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You know what? The pronunciation of my name is jew - lee. And these are one of the things my friends hate; jews. Yet I am jew - lee. I always thought that I never had a middle name yet I have the same middle name as my sister in jew - lee. Is it not weird? (haha) I guess the pronounciation speaks for itself. I finnaly spelt the word right. (hehe)

sotanaht
eiluj
Vohk
trebor
tieuo
America
acirema
Tieo
Sonata
acquire
Lotus
Sutol
Sever
Reves
Kcatta
euqinchet
Reverse Attack Technique
Reservoire

Ayazi

Remy

Small doll like mechanical girl who plots against Airashii during her first months at KKIA.
Koikie
Principal and leader of the school KKIA (Koikie Killing Instinct Academy or THANATOS).
Silence
Ace
Alaster
GrandFather
Mother
Father

Well... I've continued to write this story over and over again until my hands bled. (well not literally, but still..) This story will probably never end. By the time I am ever finished writing anything; sometimes I don't feel satisfied nonetheless.

ob·so·lete (äb′sə lēt′, äb′sə lēt′)

adjective

1. no longer in use or practice; discarded
2. no longer in fashion; out-of-date; passé
3. Biol. rudimentary or poorly developed as compared with its counterpart in other individuals of a related species, the opposite sex, etc.; vestigial: said of an organ, etc.

Is it not uncivilized or unorthodox to "cuss" or say "profanity"? I've read once that it's just for a way to let people shout out their emotions to seem more appropriate in seeming demanding. Or maybe that a person has a small vocabulary where they cannot speak their mind in just a few simple words like darn, fuck, and etc. in a matter of speaking. My friend told me once that I probably type very fast because I spent too much time on the computer, but that is probably true. I get into things very much with concentration in the first place; it's a good thing. I need to defend myself more, but I don't get the chance to reply or I just have a lack of comprehending that in a few seconds and sometimes say somewhat foolish things. The wrong things to say. I was concentrated on defeating others because all the time when I was younger; I was a slow writer and disliked being frowned upon just because I couldn't type as fast as others. I am becoming better at things now: more skilled, happier, smarter than I was before. Isn't that when your young or old? You stay the same, but your body and mind changes also yet you don't notice at the rate your going day by day? It affects you in many ways that cannot be comprehended.
Lily said that my characters weren't curvy when I drew them , or was it not constructive criticism? Yet I felt that it was an insult, so I called her an imbecile and then she called me baka (idiot, fool, stupid) in return. Imbecile - It's funny how things are synonyms with eachother just like people. Your lover is your synonym. Then instead of calling someone your lover or soulmate, call them your synonym! (heart) Cause then you mean the same to them as they do to you: as wtih love. Love the same person and in return you are the same word: the same song.

im·becile (im′bə sil, -səl; Brit, -sēl′, -sīl′)

noun

1. Obsolete a retarded person mentally equal to a child between three and eight years old
2. a very foolish or stupid person

im·por·tant (im pôrt′'nt)

adjective

1. meaning a great deal; having much significance, consequence, or value
2. having, or acting as if having, power, authority, influence, high position, etc.
3. Obsolete importunate (sense )

com·pre·hend (käm′prē hend′, -pri-)

transitive verb

1. to grasp mentally; understand
2. to include; take in; comprise

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I had gone to a performance, and performed with my classmates, it was amazing. I felt that we didn't get enough recognition as we should've gotten. It was unfair and senseless of the judges. WE had sung a song on Tigers and Fire, it was an amazing feeling of our dynamics and flowing into a silent drift and then uprising into the movement of destroying and engulfing flames. Why hadn't we gotten the best award ever? There wasn't anything wrong with what we song, it has more meaning that the other competing performers that any other person could ever imagine. They were singing stupid Disney songs from Wicked and constantly I was reminded of this by the Bronse/ whatever color we got! We should've gotten something way better that! Our class dressed in all black and we were amazing! The judges said that we got points off for not singing the spanish words wrong, when more than 50% of the class was mexican, and spoke fluently at home. There was more importance in our performance, and we deserved something that any other person could never ever achieve in their own minds. The judges were mostly college/ high school directors at school, but they chose HighSchool Musical/Wicked over us. The people who trained with a larger group, some of their groups were even way smaller than ours! It wasn't fair because since they had a smaller group, it was easier for them to teacher individually. I remember every single word or main idea of Mrs. Fowler's ideas about how much we disliked how the judges judged us - cause that was it. We did our best, but our abilities weren't recognized for how amazing we were. There was meaning in our songs they could never master.

