Trojan Horse: For Better or for Worse

In the original they did not have the gods shown playing war. The war started because Paris wanted Helen to be safe in Troy. In the play the gods made it so that Paris would get Helen. Also The gods were taken much more seriously in the original version and Helen was not a ditsy. The reason that they brought in the horse at the end was because they saw sign from Poseidon that they should keep it, not because of Helen wanting a Unicorn.

In the play the gods chose the war to happen because they wanted to play a game. Also most of the gods and adults were being childish in the play. Helen was a complete ditsy and because of her they brought in the horse at the end and not because of sign from the god Poseidon. Also the original does not have anything to do with modern day things but the play has many allusions to modern day things. Much of it is the same though because they have most of the same characters except Ares is in the play instead of Apollo. It is good because it is funny and comedy never fails to appease and that is why

I like the new story better because comedy is always more fun to read than a serious story.

The Power of Gandhi

The war rages on with bullets shot from both sides. People die every second in the bloody war that has been going on. This fighting is what Mohandas Gandhi does not do because as he once said “An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind”. Gandhi was a great leader and he led without violence. Gandhi had led India to independence without aggression but he had also inspired the entire world for non-violent movements.

Gandhi had gotten to know how to use non-violent movements because he studied Indian law at University College London.  He had went to London in 1888 to study there. He came back to India on 1891. In 1993 he accepted a yearlong contract with Dada Abdulla & Co. This is one of the turning points in his life. Since he accepted the contract he went to South Africa. There he had experienced many discrimination against him and that had probably urged him to stop it later in his life which he ended up doing. HE had once said “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” He had changed in Africa and that let him change the world.

He might have gone to law school but many accomplishments didn't even use law. Once Gandhi himself led a 200 mile salt march so that the people of India could grow their own salt instead of buying it from the British. Also he had gone on a 21 day fast just to protest against the war between Muslim and India. He wanted to help India out by making the economy better and stopping bloodshed.

Those accomplishments were fantastic however they were not his greatest. His greatest accomplishments were when he had taught the Indians in South Africa to become free, but furthermore, what touched the peak was when he had freed India from the British. He had led many acts to make the British leave India. What was so special was that the acts he did, had not required violence.

Gandhi might have led India to freedom what his act really changed, was that it led the world to a non-violent way of doing things. He had done what many people cannot and he had did it without having to use violence. He did not just help his homeland but he also inspired the rest of the world for the future.

Trojan Horse

The conflict was that they were fighting over Helen. The conflict got resolved because the Greeks had tricked the Trojans into letting them into their palace while making them drunk and asleep so that their city Troy would easily fall. It was sneaky because they had tricked the Trojans so that they let them into their home but not only did they do that, they tricked them into partying so that they were drunk and asleep so that they could not fight for their city.

Nowadays this would probably not happen because people usually don't take in gifts that they don't know about. It could happen though because some people would still take a gift in and have that happen. This could happen at a school or business because the school could be gifted for something and they would take it in unknowingly and then the enemy would be there. And in the shop they could get a gift for having good items and then the enemy could ransack them. This has happened in many shows because they just wanted one episode to show the use of a Trojan horse. I have not seen it in real life however. 

True Meaning

Author’s Note: This is a text analysis piece on Fablehaven written by Brandon Mull.

Symbolism is shown throughout many things; life, movies and books. One book that symbolism flows through is the book Fablehaven, by Brandon Mull. He uses many symbols to represent different aspects throughout the novel.

Like many books, Fablehaven has the use of light and darkness to represent good and evil. Good is represented by light because they are trying to save the world, unlike the evil who is trying to plunge the world into darkness, hatred and chaos. These are common symbols used not only throughout books, but in movies and even in real life.

Light and Darkness are not the only things representing good and evil throughout the book. The evil are wicked things like demons which is common, because demons are usually taken as evil beings and they are definitely not different here. The good is represented by gentler things such as, humans, fairies, and unicorns. This is also common because fairies and unicorns are generally taken as the calm and helpful creatures.

The sides were not the only things that had symbolism. In the story there were artifacts and some of them even had their own symbols. One of the artifacts was a cat-shaped teapot which would heal any wound unless they are dead. It is shaped like a cat because in Egypt the goddess of Cat, Bast, had once been known as a deity representing protection. Another artifact was a horn of a unicorn but this horn you could drink out of and if you did you would stop aging. The artifact was a unicorn’s horn because a unicorn is considered magical and in some fables a unicorn is immortal, so it was chosen to represent the artifact that gave eternal life.

