A Point of View can make a difference.

• Authors Note: This is my Point of View piece. Some people may have their own view of things, and from another's, it totally different. See what makes you think this one person is really bad. 

In the novel “The Lightning Thief”, which was written by the author Rick Riordan, and it was in the point of view of a kid named Percy Jackson. Percy Jackson is a boy that is half mortal, half god. His father is the Greek god Poseidon. He was a normal twelve year-old boy with ADHD and dyslexia, until an ancient Greek spirit attacks him in a Greek museum. His Latin teacher, Chiron, gives him a pen-sword called riptide to defeat the fury. He goes on an adventure to get Zeus’s Lightning Bolt from Hades. You feel his emotions from him being brave or just sad.

                When Percy comes home from school every day, his stepfather, Gabe, is always playing poker and drinking beer with his friends. When Gabe runs out of money, he goes and takes Percy’s money and doesn’t even ask for it. He always makes Percy get his beer for him when Percy is home. When Percy goes to Camp Half-Blood and his mom goes missing, Gabe says to the police that Percy is crazy and kidnapped his mother.

                If the book or some of it was in Gabe’s view it would be different. Percy Jackson has problems, like ADHD and dyslexia, so Gabe would see him as a crazy person. Gabe is his stepfather now, so he has ownership over some of the money. With player poker, he is making money for the family. Also when Percy and His mother goes missing, Gabe might think Percy went psycho and Kidnapped his mother because of his problems. 

                Some peoples’ point of view changes how you think of someone. In “The Lightning Thief”, Percy describes what he thinks of his step-father, which influences you. If you take in his step-fathers point of view, you might think of him different. That’s just like real life. If somebody tells you one side of the story, you might think somebody is mean, but if you hear their side of the story, they might not be mean, but nice. 

Friends Can Be Very Helpful

Authors Note: This is my theme piece. This piece is about friends that help you in many different ways. See how much friendship can mean something. 

Some people have family all of their life. Great grandparents to great grandchildren, but some people also lost their family, or their family all had died, but also with family, there is friendship. Two characters in the book “Blood Ninja” had became friends from a tragic event. Friends that helped her from tough times. Everybody finds a friend, and they always help you through tough times. The theme of friendship comes through this novel and many other.  

Taro and Heiro are best friends and have known each other since they were around five years old. Taro met Heiro when Heiro’s family’s boat was being attacked by a water monster. Taro went out to save them saved Heiro, and brought him to shore. Taro then went out to save his parents but they were dead. He got bit by the water monster that attacked Heiro’s boat and almost died. From then, Heiro was loyal to Taro most of his life, but they also became friends. When you have friends, you have a power like no other.

 Friends are there to help you through tough times. After Taro’s step-father dies, and his mother goes away to protect herself, Heiro needs to help Taro survive, honor his father and find his mother again. When Heiro helps Taro through that, Taro changes as anybody should, but he changes in a way different way. Taro gets turned into a vampire, and Taro can’t be in the sunlight, so Heiro helps Taro during the day with supplies. Heiro still helps Taro even when  he changes into a different being.

 Friends help you through tough times and when changes happen. They also help you when you find out about something that doesn’t seem like the truth. When Taro finds out his real father is, he is shocked, surprised, and he thinks it’s a lie. He thinks it’s not possible, his father he’s known isn’t his real father, but Heiro helps him with the truth. Even Heiro thinks it’s not possible. 

The theme of friendship happens in a character named Ellen from the book “Warrior Heir”. She was kidnapped from her parents, fostered to be a killer, but she also found some friends along the way; friends that would help her become something she wasn’t being fostered for. She made many friends, but one of them she would have to face in a battle to the death. She likes him too much that she doesn’t kill him. She broke the rules so she could save her friend. In the end he was the one that helped her not be something she isn’t, a cold-blooded killer.

Your friends are there for you when you need it: when your parents die, or you when find out about a truth, or even when somebody changes, but friends will always be there for you. Just like Taro and Heiro in the book “Blood Ninja”, they help each other through  times when they need it.  Everybody finds friends, doesn’t matter when, or how, but they do, and the friends will help them through tough times and times when some things doesn’t seem right. 

How Yukiko changes in the book Blood Ninja

Authors Note: This is my Character Analysis piece for LA. Look for how i explained the events that made Yukiko change. 

Yukiko was a great person almost throughout the book  Blood Ninja. She was a great person to be around. When she was an infant a man saved her and her twin sister, Heiko, from under a wooden stair case. The man’s name is Shusaku. He is helping Taro kill Lord Oda, who is trying to become shogun of Japan,  and Taro is a son of one of Japan’s lords: The son of Lord Tokugawa’s son. Lord Oda and Lord Tokugawa are enemies. When they were at a ninja base, where people train as ninjas, Yukiko and Hiro often challenge each other in wrestling and sword fighting. Yukiko won almost all of the times.

On the way to kill Lord Oda at his castle, Heiko, who is Yukiko’s sister, gets her head cut off by a samurai named Kenji Kira, the top samurai and leader of all of the samurai for Lord Oda to save Taro, Shusaku, Hiro, and Yukiko. When Taro, Shusaku, Hiro and Yukiko got to the castle, Yukiko and Taro went in one of the prison towers to complete their mission, kill a prisoner in one of the cells. When they got to the cell, they opened up the door and it was a girl in the cell. The girl was Lord Oda’s daughter. Taro and the girl met once when Taro, Hiro, and Shusaku saved her from some soldiers.

Unknowing of how they met, Yukiko turns wicked. She wants revenge on Taro, Taro’s mother, and she also wants to kill Kenji Kira because he killed Yukiko’s sister. Yukiko knows she will suffer, but she will do whatever it takes to kill Taro, his mother, and Kenji Kira. She turns to Lord Oda’s side. The girl and taro escape, but Lord Oda is just trading a daughter, for a new daughter.

Yukiko is just like Mr. Hastings in the book Warrior Heir. Mr. Hastings was training Jack, a wizard that got implanted with a warrior stone, to fight and defend himself against wizards and other warriors. After Mr. Hasting healed Jack with magic from a magic spell he captured Jack and forced him to play in games. The games he wasn’t trying to play in. A game where two warriors where trying to fight to the death. Hastings wanted to do it to get revenge on the games. So Yukiko and Mr. Hastings are similar in some ways, mainly to get revenge.