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__//Clockwork - or - All Wound Up// by Philip Pullman__
//Clockwork// is a tale where narrative boundaries blur and the works of clockwork-makers are life threatening. It is a story of clock-making wonders, an evil doctor, a child made up of clockwork, a desperate apprentice, an even more desperate prince, a brave little girl, and a bloodletting clockwork knight with an affinity for the word "devil."

Is //Clockwork// two stories in one or one story in two? Whatever it is, //Clockwork// is a story made up of a lot of threads that become tangled and intertwined getting everyone and everything all wound up!


 * Character Analysis**

(our wish database)
 * Collect-A-Wish**


 * Journal Topics**

Wishes, what are they good for? Have there been things that you have wished for but once you got it, it wasn’t everything you’d hoped it would be? Choices. So far Karl has made a serious and possibly deadly decision. What do you think of Karl’s choice? Would you have done the same? How can you relate this to choices in your own life? The characters in the story seem to have two different “sides” or personalities. Throughout the story, Karl continued to change more and more. Discuss how both stress and greed changed Karl. Was he spinning out of control? Was the author making an example out of him? What is the author trying to say about human nature?
 * 1) 1 **The sweet with the sour**
 * 2 You are what you eat**
 * #3 I see your true colors shining through **
 * Questions to think about: **