in a ward including Will. Not much is said about his past, but I think they go into that more in another book. Will is described as, " ... Will was small and wiry. he was agile and fast and surprisingly strong, but he simply didn't have the size tat he knew was required of Battleschool apprentices." This gives us quite a bit of his physical attributes but now lets look at some of his mental and verbal qualities," Will's wit was as agile as the rest of him and he almost always managed to have the last word." These are both direct characterization of Will, but it speaks volumes about him as the describe quite a bit and help paint a picture of the character. Will