It seems like everyone loves Harry Potter. Everyone has read the books, watched the movies, and take quizzes online to see what house they would be in if they went to Hogwarts. Kids want to be like Harry Potter. The books were good and so were the movies, but I think the Michael Vey series by Richard Paul Evans is a better character to try to imitate.
Michael Vey is fourteen years old and the Elgen Corporation performed an experiment on babies when he was born. A lot of babies died, but the ones who lived have powers related to electricity in some way. The corporation has been tracking down the kids and recruiting them to be the next generation of super-humans. Dr. Hatch works for the Elgen Corporation and is the bad guy in these books. Michael Vey has friends, one is human but very smart. The others are a bunch of other teenagers with similar abilities that Michael convinces to work with him against the Elgen. His main motivation isn’t that the Elgen are bad, it’s that they kidnapped his mother in an attempt to gain control of him. If they’d left him alone, he wouldn’t have gotten involved, but it’s his mom. Michael is a normal teenager and has normal concerns: he’s in a new town, starting high school, being bullied for being small and weak, has only one friend to start with, and he …show more content…
We don’t have magic or superpowers, but we want to relate to these characters. Harry Potter is fantastic and magical and great for entertainment, but his problems finding his place in the wizard community isn’t something we’re going to have to deal with. Michael Vey has a superpower that is both useful and inconvenient. He has to deal with corporate corruption, something that is a real part of our world. Both characters are reluctant to be leaders in their cause, but Michael’s reluctance feels more real because he’s actually giving something up to continue his fight. He’s a kid forced to make hard choices to do the right
Michael Vey is fourteen years old and the Elgen Corporation performed an experiment on babies when he was born. A lot of babies died, but the ones who lived have powers related to electricity in some way. The corporation has been tracking down the kids and recruiting them to be the next generation of super-humans. Dr. Hatch works for the Elgen Corporation and is the bad guy in these books. Michael Vey has friends, one is human but very smart. The others are a bunch of other teenagers with similar abilities that Michael convinces to work with him against the Elgen. His main motivation isn’t that the Elgen are bad, it’s that they kidnapped his mother in an attempt to gain control of him. If they’d left him alone, he wouldn’t have gotten involved, but it’s his mom. Michael is a normal teenager and has normal concerns: he’s in a new town, starting high school, being bullied for being small and weak, has only one friend to start with, and he …show more content…
We don’t have magic or superpowers, but we want to relate to these characters. Harry Potter is fantastic and magical and great for entertainment, but his problems finding his place in the wizard community isn’t something we’re going to have to deal with. Michael Vey has a superpower that is both useful and inconvenient. He has to deal with corporate corruption, something that is a real part of our world. Both characters are reluctant to be leaders in their cause, but Michael’s reluctance feels more real because he’s actually giving something up to continue his fight. He’s a kid forced to make hard choices to do the right