Touching Spirit Bear

Boys and girls running outside in the school playground from two kids fighting. One kid getting his head smashed into the ground. In the novel Touching Spirit Bear Cole Matthews goes through numerous life changing events. I know that a number of the themes are loss, courage and bravery. The story shows the themes when he goes to the island in Alaska for a year of isolation. The author demonstrates in the book to readers that people who don’t fit in with society need to fit in with society.

Although themes are fun to talk about I want to discuss how those themes are in the novel. The reason that I know loss is a theme of the book is because Cole lost his childhood because his father drank and beat him. Since Cole’s father beat him while he was drinking he couldn’t have a normal childhood because his life went downhill after his father beat him. When his father beat Cole his mother didn’t want his father to beat her as well because he was drinking. One possible reason that Cole’s dad beat him was because his dad’s parent beat his dad like how his dad beat him. Kids who are abused by their parents either have a bad childhood or they miss out on their childhood.

Even though loss is one them don’t forget about the other themes are even more interesting. I know that courage and bravery is a theme because after he get mauled by the spirit bear he could have just gone to court but he went back to the island. Since he went back to the island he still had all of his problems like his right arm being weak and he had a harder time to walk. He had to be alone for one year with him being weaker then everything else.  People who have damages to their body it is hard to recover and make limbs strong they were before.

While the theme of courage and bravery is interesting on the other hand loss can still be explained more. Cole lost some of his childhood because when his father started beating him he felt like nobody else is better than him. After that he started to beat kids up and get in trouble all the time, it got so bad to the point where he pounded peter's skull into the pavement. The police were thinking about sending Cole to an adult court because he has been getting in so much trouble and this put it over the edge.  The reason he did this is because he lost his childhood because his father beat him but his mom didn't do anything about it. 

Although Touching Spirit Bear is a story that demonstrates if you don’t fit in with society you better try better to fit in. The themes kind of describe what the author trying to demonstrate. Its better if you fit in society and if you don’t you won’t live a good life.

The Titan's Curse

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.

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.

Running Away From Danger

Imagine being on the run from gorgons, that are sisters of medusa and not being able to sleep or rest and not knowing your past or why you are running. In the Book The Son Of Poseidon Percy Jackson lost his memory and has been away for almost a year. Finally after a long time he gets to his destination, not even know what the destination is. He ends up finding the Roman Camp called Camp Jupiter and losing the Mark of Achilles which is a Greek blessing. He finds out that the Roman camp has lost their eagle which protects them from monster attacks. After a few days at camp he has to go on a quest to rescue Death and his Greek name is Thanantos. Some people at the camp think that the quest he is going on is going to fulfill a prophecy from 50 years back. The only problem with this quest is that the eldest Giant has Thanantos and he is undefeatable in his homeland where he was currently.

What I think will happen is that Percy will fulfill the prophecy and free Thanantos. If he fulfills the prophecy then he will need to have Thanantos lead them to the doors of death and help get the souls back into the underworld. I also think that he will retrieve the eagle from the giant and will become the praetor of Camp Jupiter. He remembers some things about his past and he doesn’t want to become the praetor of Camp Jupiter. I also think that the old Praetor Jason will come back before the Feast of Fortuna and they won’t have to find a new praetor.

I think all this is going to happen because in the books Rick Riordan writes in his books prior to that book it sort of lays out what will happen in the next book. In the book previous to this one Jason is the main character and he goes to the Greek camp and ends up going on a quest and ends up saving the god Juno and trying to save the camp. Jason is Roman and he was the previous praetor to Camp Jupiter but ended up getting switched with Percy. Percy is Greek and is sent to the Roman camp and Jason, the complete opposite is sent to the Greek camp. Since Percy is getting popular at Camp Jupiter some people want him to be the praetor. 

Fitting in with society

Author's Note: I wrote about Touching Spirit Bear because it was easy to think of the themes for the book. I worked on better word choice in this piece.

Boys and girls running outside in the school playground from two kids fighting. One kid getting his head smashed into the ground. In the novel Touching Spirit Bear Cole Matthews goes through numerous life changing events. I know that a number of the themes are loss, courage and bravery. The story shows the themes when he goes to the island in Alaska for a year of isolation. The author demonstrates in the book to readers that people who don’t fit in with society need to fit in with society.

Although themes are fun to talk about I want to discuss how those themes are in the novel. The reason that I know loss is a theme of the book is because Cole lost his childhood because his father drank and beat him. Since Cole’s father beat him while he was drinking he couldn’t have a normal childhood because his life went downhill after his father beat him. When his father beat Cole his mother didn’t want his father to beat her as well because he was drinking. One possible reason that Cole’s dad beat him was because his dad’s parent beat his dad like how his dad beat him. Kids who are abused by their parents either have a bad childhood or they miss out on their childhood.

Even though loss is one them don’t forget about the other themes are even more interesting. I know that courage and bravery is a theme because after he get mauled by the spirit bear he could have just gone to court but he went back to the island. Since he went back to the island he still had all of his problems like his right arm being weak and he had a harder time to walk. He had to be alone for one year with him being weaker then everything else.  People who have damages to their body it is hard to recover and make limbs strong they were before.

Although Touching Spirit Bear is a story that demonstrates if you don’t fit in with society you better try better to fit in. The themes kind of describe what the author trying to demonstrate. Its better if you fit in society and if you don’t you won’t live a good life.

Cole Matthews Transformation

Author's Note: I wrote about touching spirit bear because it was the most recent book I finished. I tried to connect what I said to text evidence in the book and to work on my word choice.

In the beginning of Touching Spirit Bear  by Ben Mikaelson a teenager named Cole Matthews is a horrifying kid because he has been beaten by his father. He gets very angry because Peter Driscal reported him and he smashes his head on the concrete. He is a teenager that doesn't think about what he has to do to get his payback. After he is sent to the island and shortly after gets mauled by the spirit bear he now knows what it feels like to get bullied. He changes forever after that incident, he is now bruised up from the attack and he feels like that was how Peter felt when he got beat up. After he realizes he has made a mistake. Cole went from starting bad to good after he got mauled and he is forever changed from that incident.

Our Founding Fathers

Author's Note: I wrote about how they became independent because it was for a patriots pen. I tried to to work on transitions into the next paragraph in this piece.

Patriots and loyalists lined up on a field, taking turns shooting and reloading, soldiers falling to the ground wounded and worse.  If I could ask the founding fathers anything I would ask them what it was like back then, and what happened to them while they were controlled by the British. Perhaps even what choices they had back then to free themselves from the British and even if they tried to pass their own laws while controlled by the British. Possibly how long did it take to finish the declaration of Independence  All in all I know that the founding fathers have not made any mistakes with making declaration of independence.

When the colonist created the thirteen colonies to get away from the King of England he still controlled them. The King of England kept making new laws or acts as they called them. The acts were used to tell the colonist were they could and couldn't go, raise taxes on everyday items and even house the British soldiers. Colonists had to deal with numerous situations in order for them to get independence.

Even though talking about how they got their independence and the acts is fun, what it was like back then is even more interesting. They no electricity like us which means they had no cars, phones, or computers which meant that they had to be creative. They had no cars to get around anywhere so they either had to walk, ride a horse, or ride on a carriage. They couldn't just email, text or call someone whenever they wanted, they had to make a letter by hand and send it which would take a long time to even get a letter back from them.

All in all I know that they had successfully become independent from the British. And the founding fathers had to go threw a lot of situations to get to where we are now, an independent country. Even though they knew that they might not make it back, they knew that in order for future generations to have a better life they had to become free from the British.