Ptolemy's gate

In the book, Ptolemy's gate by Jonathan Stroud, there are 3 main characters, not one like a normal book. The three characters are Nathaniel, Bartimaeus and Kathleen Jones, a.k.a Kitty. Nathaniel is a powerful young magician in the top ranks of an extremely corrupt government. Bartimaeus is a entity summoned by Nathaniel, who must follow his orders, but tries to rebel. Kitty is a person who was supposedly dead, and wanted by the government for treason. The author uses multiple personalities to make the book a more confusing and conflicting read.

In this book, the 2 young adults, Nathaniel and Kitty are treated like two completely different people, and, Nathaniel is treated like somebody incredibly out of his depth, and even his mentor, Jessica Whitwell claims that he is out of his depth. She said "I believe that my apprentice needs a little more help with managing situations and that this one may be out of his depth." The author is trying to show that no matter how powerful the kid is, he may still not be able to tackle the problems ahead.

Kitty is treated like a more better adult and she has less power over other people. She cares more about other peoples and is not given government positions. She herself set up a resistance that fought against all of the dictatorship that is called a equal government. However, she is treated with less dignity than all of the other people, and does not think that the magicians deserve all of this because of the fact that they are "defending" Britain.

Lord Anton said "Absolute power corrupts absolutely", and I think this story is a good example of it. Nathaniel is given high ranking positions and is callous and blind to his surroundings because of it. Kitty knows what is going on and aware of her surroundings, and she is treated as a lonely commoner because of the fact that she was not born in the government. She is trying to redo the french revolution, and Nathaniel is sitting back in his chair doing paperwork.

Deadlock

In the book Deadlock by Mark Walden, the main character, Otto, is trying to stop a plot to turn a bunch of young children into assassins, and to kill off all of the ones who are not strong and fast enough. 4 of Otto's friends were captured and sent to the facility to be trained, and Otto wants to free them. In this book, young adults are treated like they have dangerous potential, and money is not an issue. In this book, somehow, the characters seem to have enough money to do whatever they want.

In the book, it appears that all of the villains have the resources it takes to build massive bases, and yet it seems that money has no impact on the power of the people in all of the book. The cost in money of what they are doing does not seem to matter to any of the characters. A person in the book named Diabolus Darkdoom can afford to make incredibly advanced technology for a submarine, and the antagonists can afford to not only hack into it, but to waste their resources in destroying it. This makes me think that even though, money is such an issue in our life, it is still not as important as other things. I think that the author is trying to send us a message about how we should not let our lives be ruled by a hunger for more money, and that you can have enough of it.

In Deadlock, I feel that all of the characters do not have the ability to truly appreciate what they have and how they are using it. In the story, money is treated like it is completely unneeded and yet it is a huge part of all of our lives. I believe that Mark Walden is trying to show how much the amount of money we have should be appreciate

In the book "The Death Cure" by James Dashner, money is a huge issue in all of what is going on. Very few people who have a small amount of money got through the disease that was known as the Flare. The Flare is a disease that eats away at the victims brains and is a leading cause of insanity. The main characters name is Thomas. However, a few people are actually immune to this disease,including him, and people are discriminating against him because of the fact that he is immune and does not have to worry about the Flare. Because he has what most other people do not have, then he is different, and that will lead to discrimination.

In all cases of discrimination, there is a major difference between the two types of people. Because the people are different, other people feel uncomfortable around them and therefore start to bully them. There are many types of discrimination out in the world, and it is a really dreadful thing. The people who discriminate against other people are sometimes oblivious of what is happening to the people who they are discriminating. The book explains how even if the person is almost exactly the same, one small difference can make both people feel very uncomfortable.

When somebody is feeling inferior to the other people because he is different, it is generally because of the fact that the other people feel too uncomfortable about him. However, because of the fact that every single one of the most influential human beings has been different when he was growing up, it really should not matter to us that the other people are different. People care about other people, but it can be hard when they are all doing things you believe are weird.