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After learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is turned into a witch by evil spirits and she fights their power until her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years later.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The story of the sorceress who is forced out of her healing capacity and into one far more sinister is the classic journey of the soul theme. Napoli skillfully weaves fantasy and human emotion and her descriptions - especially of the inner turmoil suffered by this anti-hero, "the Ugly Sorceress", are compelling. However, I would like to add a cautionary note - especially to educators - that I do not necessarily feel that this book is appropriate for 11 years and up. I would put it more at 13 or 14 and up. The level of sophistication of the plot and language is perhaps a bit overwhelming for an 11 year-old to handle. In the multicultural world we live in, there are also a number of references which I think might cause philosophical differences with parents as well!
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Although I enjoyed reading this book for its twist on the folktale of "Hansel and Gretel" I couldn't quite stomach Ms. Napoli's misuse of vocabulary. In this book the Ugly One begins as a midwife and then becomes a healer of all types of sickness&pain. Napoli uses the term "sorceress" to define the character at this point in the story, yet later when "Ugly One" is tricked by demons into being in their power she is called a "witch." In the ancient times, as well as currently, a Witch was a healer- not a demonic figure. The term "sorceress" was used for those who delved in the black arts and summoned demons (or were summoned by them as in Napoli's book). I enjoyed the dark imagery that Donna Jo Napoli used to evoke her scenes and the attention she paid to details. I think it is her attention to detail in all other aspects of this book which make her misusage of terminology so disturbing to me.
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The Magic Circle, written by Donna Jo Napoli is a book filled with beauty and terror, and a sense of compassion. This is a story of a poor midwife in a midevil times, how is convinced by her neighbor, bala, to become a healer. It is a sort of twist off of the folktale "Hansel and Gretel ". Just like many other of the finest horror novels, this chilling tales looks at another side of the well-known story of two children and a candy house. Although I liked her great attention to detail and discription describing the physical features of the characters in the book. In the story a good healer is turned bad, because of greed and trickery by the devils. She then runs off to a fairytail forest where she lives alone as a witch. After 9 years suddenly two children show up unexpectedly. Despite all of her efforts the devils still seem to find out they are living with her. All in all i think this book was good and worth reading.
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