A Book Review on Northern Lights

A Book Review on Northern Lights

Northern Lights is an adventure and a fantasy story written by Phillip

Pullman in the third person. The story takes place in Jordan College,

which is in Oxford. The Master rules Jordan College and the other

place is in the North. In the North, armoured bears rule the ice and

witches fly in the skies. These places are in another world than that

we live in. In this world, people have daemons, a sort of pet, which

is attached to them by an invisible force. Daemons can also change

into different animals.

Lyra is a young girl who goes on an adventure with some gypsies, to

try and stop some people called Gobblers from kidnapping children to

see what happens to the child if their daemons are cut away. The

Gobbler who started this criminal action was Mrs Coulter, whose daemon

is a golden monkey.

First of all, Lyra was going to go to the North with her Uncle, Sir

Asriel, when she just saves him from poison. When they are debating

about it, one of the people there is Mrs Coulter who asks for the

child and is given her. Just before Lyra leaves, she is given an

alethiometer, which is like a compass, but you can ask it questions by

matching up symbols and then the needle swings round and points to a

symbol as a reply.

When Lyra finds out who she is at a party, she runs away to find some

gypsies who agree to take her with them to the North. The leader is

called John Faa.

Unfortunately, Lyra is kidnapped by the workers of Mrs Coulter and is

taken to their hospital where they perform the slicing, but Lyra finds

a plan to escape from there, just before it is too late. Before she

rescues the other children and escapes, she sets all the daemons free

from their glass jars.

The gypsies send the children home and Lyra walks off into the sunset

as the book ends.

The three main characters featured in Northern Lights are Lyra, her

daemon Pantalaimon, and Mrs Coulter.

Lyra was brought up in Oxford at Jordan University, where she spent

most of her time causing mischief with a boy called Roger. She is a

very determined girl who is prepared to risk her life for what she

thinks is right. She never gives up, always ready to go. Lyra never

complains about anything, she just goes along with everyone else. She

is also very caring and secretive. She is a tomboy, who does not mind

getting dirty. She is also very nosy and inquisitive, because she goes