Lost in Different Worlds

Dustfinger and Farid were waiting anxiously for Orpheus, a reader that is able to take out and place characters on a story. Orpheus had promised Dustfinger to return him home, they agreed on it but the only thing that Dustfinger requested was that Farid comes with him. While Orpheus was reading, there was a heavy wind and Dustfinger disappeared; he was back to the story he belonged. Then Farid was waiting his turn but nothing happened because Orpheus didn’t want to modify the story with new characters that never existed. Suddenly, Farid felt a knife on his throat, it was Basta. Orpheus interfered calming the problem.  While the three of them were talking, Basta’s arm loosen a little enough for Farid to bite him and run away, he ran until his legs didn’t respond, he fell and grab the paper that took Dustfinger to “Inkworld” and hid on a tree; Basta shouted threatening him and people he knew specially Mo and Meggie by saying he will kill them all. He found Gwin and went to search Meggie because she could re-unite him with his master, Dustfinger.

Dustfinger was home he couldn’t believe it. He touched every flower and remembered every creature

he had once known. He was so happy to be back home but once in a while, Dustfinger missed Farid and his company. He crossed the “Wayless Wood” into a cottage where he re-united with his friend Cloud-Dancer where he was updated with the news that had happened 10 years ago. Cloud-Dancer invited Dustfinger to perform his art for the Laughing prince grandson. Dustfinger agreed because it was near his wife’s farm. When he finally saw Roxana, his wife, Dustfinger couldn’t believe it because it has been 10 years since the last time he saw her.

Mo, Resa, Meggie, Darus and Elinor were living together at Elinor’s, they were all happy together. Mo had now its own workshop, Resa has found a way to communicate with her hands, Darus helped Elinor classify her books, and Meggie loved listening to stories based on her mother experience on Inkworld, even though this could cause a quarrel between them because Meggie wrote the stories down on a notebook. Farid had arrived at Elinors telling everyone what happened with Dustfinger. Elinor cured his feet which were full of scratches because he ran on the forest. Meggie couldn’t sleep

because she was afraid of Basta coming for his revenge. That night, Meggie heard a knock on her door; it was Farid begging her to read him in the book with the paper that had taken Dustfinger to his world; Meggie agreed but only if she will go too. Meggie was very cuious to know the other world, so she passed the messy hand-writing to her letter and soon read it out loud. But before she left a letter for her parents so that they could know where she was heading. Meggie read Orpheus letters with a simple modification, only adding 3 letters “the little girl” and soon they were on a forest were the trees grew straight up, fairies flying around; they had made it to the Inkworld.

 Mo read the letter Maggie had left them, he was very sad about it, Resa was also depressed and everyone else in the house. The doorbell rang, Elinor answered because Mo and Teresa were at the workshop and Darius was upstairs. She opened the door and what a surprise she had found! It was Orpheus, Basta, and Mortola. One by one, the three of them captured all in the house, then they searched for Meggie with no result, still, Mortola didn’t believe them what had happened to Meggie so she locked up Elinor, Darius, Mo, and Resa searching for the girl.

There was a quote on the book that took my attention, it was when Dustfinger was going to be read on the book and Farid asked if he was going to take Gwin:

“Gwin stays here, ´ he said. If he had announced that he was planning to leave his right arm behind, Farid couldn’t have looked at him more incredulously. ´Why are you staring to me like that? Well catch ourselves another marten once we´re there, one that’s not so ready to bite.” (Funke, 8)

I can analyze form this quote many things about Dustfinger’s behavior towards leaving Gwin on the world. You should never leave your right hand arm behind because they have giving you the support in tough times, even if it is an animal or a person, you can’t replace them. In the parts that says “.. Well catch ourselves another marten…” reflects that Dustfinger doesn’t care about leaving someone behind and replacing. When you have a companion that in Dustfinger case has helped him on his journey, you need to accept him with or without defects and learn to live with them because a true friend doesn’t leaves no one behind.

Another quote that took my attention because it made me remember when I was little, is when a child asks Fengolio to tell a story for them:

       “´Will you tell us another story about him today? Please! ´ ´Maybe! I just admit…´”     (Funke, 132)

 This quote made me connect when I was little and I stayed at my grandpas house were they used to tell us stories. Some of the stories they told my sister and I were about horses and other about some elephants. We used to get in our pajamas and get ready to bed so that my grandpa could read us a story; when it was early; he used to tell us two. But we always ask him to tell us more stories. My favorite was about a woman who saved his love by scaring the horse away from the bad guys. I used to bother my grandpa every night so that he read me that story.

I predict that in the next chapters, there will be an unexpected change of events in the story. I think that Meggie and Farid will find Dustfinger but after meeting with Firefox the new leader after Capricon and scape from him by lies, so now they were the most wanted of him since they stole a precious object. Dustfinger took them with Fengolio and together thought in a solution to distract Firefox. They threw a spell on them, giving enough time to think of a solution to take Meggie out of the book. On the other hand, Mo was trying to get in the story by writing on the lock room they were placed on. Mo did it appearing near Dustfinger’s wife. She helped him search for Meggie and finally was re-united and went back to the real world.