One of American Gods attention grabber hits off towards a journey through psychology, world culture, and ‘mythological’ politics. Neil Gaiman paints the story beautifully, molding the characters into actual people while following a plot of fantasy and realistic fiction. Managing to mold together the way the individuals and groups of people react to changes in their life and environment while twisting the realism into a tale that resembles fiction in its presentation of morals. Although is a work of fiction, we tend to connect with the characters on emotional, mental, and bad humor.
Shadow, the main character, is asked to assist Mr. Wednesday on a political, historical war of the deities of world cultures.
America is a melting pot of various ethnicities and cultures, all coming to the land at scattered moments of history.
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He also is a lover, and has a thirst for conflict. He holds a connection with the reader as his behavior reflects on themselves or a person they have meet.
The plot revolves around the building-up of a war, ancient deities against the modern era. Due to technology, humans no longer have a need for the old mythological gods and goddesses of the past. Mr. Wednesday and Shadow attempt to bond together the scattered deities of ancient times that are spread out all over America, wanting to bind them together to be the ranks of a war. The beings of old belief build their motley group of mixed cultures and powers against the modern era ‘deities’, Media, Electricity, Internet, Computers, Etc.
This novel contains a history of its own just like how our country has over the 238 years. Politics, cultural differences, and technology help revolve our world, just like in this tale of fictional characters in an alternative universe of our world, our society; the United States of