Blog #4 Quarter 2

In the next chapter of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Mr. Norrell goes to London. First off in the chapter we learn more about Childermass, apparently Childermass is very knowledgeable and Mr. Norrell relies on him to know what is going on in the world, while he himself sits inside and reads his books. So Childermass has told Mr. Segundas to write an article about Mr. Norrell's great magical feat and send it to the London newspaper. This is so Mr. Norrell will become very popular in London even before he gets there and Childermass is right, that's exactly what happens. Next Mr. Norrell actually does move to London in a house that Childermass has bought him and he is invited to a party, so he takes this as a chance to show other people that being a magician is a very honorable profession, just like a doctor or lawyer. He goes to the party, but you can easily see that he is very out of place and he just wanders everywhere not talking to anybody, but but soon finding a book to read instead. However soon he hears 3 gentlemen talking about him and one (who we later learn is Mr. Drawlight) claims to know him. Therefore Mr. Norrell goes up to talk to them and Mr. Drawlight tells him that he watches Mr. Norrell's house and that he said that he knew him already because he could tell that they we going to be great friends.
When Mr. Norrell moves to the city he thinks that there is a huge difference between London and his country town of York and I think that this was true back then, but now I don't think that there is that much of a difference because now, someone who lives in the countryside can just hop on their truck and they'll make it to a Wallmart or Target pretty quick. I do however think that it's true about what he said about the house sizes, the houses do seem to get smaller as you move from the country into the city because they get more packed together. I also really didn't like Mr. Drawlight because he seems sort of creepy and stalkerish by the way he watches Mr. Norrell 's house and he also seems as if he's just trying to get close to Mr. Norrell because of Mr. Norrell's popularity and that doesn't seem like the best foundation for a friendship exactly. But I predict that Mr. Norrell will become friends with him because he's not really used to the people in the city yet and their ways so he won't understand what Mr. Drawlight is trying to do (mooch off of his popularity).