Final Blog Assessment

In my book, The House of Hades, Rick Riordan does an utterly tremendous job of building suspense. As some of you know, this book is the 4th of the series. The series is called "The Heroes of Olympus", and the previous book in the series is The Mark of Athena. That book left off on a huge cliff hanger, creating lots of suspense for the author to use. Also, in my book, its kind of telling two stories at once because the 7 original demigods got split up. This creates an opportunity for the author to end a chapter of one party on in suspense and continues the next chapter with the other party. Then the reader wants to figure out what is going to happen, and then he/she wants to read more. That is the main purpose of suspense; to make the reader want to read more. It almost makes him never want to put the book down. Suspense gives the reader feelings, like hope, fear, etc.- it can give many kinds of feeling that makes you want to keep reading.

#1:

When I use elevated, low, and abstract diction. I have a couple examples of each that I use in my post. My example of elevated diction is "In my book, The House of Hades, Rick Riordan does an utterly tremendous job of building suspense". Also, I talk about my opinions of the book, and what I think of it, which I think also adds some voice. I explain my opinions in this sentence, "That is the main purpose of suspense; to make the reader want to read more". 

#2:

In my first sentence, I use formal diction. My sentence is, “In my book, The House of Hades, Rick Riordan does an utterly tremendous job of building suspense”. This helps the reader to better understand how great of a job the author does at adding suspense.  For my example of syntax, I used punctuation in my last sentence, “Suspense gives the reader feelings, like hope, fear, etc.- it can give many kinds of feeling that makes you want to keep reading”. This makes the reader stop and think about the feelings I just listed, and it helps them to realize what suspense in a story does. It could also be counted as abstract diction.       

House of Hades-Best and Worst Things

I am reading the book The House of Hades for my independent novel. I am about 25% of the way through it and I can already say that it is a really awesome book. The best thing about my novel is how great of a job Rick Riordan does with focusing on all 7 of the demigods. This book doesn't really have 1 main character because it is the 7 demigods all together, because each demigod is equally important. The author does a great job making each demigod have an important part in the story. The worst thing about my book is that it makes lots of Greek mythology references like different stories, gods, etc. If you are someone like me, you don't know all these things so it gets a little confusing sometimes, like when it starts talking about all the individual stories of each god. But overall, it is a great book.

Minor Character (House of Hades)

One minor character in my book is a girl named Reyna. She is the praeter of Camp Jupiter; the Roman half Blood camp. Her role in the story is being a partner with Jason, but then she thinks that Jason betrayed Camp Jupiter so she sets off to chase him. She then figures out that he didn't, but that doesnt stop her from at least talking to Jason to figure out what is going on. If she had more a of an impact in the book, I think that she would command the Roman Camp, and they would listen to her. Also, the enemies would care about her more, and see her as more of a problem. They would probably not focus so much on the 7 main demigods, and try to destroy the Roman Camp earlier, instead of waiting for when they wanted to do it. Also, Jason would probably listen to her more, instead of doing what he wants to do.

Vocabulary in House of Hades

The vocab in the book, The house of Hades, is very informal. He uses words that kids our age use because almost all of the characters in Rick Riordan's book are teenagers. This helps the overall effect of the story because it makes more sense. It wouldn't make sense if a bunch of teenagers that don't even go to high school were using lots of high level words. It the same way that it wouldn't make sense if college professors were using low level vocab words. Also, this book is mainly for kids and teenagers, not adults. So if the author put elevated diction, younger kids would have a harder time understanding, and loose interest. This creates a great effect to help keep the attention of the reader.