Beginning of
Trimester Blog Post: Katniss
Everdeen of my novel, The Hunger Games, is currently trying to save herself and
Peeta from the unexpected challenges of the Hunger Games. The rule change had
just occurred saying that each tribute from one district can go home if they
both are the final tribute. Peeta has now turned into Katniss' life to protect
him. He did so many good things for her and she just repays him with something
opposite of it. And Katniss hates owing people. The thought of killing people
that are friends to her kills her on the inside. But she knows she has to give
it all she's got to get home with Peeta in a well enough condition. But can she
compeat with the Career's and everyone else who has survived.
End of Trimester Blog Post: Now that
Jason, Leo, and Piper are on their quest, they thought that this would be the
worse thing they've ever done and that Jason will lead them all over a cliff.
But as of right now they have a day left till the Winter Solstice and they are
in Colorado and have to rescue Hera and Piper's dad. And the Hunter's of
Artemis haven't found Percy Jackson yet, which for them is a major problem.
First though Leo led Jason and Piper on the
dragon to Quebec, Canada to find the Ice God, Khione, to ask him where
the Aeolus to get them to find the spot where Hera is kidnapped, but with the
three of them wanted to be killed, he sees that by letting them go on their
quest is suicide in the first place so it's no use trying to kill them. So they
got out alive and were told to head to Chicago because that is the windy city
and Aeolus is the god of the wind.
But on their way they crash land in Detroit.
Since the Dragon's hardware just froze up suddenly and they just fell out of
the air and Piper severely hurt her ankle. So while she was on the nectar to
help her and Leo was repairing the dragon that landed on a row of portalets,
Jason went inside the Monocle Motors place to check out what was in their.
After awhile when Jason wasn't coming out and Piper's ankle healed after two
doses of nectar, she went in the abandoned factory. As she stood at the top of
the stairs while Jason said he was coming up to get her in his perfect voice
which didn't sound startled at all. But when he got up their, it was Cyclopes
who was capturing her but was using Jason's voice. So while they were hanging
from chains and to be cooked, Leo heard Piper and came in and messed with the
equipment while the Cyclopes weren't looking to make sure they didn't die. He
was successful but they noticed Leo, who killed two of the Cyclopes which left
the mother Cyclopes, who Leo was able to get to because he was resistant to
fire. But once Leo got Piper and the passed out Jason down, the Cyclopes
started to form into something bigger right away. So they left on the repaired
Dragon right away for Detroit.
On their way to Chicago, Jason spotted the storm
spirits in Chicago just traveling around the city, so Leo directed the dragon
through the city. But people just saw it as a helicopter that was scratching
some buildings here and there. The storm spirits went into the fountain into
the sewer that went straight down, so the three of them went down without the
dragon. When they got in, they found an elevator that had 4 levels that were a
shop for weapons, potions, poisons, accessories, and Coach Hedge. But the store
worker, Meda who is 1,000 years old is charmspeaking to Jason and Leo to stay
and shop and buy what they want, which is Coach Hedge and a memory potion. But
their price is either Jason and Leo fight to the death or slavery as a statue
or slavery for years. And if they choose to fight, if one of them dies, shes
says that you throw them down the fountain and they'll come back alive and
stronger. But right before they fight, Piper gets them out of the Charmspeaking
and the giants that come out, get poison and potions on Medea who explodes with
the store as Jason, Piper, and Leo head out west for Aeolus, because their is a
trail in the air showing them where to go.
Once again when Jason wakes up from sleeping, they
are falling out of the sky, they are in Omaha, Nebraska. And with two storm
spirits, Coach Hedge, Piper, and Jason, they all have to be held by Jason and
fly off onto the ground safely while Leo tries to instantly repair the dragon.
But he can't so they try to crash land in a river but end up in the backyard of
a mansion that is solid gold. Leo almost severely hurt himself but when he got
up he was perfectly fine, but the Dragon wasn't. It was completely destroyed. So they stay in the
mansion for the night after getting through all the traps in the backyard. But
when they get inside, they get Coach Hedge out of the Ice and he still thinks
hes at the Grand Canyon so he starts hitting his club like he's protecting the
three of them. So he wakes up the owners of the mansion, Lit, the owner's son,
and King Midas, who has the golden touch. Who also has many demigods that are
gold statues who trespassed her too. And he touches Piper and Leo who turn
straight to gold, and Coach Hedge is outside eating Grass when actually they
need him. So Jason chooses to fight Lit, who is called the "Reaper of the
Men". He uses all Greek techniques that means that he was attacking the
whole time and Jason was doing Roman which was defense then finding a time to
break their style, which Jason did but King Midas tapped him so he was solid
gold. So King Midas fought Jason, but he used lightning to shock him which
caused the other statues to come back alive. So they all left before a bigger
fight was about to emerge.
So as of right now in the book Piper and Leo got
better from becoming statues, the Hunters of Artmeis meet up with them who are
looking for Percy Jackson but Thalia who is Jason's sister meets her for the
first time in ten or so years so they are excited. But they only have a day to
rescue Hera and to save Piper's dad from being killed. So the rising action
just seems to continue.
The
quality of my writing has improved drastically over the trimester by inserting
more detail to explain what has happened in the book to help the reader of my
blog to understand what happened in the book or the literary elements that have
happened in my book. At the beginning of the trimester, when I would read a
full 50 pages or so and blog about it, I only stated one paragraph that showed
the summary of the first few books. But now I described little details that won’t
give away a book but make you want to know more. In the first post, “. Peeta has now turned into Katniss'
life to protect him.” This sentence mainly describes what Peeta was trying to
do in the first and second books. But my latest post, “But when they get inside, they get Coach Hedge out of the
Ice and he still thinks hes at the Grand Canyon so he starts hitting his club
like he's protecting the three of them.” This newest part of the post describes
what has happened in that part of the book, not the full book, and isn’t the
summary of most the series or anything, but has better detail. Also the post
from the first trimester was one paragraph that was very short. The post from
the end of the trimester is 6 paragraphs long. So I have been able to find more
to blog about.
One
thing that I struggled at through this experience was getting something good to
blog about. What I didn’t want to do was repeat saying the same thing twice. So
I had to take a lot of time to read 150 pages or so to make a great blog post. I
overcame this struggle by trying to read fast and more than usual. One strength
I had with blogging was having my posts have good information about the book. I
remembered what I read and was able to state it in the post so that the reader
of my blog would know what happened at that part in the book. After this
trimester, I was not close to completeing my reading goal of 13 books. I am in
my 4th book for this trimester. On goodreads.com, I kept my reading
status updated every so often, gave a review to a book, and liked a few quotes
and genres from the beginning of the year. But mainly, what I have done to
become a better reader over the trimester was to analyze what each part of the
book meant and remembering what the important details of the recent part I read
was. So for this trimester blogging has helped me become a better reader and
writer throughout the trimester.
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