At the castle, Miss Angorian takes hold of Calcifer to capture Howl's heart. Howl had given his heart to Calcifer. This was the contract between them; the heart kept Calcifer alive, and in return Calcifer put his magic at Howl's disposal. Sophie uses her ability of bringing things to life to free Calcifer, thus breaking the contract between him and Howl. With his heart restored, Howl destroys the witch's fire demon, freeing Suliman and Justin. Calcifer, as promised, breaks Sophie's spell and she returns to her proper age. Howl had realized early on that Sophie was under a spell and secretly attempted to remove the curse; when he had met with failure, he'd figured Sophie simply enjoyed "being in disguise".
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The inside of the castle is made of the house where Calcifer is based, which is Howl's house in Porthaven at first, then the house by the hat shop in Market Chipping after the move in Chapter Seventeen. A "square wooden knob above the door, set into the lintel, with a dab of paint on each of its four sides" allows one to open the door into four different locations. Initially these locations are: the moving castle in the hills above Market Chipping (green); in Porthaven (blue); in Kingsbury (red); and in Wales (black). However, after Howl is forced into hiding he changes the door's destinations to: in Market Chipping (yellow); in Vale End (orange); a garden in the waste (purple); and in Wales (black).
Calcifer is powerful, but can be just as cowardly as Howl, preferring to run from the Witch rather than fight her. However, he, also like Howl, will fight when the need arises. He is also fairly crabby and a little mean-spirited, which stems from being bound to the hearth in the moving castle for over five years. He has a natural fear of water, and also worries quite frequently about running out of logs, which are essentially his food. Sophie seems to be the only one capable of forcing him to do anything he doesn't want to do, a trait she also extends to Howl, and to a lesser extent, Michael as well.
The movie of howls moving castle is sadly not one of the examples of the movie being better or equally as good as the book. The princess bride is, howeverSee that movieOnly read the book of howls moving castle
mehhh... you can't blame for not liking fantasy fiction. i've never watched lotr or something and i'll never do it. but as an english language & literature student, i have to take that course. so you ask, why did you even choose EL&L? the answer is simple: i couldn't do translation or be a teacher. i love english. i just want teachers to let us read what we want. if they don't, they should wait for us to tell OUR ideas of the book. for example, i hate howl's moving castle -even the name is stupid i think- and i want to write some bad things in the exam, which is impossible. this is unfair i think. look what happened in the last course. this is fantasy fiction course, and we're supposed to read both howl's moving castla and the hobbit, and the teacher asked a question about lotr. if you know, you'll get 20+ points for the exam. WHAT. THE. HELL. MAN. The hobbit =/= LOTR. Okay, maybe The Hobbit was written before lotr but i'm not supposed to read the trilogy, am i? i even hardly read the hobbit!anyway, back to the subject. as i said i don't like hmc. and i wanted to watch the anime. actually i'm not much into the animes, but maybe if i watch hmc the anime version, i could fall in love with howl and like the book A BIT. yeah, you understand my anime dislike. there are always mary-sues like sophie in the animes, even in miyazaki'S. i like the cool man, but i CAN'T watch animes.as for the sophie in the book, i still think she's annoying. i can't define my favorite type of girl. anyway. the problem is, the anime is completely different from the book! omfg what am i going to do?! i don't want to read the damn book!!!sorry, my comment seemed relevant and rude, but i'm not a rude person. as you see, i just hate being made to read something which i strongly detest. i'm a rebel, and i don't want people to order me. wish i could change the system. but this is impossible lol.
i grew up on the book. its hands down my favourite book of all time. I was so excited when I heard there was a movie coming out. I went and saw it with my mum (who read the book to me when I was little) I was so angry I nearly cried after I saw the movie. some things just shouldn't be tampered with and howl's moving castle is one of them. I can understand having to cut bits out for the sake of time in converting a book into movie but this was all over the place from blob men to changing the actual villain. and to top it off the magical flower field howl made for Sophie was so under-whelming and where was the flower shop? most of the hilarious parts were cut. the movie kills me. if I try to see it as a completely different story I can watch it and almost enjoy it. but mostly I just get mad. sorry but its true
I also just rewatched the ghibli version of Howl's moving castle and I was really wondering what happened to Sophie's sister and mother after the bombs were dropped on her town. She was so occupied by Howl that it seemed to me that she forgot about worrying about them too. Is there anything I missed, did she know her family would be safe?
