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.

The Decision to Save the World

Author's Note: I wrote about The Throne of Fire, because it was the most recent book I have read so it was easy to remember what happened. In this piece I tried to accurately describe what the Conflict and Resolution was.

The Conflict of the book The Throne Of Fire is that the God of chaos is about to break through the Duat which is a magical realm to Egyptian magicians. If Apophis the Snake of chaos breaks out of the Duat it means that he will devour the sun God Ra and also devour the sun. If Apophis devours the sun then the world will fall into chaos and the world would end. If Carter and Sadie Kane are going to be able to defeat the God of chaos Apophis they will need to resurrect the sun god Ra. The only way for them to resurrect the sun god Ra is for them to find the book of Ra which has been separated into three different parts so that Ra would never be resurrected.

They need to find all three scrolls to resurrect Ra, Ra is the only one that is able to defeat the snake of chaos Apophis. It is a challenge for them to find the scrolls, because they were never supposed to be found and put back together. Since Ra has slumbered for a long time there has already been another king of the gods. The king of the gods was Horus unless they resurrect Ra, if they resurrect Ra that means that Horus would not be the king of the gods. Some gods agree, don't care, or they don't want Ra to be resurrected. Carter and Sadie end up getting all three scrolls after some difficulties and resurrect the sun god Ra, the only problem is that he can also choose the gods and most want him to choose them. If he chooses to resurrect Ra the gods will disagree and be against him.

The Red Pyramid

Author's Note: I wrote about The Red Pyramid, by Rick Riordan, because it was easy to write about the cause and effect from this book , because I have read this book recently. In this piece I tried to accurately say what they had to do.

In the Red Pyramid, a book by Rick Riordan the two main characters are Carter and Sadie. They are two young magicians who are descendants from two of the most powerful pharaohs in Egypt. They face a trouble in the book which is the lord of chaos Set, and he is building a red pyramid so that he can absorb the power from Osiris the god of the dead. If he absorbs the power from Osiris he will be able to make a storm that would destroy the world.

Carter and Sadie have to find the book of Thoth, a feather of truth, and Sets secret name to destroy Set. They must first find the book of Thoth to find a spell that would destroy set. Anyone's secret name is there experiences and what they are about. They must find his secret name by someone close to him. Since they have to find out his secret name they must ask his sister. They also have to go to the underworld to retrieve a feather of truth which is a challenge because they have to trust a demon bound by a spell to lead them there. Once they have all three components they must find and destroy him so he doesn't destroy the world.

Track and Field

Crowds of people cheering, being on a school track in the springtime, the temperature warm and the leaves back on the trees waving in the wind. That was what it was like last year in Track and Field for me, and running against and with the wind. In the spring boys could join Track for the season and join many events to do in meets against different schools. I know that Track is the best sport to join at school.

Although Track is the best sport to join it can be a horrible sport if you don't enjoy running or strength events. I personally like high jump out of all the events because it combines both running and strength in your legs. I could barely make it over the bar in high jump so I kept trying and trying and occasionly got better at it, but at meets I got too nervous and hit the bar. Even though I rarely made it over the bar I thought I should just quit the event because I never made it over the bar, I didn't quit because my friends kept encouraging me.

Although it was challenging my friends kept encouraging me I got better and started to not get nervous everytime I was about to jump. I would always try over and over again I got better and made it over the bar more, but sadly when I started to get more comfortable the season ended. I got comfortable when jumping over the bar and now I have to start all over. Even though I only did high jump that year I tried different events, but I wasn't good at any other events like long jump.

Even though high jump is pretty fun all of the other events are also fun. I should have tried more than just high jump, but I learned that the only event other than running distance is high jump. I should have joined more events which would have given me more of a chance at winning in meets. Winning isn't everything, but it would've been nice to win once I should've joined more team events at the same time. If I would have joined a team event I could have help from others not just being alone in high jump.

I know that Track is the best sport to join. If anyone joins track they will have fun. If someone joins any sport they should enjoy it, because they join that sport with their own free will. If somebody joins a sport that they do not enjoy they shouldn't have joined the sport in the first place. No matter what sport you join you should always have good memories about it not horrible memories.