Se interrumpi, mirando sin ver la selva oscurecida, como si estuviera rememorando la majestad y el poder de Shardik de los Arrecifes y de su Tuguinda de tiempos idos. of chases or violence 10% planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 10% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 60% Descript. Shardik requiere de nosotros todo lo que tenemos, y a quienes no pueden ofrecer tanto libremente, l puede muy bien arrebatarlo por la fuerza. Shardik is the.Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book Descript. From the opening description of a forest fire, destruction is the constant occurrence of the novel.

When Shardik perishes in the act of saving some children from a slaver, Kelderek believes that this is God's revelation: children must be cared for if society is to flourish.įundamentally Shardik is a novel about human misery. Shardik is a slow-paced, reflective, historical fiction novel from Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down. Following him into the countryside, Kelderek discovers that Ortelgans have allowed the slave trade to flourish. Shardik is a fantasy of tragic character, centered on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik. In Shardik Adams sets a different yet equally compelling tale in a far-off fantasy world. It is a cosmos tailored to the order of a story, and the challenge, which Adams. While Kelderek ministers to the captive bear, the Ortelgans consolidate power throughout the empire and begin to rule harshly. Shardik by now is a shadow of his former self, gaunt and misshapen, with mangy fur and a wounded claw. Richard Adams's Watership Down was a number one bestseller, a stunning work of the imagination, and an acknowledged modern classic. The world of Shardik is wholly imagined, as the enticing map on the inside cover of the book lets us know. They are led by Kelderek, who first discovered Shardik. Adams gives it language, culture, geography, and history. Its said that everything follows the beams, and Trisha followed the bear beam by following the land while she was lost. Throughout the entire story, Trish follows a stream, the way of the land, and a road. The bear at the end that Trisha faces is the bear known as Shardik from the Dark Tower. Bekla is a completely realized alternate world. You tell Me Submitted by: Philip Garrett. Confident that this bear is Shardik, the promised incarnation of divine power, the Ortelgans capture the capital of Bekla. Shardik presents, in one way, a microcosm like the lapine universe of Watership Down. Shardik tells how the presence of a monstrous bear inspires a subject island people to overthrow the ruling empire.