I know this thread is quite old but I found this blog while trying to figure out if I should read the book and after reading it I just wanted to say a couple things:1. Almost everyone keeps saying that the Sophie from the movie is better than the one from the book since the latest one is more of a "bitch" or an "asshole". She is not, first there is this thing about being rude to the customers, she was only rude to one (and also the witch of the Waste) and because that customer was rude to her first:"Look at this!" the young lady shrieked.You told me this was the same as the bonnet Jane Farrier was wearing when she met the Count. And you lied. Nothing has happened to me at all!""I'm not surprised," Sophie said, before she had caught up with herself. "If you're fool enough to wear that bonnet with a face like that, you wouldn't have the wit to spot the King himself if he came abegging- if he hadn't turned to stone first just at the sight of you."The customer glared. Then she threw the bonnet at Sophie and stormed out of the shop. Sophie carefully crammed the bonnet into the wastebasket, panting rather. The rule was : Lose your temper,lose a customer.And yes the Sophie from the movie is more nice and calm but it feels like she is just there waiting for things to happen, the one from the book is more in control, she actually acts about things, speaks her mind, do what she wants and yeah she might be more explosive and impulsive but she is also kind hearted and caring, this feels more real to me because no one is perfect.2. Howl, there are a lot of hints in the book that he is not the vain, selfish, dishonest, careless, heart breaker he pretended to be and that he just acted that way to avoid the curse. In the end you realize that maybe he loves flirting but the main reason why he kept going to see Lettie was to know more about Sophie and that he pretended to like Miss Angorian to make Sophie jealous and cautious of her. Even if he keeps pretending to be a coward that avoided everything difficult or that involved compromise till the end he helped Michael when no one else did, helped poor people charging less or nothing at all, trying to find the prince on his own ways, trying to break Sophie's curse all the time and making little things to make her happy (letting her stay at the castle, taking her into consideration when moving the castle and starting a new business, fixing the outside of the mansion as soon as she mentioned it, bringing her family to visit her and going to her rescue even if it mean facing off the witch.3. "The ending", I love the movie ending is like the "perfect romantic" thing we all wanted between Sophie and Howl but I don't feel the book ending is worse or less romantic...is not the basic hug and a kiss thing but a read between the lines, how they know each other so well, how they accept their flaws and still want to be together, what I found even more beautiful, because is not the simple superfluous love born out of nowhere (also Sophie is not kissing everyone):Howl said, "I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew living happily ever after with Howlwould be a great deal more eventful than any story made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl."And you'll exploit me," Sophie said."And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me," said Howl.But Sophie and Howl were holding one another's hands and smiling and smiling, quite unable to stop.4. "The war" even though there is no war going on at the time being there is a clear reference to it on the book:The King hitched his chair an inch toward Sophie's. "Let me be equally outspoken now," he said. "Mrs. Pendragon, I need my brother back badly. It is not just that I am fond of him andregret the quarrel we had. It is not even that certain people are whispering that I did away with him myself-which anyone who knows us both knows to be perfect nonsense. No, Mrs. Pendragon. The fact is, my brother Justin is a brilliant general and, with High Norland and Strangia about to declare war on us, I can't do without him.
In the hills above Market Chipping, there is a castle that moves around, terrifying the town below. It belongs to the Wizard Howl, who is supposed to eat girls' hearts and steal their souls. As Sophie walks out of town, she sees the castle moving quite close to her and thinks that since she's not a young girl anymore Howl won't eat her soul, so she finds the back door to the castle and pushes her way in. 2ff7e9595c
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