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The Last Apprentice: Rise Of The Huntress

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Jaden O’Dell
6th Hour, Andersen

Choices:
Thematic Essay about The Last Apprentice, Rise of the Huntress

Choices affect your life, but whether they affect you in a good or bad way is up you. Through out my book, The Last Apprentice: Rise of the Huntress (and the entire series, really), by Joseph Delaney, choices has been the one underlying theme. Tom, full name Thomas J. Ward, is the main character, and an apprentice Spook. Spooks fight the dark, which are things like witches, ghosts, ghasts, bogarts, trolls, and all other mythical baddies. The series is their adventures in a country called “The County” somewhere in Europe, near Ireland.
While it is complicated to see, and the books use metaphors about good and bad choices through words such …show more content…

He knew it was a bad choice, that always ends in trouble, but he chose to make that choice anyways, leading to the Fiend (AKA: Devil, Dark Made Flesh, Demon God, take your pick.) was able to find them because of Alice’s spell (The Fiend was looking for the because Tom sold his soul in order to save the Spook and Alice), showing that they should have never used magic, or make a bad choice that they knew was bad, in the first place. In the middle of the book, The Buggane, a type of demon that steals it’s victim's life force (their Animus) and then slowly drains their blood, has cornered Tom and Alice. Right as they are about to die, all their life about to be sucked from their very soul, Alice mutters a spell. They both pass out, but when they wake up the escape the Bugganes lair. When Tom asked her what happened, she said,

“I just used a spell called avaunt. It’s an old word for ‘be gone’. It saved us all it …show more content…

When Tom asks Alice what could be done, she replies,

“Tom, I don’t want anything to happen, so we got to deal with the Fiend, and without using the dark, it’ll just attract him towards us.”

Tom finally persuades Alice as things get colder and colder (a sign that denizens of the dark are encroaching) to cast a spell. She casts a simple one to hide their location, and things go wrong. The Fiends voice enters their heads saying “I found you... “ and then nothing more from the Fiend for the rest of the book, but Tom later finds out a Celtic Witch has located them as Tom captured and killed her twin sister. Now to very powerful beings are after them, and they have nothing they can do, showing once again, when you know a certain choice can be a wrong choice, never chose it. Through these instances we can see that when you make choices, they will affect your life. Like I said earlier though, it’s up to you whether its in a good or bad way. If you think about it, though, it’s through the bad decisions that you learn to make good ones. Wouldn’t it be so good to always stay on the safe side? Now why would you ever do that when being in danger can be so fun? Or am I wrong? Or am I

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