Book 1 Project Post #3

Book Project 1: The Night Circus

            Imagine being able to jump into the mysterious and exciting world Erin Morgenstern created in the bestselling novel, The Night Circus. Well, now you can! The Night Circus will be a traveling replica of Le Cirque de Rêves that is beautifully described in the book. The circus will only be open from sundown to sunup and contain all of whimsy and magic created by Celia and Marco, the main characters. The circus is open to everyone, whether you read the book or not. It will create a new way for fans to experience the different tents and also interest people who haven’t read it to pick up the book and read.

            The idea of the circus came straight from the main setting and plot of the book. When Hector and Alexander started the competition between Celia and Marco, they created the idea of the circus for the two magicians to battle there. Le Cirque de Rêves is described in the novel as a place that is filled with light and imagination. One of the characters says that the circus, “glows from the flames to lanterns to stars.” (Morgenstern 117). When the circus is brought to life, it will be as close to the book’s description as possible. The first thing that people will see when entering the Night Circus will be a huge archway of lanterns and hanging twinkle lights. This directly relates to the novel because one of Celia’s specialties, which is light. She manipulates light and fire when she performs her shows. In the Night Circus some of the exact tents and exhibits will be recreated. For example, one of the tents will be the Hall of Mirrors. In the book, patrons of the circus describes the tent as a complicated hall, “with floor-length unadorned planes of mirrored glass, as you half expected, but hundreds of mirrors of varying sizes and shapes, each in a different frame,” (Morgenstern 211). In the replica, the Hall of Mirrors will be almost exactly how it was in the novel. The two main characters, Marco and Celia, are magicians put in a competition but they were never told their opponent or when it will start. All they knew was that only one would survive the competition. They both worked for Le Cirque de Rêves and eventually fell in love. In the Night Circus, there would be two magicians playing Marco and Celia playing out their star-crossed love for the audience. People will be free to visit all of the tents at any time, but in the middle Celia and Marco will be performing. Another example of a tent that will come directly from the book is the acrobat show. “Acrobats, trapeze artists, aerialists are illuminated by dozens of round glowing lamps hanging from the top of the tent like planets or stars,” (Morgenstern 343). There will be very talented acrobats performing a magical routine much like the one in the novel. These are just a few tents or performances that will be held at the Night Circus.

            The Night Circus will bring attention to this best-selling novel because all of the fans will come out and attend and all non-readers will be curious to what it is. The mystery of the circus will be intriguing to the people of the town it’s visiting. People who haven’t read the book will be more likely to read it after they attended to the Night Circus. It will bring in more readers and it will keep the current readers engaged.