A Changing Fate

      Hazel in the book House of Hades, changed over the course of the text from someone who was very unsure of themselves and didn't believe she had magic to a very confident sorceress. It's always really neat to see someone change over the course of a book. Hazel was an interesting one because you would have never expected her to change at all with how she acts in the other books.

     In the beginning of the novel Hazel acted as if she wasn't very confident. Well... she wasn't, "Hazel stammered, 'She didn't believe in magic. Not really. She was faking it'"(Riordan 18). You can tell by the word stammered that she isn't very confident and doesnt have much motivation. Hazel in the previous books has been portrayed as weak and timid and uncertain and hesitant and pathetic. Over and over she is described as weak. She changes that.

  
      Later in the book when the gang is trapped by the bandit Sciron, who traps people in a canal and makes them "air quote" wash his feet "air quote" when in fact he pushes tham over the edge when they kneel down. Everyone has to rely on Hazel because everyone is captured but her and Jason. She has to figure out a way to get out of this mess. I personally would have never been able to do that, or escape in anyway other than through the pearly gates, "'We have to let Sciron win.' ' What?' Jason demanded. Hazel told him the plan"(Riordan 216). Hazel is much more confident in this excerpt than from the beginning. She is very bold and dauntless.

     It is always really neat to see people change and I can't wait to see it throughout the next book I decide to pick up and read.