It's Too Good To Put It Down

Authors Note- I wrote my text analysis easy on Rick Riordan and his series because I feel that he is exceptional good skills at hooking readers and keeping them hooked.

As an author, writing something that appeals to readers is hard. Sometimes a author might just want to write what he wants. But it might not appeal to readers as much as it does to him. There are many ways to appeal to a some ones reading wants, and once you master those things you can be a very good author. Rick Riordan basically does this perfectly. In the series The Lost Hero, he attracts readers when he changes the point of view to create non-stop action, he puts in rivalry at the right times, and he has also kept characters from a different series. 

Always in a book comes a time when the reader loses interesting in what's happening or the scene is just flat out stale, lacking in action or romance. Often this changes the readers perspective on the quality of the book. While you're reading Rick Riordan's great literature, you may notice that his books don't ever lack in action. But has non-stop action, which is what most readers truly desire, even if Rick Riordan is their usually author of choice. Rick Riordans target audience is from 9-12. Usually those kids within that age group have a shorter attention span than most so Rick has to keep the action going, which he does perfectly.

When there's rivalry in a book it really get's the reader into what's going on, and they think a little more on the characters different attitudes. Throughout the book the characters either think about it, or talk about it to other people. Annabeth was talking to Piper and she said, "It has to be difficult for both Percy and Jason. They are both used to being in charge." Percy and Jason are always competing like on pg. 247. They were arguing over what to do and where to go.

Usually when an author creates a new series, the author doesn't use the same characters. They want to create new, breath taking characters. Who really make their way to the readers heart. This doesn't always work though. You can't guarantee 100% that a reader will love the new characters you put in. Rick Riordan is a genius author for doing what he did to hook almost 100% of the readers. He added new characters but also kept the most important ones from a different series. Now those people who don't enjoy new characters or really liked the old ones. Now in Rick Riordans series, The Lost Hero's. All the fans of The Lightning Thief, will like this series. All because of just keeping a couple characters from his other series.

People thought that Rick Riordan couldn't top his series The Lighting Thief,  but he did. Rick Riordan can easily appeal to readers because he has mastered this skill as an author. He uses different ways every time. In the series The Lost Hero, he has used very interesting ways. He used rivalry, change of point of view, and very interestingly he kept characters from his other series. This all of course worked and hooked the reader right away, especially if they were a fan of Percy Jackson.

The Trojan Horse

When the Trojan Horse was given to the Trojan's they first thought it was a trap. The Greeks had skilfully laid out a plan. Using someone to give the Trojan's false info, and then using the signal fire. I don't think this would be able to happen in today's time. Back then giving offerings wasn't so out of place or weird. Now it virtually never happens. Now a day if somebody gave our government a peace offering or anything like that, it would go through many security checks including, infa-red scanning, x-ray, the wood would be sampled and tested, and mostly it would be checked on the inside.

In today's time war is a lot different back then. Not just how it was played out, but why they were fighting in the first place. Instead of trying to take over each others cities, now there are terrorist attacks and/or bombings. After trying to invade a city back then it seems a lot more common to leave a peace offering. Now if you tried to give a piece offering to let's say, the United States. It wouldn't go over very well because of the pride of our contry.

When To Stories Cross

Many people know about Ric Riordans very successful series; The Lighting Thief. How Percy Jackson heroically saved Mt Olympus. Mt Olympus isn't just a legend among the demigods of Camp Half-Blood. It is the home to their very powerful Gods. What some people don't know is that there is another camp of Roman demigods that aren't known to the Greeks. Yet the Romans do not know of the Greeks themselves. Shortly after the end of The Lighting Thief series and the beginning of the Last Hero series, these stories begin to intertwine to create a very interesting story.

The Last Hero starts off with a confused and memory wiped main character. Throughout this series the character, Jason, begins to regain his memory and realizes that he was a roman and no he's a Greek. When he and his friends travel to camp half blood it creates very curious thoughts for the ready. For example when they arrive at camp, the readers beloved Percy Jackson is missing. This is a great way that Rick Riordan creates a little confusing with the reader thinking, "Oh where is he!" This is a great quality and a great way to get the reader hooked. A typical fan of Rick Riordon would be anxious to read on a find out where Percy really is. 

After these hero's go on a quest they come back and start working on a great battle ship for their next quest, but what they have just realized is that this quest requires the best Greeks, and the best Romans to work together. This is about the time when in the second book the point of view is switched over to Percy's. It was a really good idea to put in some new characters just to spice things up a bit with drama and some little crushes that are tried to be forgotten. While Percy is going through his battles in his own quest. He starts to get his memory back. During this stage in the book Rick Riordan, being the great author he is, still found a way to hook the reader in the book. Often while reading this the reader askes themselves, "Do I remember this?" This is a great quality to have a in a book, keeping the reader hooked during even the most anti-climax parts.

Throughout the book the flashbacks, or the newly remembered memories are often referred to as like a deja vu. If you've ever had a deja vu happen to you that you can remember, it's funny. This wasn't case for Percy and Jason. Another way these memories were referred to were feeling of having something on the tip of your tongue, but just can't remember it. For many people this is an uncomfortable feeling or it's very irritable. For Percy and Jason this was going on for months. 

When these two parties of people unite, the ready gets the feeling of excitement  There are so many more people to think about and so many more things happening. Finally these two stories have come together and are packed full of exciting things happening. This does really create an interesting story when the characters of a different series all come together within this series. As if The Lightning Thief wasn't a good enough story yet, and now here comes this new series which combines these two sets of characters and makes this story even more addicting.

After You

In this story the mom has many stereo types about this little black boy. Out of all the stereo types that she had in her mind about him there isn't one that isn't said today. In our society there are many stereotypes about African Americans, including ones about them having extra muscles in their legs or that all of them are poor. Like having an extra muscle in their body, most of the stereo types are extremely ridiculous. But I don't think that in this time if we had them proved wrong, we wouldn't necessarily get mad at the person for not being how we judged them to be. 

In the story the two little boys keep saying after you, while holding the door open. Back then there might have been people who were serious about that or at-least had great manners. The manners that people have now a days is just absurd. And it's not just a couple people, it's a lot of them. Over the generations, the manners of children and of adults has done nothing but decreased.