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I've finally finished Throne of Fire, I'll be starting to read Eragon by Christopher Paolini or start reading the Heroes of Olympus series which is by Rick Riordan. But with Throne of Fire on  Goodreads the book is rated a 4.2/5 stars. To understand who Ra is as the God of the Sun this visual could be helpful, the orange circle above him is supposed to be the sun, and his face is supposed to represent a bird/pharaoh sort of mix to deliver the sun across the sky.

Here is a link to the review with critics saying what they think of the book on Rick Riordan's website; critics like New York Times.

This is a picture of Rick Riordan if you didn't know what he looked like

Rick Riordan wrote books like The Lost Hero or The Battle of the Labyrinth if you knew any of these books. They are quite popular, the covers of these books look like this if you may have seen it but just not remember it:

 

New York Giants Matchup against Minnesota Vikings

Well my favorite team would have to be the Giants and the way they've been playing this season is horrible. Eli Manning is up to 15 interceptions which makes me not want to sing "I Believe in Eli." They are up against Minnesota in week 7, their record is 0-6 right now while the Vikings are 1-4. But Giants showed real spirit while playing against the Bears last week with their current Injury Report. I was going around thinking Giants will finally win, 1 and a 1/2 weeks to practice, playing home against a team that has not shown a lot of intensity made me feel like finally 1-6 Giants soon-to-be. The Giants have won 7 times during Monday Night Football under head coach Tom Coughlin while the Vikings have won only 3 times. And also, during these games Giants have been able to limit Adrian Peterson to fewer than 60 yards a game for two times. I'm hoping for the first win they could finally get, could make them 1-6, so that would just leave the Jaguars winless.

Theme and Summary

"We both knew we couldn't defeat Menkishov. He'd let the pushmi-pullyu snake wear us down, and if we survived that, he'd just blast us with something else. The guy was a pro. We would either die or get captured, and Bes warned us about not getting taken alive" (Riordan 173). The theme of this passage is when things may seem bleak or bad to you, you shouldn't back down rather than facing it. This theme works along with the course of the text because when Carter and Sadie face a new challenge, sometimes they feel it easy just to give up but they don't... they face the problem head on and come up with solutions to it. They face this griffin at the beginning with flames that can't be put out with water but somehow they overcome this eternal flames by using magic. Later Sadie faces the baboon god Babi which chases her around all of London but she couldn't destroy him until the Dwarf god came to rescue and her from Babi. In this chapter with this quote, Carter and Sadie went to St. Petersburg in search of the last tome for the Book of Ra. Problem is that this guy Menkishov has it and they can't claim it unless they defeat him.

Tone & Mood

I'd say for my independent reading novel, Throne of Fire that they are both urgency feelings. The book gives off a certain feeling of urgency giving a deadline for everything while reader thinks that the character should be hurrying up in certain situations. In chapter 1 even they say this, "...But tomorrow it leaves for Europe, so you'd better hurry! You'll have five days to figure out how to use it, or we're all doomed. Good luck!" This gives the book a urgent feel to it, like everything has to be done perfect so time won't run out before the deadline. The reader sometimes feels this when reading or the reader feels hopeless that the character can't do these things. Also my quote is also a good example when a character swayed the beliefs of others. When the character (Horus) was talking to Carter in his head, he used this as a way to make Carter feel urgent while trying to reassure him with the 'Good luck' part. Well this sense of urgency sure got Carter to go out and get this artifact that he needed to save the world.

Analysis

Throne of Fire
Carter Kane: "I was in shock that Sadie had discovered my secret name. Suddenly she knew me better than anyone in the world. I felt like she'd opened me up on the surgery table, examined me, and sewn me back together. My first instinct was to run away, to put as much distance between us as possible" (Riordan 222).

This piece of text is saying that all of a sudden Carter's sister, Sadie has suddenly learned something about him that he thought he himself only knew. The simile is describing that he felt like she just studied him thoroughly and knew everything about him. His first thought/instinct was to maintain distance between the two of them.

Evidence:
-"Despite that, I felt like a creep for leaving Sadie on her own yet again" (Riordan 222). He left his sister to go to London to have to face two gods by herself. They drifted apart to have gone together.
-"But a good brother would have stayed with her" (Riordan 222). He went to go find his love Zia who is in a eternal sleep after Sadie saved his life."
-"Basically, I'm going to skip to the part where Bes and I were rumbling along a dusty road in the back of a pickup truck driven by some Bedouins" (Riordan 220). Carter didn't take his sister with him to find Zia in the no-longer-existing village where she is located.



Inferences I could make is that Carter won't want to stay close or tell his sister anything about what is happening in his life in fear that she could use it against him. He would stay away from her in the future.

Post #4

I really like my book Throne of Fire. I like how it ties in with Egyptian Gods and using them as plot points and conflicts in the book like Apophis the giant snake breaking loose from his shattering eternal prison. The book is so much like The Lightning Thief and that series (mostly because the two series are made by the same author, Rick Riordan). But even though this book adds a new twist to the other stories like new gods and new mythical beasts that the characters struggle with to defeat. It's a really good book.