Symbols are shown throughout everything, whether it’s in life, a movie, or in a book. Fablehaven is just one of the many books that show the use of symbolism.  After you see the symbolism in Fablehaven you will see more aspects of symbolism throughout life.

Wrinkle in Time: Fighters

In the book there were many people that were fighters and Gandhi was one of them. He was probably chosen to be one of the fighters because he had many accomplishments beforehand. He led India  into independence but he did it without fighting so that that there was not much bloodshed. He fought for the civil rights in India. Another thing he believed in was ahimsa. That means to do no harm. He would not want the thing to do any harm so he would try and stop it. He would have probably done so by reasoning with it because of his virtue. If he succeeded, which he could because that was why he was chosen in the first place, he would save the universe without having to sacrifice fighters or stars in order to do so.

Another great person would be Abraham Lincoln. He had led America to being a slave-free country and he was a great president. He had accomplished many great things in life. He had made the emancipation proclamation and also the thirteenth amendment. He had also led the Union to victory against the Confederate. Also there are some stories where Abraham Lincoln had defeated vampires who were helping the Confederates. Also he had preserved the spirit of the Union after they had defeated the Confederate since they were sad because of all the bloodshed. All of these reasons are why he would be a great fighter against the dark thing.

Not Everything is as it Seems

Author’s Note: This is a analysis of the symbolism shown throughout the story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.

In The Lottery things are not as they might seem. The lottery is a prize given every year to someone, but the prize is a not one you want to win. When you win everyone else has to throw rocks until you die. In this twisted story they use a lot of symbolism to show the meaning of things.

There are many items used in the lottery. In the lottery, the thing used to pick who wins is a large black box which has been worn out and splintered. The box has been used for a long time so it represents the dark history of the lottery and why the tradition of the lottery should wear out of use just like the box has.

The dark box is not the only thing has symbolism. The prize of winning is death and I think the author made it like that to show that not all things are as they might seem. Also I think it represents that sometimes you have to let go of something because the town is not letting go of their tradition of the lottery which keeps getting people killed every year.

Not everything is at it seems. Darkness can be hidden underneath anything. Just like it was in the lottery where winning seems like losing. Throughout it there were many things representing the darkness and symbolism was used to show it. 

A Clean, Well-lighted Place-Hemingway Story vs. Film

The story and movie were similar but had many differences. In the movie much of the symbolism was lost in the story the old man sat in the only shaded area which showed despair and loneliness while in the movie that had the old man in the light probably so that we could see him better. Also the people who acted in it made it different since they were Irish or Scottish. Their accent made it difficult to understand what they were saying. All that had made a difference.

While the movie did not portray the story very well it had its advantages. The music in the movie had let us imagine the sadness much better than the story. But that was all that was good about the movie. If the adaptation hadn't lost much of the symbolism and also had different actors it would have been better.

Analysis of A Clean and Well-lighted Place-Hemingway

Author's Note: This is a Analysis of A Clean and Well-lighted Place-Hemingway. I am talking about 2 waiters in the story.

The two waters represent life. The younger waiter shows how the inexperienced(young people) show more rage and would lose their cool faster while the older waiter shows that the experience(old people) are more calm and have more wisdom. In this case the younger waiter lost his cool with the old man and got enraged about how he wouldn't leave so the young waiter made him leave and was talking about how the old man should have died. The older waiter knew why the old man was like that and he felt for him and wanted to let him stay to drink in the quiet place they call the cafe.

What Will Happen?

Author’s note: This is a prediction piece on the short novel Ransom of the Red Chief by O. Henry. It is on what will happen after that book has ended.

Mice allergic to cheese, policemen getting arrested are both examples of irony. Another example is this short novel. In Ransom of the Red Chief two people kidnap a kid, but soon find out the kid has them trapped. They ask for a ransom of money to the parents but the parents soon decline and offer them to take the kid off their hands for a price. Afterwards they run getting as far away from the kid as possible. That was where the short novel ended but the story does not have to end there as well.

After the two men run they will split up. One of the men will star earning a honest living while the other keep on kidnapping. Without the help from his partner the kidnapper keeps on failing. He loses all of his money soon and finally gets arrested for kidnapping. The partner hears of this and bails him and they start earning a honest living together continue the friendship they had.

