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The Thief Lord By Cornelia Funke   //"The Thief Lord has begun to plot how to break into this house, when the detective, by a stroke of great fortune, finds out where Prosper and Bo are hiding. He will also find out the Thief Lord's true identity." //  //"A detective, hired by the brothers' aunt, discovers the location of the theatre and the brothers and, by chance, he discovers the real identity of the Thief Lord. When the orphans learn of this identity, their relationship with the Thief Lord changes. As the detective gets to know the orphans his role also changes, from their potential enemy to their friend, protector and benefactor."

"The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke has been favorably compared to Harry Potter. It is the delightful tale of two orphan boys who runaway from their aunt to live in the magical world of Venice."//



The movie theater is very important to this story because it is where the kids lived because they were orphans. The movie theater was an abandoned one and it served as a shelter and made them feel safe in the city of Venice, Italy. The children's favorite part of the theater was the curtain. The curtain where the movie screen once was, is a red curtain covered with stars. The stars made the kids dream of the life they could have and they liked that the best. In the theater each child had a bed and some of their things. Bo and Prosper had to share a bed in the theater and Mosca had his fishing gear. Hornet had her large collection of books. They also used the abandoned ice cream machine as a sort of cooler to keep their food and things cool so it would not spoil. It probably wasn't a very good area for kids to live but they all loved the movie theater.

 

The Merry-Go-Round of the Merciful Sisters was a very important part of the story because it represented the childhood of many characters in the story. What the merry-go-round did was spun and depending on which direction it spun would either age you or make you younger. But, it wouldnt work without the missing wing that Renzo was after. Renzo and Morosina were servants their entire childhood and by the time they were adults they were searching for the missing wing to the merry-go-round so they could be turned back to children. They were finally made back to children and they were finally happy again. As for Scipio, he was tired of being treated as if he was a nuisance and he wanted to be an adult so it changed him to an adult and he was finally living his dream. The merry-go-round was basically what the entire story was about.

media type="youtube" key="OVc4teJr5J4" height="344" width="425" This video relates to my book because it is based off of The Thief Lord. The message of this fantastic Youtube video is to have you look on the bright side of things. This is what Prosper and Bo did when their aunt was after them. They always looked on the bright side, even when they were living in an abandoned movie theater. The video also shows some of the other important characters from the movie. This is good because it gives a mental picture of what they look like. 

//"It was autumn in Venice when Victor first heard of Prosper and Bo. The canals, gleaming in the sun, dappled the ancient brickwork with gold. But the wind was blowing ice-cold air from the sea, reminding the Venetians that winter was approaching."// I chose this quote because it almost describes the plot of the story. It explains how the story starts out with Prosper and Bo running away from their Aunt Esther's. It describes the city of Venice, which is where they ran off to so they wouldn't have to be separated. This is because Esther was going to put Prosper into a boarding school and keep Bo as her adopted son. The reason they ran to Venice was because their mom told them many stories of the "magical" city when they were younger. When they got there, they soon found out it wasn't as much of a fairy-tale world as she described.

//"The Thief Lord was a little rich boy's game. And we were your fools."// This quote describes the part when the group of children find out their thief lord, Scipio, really doesn't live alone on the street. They all venture to his house to find him living in one of the largest and nicest houses in Venice. He is a rich child, who is schooled and has servants. He had been lying to them the whole time and would steal things from his house to give to them. They were very disappointed and it was a major turning point in the story. 

//"People said that a few turns on the merry-go-round of the Merciful Sisters made adults out of children and children out of adults."// This quote is important because the merry-go-round of the Merciful Sisters was a very important symbol in the story. It represented the major difference of adulthood and childhood. Ida Spavento told the children this after they broke into her house to steal the lion's wing. They wanted to steal the lion's wing for the merry-go-round so that it would work so the Conte could become a child again and so Scipio could become an adult.