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Lila’s Experience

Welcome back people! This is Fajr Lodhi (a.k.a. the top rated blogger in the history of internet blogging) with another fantastic blog post on a very unique fictional book, totally based on a very unique art, “FIREWORK MAKING!”

Lila is the main character and the heroine of Philip Pullman’s novel, “The Firework-Maker’s Daughter.” She is young but acts as a little baby, “a cross little thing, always crying and refusing her food, but Lalchand built a cradle for her in the corner of the workshop, where she could see the sparks play and listen to the fizz and crackle of the gunpowder.” Once she got a little mature, she got interested and had a talent for a firework-making just like her father. She invented her own fireworks with names no one can ever think of. For example; tumbling demons and shimmering coins.

Then one day Lila tells her father about that she will be honored to be a master in firework-making. After listening to this her father gets really shocked and tells her that firework-making is not a suitable job for a girl. He means that if she becomes one, then it would be really hard to find a husband for her, because when her fingers get burned and she gets singed eyebrows, he really means that she probably won’t get married.

Lalchand gets really worried by her daughter’s thoughts and on the other hand Lila is angry about the husband thing. She then decides to run away to Mount Merapi, a place where every firework-maker must go to get some of the royal sulfur from Razvani, the Fire-Fiend. Lila’s adventures start along with her best friend, Chulak, and his talking white elephant, Hamlet. Along the way, they meet pirates, wild animals, and supernatural beings of every type. Now atlas Lila must face the scariest obstacle of all: her own fear.

In my opinion the theme of the novel, “The Firework-Maker’s Daughter,” is really simple. It is that a young girl gets hold of her career and fulfills her aim. Also another major theme would be that her father and others learn how to respect women. Last but not the least another theme is when she is helping to save her father’s life, and she learns cooperation with others and to appreciate the accomplishments of others, not to make fun of it. There is a lot of humor and fantasy in Pullman’s words and if you want to find out what really happened later on then do me a favor and please read this awesome adventurous book.

Now let’s talk about the setting of the story that takes place in an unnamed kingdom or that it is not mentioned in the novel. Other characteristics are that the story takes place where volcanoes which are active and very destructive. One important thing is that elephants roam around the countryside, and people eat exotic foods such as prawns and satay (also some type of sea food).

Another character that helps out Lila in the story is Chulak’s uncle, Rambashi. He is a failed chicken farmer, who appears in the novel sometimes as a pirate, then as a restaurateur, or a musician. He is a failure and his failed abuses often help Lila in her quest to become a proper firework maker.

Now let’s talk a little about characterization of the story. The main character Lila, a very confident, daring, and determined girl plus she is also willful and keen. This is because when she leaves home to find Razvani, the Fire-Friend without knowing how to make fireworks. Her anger about the husband thing keeps away from what she could have learned directly from her father.

The novel has a lot of fantasy. Lila looks for the royal sulfur from a fantastical creature, Razvani, and his ghosts. And then the goddess of the Emerald Lake, gives her the flask of magic water. The Elephant Hamlet also talks. These are some of the reasons the novel is categorized as a fantasy.

It is said in the story that the royal sulfur is the focus of any true firework maker’s life. But, after Lila passes every test, she receives no solid substance or object. Then she gets to know that the royal sulfur is just an illusion. The illusion is just an aim kept by the Fire-Friend to make firework-makers improve their skills. In my opinion I have found a major metaphor in which royal sulfur has been compared to an illusion and this is also what keeps Lila in determination.

This book really means a lot to me because I like fireworks, and that’s probably one of the main reasons I chose this book to read and expressed my views and gestures on it. I, from the bottom of my heart recommend you to give this fantasy novel a try.

MY RATTING:::::—– An Average C

3 Star Good

Also just for some extra knowledge, Today Fireworks are usually used as a way to celebrate in various occasions all around the globe!

Below are some of the ways they celebrate!

FIREWORKS