Why I predict this is because the man who want to start earning a honest living was the one who suffered more from the kid. He did not want to go through that ever again so he quit and wanted to live honestly. The other man did not learn his lesson so he kept on trying to kidnap. He could not do it with just himself and fails and loses all of his money. He got arrested because after he became broke, the sheer desperation for money and made him less careful. The partner however still thought of his friend and he was lonely. He wanted his friend back and when he heard he got arrested he bailed him so that they could start living honestly together.

Background knowledge on what pain, desperation, and friendship can do to a person also helped predict this. When someone goes through lots of suffering because of something they would want to quit doing that. That is what happened to the person who suffered from the kid. He had enough of it and quit. Also when someone gets desperate they don’t think straight and they make mistakes. That is what happened to the person who lost all of his money. He got desperate and finally got caught kidnapping. Friendship can make people go out of their way to help their friends. That is the person who was making a honest living bailed his friend so that they could be with each other again.

That is what I predict happens to the kidnappers. The background knowledge helped predict what would happen because without it we would not know what their actions could have been. Pain, desperation, and friendship are all things that happened in the prediction and knowing how those have been a part of other books and movies helps. 

The Power of the Lion(Figurative Analysis)

Author’s note: This is an analysis on my lion poem. It is about the figurative language used in it.

Figurative language helps us imagine the words on the writing just like it did in this piece. All the uses of figurative language let us imagine the words clearly. It also helped make it fun in the process. Instead of having the lion be explained boringly, the lion was explained colorfully. The tone is praising because I am praising the lion for all the power he has. However the mood showed the readers that lion was a little bit cocky to have himself being explained like this.

Many types of Figurative language was used in this piece. Similes and metaphors helped us compare the lion to other things to know what the lion is like more precisely. Personification was to show how he was in a more fun way. Hyperboles helped us imagine his strength compared to the other animals. Onomatopoeia helped show us how he sounded. The allusion used reminded us of memories of a movie if we had seen it. Lastly the  alliteration helped the beat of the poem instead of having it be in a monotone voice. All these figurative languages hook us into reading the poem because we will like it more because of it.  

Parody poem

Author's note: This is a parody of the poem This is Just to Say. The tone is sarcastic and humorous.

You know your stash

Of cash

The was in

Your closet

I have used it

So that you don’t

Waste it on

Your sorry self

So I'm sorry

That you couldn’t

use the money

On your stupid self

What to do?

Author’s note: This is a conflict/resolution piece on the book Eagle Strike.

What would you do if you were a prisoner to a maniac and you had the chance to escape? Would do you run like a fawn escaping from a lion or would you be like Alex Rider? Alex hadn't run away scared, but he had stopped to look for evidence to put the psychopath away so that he would not hurt anyone else. The psychopath, Damian Cray, was trying to get rid of drugs forever by launching America's nuclear bombs at drug facilities all over the world. Alex got caught in that conflict when he had followed Yassen, an assassin working for Damian Cray.

Alex Rider is not your ordinary kid. When he saw the person who had killed his uncle, he knew there was a problem. Instead of running away he had set out to find out what was wrong. He knew that if he followed him that he would be in danger but he did it anyway which had saved millions of lives.

Quick thinking is a trait that Alex Rider has used a lot to save him. When he was trapped in a room with almost nowhere to go Alex hadn't let panic get to him. He had quickly examined the room to find a way out. When he got out he had come across many traps. He thought he would use them to play dead in front of the guards so that he could escape behind them. His quick thinking and led him to a solution which saved him from doom.

Not all of the solutions had been good in the book. The head of M16, a secret organization, had not believed Alex when he was told that the international pop star, who was considered a saint, was up to something. That had almost led to many nuclear bombs exploding in different places of the world which would have destroyed millions. Their solution to wait and see what would happen had put the world at risk.

Millions of lives were saved because Alex decided to go after Damian and stop him from launching the nuclear bombs by killing him. He knew he would be the only one to do it because since no one believed him, not even M16, the organization he has worked for in the past.

Analysis:

Figurative language helps explain the mood of a written piece really well and this piece was no exception. The tone was easy to see because the figurative language helped explain it. At the start of the piece it was showing that there was not much hope for Mudville. Then they had used figurative language to make Casey look like the savior and angel. Because of that our hopes would have gotten up but then was quickly destroyed in a pleasant way.

They had used things like anaphora to make the piece flow smoothly. That had made the piece much more interesting than having it in a monotone voice. Not only did they have anaphora, they had metaphors to explain things in a more fun way. Personification was a great way to explain things because it created a clear image of the thing being explained. All these are a figurative language. They helped the piece by making it more fun and in the process making it have a clear image of the idea being presented.

