Literary Elements of The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

The Red Pyramid Journal

Title and Author: The book that I read was "The Red Pyramid" by Rick Riordan. He called it this because the antagonist, Set, is an Egyptian god and the color he is associated with is red. He builds a pyramid as a power source and it's made of reddish stones , and the main characters try to destroy it, so thus it's called "The Red Pyramid".

Mythological Details: My novel is fiction because it involves the Egyptian gods in a modern day world, and also the main characters pet cat had been an Egyptian god, named Bast, that had been ordered to protect them. A quote to support this is "So, yeah. Our cat was a goddess" (Riordan, 114).

Main Idea: Carter Kane, a fourteen year old boy, and his twelve year old sister, Sadie Kane, want to save their dad, and more importantly the world, from Set, the Egyptian god of Chaos. But Set sends many of his minions after them to stop them, and they also have go through many obstacles, like fighting other gods and monsters, and magicians. Also Set traps their dad in a magical coffin, which results in him being trapped with no way to get free, or getting saved by Carter or Sadie. So with the help of the Egyptian gods, Isis, Horus, and some others, they go to Phoenix, where the Red Pyramid is located, and use a spell to take control of Set and tell him to go away until he is called upon if his help is ever needed. Then they destroyed the pyramid with a powerful spell.

Theme: The theme of the story is that sometimes in life you have to make sacrifices, big or small, to help things that are more important then what benefits you more. This is shown plenty of times throughout the story, but the most important time was when Sadie had to choose to save her father, or stop Set and...

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...books about Egyptian mythology. I had no frustrations with the story and there wasn't anything bad about it. One god that impressed me was Horus because in the story he was depicted as a wise, strong and even humorous guy. He gave power to Carter and shared his mind with him. He is the god of the sky and kingship as he was believed to host many of the Egyptian pharaohs. One goddess that impressed me was Bast because I learned in the story that she was order to fight Apophis, who is an insanely powerful Egyptian demon, for eons, but she was released by Sadie and Carters parents six years ago. She also sacrifices herself to save them which is very noble and selfless act. She also has protected them a lot more times. She is the god of Cats and protection. Horus and Bast don't really have a connection to Zeus and Cronos as they come from two very different mythologies.