Seekers: The Quest Begins - blog #2

Title: The Seekers: The Quest Begins
Author: Erin Hunter
Genre: fantasy
Number of pages read: 97/ 301

Through the past week I read up to chapter 8 and many things changed. At the end of chapter 4 we learned that Kallik's mother (the polar bears) died so Kallik is all by herself. 

The fifth chapter is talking about Lusa (the black ear). The event is taking place in the Bear Bowl - the zoo, where Lusa and her family and friends are living. Lusa and her friend friend Yogi are trying to climb the bear tree but without success. Then King, Lusa's father, tells her how to climb the tree better and she goes to the top where she sees tigers, monkeys and flamingos. When she comes down she asks her parents about the wild but no one wants to talk about it. Lusa wonders if she would one day see those amazing animals out of the zoo and if she would one day live in the wild. 

In the sixth chapter we meet Toklo (the grizzly bear) and his brother Tobi. They are playing while her mother, Oka, is looking for a den. Toklo asks her mother how to catch a salmon and she tells him how. Later, snow had fallen and ice had formed, causing difficulty travelling up the mountain but they still find a shelter. Then Tobi says he feels sick and Oka becomes angry. On the next morning Toklo wakes up. Tobi smell strange and cold, and he dies. Oka then wakes up, and realises that Tobi is dead. She buries them and says that is was their fault for his death. 

In the seventh chapter we are back with the poor polar bear, Kallik, who can't realize that her mother is dead. She makes sure that there are no orcas in the water and then she swims to look for Taqqiq - her brother. Kallik sees a bear but she was too old to be Taqqiq. The bear has seal carcass which reminds Kallik for her hunger. She tries to look for some food but without success and she then goes to sleep. On the morning she sees a gray line in front of her. This was a land. Kallik swims to it and she finally reaches it. 

Finally in the eight chapter Lusa (the black bear) is worried because her mother does not feel good. She can't even move and eat. Lusa wants to alert the flat - faces (the people who are working in the zoo) and they finally realize that something is happening. They are trying to reassure her and Lusa wonders if they had taken her mother away forever. 

I am pretty much impressed from what had happened because I saw many changes in the characters. Also many new characters had appeared and it was hard for me to remember all of them since the names are really weird. I expect that the bears will meat and will survive together, helping each other. 

Passage: "As night fill, the storm died down, and Kallik was left in a silent, empty world. The darkness above her was filled with glittering ice spots, and the ice underneath her felt thin and hollow, as if the water was trying to push through. 

Her mother was gone. She still couldn't believe it. How could Nisa be dead?"

This passage almost made me cry. Imagine living in such a evil world being still a cube without parents and siblings!? This passage also frustrated me because I want to know if this bear will survive all by herself or is there going to be someone else who will help her in the last moment.