The Compare and Contrast Piece

There is a Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief book and movie. They both were amzing. The book is far better than the movie because it was more detailed than the movie. There was so many differences between them, but there was hardly anything the same about them. 

There are a bunch of differences between the book and the movie. One of them was about how Percy Jackson fought Ares in the book. The book told us that Percy, Annabeth and Grover encountered with Ares. After Percy figured out that Ares was the one who put Zeus's master lightning bolt in the bag Ares gave him, Percy found himself fighting Ares on Santa Monica beach. Ares was also the one to blame about the disappearance of Hade’s helm of darkness. Till then, Percy Jackson challenged Ares to a battle. Percy won the battle and got the helm of darkness. 

ln the movie, it didn't mention anything about Percy, Annabeth and Grover's encounter with Ares. lt also didn't mention anything about Hade’s helm of darkness being stolen. Percy Jackson didn't fight Ares. Instead of heading to Santa Monica after they got out of the underworld, they just went straight to the Empire State Building. Percy fought Luke instead of Ares. 

There were only a few similarities between the book and the movie. One of them was that Percy and his accompanies got trapped inside the Lotus Casino/Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Each of them got in a trance because of how there was so many things they can do In the Casino.

Steve Harmon's point of view

In Monster the Steve Harmon is the main point of view in this story. The story is written in Steve Harmon’s point of view.  From this perspective, a lot of events and characters are described in a way that creates Steve’s mother to be sad that he has to go through this even though he is innocent. Fear is running through his mind as he is a suspect of the murder of the clerk and the robbing of the drug store.

One way that Steve Harmon’s point of view influences the reader's interpretation is how this perspective describes how he is innocent. When Steve says he is innocent and it’s kind of hard to believe him because he is an acquaintance with King. King is the man who shot the drug store clerk and he also robed the drug store. A little before the robbing of the drug store and the murder of the drug store clerk, a man saw him walk out of the drug store and he was a suspect.

However, the reader would feel a lot differently about Steve Harmon if the novel was written in the point of view of Petrocelli. For instance, the reader would react if she said that Steve was guilty without an explanation. They would most likely be confused because they would not know what was going on in the story without an explanation from Petrocelli

As you can see, the point of view of a story forces the reader to see just one side of an event or topic. In Monster, the narrator's perspective makes the reader feel that Steve is innocent. In the end of the story Steve Harmon is innocent

Book Vs. Movie

 Authors Note: This piece is the comparisons and differences between a book and a movie.

Imagine when people used to ride horses for transportation, or used candles to light there house at night. That is how it is in the movie The Patriot. and in the book Give Me Liberty. There are many things that you can compare and contrast between the movie and book.

One of the first things that are the same is it is based around the same time in the movie and book. 1775–1783 was the time of the revolutionary war which is the time setting in both the story and movie. In Give me Liberty they talk of the war and how it works and The Patriot shows it. The biggest topic they bring up all the time between both of them is war, but they also have many differences too.

A difference between the movie and the book is they have different point of views. It is different in the book it’s a first person point of view, everything is being told by a slave who is traveling with a musician. The movies point of view is a third person so you see everything that is going on. Sense the story is told by a young kid he does not know as much so it does not talk about slavery as much.

In the movie it talks about slavery and shows them and free used to be slaves. The books talks about slaves and how the character is a slave, but does not talk about any free slaves. Both books talk about how if slaves join the war they will have their freedom given to them.

In conclusion they both have many things alike, but also has just as many different things. So they both have slaves that will be granted freedom. They are based in the same time, and talks about war a lot of the time.

Michael Oher: Prediction piece

I predict that Michael Oher will have a successful time of getting in college but first he will have to get his grades up. I think Michael will be able to get into college and play football because he is actually a really smart person when he tries.  All he needs is a tutor for a couple subjects and he will be able to get his grades up very fast.

He will also have a successful time in a football career because his new family got him into football. A football coach for a college saw him play in a video and said he was a very good player. So that coach showed the video to other coaches and they said we are going to try to get him on their team. But to do that he has to get his grades up.

During the book people were being racist towards him. In the beginning of the book he was playing basketball and some kids were making racist jokes about Michael and he flipped them off. Also closer to the end some more kids were making racist jokes about him again. Michael pushed him into a bookshelf.

My prediction was the Michael was going to have a successful time in college and football. Further in the book you will learn that he did have a successful career in football and he did get into a college. This was based on a true story. This story was a great but sad story. 

The Fighting Ground Theme

It was June 16, 1775 as colonel William Prescott and his men at Bunker hill protecting it from the British. The British line up with their cannons and soldiers they fire 2 or 3 Americans were killed. The Americans fire killed 4 British. British fire, kill 5 Americans. Americans turn, the Colonel says fire. They missed. The British shot one more time and shot down the rest of the men. We have lost the battle but the war is not over. The book I am reading is called the Fighting Ground by Avi. The theme of this book is effects of war.

One story that looks at the effects of war  is The Fighting Ground. That is the theme because a young thirteen year old boy left his home to go fight in the war. He fought in the war to fight for their independence from the UK. When he leaves, his family is sad to see him go. As the church bells ring he runs to see the British but instead of the British it is the hessians(A group of hired Germans to go terrorize  towns).

Another story that has the effects of war theme is The Hunger Games. During the hunger games the main characters are fighting for their food and little of their independence such as the book The Fighting Ground. In both books they are also fighting for they’re families.

War has a lot of affects on families. When a family member leaves to go to war the family gets sad. During the war some families might get a call or a letter telling that whoever was in the war has got shot and killed. War can cause a lot of sadness in families.

Character Development

Percy Jackson is an interesting character throughout the book “The Lightning Thief” by Rick Riordan. The main character Percy Jackson, changes a lot since he started as an outcast who gets picked on daily and he figures out that he was the Demigod that everyone wants to be and looks up to.

Percy’s change didn’t happen overnight though; it took him the course of the book for his true colors to show. Beginning the book off, Percy has a negative view on life; he thinks that thanks to his ADHD and dyslexia he's going to amount to nothing at life. Little does he know at the time that these two things are his greatest strengths. He finds this out later in the book when he says “I now understand what Annabeth had said about ADHD keeping you alive in battle. I was wide awake, noticing every little detail”. Another thing that that changes throughout the book is the fact that Percy gets stronger and starts to realize that he is indeed very important, so important that Percy is once told that “The Gods have big plans for him”.

Throughout the book he makes a bunch a few friends that could be of great use to him in the future when he tries to defeat Luke. Unfortunately he makes an enemy out of someone you definitely don't want to be enemies with, Ares the god of war. Percy Jackson is quite possibly the most important Demigod since Hercules.

Wilderness

Authors Note: I wrote this piece about the book "hatchet". It will be my retelling piece.

A young boy survives alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing to assist him but a small hatchet. Left with only a hatchet he received as a gift from his mother, he then faces survival challenges - building a shelter, hunting for food, fighting off wild animals, big and small. While facing the outside wilderness, he also confronts his inner difficulties following his parents' breakup and what he conceived as his mother's unfaithfulness. After nearly two months of resourcefulness adventures, Brian is rescued, but in the process he had grown and changed to become a new person.