12/17/12
Tyler Kiser
Reagels 5th Hour
Theme
Take the Bull by the Horns
“Author’s Note:
This piece is
about H.I.V.E. I wrote this to demonstrate my
understanding of theme.”
Even
when you have a tough situation that frightens your friends or maybe a
situation that could possibly harm you, you still need to take the bull by the
horns so to speak and get on with it. This is just like H.I.V.E by: Mark
Walden because in it the characters need to escape H.I.V.E, which is a deadly
choice and nobody at the compound would’ve dared to try. Also in Son of
Neptune by: Rick Riordan Percy needs to kill a giant that can’t be killed.
This results in courage and bravery being major themes in these stories for
several reasons.
One
of the several reasons that courage and bravery are major themes in this story
is because that in the book H.I.V.E Wing, Otto, Shelby, and Laura try
and attempt the hardest thing possible, escape H.I.V.E, “If the staff gets any
hint of what we’re up to, we could be leaving the island in boxes.”. If the
staff would have found out they were leaving the island they would have ended
up dead in the boxes. Courage and bravery are also major themes in this book
because when Otto and Wing were stood up by two big henchmen, they took on the
challenge of fighting them to save their lives, “Tackle replied and reached
into his jumpsuit, pulling out a vicious-looking knife.”. If they wouldn’t have
fought they would have definitely ended up dead.
Another
moment in the book that demonstrates courage and bravery is that in the
beginning of Otto’s plan to escape they encountered a tiny problem that evolved
not falling into a gigantic pool of boiling water. Finally the way they took on
the situation was instead of freaking out and crying they faced the problem by
when the wardrobe they were riding in flipped over and dumped the clothes it
contained into the boiling water they would quick jump onto the back. “…the
carriage passed the halfway point of its rotation and Otto could feel what had
been the underside of the carriage until a few moments ago…”. If they would
have fell they would have boiled to death in a pool of boiling water, which
wouldn’t have been fun.
A
book that has the same major themes as H.I.V.E is The Son of Neptune
by: Rick Riordan. One of the several reasons why this book relates to the same
major themes as H.I.V.E is because right in the beginning Percy starts
off fighting a monster that would have easily killed him already if he would of
just ran away. Instead Percy didn’t cower and took on the monster. “…Percy
killed them and watched them crumble to powder…”. They crumbled to powder after
Percy sliced them to bits with his sword. Finally another reason that this book
has courage and bravery as major themes is that as the book progresses Percy
needs to take a horrifying quest to kill a giant that can’t be killed. This
demonstrates both bravery and courage because Percy knows that this giant can’t
be killed but if he won’t face him his father will be killed. “The golden giant
didn’t scare him. The army of shades didn’t scare him.”. Percy was faced with a
giant that can’t be killed and a whole army that will just regenerate after he
will kill them, but he fought them anyways.
Overall
major themes in H.I.V.E is courage and bravery because of what has
happened throughout the book. Also this proves that in the book The Son of
Neptune courage and bravery are major themes in the book as well as H.I.V.E.
When you are in a tough situation and you have you back to the wall what will
you do? Will you take the bull by the horns and fight it or will you back away
and let someone else do the dirty work?
