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Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
2001
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This becomes clearer in the Epilogue, when readers know
Artemis better and he becomes a sympathetic character.
CHAPTER 1: The Book
Summary
At a cafe in Ho Chi Minh City in summertime, Artemis Fowl is waiting with Butler, his loyal butler and bodyguard, for a lead. Fowl is worried that, like Butler's tip to Cairo, this is a wild goose chase. Butler, however, insists the lead is good. They are approached by a waiter who Fowl immediately knows is Nguyen
Xuan, the man they were supposed to meet. Xuan is spooked by being so easily detected, as well as by the presence of the very large and well-armed Butler. Nervous, Xuan tells Fowl that he knows where to find what
Fowl's looking for, showing a Polaroid of a drunken healer woman who lives near Tu Do Street. Fowl asks
Xuan to take him and Butler to the woman and doesn't allow the informant to refuse. Entering the healer woman's darkened residence, Fowl puts on night-vision goggles and makes a proposition to the woman, who in turn asks for wine. Butler provides a pint of Irish whiskey, which the woman drinks greedily, showing the
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Further, he included an amnesiac in the second injection that will leave the past week a blur to her. Butler is reassured by Fowl's ability to always think two steps ahead.
Notes
The exotic setting of Ho Chi Minh City helps establish the mood of an international thriller. Nguyen Xuan's reaction to Artemis Fowl and Butler help the reader understand that the two already wield some notoriety in the criminal underworld.
The use of a digital camera to record pages from the Book show how Artemis plans to use technology against the People. The decision to spare the healer woman - to improve her life, even - is explained as a strategic move by Artemis. However, readers already suspect that there is some goodness in him - or at least, a refusal to cross certain moral lines, such as murder. Further, he shows that he is a person who values language and will use it to his advantage: that is, he will always stay within the letter of the law (what something or someone actually says or writes) even if he'll defy the spirit (the actual intention, whether or not it's clearly stated in the actual


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