Blog #3 Quarter 2

In the next chapter of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell all of the magicians of The Society of York gather in the town cathedral to see Mr. Norrell and his display of magic. However Mr. Norrell doesn't show, Childermass does and Mr. Segundas doesn't remember him at all (therefore proving my theory that Mr. Norrell must have done some sort of magic on him because you can't just forget a person). Childermass tells them that Mr. Norrell shall do the magic at home and they shall watch the results. Some a loud voice begins booming out the story of a murder and they look around and find it to be the voice of a statue. Then all the other statues begin talking and moving around and half an hour later they stop. So the magicians of York can no longer call themselves magicians (except for Mr. Segundas) and The Society of York is forced to disband. Lastly, at the end of the chapter Mr. Segundas finds out that Mr. Norrell will soon be moving to London and Mr. Segundas will be the only magician left in Yorkshire.
Since we have been talking a lot a about style in class lately, I thought I might talk a little bit about Susanna Clarke's style. I've already mentioned that almost all of her characters are referred to as a "Mr", "Ms" or "Mrs" and the only character that isn't is Childermass. Also she uses a lot of parentheses when she is writing instead of just using commas like most writers and another thing that makes her writing unique is her use of footnotes, where after a sentence she puts a little number and then on the bottom of the page she elaborates upon the subject of the sentence. The use of her footnotes show really how much thought she has put into the universe of this book, as most of the footnotes are stories, songs, or more information about the world that her book takes place in. Another thing that makes her style very different is how most of the time she writes in a third person point of view, but sometimes she will slip into the first person as herself as the author for a few sentences. So it's almost like she's narrating her book. Lastly I noticed that when she writes the word "choose" or any other form of it, she writes it as "chuse", which I thought was sort of strange seeing as she doesn't spell any other words differently.