Phersephone

After seeing how Hades was so full of hate, Aphrodite decided that it was time for him to feel some love. She asked her son Eros, to shoot him with a love arrow, and allow him to feel love. After Eros shoots Hades, he sees Persephone and immediately falls in love with her. This caused him to kidnap her, and bring her to his realm in the underworld. On her stay there, she accidentally eats a number of seeds, which didn’t work in a favor. When Hermes come to take her back, they both discover that after 8 months on top of the earth, she would have to return to the underworld, to keep her husband company for another 4 months. On her stay in the underworld, her mom Demeters the Goddess of the earth, would be so sad that she wouldn't be able to make new flowers and plants bloom, until her daughter came back.

Marduk: The God of the Gods

Babylyon, the glorious city of the ancients. This is where my story takes place. The city was built by the mighty Marduk after he slayed Tiamat, son of Ea and Dunkima.


Mighty Marduk, the all powerful war god and sky god of the Babylonians, built Babylon as his home and created humankind to dwell there and toil there for the gods after he slew the evil Tiamat - so myth tells us. Marduk was born in the abyss, at the heart of the holy Apsu. He was born as a leader, who was said spat fire when he talked. He was chosen King of Igigi to destroy Tiamat.

Tiamat was an earth goddess, who's symbol was a dragon. She created monsters such as the Viper, the Dragon, the Sphinx, the Mad Dog and the Scorpion Man, which would have helped her slay Marduk after Apsu was defeated. The battle between Marduk and Tiamat was between good and evil [Marduk being the good, and Tiamat the evil]. Marduk had to kill Tiamat becaus she was an abuse to the Gods, and he called upon a team to set out after Tiamat.

He destroyed Tiamat and destroyed her followers, by trampling them into the ground, recovering the Tablet of Destinies. Her eyes were made into the arc of the sky, while the her udders became mountains. The Gods thanked Marduk by offering him enourmous gifts, along with his fifty names [Marduk: the God with 50 names].

Christopher: The Voice of Autism

Mark Haddon's book The Curios Incident of the Dog in the Night Time explains and puts you in the situation of a 15 year old boy with Asperger's Syndrome. Many of the people that might read this text, will find it unusual or boring, and might easily misunderstand it, seeing as the way Christopher speaks is very different to what we normally hear. The Curios Incident of the Dog in the Night Time thoroughly explains the concept of Autism, and shows you the differences between normal speech and
Christopher's way of speech, and the reaction from other people.

On pages 106 to 107 of the book, Christopher talks about his likes and dislikes in colors. He gives reasons for his opinions, and allows you to really understand why he doesn't like them. When he lists the facts about why he doesn't like yellow, he writes them in bullet points as if he was making a list. After i finished reading the text, I realized that that was how he probably saw it in his mind. Yellow reminds him of Yellow Fever. After the reason, he gives a thorough explanation of what Yellow Fever is, and why it scares him. It is very unlikely that normal people talk that way, and they probably don't think that way either. The way Christopher thinks is elaborated and unique because, one of the symptoms of Aspergers is organization, and making lists seems to help him. He has a very logical way of thinking, and this refers to Vocabulary/ Lexis/ Word Choice, and Evocative Description.



Another usual syndrome of Aspergers is the difficulty of understanding fellow humans. For example, on page 150, he wondered '\“I wondered if this was a joke, because I don’t understand jokes, and when people tell jokes they don’t mean what they say". When Christopher states this, you can understand that he cant percipient a joke. He does not understand weather someone was fooling around, or if they were talking seriously, and he especially doesn't understand the normal chat. HE think that everything is done for a reason, and everything happens for a reason, and that is why he doesn't appreciate sarcasm. His Level of Formality is very scarce, but his Tone and Vocabulary is extremely advance for a 15 year old, which shows how much he knows, and how intelligent he is. His intelligence however, is more of a 'world intelligence' then a 'common sense intelligence'.