Artemis Fowl Chapter 1 Summary

Chapter 1: "The Book" Summary 

 

Pages 1- 17

 

Summary:

We first meet Artemis Fowl in Ho Chi Minh City, where he and his bodyguard, Butler, are waiting for an informant. With the information form their informant, Artemis and Butler go in search of a secretive healer with a green hand. Once they reach this healer, who happens to be a sprite/fairy, Artemis offers to return her magic and heal her in exchange for looking at her magic book. The sprite agrees as Artemis has the antidote to the poison he tricked her into taking, and so Butler takes a picture of every page in the book, then forwards the pictures to the Fowl manor in Dublin, Ireland.

Characters:

Artemis Fowl, Butler

Important Passages:

pg. 4-7 ("They were sitting...long past.'"): Artemis and Butler are waiting for their informant to arrive
 pg. 8-15 ("'Well?’ demanded Artemis…pretty sight."): Artemis and Butler go find a fairy healer and trick her into giving up her book  
pg. 15-17 ("The Butlers had…the universe."):explains part of the relationship between Artemis and Butler

 

Recommended Literacy Strategies:

Sequential Timeline - timeline of plot events to help readers keep track of what is happening (recommended for the whole book)
Question Log - chart with columns for the page number that brought up the question, the question, and the answer to the question (recommended for the whole book)
Prediction Log - chart with columns for the prediction, textual evidence to support the prediction (the "why"), and whether or not the prediction was correct (recommended for the whole book) 
Visualization - drawing or doodle based off of a section of reading (recommended to use with description of the sprite)

Discussion Topics:

-What do you think about Artemis' actions?
-Do you think the relationship between Artemis and Butler is more than just professional?

Questions:

-Why was Artemis looking for a sprite?
-How did he know they were real?
-Where are Artemis' parents?