Cirque du freak door Darren Shan

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Boek
Vertaald als
De grote freakshow
Auteur
Darren Shan
Genre
Jeugdboek
Taal
Engels
Vak
Eerste uitgave
2000
Pagina's
192
Oorspronkelijke taal
Engels

Boekcover Cirque du freak
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Cirque du freak door Darren Shan
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The title of the book you have read is: Cirque du Freak
The book was written by: Darren Shan

Explain how you chose this particular book
: other: my self
Explain why you chose this book: I have read a book of Darren before and I really liked it so I liked to read the first book of hem and then maybe the rest.

Which of the information on the author that you have found is relevant to this story: He all makes up his stories from his nightmares.

Tell the story in your own words:

Darren Shan is just a regular schoolboy. When he was a little boy, he has loved spiders, especially big ones. Everywhere in his room you could find spiders. Until he put a tarantula, he got it for his birthday, in a vacuum cleaner and ripped into pieces. From then his parents didn’t accept spiders in house anymore.

One of his best friends, Alan, found a flyer in his brother’s pocket and brought it to school. It was a flyer of a Freak Show which is forbidden. The four friends would like to go there until Mr. Dalton, a teacher, found out and tore the address off. But Steve remembered. The next day they all bring money so Steve can buy four tickets. When Steve is at the place, he also sees Mr. Dalton with the police, they were trying to catch the Freaks, without any success. When they were gone, he bought the tickets , not four but two, because de Freak doesn’t want to.
After an argue they decide that Steve and Darren must go.
Darren and Steve don’t tell their parents that they go. Darren is sleeping with Steve that night. Because his mom was out that night and he doesn’t have a dad. So they can sneak out and go to the Freak Show.

They are attracted by the same show. The show from Mr. Crepsley and Madam Octa (tarantula).
Steve, because he knows that Mr. Crepsley isn’t just a man, but a Vampire.
Darren, because he has loved spiders since he was a little boy and Madam Octa is the biggest spider he has ever seen.
Steve says to Darren that he better could go home and that he will come later. But Darren sneaky follows Steve and that Steve also wants to be a Vampire. So Mr. Crepsley tastes the blood of Steve and says that it is evil blood. Steve replied that he would be the best Vampire hunter when he grows up. After this, Steve goes home but Darren doesn’t follow, he goes to his own house.

Darren likes Madam Octa very much. So much that he goes back to the theatre and steal Madam Octa.
He teaches her much, like Mr. Crepsley but when Steve comes by and finds out she bites him. He’s almost dead, the doctors try all the medicines they have but none work. If he won’t get a medicine, he will die.
So Darren goes back to the theatre and talks to Mr. Crepsley, he will only give him the medicine if Darren will be his Vampire assistant. Darren has to.
Steve will be back, but he doesn’t know that Darren is a Half-Vampire now and he is not a Vampire. When he find out he try to kill him but he is a little scared and he will kill him later when he is the best Vampire hunter of the world.

Write your Reading Autobiography, i.e. write about what books / genre of books you have read so far, and discuss some differences between the books/ the genres of books you have read:

Until now I have read: roman, history, action, fantasy
The differences are: Roman: Could have happened, is mostly right but the small things like love are made up to make the story beautiful so everyone reads it.
History: These are my favourite, I really like history because I’m very interested in it and I have read many books of it.
Action: I prefer this genre on TV but also in books I like it.
Fantasy: I don’t like this one that much because it’s for almost 100% made up.

Invent one new character for you book, and explain how the introduction of this character might change the story and even the ending of the story:

A black cat: The cat eats Madam Octa before it bites Steve, so Steve won’t be ill.
The cat will get the poison of the tarantula in its blood. Because of this poison, the black cat will be stronger and much more aggressive so he will bite people without knowing.
The doctors in the hospitals won’t know what to do.
After a while the black cat will also bite Darren and Steve will go to Mr. Crepsley.
So Steve will be his Vampire assistant.

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