Giant Pandas: Strength in Brawn not Numbers

Authors’ note: I wrote this to show what pandas are like because not many people know what they are like.

The giant panda is a marvelous creature and they shouldn’t be taken for granted. There are only thousands left in the world. It is an endangered species and soon it might be extinct. We should keep the panda going because it is a wonderful creature. Not many people know about the panda and its qualities.

Giant pandas don’t always live up to their name. When babies the panda is considerably small. “A newborn cub weighs three to five ounces and is about the size of a stick of butter. Pink, hairless, and blind, the cub is 1/900th the size of its mother”(park). Its size is trivial compared to its mothers size and that makes it hard for the mother to take care of her cub. “Cubs do not open their eyes until they are six to eight weeks of age and are not mobile until three months” (park). They can’t even do anything until then so the mother has to do all the work for the baby until then.

After the baby has grown it will get its food from bamboo. Bamboo is what its diet mainly consists of. The panda will have to eat lots of bamboo because the panda has an inefficient digestion system and most of the food is passed as waste so it will eat lots of bamboo to make up for it (park). It also gets its water from bamboo because bamboo has water inside of it. Since that water is not enough it will also drink water from the stream.

Food that they eat keeps them alive but not as long as we live. Pandas lives are less than 40 years. It is not known how long a panda lives in the wild but scientists are sure it is less than what a panda lives in the zoo which is 35 years old reported by Chinese scientists (park). Their life-spans might be short but it is not the reason that they are endangered. People had hunted them and made them lose their habitat. We only acted to save them after they became endangered. The reason that they cannot populate fast is because a female panda usually only successfully raises 5-8 cubs in her lifetime (park).

Pandas are simple but fascinating. They have many qualities that people don’t know because they don’t care. They should care however because pandas have the right to live just like us. We should help their species live on and not become extinct.

The power of water

I was racing down the ocean trying to get to the Island before the evil titans did. I have to save the world from the brink of destruction by using my water powers to destroy the evil titans. Will I get there in time or will the world be destroyed. On the island there is an atomic bomb but of much bigger scale. Big enough to destroy the world. I don't know why the Russians ever made it but they had and they put it on this deserted island. I have to get there before the titans set it off. I reached and there they were. I shot my water at them and they went flying but the bomb was already set. I put a water fortress around it so that it couldn't go past but it would still destroy the entire island and me. But then my trusty Pegasus saved me and the world was saved because somehow the fortress stayed there and I got away just in time. Once again I saved the world.

The Real Story of Little Red Riding Hood

Once upon a time there was a girl called Little Red Riding Hood, nicknamed Red. But this story isn’t about her because she is the villain. Yes, the villain. And where there is a villain there is a hero. Today’s hero isn’t the common Prince Charming, since he is a wolf after all. A wolf who thwarted Little Red Riding Hood’s evil plan.

The wolf was doing his everyday business. He would go out to the store to buy groceries and deliver them to his grandma who lives by herself on the other side of the woods. The wolf would always go around the woods since there were bandits around there but this time he was running late so he went through the woods. What a mistake that was.

As the wolf went into the woods he thought he was safe, but that was because he didn’t know he was being followed by Little Red Riding Hood. Red was one of those smart villains who used trickery instead of brawn. Red knew that he could not take on the wolf so he would have to use a trap. Red and gotten to Wolf’s grandma before Wolf got there. She set the most elaborate trap ever used. There were invisible laser beams which if touched would activate the trap. Then a net would come out at lightning speed catching the wolf.

As wolf neared the house he didn’t go through the front door. He went through the back which his grandma always left open so he could surprise her. As he went in he noticed grandma was nowhere to be seen. He looked in her bedroom and noticed the bed sheets were ruffled. Grandma always tidies up after herself. He knew there must have been a struggle. He looked for where the culprit could be hiding and that was when he heard a thump. It came from the attic. Wolf went up to check but there was nothing. Then he got thumped in the back of the head. He got up woozily to see that it was grandma. “Why’d you do that,” wolf asked.

“Whoops, I thought you were the little evil one who put me here.” Grandma replied.

“Evil? Who would be evil enough to capture a harmless old lady?” Wolf asked with curiosity.

                                                                                                                                                                                             

“I think I was bait,” grandma said with a smaller tone.

“Bait. To get who,” Wolf said in a larger tone.

“You,” Grandma said in worry.

“There you are,” A figure in the shadows said.

