Red Pyramid- Real Life Conflict

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.

Ranger's Apprentice 2- Setting and Story Base

Ranger's Apprentice The Burning Bridge is the second book in the Ranger's Apprentice series. It takes place mostly in the Araluen Kingdom and in medieval times. Will, a young teenager that recently became an apprentice ranger for the kingdom, had just in the last book saved his teacher from an attack meant to take out some of the strongest military leaders sent by the enemy. Now, in this book, Will and his teacher, Halt, will be fighting the enemy, Morgorath.

Will lost his parents in the last war against Morgorath 14 years before. Nobody knew his last name, and so he grew up in a ward, or a home for children with no parents to be raised until they are old enough to be put into a job. Halt was the only one that would accept Will as an apprentice, and though Will didn't want to be a ranger, his alternative choice was to be put on a farm, so he became a ranger. In the second book, the war against Morgorath will continue. Morgorath took control over a bunch of mythical creatures called Wargals, and he uses them as soldiers. Now, instead of just defending Araluen, Will and Halt will have to attack the enemy and end the war.

Red Pyramid- Impact of Setting

           Carter and Sadie are brought into a completely new place at the beginning of this book. They go to a big city and they are living on a large building that has an invisible house on top of it. I think that this book takes place in such an unfamiliar way and place because it emphasizes the fact that Carter and Sadie were introduced to an entirely new way of living, and that they have no idea of how things will turn out or how to actually live this new life.
           This makes the book more interesting to me. This is because I enjoy reading books where people are introduced to  brand new things where it is hard to deal with at first, but then the characters figure it out and the plot begins more in depth. For the rest of this book, I think there will be a lot of moving around, which will keep up the unfamiliarity, but I also think that there will be some sort of a camp like in the other books written by Rick Riordan that can be the charaters' home.