SilverWing (Novel) by Kenneth Oppel : English Reading Log # 3

Oh, no you don’t!” He beat his wings and climbed swiftly, gaining. But another bat suddenly flashed in front of him, snapping the tiger moth into his mouth. “Hey!” cried Shade. “That was mine!” “You had your chance,: said the other bat, and shade recognized his voice instantly. Chinook. One of the other newborns in the colony. “I had it,” Shade insisted. “Doubt it.” Chinook chewed vigorously and let the wings flutter from his teeth. “This is fabulous, by the way.” he made exaggerated smacking sounds. “Well, maybe you’ll get lucky one of these nights, Runt.” (Kenneth Oppel, Page 5) I believe that the importance of this example is that it shows how Shade has encountered the fate of being teased and mocked all his life practically by the families in the colony.(background information) In the story SilverWing, Shade is a very small/weak bat, while other bats in his colony mock him and take pride in their size/strength.

"Yeah," said Chinook, not even glancing at him. It was as if he wasn't even there. Shade was used to being ignored. He wondered why he bothered talking at all. He hated having to watch Chinook hold forth and act like a king. (Kenneth Oppel, Page 7) I think that the importance of this excerpt from the book SilverWing is that it shows how Shade has been treated badly just because of his size and actually does have attributes that the others don't have and it doesn't have to do with size that makes you a useful and strong bat. That in real life too, people may be good at things, and bad at other things. As long as there is some meaning in what you do in life, then that is the best to enjoy for yourself. Sort of how Shade finds the best in himself later on in the book. Shade begins to find some understanding of himself in the next part of the book, finding that he can create illusions of sound and understand a world beyond his physical world.

In the distance, Shade could hear the mothers, calling their children back to Tree Haven. And then his mother, Ariel's, unmistakable voice: "Shade... Shade..." He felt a quick tug at his heart. She would worry. And he was already in trouble from a few nights ago when he landed on the ground (breaking another rule) just to get a closer look at a glistening spider's web. Just for a few seconds, but he'd been caught, and scolded ferociously in front of the other newborns. (Kenneth Oppel, Chapter 1) The importance of this part from the text is that it shows how Shade has curiosity and that it has led him to get in trouble, but means that his mind is open to the world around him, or wants to be. Shade breaks rules all the time and later on in the story, the owls attack and destroy his home because he broke a rule of being out when it was daytime. The rule is that bats cannot see the sun, the bats are secluded to the darkness because of a treaty between beasts and birds after a war from long ago.

"My father's wings," he told them now, "go from here to that tree over there, and he can eat ten thousand bugs in one night, and he's faster than anyone else in the colony. And once he fought with an owl and killed it." "No bat can kill an owl," Shade snapped. It was the first thing he'd said in a while, and the anger in his voice surprised him."My father did."(Kenneth Oppel, Chapter 1) This example means that Chinook the bat who is always showing off and lies just to get compliments or is mean to Shade, can be over the top sometimes. It shows his personality and urgency to want to get others to like him because of his mere strength, but his downside is always being very stupid or slow. Shade is very different from him in many ways, being smaller, quick thinking, curious, and smarter. Later on in the story, Shade encounters a bat from the species Vampyrum Spectrum that feeds on whole creatures and can kill owls, which defeats Shade's theory of bats not being able to kill owls. Goth is his name, much like a cannibal that also eats his own species while also feeding on meat of others such as birds, rats, owls, and pigeons.

"My name's Zephyr." Hanging from a wooden struts was the strangest bat Shade had ever seen. He was of normal size, but his fur was a brilliant white. His wings were place and completely translucent, so you could see the dark outlines of his forearm and long, spindly fingers. Even the latticework of his veins stood out. "It has nothing to do with age," the bat explained, as if aware of Shade and Marina's amazement. "I'm an albino - my fur and flesh lack pigment. Even my eyes, when I still had use of them." (Page 96, Kenneth Oppel)An excerpt from the book showing how characters that Shade meets along the way help him like Zephyr, a bat that is blind yet a fortune reader. He helped heal him, and is different just like him while Marina/Shade are very accepting to anyone different from them unlike others. The background of this is that Shade/Marina begin to show an understanding that other bats do not when it comes to finding the meaning of bands that other bats just jump to conclusions about just to rid of others different from them.

