Michael Vey: The Hunt For Jade Dragon

Chasing the dragon, most know it as heroin, is an opiate that is an extremely addictive class one drug. Heroin is known as chasing the dragon because, when you first use heroin, you feel euphoria. You keep trying to get more and more of the drug to feel the same feeling you did the first time you used heroin, but it is never the same because your body has created a tolerance for the drug. Therefore, you are chasing a drug that is very destructive and bigger than yourself, just like a dragon. You are chasing after the dragon wherever you can and do whatever you can to get more. We, as Catching Dragons, are a safe-house for drug addicts, more specifically, heroin. Too many deaths come from drug overdoses in Licking County so we have come up with a plan to stop the addiction through a healthy, therapeutic environment by creating a place they can go to seek refuge and help for many loved ones in need.

Another example of theme is in the end of the book. This is when Micheal came back to save all of his friends. ‘ “Hatch is about to hurt our friends, and I need to stop him” ’

For the last and final essay of the semester, I decided to pick a couple themes that are included in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Themes are a very important part of any story, play, poem, or any writing for that matter. It is important to understand what themes are involved in a story because it helps the reader better understand what is going on throughout it all. This novel has two main characters named Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. In essence, this story is about both of these characters coming together to solve the disappearance of Harriet Vanger that is over forty years in the making. Throughout their journey to solve the mystery, I came across a couple key themes. Regarding The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, there are a few themes I chose to write about including: violence against women, the topic of revenge, and isolation.

In the beginning of the book, Michael was an all-star baseball pitcher. Game after game he pitched very excellent even though they’re only allowed so many pitches a week because they are in little league. Michael is a twelve-year-old boy that can pitch eighty-miles per hour. Michael saw this bad kid running from the cops, so Michael throws the ball from home plate all the way past the field and hit the guy in the head knocking him to the ground. Michael meets this wonderful girl one day and later on founded out that she was his hero’s daughter and wasn’t too happy with her when he found out because she didn’t tell him.

Michael suffers great depression since his dog Ked died. Most of his family and other colleagues address him to see if he is through with Ked’s death, but really he was depressed all along. “I can't tell how sad i really am about Keds versus how sad i am in general”(Cameron 223). In addition, Michael gets sad of unusual things. “I can picture her eating a banana in her tiny office. This, too, makes me sad”(226). Michael gets depressed about Mrs. Dietrich being alone. Also, Michael gets heartbroken about other little things. “I think of her learning to write beautifully as a child and then growing up to be a guidance counsellor, and this makes me unhappy”(227). Michael is not just depressed of his dogs death, but every little problems in his life.

The theme no matter the situation, there is a reason so make the most of it.T represents my life, and others on many levels. Most students dislike waking up for school, and are forced to go. I dislike going to school, but everyday I have to tell myself to work hard and make school better. The other theme I chose from The Maze Runner is extremely similar to the other theme, accept instead of making the most of a bad situation, this theme tells me to make the most of the opportunity’s in the bad situation. This applies to my life, because I'm in school which is not necessarily a bad situation but still take advantage of the opportunity to learn. Both of the themes can be applied to everyday life, and they can help as motivation to move forward.

The theme of the novel is that your culture and background does defy you. In other words, being in a gang or group doesn’t mean you're not unique. For example, Ponyboy is in a gang/hood group “The Greasers” and does things like mug and snatch like the other members of the group, but this doesn't mean he doesn't have a different personality than the others. Another theme in the novel is the power of brotherhood. This is a sub-theme because it not confronted to the readers until the end of the novel. On page 176, Sodapop Curtis said, “ We ought to be able to stick together against everything if we don't have each other we don't have anything.” This quote struck out to me because throughout the

Michael Vey is most definitely not your average fourteen year old boy, for more reasons than one. He has Tourette’s syndrome, which causes him to have “tics”, such as increased blinking and gulping. Michael also has some dark secrets from his past that make him different, like the fact that he was the cause of his father’s death. However, what makes Michael stand out the most is his ability to shock people with whatever power he chooses. He has electricity running through his body and he can “pulse” at any time with whatever strength he chooses. An example of his power is when he was being bullied by three of the toughest guys in the ninth grade. They were beating him up in the front of the school and right before they were about to pants

Michael Vey was going to liberate the island of Hades, in the Hatch Islands, formerly known as Tuvalu. Doctor C. James Hatch had taken over the island and turned it into a prison camp. Michael, being the good person he is, Decided that he would “release the native prisoners,” (Evans 248). To do this, he had to realise that sometimes there are things worth dying for, whether you want to or not, as in this case, “You promised you would never leave me[...]. If it was my choice I wouldn’t” (Evans 306). Michael was able to complete his missions but not without sacrifice.”I was pure energy,”(Evans 319). He did everything he did in order to help improve the quality of life.

In life people may run into many obstacles that will create a bump in their path, in these occurrences they must persevere and strive for what they believe in. If you don’t always like your odds in your situation or fail your first time, it does not mean you should give up; it only means that you should keep on persevering. In the book, “Michael Vey: Rise of the Elgen” a huge corporation called the Elgen took Michael’s mom from him. They did this so they could lure Michael into their trap to capture him as well. Michael creates a group with his friends called the “Electroclan” due to the variety of electric abilities each of them have. They created this group in order to get Michael’s mother back from Dr. Hatch, the leader of Elgen. The Elgen are a worldwide corporation with thousands of soldiers, where the Electroclan only contained about 10. Despite the odds Michael decides to fly out to Peru, where his mother is being held captive, and attempt to save her. The main theme of Michael Vey: Rise of the Elgen is perseverance which draws many parallels between the overall plot and society.

Wouldn't it be crazy if you had a group of friends that had special powers and used them to fight bad people? Well in Michael Vey: Hunt For Jade Dragon by Richard Paul Evans, This is not crazy, it's normal for Michael and his friends. Michael is on a mission to get Jade Dragon, which is a little girl, out of the starxource plant. But the reason they have to get her out is because she knows how to make more elgen. But the thing is, Hatch wants to use the elgen, which are glows, for bad. Hatch wants to take over the world with the elgen. But just when they think they did it, their mission goes south and they are informed that the ranch, The place where they're parents are and where they used to live, was attacked by the elgen. Michael and his friends must go back and see the damage that has been done and get revenge.

Michael struggles making friends. one way he does is in paragraph 21-28 it says Michael hadn’t made any friends the teachers barely notice him. This is probably because his parents dead and he is being quiet in class. But one day Michael went to the pet store looking for something small and living and hermit crabs where a dollar. When Michael got home he showed the hermit crab to Aunt Esther. “Where is he” says Aunt Esther. Then some eyes poke out of a shell.

To begin with, one major theme that continuously played a part throughout the entire book is desire. To many of the characters, it was the one urge that they could never overcome. One

     The story is named The Eyes of the Dragon because Thomas’s secret. Flagg once showed the young prince a secret corridor. At the end of this passage was a wall with two small transparent slits. The slits were the eyes of the dragon, Niner, which was displayed as a prized trophy head in one of the king’s many rooms. It was in this room that young Thomas witnessed the murder of his father the King. Also, in king Roland’s

The most obvious of the themes is that of violence, brutality, and torture. Tied into this also is the idea of injustice. Many of these themes are intertwined. Constantly the reader is berated with violent images, or descriptions of violence. These must be on nearly every second page of the novel. A good