Sometimes your family drives you crazy. Other times, they lock you in a box, shatter it into fourteen pieces, and force the rest of your family members to find your body parts so you can be resurrected in the underworld.
Welcome to the family of the ancient Egyptian gods: there's violence, dismemberment, and even a little incest thrown in on occasion.
Even for mortal siblings like Carter and Sadie in The Red Pyramid, the notion of family is quite problematic: their mom is dead, and their dad maybe-kinda-sorta ditched them to merge with a god. Still, if family's what you make of it, Sadie and Carter aren't doing too bad in the grand scheme of things. If nothing else, they've accomplished the hardest thing—learning to tolerate each other.
Questions About Family
- What traits do Carter and Sadie share as members of the same family?
- How do the Egyptian deities complicate the idea of family?
- Sharing values and goals is what makes a family. True or false, and why?
- How do the identities of the gods Sadie and Carter are hosting influence or match their own family relationships? Is it always a perfect match?