The next book that I have read is Eragon written by Christopher Paolini. The most spectacular about this novel is that Paolini wrote it when he was 15 years old and it got first published when he was 17.

About the book then, Eragon is a encredible story about a teenage boy called Eragon. He lives in a land called Alagaësia. Eragon finds a mysterious stone in the mountains were he lives, but it turn out that it is not a stone but a dragon egg. When the egg hatched Eragon named the blue dragon Saphira. Eragons life turns upside-down when the evil king Galbatroix finds out about the whereabouts of Eragon and his dragon Saphira and they have to flee for their lives together with the villages storyteller Brom. 

The story is really exciting and it is hard to put away the book. The book has a really easy language and is suitable for younger readers even though the book is rather long. This book is very good if you want to read about personal development since the main character Eragon does both a physical and pshycial journey. Eragon grows in the story and he is a completely different person in the end of the book than he is at the beginning. The things he has seen and been a part of has changed him and he himself is not sure if it is for the better or worse.

There has been made a filmatisation of the novel but the film is very different from the novel. My opinion on that is that the film is not as good as the book and I believe that the film would have had greater success if it would have stayed true to the book.

The Garden Party is a short story published in 1921. It was written by the New Zeelander Katherine Mansfield.

The Garden Party is a story about a garden party taking place at a mansion. In this mansion lives a white family who has many children. One of these children is Laura. Laura and her siblings are planning a garden party and invites friends and neighbours. 

However, the family gets news that a man has been killed in an accident and this man lived in the poor neighbourhood just outside of the Sheridan familys land. Laura is very chocked by the news and asks both her sister and her mother how they are going to stop the party in time since she belives it unappropriate to hold a party when a neighbour has died. Both her sister and her mother thinks her silly since they do not know the man or the family and because they see themselves more important than the poor black people living just outside of their lands.

One theme of this story is clearly racism and how white people see themselves as superior to black people. Another theme of this story is social class. The Sheridan family lives on top of a hill and looks down on the poor neighbourhood where the black people live. In the story Mansfield also writes about workmen and how Laura is superior to them since she belongs to a higher class and not working class. Laura is puzzled by the way the workmen speak to her since she is raised to belive that she is more important than people like them.

This superiority to lower classes is shown in several passages of the story. One which stuck to me was the part when Laura is going to go to the dead mans family with leaft over food from the party and is going to bring them some lilies to. However, her sister points out that Laura cannot carry the lilies since they will ruin her beautiful dress. This part of the story shows that Laura and her family thinks that it is more important look beutiful than to show kindness to other people.

This story is good material to use to get students to learn about the history of racism in the world since The Garden Party portraits racism in a understandable way.