Kiana Dehmand

9th Honors Lit

Jamison
11/15/15

The Night Circus Part I Question 4 Literary Analysis Reflection

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern is automatically the most hooking, fascinating,
and magic filled book I have ever read and I know this for sure from reading as early as the
ending of part I which was from page 1 to 116. The story is about an extraordinary circus and
although there are many characters and multiple events happening all at once, the storys main
focus is about an illusionist named Celia Bowen and her opponent in a life changing challenge
that involves the circus, Marco Alisdair. Although this game was specifically planned to have one
winner and one unfortunate loser, the two fall in love and this starts a whole new burst of
conflicts added on to ones that already have begun in the storys complex parallel plots. For the
part I analysis, we were given the directions to pick two questions and write a minimum of a
page answering the question using textual evidence from the book and indirect evidence, while
marking what page(s) we found them in. One of the questions I have chosen asks to compare and
contrast the different things that Marco and Celia had to go through for the training part of the
game. While Celia goes through more of a physical pain training system that her father puts her
in, Marcos trainer teaches him using isolation from the world and other people and a dark room
full of books and is impossible to escape from it into the outside. I used multiple quotes and
evidence explaining my different claims of how their training is the same and how it differs. For

example I used the evidence from the book talking about how Celias father purposely brought
down a heavy paperweight on her wrist, hard enough to break her bones so she can heal them
and when she started crying a little, her father said in a harsh, annoyed tone, And for Christs
sake stop crying (In page 50). And for Marco, I listed the number of strict rules that Mr. A. H.
(His trainer) put him through so he can spend his time with his books, learning. As for how my
paper reflects on the standards, it meets with the reading literary standard, ELAGSE9-10RL1
which was to cite where I got my evidence to make my claim from. I liked writing this analysis
because of how it meets with this standard, so I can practice the ability to clearly state textual
evidence and where I got it from, helping me with my future in Language Arts classes.