Table of Contents
- 1 What is City of Beasts about?
- 2 What is the setting of City of the beasts?
- 3 What do Alex and Nadia find when the go to search for the beast?
- 4 How many pages are in the city of the beast?
- 5 How many pages is the City of Beasts?
- 6 What happens in the book city of the beasts?
- 7 Where do Alex and Kate go in city of the beasts?
- 8 What does the Jaguar represent in city of the beasts?
What is City of Beasts about?
City of the Beasts centers on the adventures of Alexander Cold, a typical fifteen-year-old boy. He goes to school, where he’s in band; he has a crush on a girl in his class, likes to rock-climb with his dad, fights with his sisters.
What is the setting of City of the beasts?
City of the Beasts (Spanish: La ciudad de las bestias) is the first young adult novel by Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende. Published in 2002, the story is set in the Amazon rainforest.
What genre is City of the Beasts?
Novel
Children’s literatureYoung adult fiction
City of the Beasts/Genres
What do Alex and Nadia find when the go to search for the beast?
They discover the mystical city where the beasts live, and Alex travels in search of healing waters that a shaman promises will heal Alex’s mother. Nadia goes on a quest of her own. The purpose of the trip into the Amazon is to search for a Beast that has reportedly killed several people.
How many pages are in the city of the beast?
368
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780063062900 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publication date: | 01/05/2021 |
| Series: | Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar , #1 |
| Pages: | 368 |
Who wrote City of Beasts?
Isabel Allende
City of the Beasts/Authors
How many pages is the City of Beasts?
What happens in the book city of the beasts?
Alex convinces his grandmother Kate to use her journalism to protect the People of the Mist and make the outside world think that the Beasts are only a myth. Back in Santa Maria de la Lluvia, Kate and the anthropologist Leblanc recover sufficient evidence of the crimes of Carías and Torres to bring them to justice.
Who is Alex Cold in city of the beasts?
Isabel Allende’s novel City of the Beasts tells the story of Alex Cold, a fifteen-year-old boy from California who accompanies his journalist grandmother on a life-altering journey through the Amazon. The narrative opens with Alex at home in California, angry and frightened over the illness of his mother, who is undergoing cancer treatment.
Where do Alex and Kate go in city of the beasts?
Alex and Kate travel to the Brazilian city of Manaus, where they embark on a journey by boat up the Rio Negro.
What does the Jaguar represent in city of the beasts?
Alex is skeptical of Nadia and Walimai’s mysticism, but he begins to change his mind when he meets a caged black jaguar and has a vision of communing with it. Nadia informs Alex that the jaguar is his animal totem and represents his true nature.