School For Good And Evil Essay

The School For Good and Evil by Soman Chainani is a riveting tale of two girls, Sophie and Agatha, who are thrown into a fairytale world where who you are is determined by what school you get sorted into: Good (to become an Ever, or the protagonist of a fairy tale) or Evil (to become a Never, the villain of a fairy tale). Sophie, who is certain that she will be sorted into Good, is glad to be taken by the mysterious “School Master” with Agatha, until she is sorted into Evil and Agatha. In this action romance novel, the two girls must learn how to get where they really belong- or learn if they were where they belonged from the start.
The setting of the story is in the past, in a small village surrounded by woods called Galvadon. Every year, 2 children are selected from the village to attend the School for Good and
The two girls fight to get to what they believe to be their true schools. During the rising action, Agatha and Sophie discover secrets they are not willing to admit to themselves- that maybe they were sorted into the right schools all along. Agatha falls for a prince named Tedros, who Sophie feels is hers. Sophie kills the Evil School’s torture master, the Beast, and slowly begins to reveal her true nature. After Tedros breaks his former promise to take Sophie to the Winter Ball and asks Agatha instead, Sophie is furious and heartbroken as she feels her best friend betrayed her. She begins to have “nemesis dreams”- horrible dreams that will haunt her until she hunts down and kills her nemesis. At first, she believes her nemesis to be Tedros- until the face haunting her dreams turns out to be