Reading Response

9/28  45 mins.   9/29   60 mins.   9/30    60 mins.        180 pgs.


        I continued reading The Serpent's Shadow this week and I thought that it had a very clear plot structure. I am literally on the last twenty pages and the story has really taken shape. It started out in the middle of an action scene, but calmed down after that and began the opening by filling in details as you went. It was a little bit like the short story that we read in that the rising action was pretty long, but it was also different because the falling action was full of much more excitement.
        I thought that Rick Riordan had a great structure and it made the story that much better. There was a great climax which really put everything in motion and led to the huge battle scene that was the major part of the falling action. Being a novel, there were many more subplots and other things going on that added another wrinkle to the structure. I am expecting a good resolution because this is the end of a series and Riordan has to tie up all the loose ends of the story. I think that the plot structure definitely worked well in this book.