once said, “There is no friend as loyal as a book” (“Quotes”). Since the end of the third grade year, I have had a roaring passion for storytelling in all forms; radio, theater, and books. Journeying with the characters, I grew to thrive on their riveting adventures. I solved mysteries with Nancy Drew, attended Hogwarts with Harry Potter, and faced dragons with Bilbo Baggins. Of all of these adventures, I hold those of Percy Jackson the closest to my heart because of the deep rooted friendships
station was my favorite book when I was little. This is mostly because of the song my mom sang with the pictures. The other part that would be entertaining to a kid is the bright colorful pictures of the baby animals going down, one by one down by the station Inch By Inch: Like Down by the Station, it had a song that went with it, that I can still remember to this day. For a while this was my bedtime story every single night because I loved it so much. The Purple Pebble: In this wonderful book, it was
about my actual favorite thing in literature: diversity and proper representation. A notable issue that comes up in a lot of YA books is the lack of diversity; people of color, LBGTQ people, people with disabilities—a whole lot of books don 't have them, and it 's a huge problem. A lot of authors have really improved over time in their representation, but today we’re going to use Rick Riordan as an example. You probably know Riordan for his bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, as
My earliest memories are sitting in kindergarten, and having the older students read to all of us for Accelerated Reading. My next significant memory is that of personally out reading them when they read the books and the tests to me, and then trying (to no avail) to get them to let me read by myself. When my parents were first teaching me, they always encouraged me to read. Unfortunately, as time went on I grew away from reading with my family and I became withdrawn with my reading. It eventually
deeds and events that are significant to the culture of the poet. Many ancient writers used epic poetry to tell tales of intense adventures and heroic feats” (“Epic Poetry: Definition, Heroes & Stories” E). This is the equivalent to the way one would describe the Iliad. The poem is comprised of twenty four books that tell the story of the ninth year of the Trojan war. The war was waged against Troy in 12th century B.C.E by the Achaeans, also known as the Greeks.This was because Paris, son of Priam
was a child, my parents always pushed me to move further in my learning. One of the ways they enforced that on me was to get me to read for at least thirty minutes to an hour every day. This may not seem like much now, but back then, I definitely had strong feelings about it. During elementary school, my parents would always take me and my siblings to the local library, and even though there were times when I wasn’t interested in reading and would count the minutes go by, I thank my parents for that
entitled to my own opinion, and that is what entitles me to make suggestions toward changes in this ever changing, ever evolving canon list of influential works of literature. I would like to point out four works that could be removed from this list, that are either simply outdated, or uninteresting to current generations, and will note books that have the same general theme to take their place. In order to determine which books should be omitted, I asked my family about their opinions on books I’ve read
The book I have read for my Outside Reading Book is The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan. This is the fifth and final book in The Heroes of Olympus series. This is the book where the final battle between the demigods and gods vs. the giants and Gaea the earth mother. Gaea was out to take over the world and kill the mortals. banish the gods to Tartarus and extinct the demigod race. In the book the seven of the prophecy travel to the ancient lands of the gods: Greece. They must fulfill the line of
Hercules For my research paper I chose to explore and analyze instances of the great Greek/Roman hero, Heracles (Hercules), appearing in popular culture and the effect his myths had on early civilizations. Considered by most to be the greatest of the Greek folk heroes, Hercules was the embodiment of masculinity and physical power. The word “herculean” literally translates into “having enormous strength, courage, or size” (dictionary.com.) Since their inception, the myths and legends of Hercules
My original thought when comparing Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Lightning Thief the movie and Classical mythology was that there would be many more references to the myth of Perceus than any other myth throughout the movie in its entirety. That’s where I was wrong. After watching the movie again and researching the different hero myths my opinion has changed. My new thoughts are that the movie is not influenced by the myth of Perceus any more than other hero myths. The movie ties together