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The daemon at The Golden Compass is the animal that lives with a person from when he or she born to the death. Also, the daemon has to be close together with his or her master, a person who will spend their whole life with his or her daemon, all the time. Every people have the daemons; however, bears, and witches have different kind of daemons or do not have it. For the witches, they can make their daemons far away from them. Also, for the Bears they do not have the daemons.

The special settings of this book are dust, which I already talked about in the first lit letter, Bears, and witches. We can know that the witches are not real to our real worlds; however, for bears, we might do not know why the bears are the one of the special settings. These bears are not …show more content…

There are few examples that helps me to make prediction about The Golden Compass. The first example is "If you want my service, the price is this: get me back my armor" at page 182. This example is trade between the head of gyptian people of Eastern Anglia and the head of special bear, Iorek Byrnison. The head of gytian need help from the bears to fight with Gobblers, who stole Gyptian's children. The head of Iorek Byrnison wants his armor back from Gobblers and he needs help from gyptian because they knew well about the Gobblers then him. So the prediction that I made was the gyptian and the head of the bear will be fight together against Gobblers. Also, I think that Lyra will find his father, Lord Asriel; however, the bear armors did not notice Lyra so she has to fight with bears. The ending of this book will be happy ending I guess. So Lyra's parents will be met together, the gyptian found their children, and the head of bear found his armors. I made the prediction what Lyra will do; however, I think the some of the prediction will be true so I want to find out while reading this

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