"Wings," Shade breathed in amazement. "You can see why my brother thinks of me as a freak," Romulus said to him, I'm scarcely a rat at all." Shade turned to Marina. "I had a feeling... on the raft I was looking at the guards and I thought, really, with wings, we'd look sort of the same!" And maybe that explained Romulus's voice too, that strange bat like shriek of his. (176, Kenneth Oppel)This part of the story tells how bats and other animals aren't really that much different from one another

Shade nodded. "those big bats you saw. The ones chasing us. They really are from the jungle . They're the ones who've been killing rats. We can't stop them." "Somebody must," said Romulus, "Before they start a war between all creatures." "Might be too late for that," said Marina (Kenneth Oppel, 177) This example shows an importance of how the order or survival in nature is the cycle of life; predators and prey. The weaker animals have to fend for themselves while the stronger carnivores shred meat in their mouths. The cycle of life is hard to deal with, but that's how overpopulation and who lives is dealt with in the long haul. The background later on is that one of the jungle bats named Throbb dies in a thunderstorm and Goth continues living on, surviving while still hunting after Marina/Shade.

"It's not right," said Shade frowning. "I mean that the owls don't let use see the sun. Do you think it's fair, Mom?" She gave and exasperated sigh, and closed her eyes for a moment. 'It has nothing do with fair or right or wrong. It's just the way things are..." she broke off in annoyance. (Page 17, Silver Wing, Kenneth Oppel)I believe this excerpt is important because it shows how Shade feels that things are unfair when it comes to the treaty of birds & beasts. Shade begins to want to become powerful and 'strong'. Later on he realizes what he must do -that he has a destiny that requires his clever and smart demeanor with illusions and echo vision.

"The law makes no exceptions ." "Let the owls take him!" It was Bathsheba, flying out from the forest and landing beside Frieda. "Brutus is right. The law has been broken and the boy must pay the price." (Page 37, Kenneth Oppel) In this part of the book, it means that the owls and the other bats are saying that they should sacrifice Shade because he broke the law. It shows how uncivilized the owls/birds are when it comes to imprisoning the bats in the darkness. The background of this scene is that Shade starts find some kind of meaning through the bands that are place on bats through human scientists/men and meets a gray wing colony bat named Marina who joins him on his journey.

With a terrible shriek, forty owls plunged toward Tree Haven, fire burning in their claws Shade saw Freda and Bathsheba flying themselves clear as the owls hurled their sticks at the tree, flames leaping as they struck bark. (Page 38, Kenneth Oppel) This part of the story tells about how the owls are very supposedly righteous when it comes to prosecuting bats through force and threatening. It is wrong to threaten and to imprison others when they have done nothing wrong, while the world works where people wish for some sort of retribution for the crimes that are nonexistent in their minds. The background on this is that the birds and the beasts have a treaty where there is a law that birds can kill bats that are out during daylight, and must stay int he darkness of caves/trees/ their homes.

Sourced From : SilverWing (novel) Wiki , SilverWing (novel) series HomePage by Kenneth Oppel



Shade is the protagonist of the series. He is a runt Silverwing, and often mocked by his peers, who take pride in their size and strength. While Shade's strength may be inferior to the other bats', he is a master of sound, often creating illusions or moving materials with echoes.

While he is a well-mannered bat in general, Shade is inquisitive and carries a bit of pride. That would be his downfall, as that was the first domino to fall in the chain of events that created the setting for the book. When Chinook, the pride of the colony, was boasting of his talent and superiority, Shade had offered to let him come take a peek of the Sun. They were caught in the action, and as a result, the owls burned down Tree Haven, the Silverwings' home for as long as they could remember. Shade was almost executed for it, but his mother managed to save him from the colony's anger.

Shade

"Shade is based on a Silver-Haired Bat. I thought they were very dashing-looking creatures. I liked the fact this was a bat that lived in the same part of the world as me (eastern Canada). These are small creatures, with a wing span of a few inches. Their bodies are about the same size as mice. They’re insectivores, which means they eat only insects." - K.O.



The Silver-Haired Bat

Silver-haired bats are among the most common bats in the forests of North America . Their common name is derived from their brown-to-black hair which has a silvery tint. Their wingspan can stretch up to 25 centimeters.

silver-haired bats form colonies in tree cavities or hollows of both coniferous and deciduous trees, particularly within old growth forests characteristic of the Northern Boreal Ecoregion. They hibernate in winter usually to second forest roosting site to which they will migrate over long distances. In more northern regions they will also hibernate in caves.

