DRAGON RIDER (Chapter 4-7)

(Pages 32-65 )
I was continuing reading a book called "Dragon Rider" which was written by Cornelia Funke.
In this chapter, Sorrel(cat) and Firedrake started their quest. They must find Gilbert the ship's rat in downtown that Rosa(a rat) told them Gilbert knew every mountains and routes in the world, so They will ask Gilbert where is Rim of Heaven. When they reached a downtown, there's a young boy named Ben and he promised that he will help them to find Gilbert in warehouse. Ben wasn't shocked or surprise about seeing at a dargon(monster). They're searching a rat for a long long time until they could find a white rat, Gilbert. Sorrel answered lots of question about the way to go Rim of Heaven, but Gilbert told him that it's not exist in the map and noone knew about this mountain. However, Gilbert(white rat) explained them Rim of Heaven was the highest mountain. On the other hand, Himalayas's the highest mountain in the world. Therefore, they decided to travel to Himalayas by using Gilbert's map. This map's got half the world on it. It's described the best and safety way to Himalayas was the southern route. Sorrel needed to tell Gilbert why he what to discover Rim of Heaven? he told Gilbert that he must found the Rim of Heaven for dragons.
After Ben and Sorrel leaved Gilbert with his map, they both walked back to the old factory which was the place Firedrake's hided. While Sorrel and Gilbert arrived factory, there're two young boy followed them. Accidentally, young boys heard the sound of groaning inside the factory then they saw the dragon, Firedrake, with his componions which were Sorrel and Ben. Boys were shocked and ran away!! Suddenly, Ben told Firedrake to drive himself on the surface of canal, so people won't see a monster like Firedrake(dragon). Ben told a meeting point to Firedrake (Under the red bridge) and he will go with Sorrel by sailing.
Lastly, They met together under the red bridege, and Firedrake determined that Ben must coming with him to find Rim of Heaven. Although Ben is a human , Firedire believed Ben will be his helpful and useful componion.


When Firedrake reach downtown, he sees a boy(Ben) who is looking at him without feeling for example surprise, afraid, or shocked. Nevertheless, Ben never knows Firedrake before, he always help Firedrake to hide in a factory .Thus, Ben is a special friend for Firedrake. For me, I try to think about my experience I feel that having a special who always understand me and take care with each other is pleasant. I think friend is very important and special person because he/she helps me, teach me, play with me, cry with me, and other, as same as Firedrake, he's so lucky dragon to have nice componion even they're a boy and a cat.