Archetypes

The archetypal action or event that best fit The Mediator: Shadowland is a journey. Since Susie embarks on a journey to perform a exorcism on Heather so that she wouldn't be able to kill Susie, Bryce, or Susie's step-brother. The arcetypal setting would probably have to the sea since so many unusal things are happening. Susie is an inocent embarking on a journey to get rid of Heather so she will not hurt anybody else. The author of the book did use archetypes when she wrote this book.

Second Link

http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/
I chose this link because has different stories of people are ghost hunters and how they take care of the spirits.

First Link

http://www.megcabot.com/

I chose this link because it is the official site of the author named Meg Cabot who wrote The Mediator: Shadowland the book that I read. Plus, it has a lot of different information on herself and the different books that she wrote.

Recommendation

I actually don't really like to read but I actually did enjoy this book because it wasn't boring. Since you had no idea what would happen next. I would recommend this book to people that are into ghosts and like a little bit of excitement. It would be more for teenagers than adults since has to do with high school drama and all teenagers know how high school drama goes.

Character Development

At the beginning of my book it started off having this girl named Susie is a teenager living with her grandma in New York because her mother got married and moved to California. Susie then decided to move to California to live with her mother where she would live her step-father Andy and her three step-brothers Doc, Dopey, and Sleepy. When she started at her new she meet Father Dominic and Bryce Martinson. Few days later she found out that Bryce's ex-girlfriend Heather had committed suicide since he broke up with her over the break. Heather happened to be a ghost in the school who was trying to get revenge on Bryce for breaking up with her and making her kill herself.

Heather then learned by the end of the book that she was not meant to be around any more causing harm to everyone in the school. So, Susie decided to make exorcism take place so Heather would go back to where she belonged so everyone else can get on with their lives.

Conflict and Resolution

The conflict in my book was when Susie found out that Heather Bryce Martinson's ex girlfriend was wanting to him, herself, and her step-brother Doc because she was mad at Susie because she just came into the school and took her spot.

The resolution of the story was that Susie was finally able to perform an exorcism on Heather meaning she could finally get rid of her so she wouldn't be in the school anymore and won't be able to attempt to kill Bryce and everyone else wanted to kill.

Best and Worst Parts

The worst part of the book had to be at the beginning when they were telling me about her mother getting married and how is going to move to California. The reason I didn't like that part was because it was boring and not very interesting to me.

The best part of the book had to the middle and end. I thought this part was interesting because that's when the ghost started coming into the book and started to get feeling why Susie wanted to get rid of Heather.

Page 214 - END Update

Father Dominic was not happy with Susie's idea on doing a exorcism on Heather. He felt that she deserved a Catholic exorcism and not some Brazilian or Pygmy one since she couldn't get a real Roman Catholic burial. He made her promise him she would not perform a exorcism without him but of course had her fingers crossed the whole so that means she could still do it because she actually promise him. After they left the hospital Adam wanted to take Susie to watch the sun set on the beach. She thought that was pretty cool because back in New York all they did was sit in the park and watch undercover cops arrest drug dealers. Then on the way home she had Adam stop at the grocery store so she could pick up the supplies she needed to complete the exorcism on Heather.

That night Susie's alarm clock went off at midnight so she could get down to the school and do the exorcism on Heather. When she got to the school there was a police car sitting out the parking lot now because of all the damage that was done the night or two before. But, it wasn't hard for Susie to find a way into the school. Once she got into the school she set up all of her supplies needed to preform the exorcism on Heather. She had to first place the candles in a circle then make some shape out chicken blood but she couldn't tell us what it was. Then Heather came along wondering what she was doing but Susie wouldn't to her in English. She would only speak to her in Portuguese. Then she asked Heather to stand between the candles and by her picture, then Susie started to say all the things she was suppose to say and the roof off the school opened up with red gases coming out of it. That meant that the exorcism was beginning to work until Heather figured out what Susie was trying to do and she ended up stepping out of the circle. So, Susie then had to push her back in and pretty held her there until she finally got caught up in all the fog and it took her away. Then the roof collapsed on top of her and she was stuck there until somebody came to her rescue.

The next thing Susie saw was her step-brothers Jake (Sleepy) and David (Doc). They both worked together to rescue Susie from the fallen timber. All of them then made their way back to their house and Susie didn't have the motivation to talk to David at that time but she knew that he knows about all the ghost. When David got back from school that day she finally talked to him about the ghosts. She found out that he has been doing a lot of research about the ghosts that could be in the house. So, finally Susie asked him to look up something about Jesse the ghost that lives in her room. They did end finding out how he died and why he was in the house in the first place. By the end of the book she finally figures out that her life in California is all right after all.

Page 150 to 213 Update

Susie and Jesse are making there way back to Mr. Walden's room the way Susie broke into the school in the first place. The statue's head was falling them the whole way once they got through the door they stood there for awhile hold it shut so the head would not kill them. When they get through the window Jesse ends up noticing that Susie is bleed pretty badly so he gives her his bandanna to wrap around the cut to try to stop the bleeding. Then they make their way back to Susie's house.

