Famous Remediation



The Expulsion From Paradise is a painting created by Charles Joseph Natoire. It portrays God coming down from Heaven to scold and banish Eve and Adam from the Garden of Eden because they ate the fruit of the Knowledge Tree.  This painting is a remediation from text in the book of Genesis.  The painting hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/masterscans/natoire-the-expulsion-from-paradise.html

Iron King by Julie Kagawa

The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

            Meghan Chase was a swamp girl.  Not literally, of course, but that’s how most of her classmates viewed her.  The only excepting person was her best friend, Robbie Goodfell.  However, Meghan did not seem to know Robbie as well as she should have for as much time as they spent together.  Robbie lived only a few miles from Meghan but she had never been to his house.  Nor had she met his parents.  Plus, wherever Robbie went, mischief seemed to follow, yet he was never blamed.

            On her 16^th birthday, Meghan returns home from school to discover that her dog, Beau, attacked her little brother, Ethan, and her parents have banished the dog to the pound.

            However, Ethan tells a different story.  He says that Beau was trying to save him from the man in his closet.

            When Ethan starts acting really strange, like, biting-Meghan’s-leg strange, Robbie comes over, scaring Ethan dramatically.  And Robbie tells Meghan something unbelievable.  Ethan has been kidnapped and the thing that bit Meghan is a Changeling.

            Robbie brings Meghan into the world of Faery, where all fairytales seem to come to life, and he reveals that he is not who he seems.

            Throughout the story, Meghan, narrating in first person, searches for her brother with the help of her friend Robbie, a mysterious cat, and a surprising member to the group.

            I just found the Iron Fey series while looking for something new to read.  It is a really good series and I’m glad I decided to read it.  I recommend it to everybody.  It has plenty of action for boys to read and plenty of romance to please the girls.  I give The Iron King by Julie Kagawa four and a half out of five stars. 

            On a side note, I’m currently reading the rest of the series; I just finished the second book.  If you want to read little sub-stories, however, you can only get them on ereaders, which are a good investment, anyway.  Christmas is coming, put an Amazon Kindle on your list!!!!

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

            Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

            What happens when the law states that a family may only have two children?  You hide the third child, of course.  Luke Garner is an illegal third child.  He grew up on his family farm with his two older brothers, Matthew and Mark.  They would play outside all day, as nobody was around to see Luke.  That is, until the bulldozers came.

            The government decided that the Barons, the richest of the rich, needed new homes.  People came with equipment to knock down Luke’s beloved woods.  Due to this, Luke was forced to hide out in his own house, buried away in the attic as his father grew more and more paranoid about the government finding Luke.

            Luke reluctantly complied with his family’s wishes.  He sat up in the attic all day by himself, his brothers at school and his parents at work.  He would sit and play solo card games while he awaited his family to return home.  Then the day came when he saw a face in his new neighbors’ window.

            Luke had been observing his new Baron neighbors and noticed that one particular house, the one directly behind his, contained a family of four: the parents and two teenage boys.  While observing the house one day, he noticed a girls face in a window.

            Luke had a new mission in life: to go and see the girl, meet her and discover if there are other children like him.

            When I was young, my library teacher had started reading this book to us.  We never got all the way through it, as the year had come to an end.  Recently, I had decided to pick the book up for myself and read it.  Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix became one of my favorites.  I suggest you read it and its sequels.  I gave this book four out of five stars.