The Warlock Plot

The Warlock is about a pair of twins who are separated.  One of them is on the good side, the other on the bad side.  They have to fight for the side they think is right, but they love each other and want to help each other.  The protagonists in the book are Sophie Newman and Nicolas Flamel.  The antagonists are Dr. Dee, Virginia Dare, and Josh Newman.

The conflict in this book is between Nicholas and Sophie against Josh and Dr. Dee.  Nicolas Flamel is dying and he needs to get the Codex back from Dr. Dee and save the golden twin, Josh.  Sophie is helping him.  The climax of the book is when Josh decides to side with Virginia Dare and Dr. Dee against his twin Sophie and Nicholas Flamel.  He does this because he thinks he sees Sophie kill a pretty girl, but actually, the girl is a snake lady and is evil.   Virginia Dare and Dr. Dee want to destroy the world, but they don’t tell Josh that.  They tell him that they want to save the world and make it a paradise.  After he switches, Nicolas Flamel and everyone on his side know that Josh is truly lost to them.   

To get to this point, there was a lot of rising action.  Many people that are usually enemies decide to join together to stop Dr. Dee.  Mars Ultor was one of those people.  He had been an enemy of Nicolas, but realized that Dr. Dee needed to be stopped.  The Witch of Endor released him from prison so that he could fight.  Other people, like the Elders and the Next Generation, have to work together to stop him from destroying the world. Machiavelli and Billy the Kid also team up together to help stop Dee.  Originally, they were working with Dee and Virginia Dare, but once they learned what he was really planning to do, they felt that that was not what was right and that his plan would never succeed.  They tried to get Josh to join their side, but once again, he chose Dr. Dee. One of the most important rising actions was when Sophie Newman learns that her aunt is really the One Who Sees.  This is important because the things that the One Who Sees tells Sophie start to make all the books in the series fit together to make one final outcome. 

There was not a lot of falling action after the climax in The Warlock. Dr. Dee tries to get Machiavelli, his new enemy, to tell him how to release all the monsters on Alcatraz.  When he doesn’t, Dee threatens to feed Machiavelli’s new friend, Billy the Kid, to the sphinx.  Machiavelli and Billy the Kid both agree that it is better to loose one life than loose an entire nation.  The last and most important falling action is when Sophie Newman makes it to the island and tries to convince her brother that he should come with her.  This is important because it shows how much she loves him and how much she is willing to sacrifice for him..

The resolution of The Warlock is also a cliffhanger.  Josh tells Sophie that Dr. Dee and Virginia Dare need his help.  Sophie knows that her brother will not come with her, so she decides to go with him.  They all end up at the beginning of the world on Danu Talis.  This is important because it shows how much the two siblings love each other, and that Dr. Dee’s plan is not actually what he told Josh.  His plan is something bigger and something much more dangerous than just taking over the world.