I am currently reading The Dark Portal by Jeff Grub and it is about how the fel orcs and illidan from outland to azeroth and not medivh has to go to karazhan to help fix the dark portal and keep it contained. The book shows no love story but is very interesting and action packed, it shows very serious quality and is a haggard felt book.

Medivh is a high elve who was turned by the night into a night elve and lived with many night elves before he was sent to contain the dark portal. The portal was breached and he sent for help to karazhan. He found an old friend in karazhan, Moroes. He is an undead thieve, but is a prince of the castle of karazhan. His character shows no emotion and is always in the shadows. Personally he is my favorite character and he gets more interesting as the story goes along. I can't connect to any of these characters because they are all so serious and the only real comic relief is the Stagemaster. He controls what preformances go on in karazhans theatre. The plays he puts on are, Romulo and Julianne, Wizard of Oz, and Little Red Riding Cloak. He just makes fun of everything and I know many people like that so he really gives me a sense of whats going on.

Overall I am loving this book, even though it is almost unrelatable and it seems so dark, it's a really action packed book with many twists and turns and it shows how good our world is compared to how bad it could be if something were to happen like this.

Shelepateu

If you think you are beaten, you are.

If you think you dare not, you don’t.

If you like to win, but you think you can’t,

It is almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost,

For out in the world we find,

Success begins with a fellow’s will—

It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are,

You’ve got to think high to rise,

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before

You can never ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go

To the stronger or faster man,

but soon or late the man who wins

Is the man who thinks he can!

http://joycelee.wordpress.com/2006/07/25/a-meaningful-poem/

         This poem inspired me because it is just trying to make everybody think positive and for you to always keep your chin up and hope for the best it also shows you don't have to be the best at everything to be the person who wins and that's what I think the message of this poem is. 

         While reading this poem I did not find ryhme but the rythm is repetative but not exact repetition and I thought that was odd in a poem. Also it goes positive - negative in most of the lines until it nears the end then it is showing most positive thoughts instead of getting someone's hopes up then just hitting it with a negative stick.

          Rereading it one last time I found that the author is also trying to tell you to make the best of your life if you read carefully and also she wants to tell her readers that they can do whatever they want if they can just stay cool.