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    Title: The Red Pyramid 1. Significance of the title: In this fictitious story, the plot revolves around a red pyramid created by the Egyptian god of deserts, Set, whom causes Sadie and Carter to develop their magical skills and to push their search for their father, and answers, along. 2. Genre: Fantasy, Adventure Fiction 3. Date of original publication: May 4, 2010 4. Author: Rick Riordan 5. Setting(s): London, UK; New York, NY; Paris, France; Egypt; Washington, D.C.; Duat 6. Importance of this/these

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    Just like a pyramid, all things need a structure to help the object fulfill its objective. The novel, The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan displays the adventurous life of two young children, Sadie and Carter Kane, attempting to save their father, Julius Kane, and the world from the god of chaos, Set. Traveling to different cities in order to gain many allies and valuable information on how to stop Set, Carter and Sadie also gain fierce enemies in their intriguing journey. Telling the story in a first

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    Throughout the book, The Red Pyramid by, Rick Riordan, the main character, Carter, changed over the course of the book due to his new found powers that led to a whole other world. Before Carter learned about his family heritage, he was eager and uncultivated. Carter loved his dad and would do anything to make him proud of him, even things that he didn’t understand fully. On page 2-3 of The Red Pyramid by, Rick Riordan, while Carter is narrating, it says, “... my dad trained me early to keep all

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    Egyptian Pyramids written and researched by Natalie Alexander The Red Pyramid This was a real pyramid built by the Pharaoh Sneferu in the Old kingdom, the first peak of Egyptian civilization. The Red Pyramid, though, wasn’t originally red. It used to have white Tura limestone as its casing. However, the pyramid’s white layers eventually was stripped away to make new buildings in Cairo, showing the pink granite underneath and giving it a reddish color. It is

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    The Red Pyramid was made during the Old Kingdom in Dahshu and is also known as the North Pyramid. The Red Pyramid is 104 meters (345 ft.) long. This pyramid was built for Pharaoh Sneferu. This pyramid took about 11-17 years to build and was made with more than 150 layers of stone! The Red Pyramid was not always red. People took some of the white Tura limestone for buildings in Cairo, revealing the red limestone beneath. Inside it’s very 19th centuryish. There are 1 burial chamber and 2 smaller chambers

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    Egyptian culture is quite different from mine; on the other hand, there are some similarities between the two. The book which I am comparing and contrasting is The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan. This fiction book is about two kids that are my age named Carter and Sadie. The want to live a normal life but their Egyptian ancestry makes it a little difficult. They Learn that their ancestors were pharaohs, and they have royal blood. They have to go on a journey to defeat the god of chaos. They must learn

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    In the book, The Red Pyramid, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a journey across the United States to defeat Set, the Egyptian God of storms and evil. Throughout their adventure, we observe how Chaos is portrayed as destructive and wrong-doing, while Order is portrayed as helpful and good. “The storm was worse up ahead. A lot worse. A wall of black blotted out the night sky, the mountains, the highway, as if it would swallow the whole world,” (431). When Carter and Sadie reach Phoenix, they watch as

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    simplistic to erect. In this guide you'll see its resemblance to the Egyptian pyramid design. The scale of the structure is much smaller than the Egyptian tombs but serves the same purpose. The structure also was as significant to the Persians as much as the pyramids to the Egyptians. To begin with, the structure was made of limestone rectangles which were carved and placed together to form a step-like structure. There are seven pyramid succeeding steps which are irregular in shape. The seven stones are significant

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    general and I am one of his thousands of soldiers . We as soldiers use the ancient pyramids to our advantage by using them as shields to block the bombs, bullets and swords coming at us. Once I asked my dad what temple that this one was, he said, “This tomb is where Menes lays to rest, he was 1 mauled by a hippopotamus 2 And also Built a dam around city Memphis, as well as 3 building more than 100 of egypt’s pyramids. The next day we went to another tomb but this time i had to help set up base. The

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    Why were the pyramids so important to the history of Egypt? Pyramids housed dead, important pharaohs and is now a main source of income through tourism. Pyramids were representations of Ancient Egyptian religion, and also benefit many people by learning more about it. The history started in 2650 B.C.E at the death of King Djoser. His architect, Imhotep, built a design of pyramid called the Step Pyramid. This was supposed to represent a large stairway to which he would climb up to the sun-god in

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