Bartimaeus, Jonathan Stroud. Cycle 23 Reading Response, 19-34

Summary:
I read pages 19-34. Bartimaeus enters a room filled with magical objects and trinkets. He finds the Amulet of Samarkand. He quickly checks all of the different planes for security or guards. He felt a small presence of something on plane 7, but decided to ignore. Bartimaeus grabbed the amulet and quickly ran out the door. Before he ran out the room he noticed something was coming out a black portal that had opened in the room. He knew the time for stealth was over. Out of the portal comes a red man with a jackal head to yells Bartimaeus’ name in fury and chases him around the house, throwing balls of green flame at him. Bartimaeus quickly runs till he finds himself in the kitchen and baricades himself in by putting a charm on the door. Inside is a chef. Bartimaeus checks him on all 7 planes, and finds that on plane 7 that he is another djinn named Faquarl, who is working for Simon Lovelace. Faquarl asks for the amulet. Bartimaeus quickly removes the charm on the door, which causes it go flying at Faquarl. Bartimaeus escapes from Simon Lovelace’s house in the form of a bird. The next chapter talks about the boy who summoned Bartimaeus, with his master in the past when he was younger. The master tells the boy to never trust demons. The master send the boy down to his room to grab his glasses. The boy goes down and put the glasses on his eyes where he sees hundred of little imps. The imps instantly attacked him when they knew he could see them. 20 minutes later his master decided to save him. His master was satisfied with the lesson.

Vocabulary:
Urbanely- adj. having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities: an urbane manner.
Adj. reflecting elegance, sophistication, etc., esp. in expression: He maintained an urbane tone in his letters.
Coyly- Adj. artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.
Adj. Shy; modest
Adj. showing reluctance, esp. when insincere or affected, to reveal one's plans or opinions, make a commitment, or take a stand
Musingly- Adj. Absorbed in thought; meditative
Imperceptibly- Adj. Very slight, gradual, or subtle
Adj. Not perceptible; not perceived by or affecting the senses.
N. Something not capable of being perceived by the senses
Finality- n. the state, quality, or fact of being final; conclusiveness or decisiveness.
something that is final; an ultimate act, utterance, belief, etc.


From Jacob’s view-
Another usual night patrolling through my master’s house. I’m so hungry, even though I ate just an hour ago. I seem to be never satisfied these days. Oh how my life has been diminished to patrolling these halls of my master’s house. Oh an alarm has sounded on one of the upper flowers, maybe something interesting will happen. Let me just use a portal spell to get up there. Oh so it’s Bartimaeus; I better capture him or my master will punish me. “BARTIMAEUS” I yelled as I threw one of my own special detonation spells. I watched as Bartimaeus got up, and ran off unharmed. I quickly followed after him, but unfortunately he was too fast for me. I knew Farquol would head him off, so I continued at the same pace after him. I quickly followed him down to where the kitchen is located. He quickly shut the door of the kitchen and placed a charm on it. I sensed the level of the charm and new that after a good couple of blasts that it would crumble. After firing 5 detonations the door flew off, unfortunately hitting Farquol square on in the face. I entered the room and saw Farquol was okay, so I quickly pursued after Bartimaeus.