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Eddy Wang - Block 4 **Artemis Fowl- Assignment Two: Plot **

Artemis Fowl is about a child prodigy named, you guessed it, Artemis Fowl, who wants to take fairy gold from fairies (who are not as friendly as you think). The story is basically about him attempting (spoiler alert: and succeeding) to do so. The title of the book does not have any thematic importance; it relates to the book very clearly, for the title of the book is the name of the protagonist. There is nothing wrong with a simple title, several of the best books of all time had very basic titles.

Most of the story takes place in Artemis Fowl’s manor and Haven City, during an 8 hour time period. The narrator of the story is an unknown fairy reviewing Fowl’s case file. Interestingly enough, one does not find this out until the end of the book, most would assume that the story is narrated by the author because of how neutral the narrator is.

The central conflict of the novel is Man vs Man, Artemis vs Commander Root. Commander Root is fighting Artemis to get Captain Holly back and Artemis is demanding money from the fairies (he’s bargaining with Commander Root). The climax of the book is when Artemis and his crew are about to escape the bio-bomb. This wouldn’t be the climax if it was mentioned two of three times, but because of the sheer amount of times the bio-bomb plot-device has been mentioned, it is clearly the climax. It is resolved when Artemis and his crew successfully escape the bio-bomb. Since they survived the bio-bomb, Artemis and friends can keep the money they’ve gotten and everything is coming out mill-house(until the next 9 books).

I enjoyed the plot; Artemis is such a solid, clever and brilliant character and he offers a lot of interesting plot-twist and plot-devices which made the novel a lot more enjoyable. The plot moved at a good pace, nothing seemed rushed and very few scenes were dragged on. As well, I can clearly see that Eoin Colfer put a lot of effort in making the plot interesting as well as clever.