“Who are you,” Wolf asked

“I am Little Red Riding Hood. Call me Red.” Red replied. While saying that Red launched herself at Wolf but that was where it went downhill. If she had kept using trickery she could have won, but she lost her cool when her trap didn’t work and tried to use brawn. That’s why she ended up in jail by the hands of Wolf. That’s the real story of Little Red Riding Hood.
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In the story that all of you might believe in Little Red Riding Hood is usually the good person. Since the view changed your thoughts would have changed too. Now you like Wolf better because the narrator was on his side. Because of that you were on the narrators side which made your thoughts bias. Your thoughts are one of the features about you that can be changed easily which is why narrators take advantage of it and make you think one way instead of having you consider all the possibilities. 

Deciding Against Demons

Author’s note: This is my piece on Fablehaven. I want you look at the cause and effect in it.

The world is about to be destroyed by demons who escaped by a prison by many different actions. Other actions however save the world. Those actions were made by the heroes. The effects were sometimes extreme but it had worked out in the end.

Some decisions had helped the demons in their cause. One of them was made by a boy named Seth, who was fooled by a demon. The demon had helped out Seth and then befriended him. Seth made a promise that he would heal the demon when he came back from his quest but when he realized that the demon had just wanted him to heal him so he could get away from his prison, it was too late. Because of that the demon had almost destroyed the world. When you are dealing with demons, even the bad decisions can look like it is for the good.

Seth however did not only make foolish choices.  He had made the decision to follow his uncle’s clues which led to him obtaining the most powerful sword ever created. With that power he had helped slay the demons and save the world from destruction.  Only he could have completed that task because he had the power in him. It was his decisions that had the effect on the world, not the sword.

The boy was not the only one who had made life changing differences. The fairy queen had made the decision to lose her home so that the world could be saved. She knew that we wouldn’t be able to defeat all the demons because there were just too many of them. But she made the plan to destroy their leaders so that the lower demons would lose hope and flee to the queen’s kingdom which was now their new prison. Because of that decision the demons had not lain waste to the world but instead were recaptured and put away.

The effects of these decisions were tremendous. There were terrible effects but they were quickly replaced by effects that were quite admirable. That’s what decisions can do. Some can be life-changing but they won’t always be bad. 

What's it Like in Villain's Shoes?

Author’s note: I am writing a point of view creative piece which is about the book Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan. In the piece the parts that I have italicized are the parts when the person I am telling the story through thinks about something. I want you to look at the voice I used as the eidolon.

The Mark of Athena is about these seven demi-gods, half-god and half- mortal, who have to stop Gaea, the villain, from destroying everything they know and cherish by joining the Greeks and Romans together so they are no longer enemies. The book actually has the point of view of all of the demi-gods since it switches between point of view from one person to another every chapter. I am writing in the point of view of an eidolon, which is a creature who serves Gaea and can also possess people. The three characters in the short story I wrote have their own special powers. Jason has the ability over air and lighting. Percy has the ability over water and can talk to animals. Piper can persuade people easily with her voice. 

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There they are, those pesky little heroes that my master wants. I shall capture them for her. I shall take control of Percy Jackson while my friend takes control of Jason Grace. Sons of the big gods heh. Let’s see how do they do against each other when we take over. “Jason," Piper cried out. “What’s wrong?” My friend has taken over while I have taken over Percy. This body might be disgusting but it will have to do. All has come into place. “Percy, help,” Piper said. I won’t help. Ill ride over there and point the tip of my sword at Jason. 

I said “One will die,” Then Jason said “I will choose.”

“No!” Piper yelled. I charged at Jason while he charged at me. Piper almost died if it hadn’t been for Percy’s and Jason’s pets or whatever they were. Jason and I had our swords meet and clash. “Stop it! Piper yelled. Her charmspeak is really annoying since it made Jason stop. Because of that I had to weaken my blow but it still knocked him out of his mount. “Percy!” Piper yelled. “Jason’s your friend. Drop you weapon!” Her charmspeak almost got to me that time. Jason got to his feet before she could finish the job. Jason hit me with a bolt of lightning and it had blasted me off my horse. “No!” Piper screamed. “Jason stop!”

Jason was saying “I cannot stop. One must die.”

“Who are you?” Piper demanded.

Jason said “We are the eidolons. We will live again.”

“Eidolons…?” Piper muttered. She probably doesn't even know who we are even though we should be known to everyone because we are so powerful. Piper then said “You’re – you’re some sort of ghost?”

