In The Magnus Chase By Rick Riordan

Rick Riordan is an amazing author, having written over seventy books, he was inspired by his son, asking him constantly about various forms of mythology. Three of his books are about Norse mythology, centering about Magnus Chase, a son of Frey. In both books he has to attempt to save the world by binding the wolf of the apocalypse and stopping a wedding that would most likely end the world. He is an undead soldier in Odin’s army. The two books are similar. They have a similar theme, a similar setting, and Magnus is a little different in the two books. The conflicts are relatively the same, but vary slightly.

Magnus may be the same person in both books, but he changes and develops between the books. At the start of the first book, Magnus

Every character has had some form of it. In the first book, Magnus had a choice to sacrifice himself to save hundreds of innocent people. I can support this because on page forty, it says “ There was no way I’d let them die defending me.As for Uncle Randolph... I hardly knew the guy. I didn't like him much. But he was family. He said he couldn't stand to lose another family member. Yeah, well neither could I. This time I wasn't going to run away.” Magnus was going to sacrifice himself so that all the people on the bridge and all of his friends and family could survive. He died to save everyone else. Earlier in the book, you were also told that Magnus's mom sacrificed so that he could survive when the Wolves came and killed her. She let him escape. As for book two, on page eighty-six it says “ With one single flick one of the Wolves had lost their heads... before she could strike again the other wolves tackled her... it was hard to watch as the wolf tore into the German Shepherd ripping into Alex’s snout.. she turns human again a few feet away her clothes in tatters her face a horror show of bite marks... she killed one of the wolves… and here final breath rattling in here .chest…” Alex had given up here life to save an innocent person who had nothing until she helped him fight. She died so he lived. Also from page sixty-five Magnus let himself be killed instead of exploding and killing pretty much

In Magnus Chase the main conflicts are man vs fate and man vs man. In the first book, on page 438-439, Riordan says “I revised my impression of [Fenris] Wolf. Maybe his size was ordinary… but his eyes were colder and more intelligent than any predator I’ve ever encountered--animal or human… As if he could smell the fear on my breath.” He describes Fenris as a predator, intelligent and cold. In another quote, on page 439, “His voice is as smooth as molasses.” That explains how persuasive and how he was facing a dangerous, smart creature. Another conflict in both each of the books is man vs fate. In both books, there is some sort of prophecy bound to come true. A piece of man vs. man is present in the second book, on page 417-420 it says, “Loki brought his knees to his chest for the first time in a thousand years...Just as Thrym looked up, momentarily distracted from killing his wife… Gravity was on [Blitz’s] side and the giant king crumbled beneath the rocks.” In this book, Magnus and his gang must stop Sam from getting married and having Loki getting freed, they had to fight the groom, who was crumbled beneath the rocks, and fight Loki, who escaped. In both books there was some giant fight at the end, the climax of the man vs