In the book The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan, the author uses similes and a hyperbole. These are all on the same page, where the author describes Afales Bay in Greece. The first simile the author uses is “its ninety oars like toothpicks” (5). The author was describing the protagonists’ ship called Argo II. He was simply comparing the oars to toothpicks, which makes me assume that the characters are far away from their ship, making the massive ship look small. Another simile the author uses was “The air was as steamy as a Roman bathhouse” (5). The author was describing how high the temperature was at the Bay, and how the air was steamy, just like a Roman bathhouse, which would make me think that it’s usually hot in a Roman bathhouse. The hyperbole the author used was “the water was so blue it might’ve been dyed with food coloring” (5). This shows that the water is really blue. I actually went ahead and looked online to see how the Bay looked like and it is really blue. The picture to the left is what Afales Bay looks like.
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The book I am reading is The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan. The main characters in this book would be Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Jason Grace, Leo Valdez, Frank Zhang, Piper McLean, and Hazel Levesque, who are the demigods of the Prophecy of Seven. A demigod is an offspring of a god, in this case the Greek and Roman Gods. These seven people are important because it is up to them to either save the world from the awakening Gaea, or destroy the world trying. Percy is heroic and brave. Annabeth is intelligent and very orderly and powerful. In the text, Jason describes her as “deadly” and the author states, “but even without a visible weapon, she looked deadly. Her stormy gray eyes scanned the surroundings, alert for any threat. If any dude asked Annabeth fro a drink, Jason figured she was more likely to kick the guy in the bifurcum” (5). According to the glossary at the end of the book, bifurcum is Latin for “private parts”. Jason is pretty serious and goes by the rules. Leo is energetic and funny. Frank is a bit shy and loyal. Piper is caring and at some times aggressive. The only person Piper is really caring to is Jason, being his girlfriend and she shows this when she notices that Jason’s getting a bit tired and even though Annabeth urges the group to move on, Piper says, “We can rest for a second. Catch your breath, Jason” (4). Hazel is bright and creative. Most of these characters are dynamic like how Piper comes from being shy and weak, to extroverted and string in the last book. While a few stay static, like Frank who never really changes and stays his shy self.
The book I am reading is The House of Hades by Rick Riordan. In chapters 13-16, Percy and Annabeth, two of the main seven protagonists of the series, are trapped in the dark depths of Tartarus, which is like hell. Their chances of survival were extremely low. The goal was to get to the Doors of Death, the only gateway back to the mortal world. The couple encounter a group of vampires which might lead them to the Doors of Death, so Percy and Annabeth choose to follow them. This is an important turn of events because Percy thought that they would get lost and die in Tartarus. After following the vampires for a while, Percy and Annabeth reach a cliff. When they climb down the cliff, the vampires are nowhere to be seen. Percy and Annabeth had fallen into a trap. On page 105, the author states, “If the the empousai were still ahead of them, they should’ve been visible somewhere on the plains. Unless they were hiding… Too late, ,Percy drew his sword. The empousai emerged from the rocks all around the - five of them forming a ring. A perfect trap.” Empousai are basically vampires, but in Greek language. This scene shows the bravery of Percy and the intelligence of Annabeth. Together, they stall the vampires from killing them for a while when a giant named Bob comes to the rescue and defeats all the vampires. On pages 112 and 113, Bob the giant “turned to the two remaining empousai, who stood over Percy. One was foolish enough to attack. She lunged with the speed of a tiger, but she never stood a chance. A spearhead jutted from the end of Bob’s broom. With a single deadly swipe, he cut her to dust… Percy couldn’t speak. He couldn’t bring himself to believe that something good had actually happened” (Riordan page 112-113). Percy reacts with a wave of relief and gracious. This part of the story takes place in the rising action. This is an incredible event and this book can just get the reader absorbed into the story. This is an exciting event, and I believe that Percy and Annabeth will make it to the Doors of Death.
The book I am reading is Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile by James Patterson. In chapters 77 and 79, the author uses similes. In chapter 77, the Kidd family have an obstacle, Nathan Collier, who is their treasure hunting rival. Tommy is the driving the Jeep that they received from a man named Dumaka, and he speeds up and swerves around the eighteen-wheeler truck. Then the narrator states, “ We shot up the road like a cheetah with a rocket strapped on its back “ (372). The author is using a simile by comparing two things using “like” . He compares the the speed of their vehicle to the speed of a cheetah with a rocket strapped on its back. The author uses this simile because he wants to emphasize how fast they were going, by using the fastest land animal and something that boosts up your speed. In chapter 79, The Kidd family are captured by African pirates and are giving an explanation of how their parents died. Bick says, “ Why, the waves were as tall as mountains that night, the winds as fierce as a lion…” (379). The author uses these similes to show how crazy and bad the storm that killed the Kidds’ parents was. This time, the author uses the term “as” instead of “like”.
The book I am reading is Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile by James Patterson. The Kidd family is on their quest to find the great treasure at King Solomon’s Mines in Africa. The Kidd siblings are in a jungle following a map that Storm had created from memory. They encounter another person who’s also looking for the Mines named Guy Dubonnet Merck. This scene is important because it creates a turning point in the story because the siblings have been defeated by Merck as stated in the text. “But voilà! I have finally defeated you, you foolish children!” (330). This complicates the situation because they were only a mere five miles away from their goal. The kids react as if they were outsmarted, but Storm’s map turned out to be a fake one and it actually came from a book called King Solomon’s Mines by Rider Haggard. So, Storm is just going to give up and give the map to Merck when Tommy says, “you would just give Guy Dubonnet Merck the sixty trillion dollars’ worth of diamonds buried inside the treasure pit barely five miles up the road from where we are standing right now?” (331). This shows how they are pretending to act like if it was really a real map and how determined they are to fool Merck. This part of the story takes place in the Rising Action. The Kidd family are a clever group of people since they can fool a grown man, considering the fact that Tommy, who is the oldest, is only seventeen years of age.
The book I am reading is titled Treasure Hunters by James Patterson. The main characters would be the Kidd siblings. There are four of them: Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy. Bick and Beck are twins, and their names are short for Bickford and Rebecca, Bick is older by two minutes. Storm is the 2nd oldest, and her name is short for Stephanie. Tommy is the oldest of all four and his name is short for Thomas. Bick is adventurous and hardworking. Beck is an amazing artist and is also a hardworking. Storm is the smartest and has photographic memory, which can come handy. Tommy is the most hardworking of all, ever since their father had disappeared. He’s muscular and cool. In the book, Bick is trying to reunite with his siblings during a storm, when he hears a door open and the author states, “Tommy, who was seventeen and had the kind of bulging muscles you could only get from crewing ona sailing ship you whole life, had just put his shoulder to the wood to bash it open”(13,14). After the storm, Captain Kidd, the childrens’ father, is missing and while looking for him, the author says, “She’s two years older than me and Beck, and she’s such a genius (her IQ scores are off the charts) she’s kind of socially awkward”(21). The author was writing about Storm.
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