Stardust Analysis

A Tale of Wall and Faerie Stardust takes place in two worlds: the mundane world, as seen in the English village of Wall, and the supernatural world, which lies beyond the wall dividing the two r...

In Stardust we spend a lot of time flitting around in various people's perspectives, and with the constant use of she, he, it, him, and her to refer to our narrators, rather than I, me, or you, w...

Fantasy; Quest; Fairy Tale Let's run down the list: Fantasy: Characters in Stardust include sentient trees, people transformed into animals and then back to human again, witches,...

Why is the book called Stardust and not just Tristran Goes After A Fallen Star or something along those lines? Well, for one thing, it would sound way less magical. And since things get pretty magi...

Song Go, and catch a falling star,             Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are,     ...

Let's look at the last paragraph of Stardust, before getting into the epilogue: He looked upon the lights of Wall for what he knew (it came to him then with certainty) was the last time. He star...

Listen up, kids, Stardust might be written in the style of a fairytale, but that doesn't mean it's going to take you by the hand and guide you through the woods, er, plot. While it's pretty eas...