Artemis Fowl, A childhood Reflection

The children novel series novel that I loved to read was the Artemis Fowl Series Eoin Colfer. There are a total of 6 main books in the series and one mini novel. The novels were about a young boy named Artemis Fowl who was considered a genius at very young age. With his smarts and his father’s money, he was one of the most notorious criminals on the world. The crimes that Artemis committed lead him to an underground world where fairies, trolls and other fictional characters existed. He began to work with the police of this underground world in order to gain more money and secret powers that the underground had. Also, Artemis worked with the underground police force in order to save the people on the earth’s surface from very powerful humans and criminals from the underworld as well. I felt the reason why I enjoyed reading these books was because of my love for fantasy. I felt that this book incorporated fantasy with the usage of Minotaurs, fairies, trolls and other fictional creatures with a story that could also involve the real world. Also another reason why I enjoyed reading all of the books was because it appealed to the idea that a child can do so much, even though what Artemis does is considered crimes on the human society. When looking back at the series of Artemis Fowl from a college student’s standpoint, I felt that the problems and issues that the main characters were faced with were handled in a way that would have made for a good book, but would have not been realistic. Because this was made for children with much curiosity, this would have appealed to them almost perfectly. For example, there was a situation where one certain race of aliens was about to be completely destroyed from their planet. In the story, the main characters decided to save them through the black magic of the underground, which was prohibited of them to use. When reading the novel as a child, I felt that it was right for them to use this black magic to save all of these aliens from the brink of extinction because I feel most children are raised with the mindset that everything will be okay and life is precious. But as an adult, this one situation makes me think of the genocide in many sites in South Africa. When reading about the genocide, it makes me realize that there is no magic that can prevent the genocide. Rather, I feel the situation that was told in this one part of the series left out any notion or idea of sacrifice, which is important to my viewpoints being a college student now.