Jason turned back to me and said “He must die.” I got back up from the lightning that hit me and I knocked Jason right off his feet. “Stop it!” Piper shouted. She has finally lost hope. There isn’t even charmspeak in her voice. Now I raised my sword, riptide, over Jason’s chest. Right when I was about to attack. I heard a strong charmspeak. Piper had demanded “Eidolon, stop.” It had made me freeze right in place.  “Face me,” Piper ordered at me.

“You have not chosen,” I said. “So this one will die.”

“You’re a spirit from the Underworld,” Piper guessed “You’re possessing Percy Jackson. Is that it?”

I sneered. “I will live again in this body. The Earth Mother has promised. I will go where I please, control whom I wish.”

“Leo… that’s what happened to Leo. He was being controlled by an eidolon.”

“Too late you realize. You can trust no one.” I heard a sound and a black wing. It must be blackjack. I started running towards it. “Ignore it!”Piper yelped at me. “Look at me.” Her charmspeak had made me obey but I had to say something. “You cannot stop me. I will kill Jason Grace.”

“You won’t kill him,” Piper ordered at me. “You will knock him out?”

“I … will knock him out?” I said wondering why she made me do that with her charmspeak.

“Oh, sorry.” Piper smiled. “I wasn’t talking to you.” Wait then who was she talking to, but that was when I saw black.

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That was when he had gotten knocked out by Blackjack the Pegasus and was not controlling Percy anymore. Piper is evil for defeating that eidolon or is that just what you think? The reader's thoughts are bias to what the narrator is saying. Since the eidolon was the narrator you would vote for him but in truth you would probably want Piper to win if you found out that she was trying to save the world from destruction. Whoever is narrating will always think his way is best and true but there is no best way. The best way is the one that you see. If someone is trying to destroy all the cities to make the world have a fresh start, it is a good idea in his eyes. But other people will see it as bad idea to destroy everything so in their eyes that's the better idea. That is how much the point of view in a story can change a reader's opinion.

The Mark of the Haven

Author’s note: I am comparing and contrasting the series of Fablehaven and Mark of Athena. I want you to look at the descriptive language I used to compare these books.

The world is being torn apart as evil as the upper hand. In both Fablehaven, by Brandon Mull, and Mark of Athena, by Rick Riordan, evil is on the verge of defeating the heroes and taking control of the world. In Fablehaven the demons are about to open the Zzyzx, which is a demon prison, and let all the demons in it, loose to tear up the world. In Mark of Athena the heroes are going right into a horde of monsters which is almost suicidal and seems like a hopeless attempt to overcome Gaea, the villain. The similarities in these novels are hard to see since they have such different plots but the small things are what make them alike.

Evil is about to prevail in both of these novels. Heroes are about to fall, but neither of the books’ heroes lose hope. That is what makes up these books: the hope that they are filled with. The heroes know their missions are suicidal, but they do it anyways like in the Mark of Athena they had said “But unless you had a team fighting simultaneously on the Tartarus side, a team powerful enough to defeat a legion of monsters in their home territory”(539). What that had said was that the seven demi-gods had to face a whole legion of monsters in their home territory. In both, demons are taking over and the heroes stop them by going on missions. In Fablehaven they go on missions to get certain items to stop evil. In the Mark of Athena they all go on missions to get information which is also to stop evil. The heroes in both books are determined to prevail in the end.

Evil is not only about to win, but the entities cause hardships for the good. In Fablehaven many people die for their cause, but it does not go in vain. In the Mark of Athena the heroes lie to each other and sometimes don’t trust each other, because the villain is turning them against each other. Many people get hurt in both books but in both  their sorrow doesn’t go to waste. They get hurt, but they finish the job they came to do. That is what makes them heroes.

While these novels are similar, they also contrast in many ways. The Mark of Athena has the root of Greek mythology because it is about those stories only modernized. Fablehaven is more made up and not taken from ancient stories. Gods are a plentiful in the Mark of Athena  as it was the culture of those time periods, but in Fablehaven their culture isn’t important since gods don’t rule over their life in the story. Fablehaven has relics in it which have special powers while in the Mark of Athena the demi-gods ,which are half human, half god people, are the ones with the special powers.  The stories are very different in that sense.

These two novels might have the theme of fighting evil which makes them seem the same but the subtle differences are what make the stories contrast. The books also have the same heart in it because the heroes in both care about the world while evil does not. Determination is aplenty inside the forces of good, that is what makes these books the same.