My Life - Original Writing

A woman becoming Pharaoh had been almost unheard of in ancient Egypt until Hatshepsut was born. Hatshepsut was the second daughter of the pharaoh, Thothmes I. After her sister, Neferu-khebit, died, Hatshepsut was the next heir to the throne unless a male married her and became Pharaoh. After Thothmes passed away, Hatshepsut fearfully, yet confidently, claimed the throne and commenced one of the most successful She-Pharaoh reigns ever recorded. Pauline Gedge’s Child of the Morning explained the social, political, economic, and cultural aspects of ancient Egypt’s society during Hatshepsut’s reign as Queen and Pharaoh.

After the death of Alexander the Great, the empire was in complete chaos for Alexander had not named an heir. While Perdiccas suggested waiting for the birth of Alexander and Roanne’s child, I proposed to divide the kingdom amongst the leading generals. After my campaign to divide the empire, I successfully acquired the title as the ruler of Egypt. I, Ptolemy Soter Ⅰ, the Pharaoh of Egypt, have contributed greatly to the advancements of my kingdom. For starters, I have stabilized the economy and placed the administration on sound footing.

Seven years earlier, I migrated to Hawaii when I was twenty-three. I had flown away from my mother and my life in the Philippines. Like young adults and being rebellious, I wanted to live on my own away from my mother 's roof. I left the city life I grew up with in the Philippines in hope of a better life in another country.

Many times throughout the book Pharaoh is observed to be completely lost in thought. Sometimes it takes a few seconds for his mother to bring him back out of his dazed state (63).

Hello there! I am Pharaoh Hatshepsut. Your probably know that pharaohs are usually boys. Well, that when it changes… I’m actually a girl! That is probably one of the reasons why I’m so great. There are so many reasons why I’m such a great pharaoh like my stopping the Nile River from flooding to much and stopping slavery and doing trade instead. My people are mad at me because of my wishing for the Nile River to flood to let the banks never dry out. “What was the effect of that?”, you might say? Well, the flooding of the Nile River ended up having the farmlands flood. That was very bad! All the farmers got mad and it was hard to harvest food. Everything was ruined. I ended up wishing for the flooding of the Nile River not too much, just enough

It came time for Mufassa to choose who would run the desert, and I was ready to be King. On the day Mufassa was declaring a new king, he ordered everyone to the priderock, and he announced Simba would be King! “WHAT!” “Simba is way too young, unintelligent, and way too weak to run the desert” I told Mufassa. I should have known, my brother always hated me and would do anything in his power to make me leave the desert.

This time, we went a little more back in time when Amenhotep IV was Pharaoh.

“Not until I’m holding his head,” he replies, deliberately tapping his fingertips on the smooth surface of his wooden armrest.

As the central character of the Egyptian state, Pharaoh was the intercessor between the gods and humans. In temples, he was figured as equal of the gods, but he was primarily their servant. He was the only human allowed to interact with the gods. On Earth, the Pharaoh was the first priest, the foster father of the people, the valiant protector and the supreme legislator (“Role of the Pharaoh”).

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.” Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph’s finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain

But time went on and the rulers grew old. The kingdom was not what it used to be.

I haven’t been able to talk to you diary… I just can’t. That day in the park, was the worst. I’m not sure if I can keep calm while I tell you this, but, the news is just horrible. As I told you before, mother and I couldn’t find father for quite some time, so we went over to the general. He told us something that I just can’t bare to say again after this. He said that father never came back from the very last battle they had. He told us he was shot and instantly died. At that moment I was frozen. I looked at mother and I could tell she was too. Everything just stopped and I had to close my eyes. Oh diary, I can’t speak of this any more. It’s too hard to think about.

Day 573 I have been pharaoh for some time now. My people have started building my temple.I know it will take a long time but it’s so I can live my life when I’m dead. I need to make Egypt more powerful. I will be the best pharaoh of Egypt. They will all remember me. I have to get more land I can do that if we take over more land.

There was a certain feeling of dread hanging in the air. Everyone was crowded around the royal bed, there was no sound in the silent room other than the pharos occasional rusty cough. Death was edging closer with every passing second. He had been on a ventilator for over a year now and it seemed like life was coming to an end for him very soon and it might be a matter of minutes before he's no more. He held his son Ibrahim’s hand and whispered “Take care of your”- but before he could finish his sentence he lost his battle against cancer. Suddenly the silent room burst into tears as the sons realized they had just lost their hero, as the pharaoh's wife just realized she had lost the man of her life, cries could be heard from outside the palace as everyone in Cairo just lost their beloved leader at the sheer age of 66.

In Terrance Coffey’s first book, Valley of the Kings, Coffey resurrects the pharaohs, kings, queens, and citizens of ancient Egypt and other nations. Set in the time period 14th century B.C.E., this novel is filled with love, wars, and politics. It begins with Amenhotep III and his addiction to a fatal drug, and continues with his oldest son, Amenhotep IV, who renames himself to Akenaten. The pharaoh’s regrettable decision to separate from Thebes and the kingdom’s pantheon heightens the battle between royalty and religion, which comes to a point when Akenaten’s chief wife, Nefertiti, declares herself a pharaoh after her husband’s death. She is soon succeeded by her son and the heir to the throne, the young King Tut, who can’t escape his