The next morning Susie wakes up late and ends up being late for her morning assembly at her school. She was wishing she would get there soon enough to catch Bryce Martinson before went into to school but that wasn't the case that morning. When she got there, there were already police there and caution tape all over the school were Heather destroyed things. Sister Ernestine caught Susie as she was trying to ditch homeroom and go talk to Father Dominic. By the time she got to Father Dominic's office they were loading him and Bryce onto stretches to take them to the hospital. She knew that was going to happen if she didn't get to school soon enough to stop Bryce from coming to school because she knew Heather would have another out break and start freaking out. Then David which is Susie's step-brother came to talk to her try to figure out what was going on but Susie could not tell him anything cause she doesn't want him to know about her. Then Heather shows up and says she is going to go after Susie and David since she thinks that she killed Bryce.

When lunch came around she asked Adam a boy that Susie hangs out with at school if he could give her a ride down to the hospital where Father Dominic and Bryce are at. He of course said yes because he just got his license and thinks he is very cool now that he has it and likes to drive all over the place. When school got out Susie met Adam at his car along with Cee Cee a friend from school who happens to be the editor of their school newspaper and thinks this would be a great story for the newspaper so she came along with them to the hospital. When Susie got the to Bryce's room there were a lot of people in there and she knew she wouldn't be able to talk to Bryce about the situation unless all the people left. So, Bryce asked everyone to leave so he could talk to Susie in private. Susie then asked Bryce if he had anything special that Heather gave him or a picture that she could barrow it for her plan to get rid of Heather. Bryce ended up giving her a school picture that he had in his wallet. Then Susie went across the hall to Father Dominic's room to tell him her plan on how she was going to get rid of Heather. Her plan was to set up a exorcism. Father Dominic was not happen with that decision and said that she had better wait until he got back to school so he could help her.

150 Page Update

Susie has just gotten a call from her principal Father Dominic still trying figure out how they are going to get rid of Heather the girl that committed suicide just because her boyfriend broke up with her. She told Father Dominic not to worry about it because she thinks she has it under control. Then while she was on the phone with Father Dominic she was on hold with Bryce Martinson because he was calling her to ask her out on a dating since she saved his life today at school. She was just getting calls from everybody. Kelly Prescott called Susie to invite to a pool she was having but Susie turned the invitation down since was known to be antisocial.

That night Susie snuck out of the house to go down to the school to try to talk to Heather the ghost who is trying to kill Bryce Martinson. Heather is very angry because Bryce broke up with her over the break and she took her own life right in Bryce's mother. Now she trying to get revenge on Bryce by bringing him down with her. So Susie is trying to talk to Heather so that she can figure out why she is wanting to kill him and help get over it and get on with her life as a dead person.

Except Heather had a break down and started to go crazy. She was freaking out on Susie for taking her locker, best friend Kelly Prescott, and her boyfriend Bryce Martinson. Then she broke the head of the statue of Junipero Serra and hit Susie right in the stomach and sent her flying. After Susie was lying there for a while she heard man's voice telling her that he thought she was supposed to be good at handling ghost. The man turned out to be Jesse the ghost that is actually living in her bed room.

100 Pages

The next 50 pages in my book have been pretty interesting. The main character Susie has just started going to school at the Junipero Serra Catholic Academy where her step-brothers also go. This school is a really old school which means there are probably going to be lots of ghosts in it. During this time she finds out the her principal is also a mediator. This was the first time that Susie has ever met someone like herself. Her first day of school was interesting she found out that a boy named Bryce Martinson one of the "hottest" guys in school, girlfriend just killed herself because he broke up her. Susie then realized that was why they had an opening the school. A little while later she saw the girlfriend as a ghost trying to take revenge on Bryce and kill him by dropping a beam on top of him but luckily Susie could see what she doing and jumped on top of Bryce along with pushing him out of the way and saving his life. Then the principal came along and realized what had happened and took Susie back to his office to decide on how they where going to get rid of Heather the ghost who is trying to kill Bryce.

Reading History

Reading for me is not very enjoyable unless the book is really interesting. The reason for this is because I'm like the slowest reader in the world and i don't have the attention span to read a whole book most of the time. If I read, I usually read while I'm sitting on the couch in the quiet or while I'm listening to the TV.

I usually read books about sports, reality, and life stories. My favorite book probably would have to be The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. I think that is a the only series i have read all the way through. When I was younger i used to enjoy the Magic Tree House books and Junie B. Jones books. The worst book i have ever read was All Quiet on the Western Front.

First Post

In our Honors English class we are supposed to read a book and then blog about it. I am reading a book called The Mediator 1: Shadowland written by Meg Cabot. The original publication year of my book is 2000. The book is about a girl named Susannah Simon who can see ghosts. She just moved to California from New York to live with mother and step-father. She was very nervous to move there because they live in a old house and that would mean there is a better chance that she will see a lot of ghosts. She did end up having a ghost in her room at the new house. The ghost's name is Jesse and Susannah thinks that he actually is a pretty good looking ghost. She has never felt that felling before with any other ghost. But, she knew she couldn't let him stay there so she had to tell get out and not come back.