Monday, November 15, 2010

The Lost Hero but is he really? ( Spoiler Alert )

The Lost Hero is a book by Rick Riordan the author of The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It doesn't have Percy as the main character but revolves around 3 new half-bloods. There is Jason who wakes up on a school with no memories of himself and who he is. Then he finds out that he has a best friend and a girlfriend. When I first read this I thought that maybe Jason was required and was suppose to have no memories so he doesn't do anything that would cause harm. As I read on he was different then the others and that he came from another camp from the Roman aspect which explained how he knew Roman fluently.

Piper McLean seems different from the other campers as well. When they first got to camp, Annabeth told her that all the fun memories was not real and all done by the Mist. If I was told that it would feel strange because if you did all those stuff wouldn't you have known?  Even though she is the daughter of Aphrodite, she doesn't want to accept it. As in the book she refuses to wear the clothes from the blessing of Aphrodite and the makeup which would keep going on no matter what she does. In her dreams the giants blackmail her to betray her friends so she can save her dad and feels that no matter how hard she tries, people will eventually find out that she would be like Silena Beauregard the traitor. Piper is not the same as most Aphrodite girls but will stick to her friends even if she was in trouble.

Leo Valdez is the son of Hephaestus and has the ability to conjure and withstand fire which is a rare ability. He is unsure of what to do and what is his purpose. He feels like the only one that isn't special and looks at Jason with jealously. Throughout the book he see thats he is special and helps out his friends in various ways like building Festus the bronze dragon, and freeing Hera. 

4 comments:

  1. i like how you dicected the characters. (sorry i cant spell)

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  2. I like how you said how'd you would have reacted to what annabeth said.

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  3. Kenneth,

    This post has way too much retell. I'd love to hear more about your thoughts on the book. What questions were you left asking yourself about this book?

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  4. rick riordan is such a popular author...and i think that he does a lot of things intentionally as a writer. I want you to slow down your reading a bit and really think about what he wants you to know, feel, think...what theory can you create about your book?

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