The title of my book that I’m going to present is “Zeus king of the Gods” By: George O’Connor. My story takes place everywhere in the sky, space and earth because the characters have supernatural powers. The characters in my story are The Titans and their ruler who over throwed his father Kronos and gave birth to Zeus, Hera, Demeter, Hades, Poseidon and Hestia. The conflict in the story all started when the titans were living happily and their father Ouranos the sky wanted to overthrow the big titans. But they wanted to reach their father and attack him. The youngest of the titans was Kronos, he grabbed the sickle his mother (earth) had made and tore the sky. After many years Kronos married his sister Rhea when Rhea made babies Kronos grabbed each one of them and ate them so that they don’t overthrow him. One day when Rhea hid her last baby Zeus in a cave and lived with the daughters of Oceanus (brother of Kronos). After a couple dozens of years Zeus almost has 20 years old his grandmother earth gave him a plant and told him to go feed it to Kronos when he entered his belly so that he vomits each child he had eaten. Zeus went to the throne (mountain) were Kronos ruled, He transformed into an old woman and Kronos recognized his son and swallowed him. Kronos vomits Zeus’s siblings far away them far away. When Zeus’s Brothers called themselves the Olympians. The Olympians started war and battled for freedom for eleven years with the titans except Oceanus and the titanesess (Women Titans) were neutral. The resolution of the story is at the end when Zeus and his siblings kill Kronos and imprison the titans except Oceanus and the titan’s sisters whom were suited in a joyful and peaceful land. The theme of the story is to protect yourself, family and people and have vengeance for your freedom and respect amongst yourself and others. The character learns in the story that if he gave birth to a child his son or daughter they can over throw him and the character also learns the character also learns that he should not trust his family. The element of fiction that made this book a super novel is the use of conflict. The best element of fiction is the conflict. I decided to choose the authors use of conflict because the whole story is about conflict and the war between Titans and Olympians. This quote will explain the conflict super natural vs. super natural Quote 1: Kronos: “Anything to say for yourself? Zeus: No (O'Connor pg#49). Another Conflict that I am going to show you in this quote is Man or women vs. Society Quote 2: Women: “Almighty Kronos, I’m etc. Mighty Kronos accept my gift from me to not devour us all thank you Lord Kronos thank you” Kronos: No reply (O’ Connor pg#23). The last conflict that That I am going to show you in this quote is man vs. society Quote 3: Kronos: “I am Lord Kronos and my reign should be eternal”, People: “We obey you lord Kronos”.(O’Connor pg#26).The Novel is well developed through the authors use of conflict because the hole story has conflict. I would recommend this book to all students in class especially people who are interested in the history and science of Greek mythology. The first reason I would recommend this book to every Middle school boy and girl because in 8th Grade we will read a book about Greek mythology and will give you some tips to get good grades. The second reason I would recommend this book to every Middle school boy and girl is that this book “The Olympians” tells us facts while reading in a different and exciting way with too many conflicts. Last but not least the third reason I would recommend this book to every Middle school boy and girl is the author always makes every sentence and page of the story exciting with suspense and conflict. As one can see this story is considered a very exciting story because the author of this book represents the conflict between son and father, sister and brother and also gives us facts on Greek myths in an exciting way. The book that I just finished reading is called Zeus: King of the Gods and is written by George O’Connor. This book is a graphic novel and is about Zeus and his siblings, Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia, and how destroyed Kronos, which is their father. THe entire book is about how Zeus and all of his siblings escaped from the stomach of their father, and how Zeus had to go on this journey to proclaim his power of King of the Gods. He had to go down to Tartarus and fight some Hecatoncheires, (100 handed monsters), and fight them to claim his Master bolt. The setting is essential for this story because it describes this story ,and what is going on,. Without this setting in the story, this would be a very boring graphic novel, now wouldn’t it? My overall opinion of this book is that I loved it!! I would rate this book 5 stars and recommend it to anyone who loves graphic novels and/or Greek Mythology.!!-CW
What do You think about Zeus: King Of The Gods (2010)?
The art was amazing and it was surprisingly accurate in terms of retelling the Greek myth of Zeus
—Dishant
