In the book The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan, a major conflict from the beginning is family. Me, having a full family with no divorce or separation problems, am not quite as sensitive or able to relate as other people might be, but I do know that Riordan is smart to use this. In the story, there are two children who are the main characters, and they are siblings. The sister lives with their grandparents, and the brother lives with their dad. Their mother is dead, also. The grandparents dislike the dad, and the siblings rarely get to see each other. That's quite a situation. I think that this makes the book's conflict more relatable to many people, which makes people like the story more. The only difference is how the family challenges happen in the book, but that's aside the point. To sum it up, the author's choice to include a family with challenges as the main characters has made his book more relatable and exciting.
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