The novel “Enchantress from the Stars,” by Sylvia Engdahl, is an astonishing story with many themes. One theme is “risk and sacrifice”. Many of the characters in the novel have to sacrifice and risk something. An example from the story that shows the theme is when Ilura risks and sacrifices her life to the Imperials. She does this so they don’t discover the Federation’s ship. She knows how dangerous it would be if the Imperials found out about how advanced their civilization was. Jarel says that Kevan was the one who killed Ilura with the vaporizer. This is on page 25, “What excuse is there for taking off on an unauthorized jaunt into the woods and coming back more proud than sorry to have killed a “savage” native woman?” The “savage” native woman was Ilura when she had jumped…show more content… She would rather have died than let the Imperials find out she was from a different and more civilized people then both the Andrecians and themselves. On page 251 Jarel states, “She had expected to die. Yet she had not been in despair; she had done what she did not out of rebellion against a horrifying fate, but solely out of concern for the keeping of her secret.” I have dealt with sacrifice and risk in my life as well. When I was a freshman, I had to take an english class and I had made the poor choice of not paying attention and not doing well. I risked passing the class, I ended up having to retake English 9B and sacrificing my free time to do this course.
The novel “Enchantress from the Stars” has several great themes and examples of these especially the theme of risk and sacrifice. Many people, including myself at times, rarely think about sacrifices and the risk in our lives. Usually risk and sacrifice are usually not thought about until something bad happens or until it is too
