Sunday, October 13, 2013

The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

House of Hades by Rick Riordan is about demi-gods. Demi-gods are children who are half god and half human. Demi-gods have qualities and even special abilities of their godly parents. In this book the gods are from both ancient Greece and Rome.  The the five main characters are Nico di Angelo a son of Hades, Hazel Levesque daughter of Pluto, Frank Zhang son of Mars, Annabeth daughter of Athena, and Percy Jackson son of Poseidon. They all give a unique point of view in the book. I think Nico is more complex and interesting.

In previous books Nico hated Percy because on a quest Nico's sister got killed and Nico blamed Percy. In that time Nico's only friend was a ghost of a king in Greece. Midas was Nico's friend. Nico can talk to ghosts since his dad is the god of the underworld. Nico can also summon the dead and is amazingly strong. Nico is very good natured after Nico finally stopped being angry at Percy he spoke to ghosts to see his friends future.

Nico has also a very quirky personality. Although he was acted like a small child before being burdened by a life of a demi-god. Nico used to play a card game called mythomagic that had all the action figures of gods and monsters who do special abilities. Nico used to love this game. He also used to adore Percy. He even had Percy's mythomagic card.

In conclusion, Nico is my favorite character in the story of House of Hades. Nico is the most complex character and the most intresting. Also Nico is just  quirky and funny. Nico is my favorite character by far in the story.

3 comments:

  1. Great response, i like how you avoided focusing on the main character, Percy, and took interest in one of the lesser main characters, it shows your interest in the book and how you look at variety. I also liked how you conveyed your point that throughout all of Nicos different personalities and character traits, you continued to like him.

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  2. I like your summary in the beginning of the book because it helped me understand the rest of your response better. I agree with leo in saying that it is a good this that you focussed on a character of less importance than Percy, who seems to always have the spot light. Great job!

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  3. I also read this book, and you gave a great summary at the beginning of your response-it helped, even me, get a sense of how the your response was going to connect with the actual text. Additionally, you included very specific traits of each character, which gave an even more in depth understanding of your thesis.

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