Connections to the Real World

The Red Pyramid is based in the real current world so in the novel there are many places and things which are real.The author Rick Riordan, I find, just took the real world and threw Egyptian gods, mythical creatures, and magic into it to create this novel. Also to make the fictional parts of the novel seem more life like the author adds real things to it, like Sadie and Carter's companion, Khufu the baboon whom aids them a lot wears an L.A. Lakers jersey. I think the author took a lot of his interests and what he thought the readers would like and put it together to write this book to make it humorous, sort of life like, and able to be connected to real world places and thoughts of things. Many of the events in the novel could positively not take place in real life because many of them involve myths and fictional things. Fiction allows for readers to escape the real world into a more interesting one, it's all about imagination. Some real life possible situations can easily be changed into a fiction situation or other way around, for example in the novel when Set was released into the world and then Sadie and Carter have to stop him before Set causes danger, in the real world you can think of that situation as if a very bad criminal gets loose and cops have to find and stop the criminal before anything bad happens. In the novel Carter and Sadie go from being normal kids to totally not normal kids and that majorly changes their lives, the message that comes from that is that change can happen at anytime and it could be minor or major but in the end not matter what happens something good will come out of it, if not for you then for someone else. In the Red Pyramid it was very easy to picture everything happening because of both the real and fictional aspects of the novel, it's what made the novel very much enjoyable.