Magnus Chase is a book written by Rick Riordan famous for the collection Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Heros of Olympus and The Kane Chronicles.
Magnus, our hero, is a homeless boy that run away after been accused of starting the fire that killed his mother two years before the events that happen in the book.
Here we can see the first 2 problems that the author present to us.
1º How is the life of people that live in the streets.
In a part of the book he writes this: " Some of you may think: O how sad. Someone help that poor boy. But if you saw me in the street I'm 99% sure that you'll just pass by me and hope that I won't approach asking for money."
Besides being used to be unknown Magnus is always thinking about food.Because in the streets you never know when and if you will eat again.
Talking about food our character favorite food is FALAFEL. This is a kind of a vegan croquette from the Middle Easten.
2º Is easy to blame the weak X The importance of true friends.
Still in the first chapters Magnus tell us that according what he had read in the newspapers the police blame him by the murder of his mother. According to him, she was killed by wolves with shining eyes.
Remembering that this is a fantastic book so your mother been killed by wolves with shining eyes is normal.
But the point is that instead of really trying to find the boy the police preferred to blame him for running away and because he had terrible school records( just as happen to Percy in The Lightning Thief).
When we starts living in the streets Magnus is helped by 2 new friends: Blitz and Hearth.
SPOILERS FROM NOW ON
As the events are happening we found out that Blitz and Hearth work for a man that ask then to take care of Magnus but we also can notice that they don't help him just because is their job but because they really like him as true friends. And in some moments they even risk their lives so M can live.
3º Never judge someone by their parents.
Sam is Loki's daughter.
Blitz is Freya's son.
Loki is consider a trickster, traitor and renegade. In other hand Sam helps M a lot and is organized and a little bossy and she really care for Magnus Sam is a great friend . She came from a muslin family and is promised in an arranged married. She also always use her green hijab.
These are other prejudices that are broken by the book.
Sam says to Magnus that the boy she will marry is a boy that she loves and that her grandparents (she lives with then) ask for her opinion when they arrange the marriage.
Also for being a warrior se have a special cloak with superpowers that she chose take the form of her hijab.
These remember us of
4º Never look at other cultures and religions with prejudice.
Blitz is son of a dwarf with the goodness of beauty, this remember us that:
5º Love can be found in the most different shapes and what matter is what the people is inside and not its body.
We must never blame or discriminate 2 people for love each other no matter what they are.
Backing to Blitz he didn't talk about the fact of who his mother is is he thinks twice before do dangerous stuff different than his father.
Hearth also has problems at home because he can do magic and his parents desaprove that.
But together Magnus, Sam, Blitz and Hearth build there own family and show us that no matter who belongs to it if you feel loved and safe near someone these people truly is your family.
I'll stop here guys.
When I finished the book I'll write the PART 2.