The diet of the silver-haired bat consists primarily of small, soft-bodied insects such as flies, midges, leafhoppers, moths, mosquitoes, beetles, ants, crickets, and occasional spiders.

Marina, a Brightwing bat, is Shade's newfound friend. When Shade had been blown away by the storm, she met him. She is quite bigger than Shade, and doesn't fail to remind him of it. In the book Sunwing Marina becomes Shades mate.



Marina

"Marina is based on an Eastern Red Bat, a type of bat that, like Shade’s species, is common in eastern Canada. Again, I just liked the look of this kind of bat. She’s a little bigger than Shade’s species, with broader wings. In the book I call her a brightwing. Since bats don’t see colours, all they would notice is the brightness of the fur. When Shade first sees her, he mistakes her for an autumn leaf, because her wings are all folded up over her body." - K.O.



Eastern Red Bat

Eastern Red bats are tree bats found throughout North America from the Rocky Mountains to central Florida . Their thick fur can vary from brick red to a yellowish red. They are a medium size bat with a wingspan of up to 30 centimeters.

Eastern Red Bats generally roost in the foliage of deciduous or sometimes coniferous trees and, in spite of their bright red colouring, often appear to be dead leaves or hanging pine cones. They hang upside down from a single foot and twist slightly with the movement of the wind. They do not roost in hollows or caves.

Eastern Red bats also migrate south along the Atlantic seaboard though little is known about their actual winter habitat. They eat twilight-flying insects such as moths, scarab beetles, plant hoppers, flying ants, leafhoppers, ground beetles, and assassin beetles.

Chinook is Shade's rival and the biggest and strongest newborn of the colony. All the bats admire him, and he claims to have caught two tiger moths which are known by all the others in the colony to be an extraordinary achievement by such a young bat. Shade loathes him for his airs and size. His parents are Plato and Isis. In the book Sunwing they become friends after he saves Shade from a giant bug.

Frieda is an elder of the Silverwing colony. She is wise in many ways, and makes good decisions. Frieda has a silver band on her forearm. She was a large contributor to the rebellion against the owls fifteen years previous.

Ariel is Shade's mother. She had protected Shade from the wrath of the rest of the colony. She had lost her mate, Cassiel, before Shade was born.

Goth is a sly and smooth-talking cannibal bat, half responsible for the murder of several pigeons. He is a prince in his own colony, and worships Cama Zotz, the brother of Nocturna, whom the Silverwings and other bats like them believe in. Goth lived in the jungle, but had been captured by humans.

Goth

"Goth is based on a variety of spear-nosed bat called Vampyrum Spectrum. He’s a tropical bat that lives in Central and South America and south-east Asia. He has up to a three foot wingspan, so is much bigger than Shade or Marina. He is not an insectivore. He’s a carnivore. He eats mice, shrews, birds and if he can get them, bats -- so his diet also has a cannibalistic component. Vampyrum Spectrum is NOT the same thing as a Vampire bat. Vampire bats just drink the blood of living animals; the Vampyrum Spectrum devours the entire animal, and is a bigger species." - K.O.

Vampyrum Spectrum

Vampyrum Spectrum, also known as false vampire bats, are native to South & Central America and are the largest bat found in the Neotropics. Their dense woolly fur ranges from dark or chestnut brown to rust in colour and their ears and nose are very long. The Vampyrum Spectrum can have a wingspan of up to 1 meter.

False Vampire bats are generally the top of their order in the food chain, that is, without predators, and feed on birds, smaller varieties of bat, and rodents. They are called false vampires because it was once thought that they fed on blood rather than meat.

Vampyrum Spectrum are usually found in lowland, evergreen forest, occasionally in cloud or deciduous forests, fruit groves, pastures or swampy areas. They nest in groups of up to five individuals in hollow trees often near water

Throbb is another one of the cannibal bats. Unlike Goth, he is a coward and according to Goth he feeds on carcasses already killed by other cannibal bats in the jungle. He later dies in a lighting storm.

Hey, Shade the SilverWing colony bat here!
I am a runt. I have always been the small and very weak bat. This week the owls burned down our roosting tree because I violated the law. All because I had to come and see the sunrise, competing against that stupid Chinook. He has always been stronger and bigger than me. I want to be powerful and destroy the promise between the birds and hte beasts; for the bats to never come out into sunlight. We have been secluded to the dark due to not participating in the war between the birds and the beasts, yet we did nothing wrong!