Reading Log 6!

Title: Dungeon Defense.

Text: Light Novel.

Date finished: Mon, 25th of September.

Dungeon Defense is a light novel about a young man that gets his entire world changed when he suddenly wakes up in a new world filled with demons and magic! 

In dungeon defense our protagonist is a very cunning and sharp individual, he uses everything in his power in order too win each battle he's tasked with. What I love about this character is just his out look on life, and his viewpoints on Everything happening around him. He's completely what you would deem a evil and manipulative character, that being one of his strongest points! I loved reading this mostly because of the protagonist, he can seem completely useless at times, however, he always has a plan in order to save himself. It's great. I recon that this book relates to our society based purley in the fact that if you want to be considered a decent human being, don't act like he does. A prime example of his evil nature in my own opinion is when he says and I quote. "Friendship is only a term used for someone who hasn't stanbed you in the back." I mean come on! He's so evil, he doesn't even need friends. 

Another interesting point that I loved about this book is how it involved politics and merchants. This light novel fully explained in depth a lot of things in involving this. They writer did such an excellent job that even I could understand most things happening throughout the entire light novel. Now, how I relate this to our current society? Easy, the novel gave me a much deeper understanding of trading. Although this was a fantasy novel, I still personally think that the things I learnt in this novel based on Trading and all that could be used in a real life situation. An example without spoiling to much on how the novels trading and all that works would definitely be when the protagonist used everything in his power in order to completely destroy the entire economy.

Reading Log 5!

Title: Young Samurai: The way of the warrior.

Time finished:  Mon, 25th of September.

Text type: Novel.

Young Samurai: The way of the warrior is a novel written by Chris Bradford. Through out this book we follow a young boy named Jack Fletcher on his journey to a new land!

In this book something I personally found amusing was how the protagonist had to learn a whole new language. Now, this certainly wouldn't seem amusing to anyone who hasn't read the book, but, to me it was. The writer did an excellent job with properly portraying the character and their reactions to certain things. Like for instance, Jack Fletchers language teacher. His language teacher was of Spanish decent and he was a soldier, that somehow ended up becoming really close to lord of the place he was staying at. This place being somewhere in Japan -Japan being the setting of this here book. Back to the main point! Jack Fletcher was of British decent. This story was set back in a time where war was everywhere! And who do you think happened to be at war at that time? None other than the Spanish with the British. Now, I found this all amusing because of the relationship between these two. The Spanish man's distain towards the English boy was truly great, and like I mentioned earlier, it was portrayed great as well. A quote I think describes this perfectly is when the Spanish man tells Jack too... "Now shut up English boy and let us get on with the lesson!" I feel like this perfectly relates to our current society, I mean. There's always going to be someone you hate, but! You just sadly have to get along with them. Another slightly interesting thing about this is just, I wonder how hard it must've been for two different races to communicate right when they first made contact with eachother? Back when they had no knowledge of eachothers different languages at all.

Much like the previous point I made, there's something else that also involved language/race that caught my attention. That of course being the obsurd amount Japanese people hating on the protagonist. Now, I know this was accurate to the time, and that back then Japanese men and woman would have despised foreigners, however! I feel like some of the distain towards the character wasn't needed, like him constantly getting bullied by other members of the school he eventually ended up going to. I genuinely think that this point relates perfectly to our current society in a good way. Kind off. I'd like to think that the last couple of generations have been the least racist as of yet, and generally speaking, everyone accepts everyone. Now, don't get me wrong, though. Racism still happens, and it happens a lot. It's just I feel Ike the things happening in Novels and stuff from the past have greatly been fixed in recent years. I personally love the fact that this has happened! Unifying every race and slowly getting to that stage of equality is awesome. So this point relates to our current society, but in a different form than usually.