The Similar Characters and Theme

            Author’s note: This is about stating one theme in The Angel Experiment, by James Patterson, about which is family troubles. This is also about comparing with the character Percy in The Last Olympian, by Rick Riordan.

            Have you ever found a theme that had multiple situations? That theme was family troubles in The Angel Experiment, by James Patterson. The main character’s story, Max, has a main theme which is family troubles. One of the troubles was her sister getting stolen. Another one of her troubles was all of her family was relying on her. Also the book The Last Olympian, by Rick Riordan, has family troubles too. Both of these books have family troubles.

            The first situation of the theme is when Max’s sister gets stolen. That makes Max’s family gets troubles because everyone is freaking out and Max can’t seem to do anything. In fact, Max was so scared she herself was freaking out on page 24. Also, when the sister got stolen Max’s family started blaming everyone for losing her. This trouble was really a big impact and almost made the family fall apart. That’s how this situation tied in the family problems.  

            The second situation was when Max’s sister got stolen; everybody was relying on her to figure out what to do. After that, everybody was going crazy because Max didn’t know what to do. Eventually everyone was auguring so Max went away to think. There was family trouble because the family was falling apart. One of Max’s siblings asked “Max what are we going to do?” in chapter 8. Max fixed that problem though by figuring out a plan.

            Max’s theme drove her family crazy, and Percy had the same theme. When Percy was young, his father went away and never came back. Eventually his mom got a new boyfriend over the years. Percy’s family was already having troubles because of his dad. On Percy’s 16^th birthday his real dad came and rang the doorbell while Percy’s mom boyfriend was here. That made Percy’s family have a lot more troubles after that. Percy and Max compare completely.

            It is obvious that Percy and Max have the same theme. The interesting part about these characters is that their family problems both eventually clear up. When Percy had his troubles, his real dad explained on why he showed up and everyone was alright. Also, Max finds her sister so her problems clear up too. These two books have the exact same theme.