In the first half of the fourth chapter of A Wizard of Mars<\/i>, Nita is given an ultimatum from her father. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Young Wizards<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oh, Dairine. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy to understand why she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s behaving as she is, but the first half of this chapter forces the reader to think about what recent events have meant to someone else: Mr. Callahan. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an interesting move on Duane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s part, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one I respect. Young adult fiction doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t often successfully pull off the whole, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But what about the parents?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d thing, but it feels compelling here. Why?<\/p>\n
Well, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a means to an end. After Nita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father reveals how much Dairine has been skipping school and disobeying very basic rules, he requests more responsibility of his eldest daughter. It does<\/i> seem unfair, especially since Dairine is the one misbehaving, not Nita. Yet there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a major reason why all of this is happening: death. Grief. Absence. Nita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death still hangs over everyone, and this sequence is no exception. Harry has had to deal with the loss of his wife, but he also lost a means to be a parent to Nita and especially<\/i> Dairine. He was always closer to Nita, and given what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happened with her, he has even less of a chance of reaching her than before. In another context, it might be strange to ask your own daughter to do what he asks for her. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not to say that Nita shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like this is unfair, because it is<\/i>. But I understood the general idea behind it. Harry is tired<\/i>. He needs a break! And he knows that Nita is responsible and can be depended on, so for the time being, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the only way he can find some peace.<\/p>\n
So yeah, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unfair. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t argue that. I did love that Nita thought about this new predicament in a creative way, though:<\/p>\n
So treat it like a challenge from the Powers\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 because maybe it is. Figure out what to do, and maybe the rest of the summer won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t turn into a horror story<\/i>. Nita let out a breath. Think of Dairine as just another intervention, one more problem to be solved<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As far as we know, this is exactly why this is happening! At the same time, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an interesting way to look at the problem because it allows Nita to detach from it a bit. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably going to be necessary because of how emotionally volatile this situation is for Dairine. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing that Dairine finally looked up the Wellakhit directory and discovered the same thing Nita did in this chapter: that Roshaun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s entry shows no physical status for him. No death, no life, no anything<\/i>. It is both the worst and best answer for Dairine. Terrible because it is shrouded in the unknown. The blank space implies a vacancy and an absence, and in the end, Roshaun is still missing.<\/p>\n
But that blank space also means he isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t dead yet<\/i>. The unknown might be anxiety-inducing, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to see just how upset Dairine is in the second half of this chapter. However, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a huge key to her behavior. Why would she focus on such trivial things as school or chores when she could be focusing on finding Roshaun?<\/p>\n
I think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what Nita is going to find. As for the whole sun thing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 maybe Dairine is learning to use the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153new\u00e2\u20ac\u009d powers she has??? I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW.<\/p>\n
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