Imagine Fighting the immortal Titan Atlas, and ending up taking Atlas’s place in holding up the skies. Thats what Percy Jackson had to do in The Titans Curse by Rick Riordan. The person point of view in this book is Percy Jackson. Percy Jackson embarks on a journey through various magical places to get to his quest objective. I know that Percy Jackson has the main point of view in this story.
Although Percy is the main point of view there are some other point of views in this book. The other people who have a point of view is Annabeth and Grover; Percy’s Friends from camp. Also the gods have a little bit of the point of view but not much. Annabeth and Grover go along with percy on his quest.
Although Grover’s and Annabeth’s point of view is interesting don’t forget about Percy’s point of view. Percy’s point of view is that the Titans are evil and that some of the gods are only able to talk to their kids at certain times. Percy’s father poseidon can barely see him because he is one of the big three gods. Most of the other demigods don’t see their parents as much either but Percy sees his father the least.
From these point of views the reader feels that percy is the leader of them and he goes through a lot of dangerous tasks. The reader should feel like the gods never help their children and that they just watch what they do. The reader also should feel that Annabeth and Grover are Percy’s friends and helpers.
Because of what Percy's point of view is the reader feels trust for Percy Jackson. The way the reader feels toward the gods is that they are good but they barely help their demigod children. The reader feels hate and rage toward the giants and the titans because the titans are trying to take over the world and they are trying to destroy the gods.
All in all if the story was in a different point of view like if it was from Bianca’s who is another character it would be completely different. Her point of view would be that they have to go and save Artemis and nothing else because she is one of her followers. Bianca would only want to save Artemis for the sake of her cult. All in all Percy has the main point of view and if it was in any other persons point of it would be told differently.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013
Carter's View On Things
In The Throne Of Fire by Rick Riordan, there are two different point of views in the story, Carter and Sadie Kane, and the gods. Carter and Sadie Kane want to resurrect the sun god Ra to defeat the snake of chaos Apophis. The gods, Carter Kane and Sadie Kane want to help each other but it would mean one side loses something of great importance to them. There is a huge event that is about to happen that they both have point of views on. If either side succeeds it wouldn’t benefit the other side. Both sides think Ra should be resurrected but the gods think that Ra will want to be crowned king of the gods again which Horus god of war just got crowned.
Even though talking about what the point of view is I will explain them a little bit. Maybe one reason the gods might think that Ra will want to be crowned king of the gods is because he was the first king but he was sent to slumber. He was poisoned by Apophis and Isis said the only way to heal him was to learn his secret name, she learned his secret name but she tricked him sending him into the heavens to slumber. Ra couldn’t come back from the heavens because Isis had his secret name and commanded him to slumber. Everybody's secret name is the ren in egypt, it was one of the five parts of the soul and it was called the ren. Everybody has a ren, the ren is someones personal experiences and everything about them.
Although the gods point of view is interewsting, don’t forget about Carter Kane’s and Sadie’s point of view. Carter and Sadie have a completely different point of view from the gods. Carter and Sadie believe that the only way to save the world from Apophis is to resurrect Ra. For them it is hard to resurrect Ra because when he was sent to slumber he went back to three different forms. The three forms of Ra are Khepri the rising sun, Ra the midday sun, and Atum the falling sun but he is just referred to as Ra in the book. In order to resurrect Ra they had to go through the duat and resurrect each form of Ra which is a feat no magician has done before. They try to delay Carter and Sadie on their quest by battling Carter and Sadie. The way the reader should feel is that Ra has been the rival of Apophis and if they do not resurrect him they will be doomed because Ra has been his Rival since the beginning of time.
Although if the point of view was changed it would be completely different. Carter, Sadie and the gods would be on the same side with no conflicts. They might try to get at least one of the three scrolls of Ra so that unless someone gets it from them, there is no chance of him getting resurrected. They would try to defeat Apophis by themselves and they would fail. The only chance they have it resurrecting Ra, if they don't the world will end.
If either point of view changes the other one has to change as well, even just a little bit. Both point of view i crucial to the story, each point of view depends on the other. When nobody could have another point of view because they aren’t in half of the story, if there was it would have to be a new character.
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