The Electrifying Scorpio Races
The folklore surrounding the mysterious water horse myth has always captured my fascination. Maggie Stiefvater 's The Scorpio Races takes this exceedingly ancient folktale and beguiles audience 's with her own unique retelling. There are decidedly few authors that can write in such a way that not only makes readers envision the setting, but she transports us there. Stiefvater 's opening of The Scorpio Races is both thrilling, and yet haunting with the declaration that someone will die on this day.
Initially, I cared more for the characterization of Puck Connolly, as opposed to Sean Kendrick 's attitude. Surprisingly, a character that I adore to bits is the youngest of the Connolly 's, Finn. I have a brother that …show more content…
"I stare at Eaton and the men around him. Something about the way they stand together is familiar, comradely. Like a herd of ponies bunched up against the wind. Or sheep, staring warily out at the collie that means to move them. I 'm the outsider. The woman" (195). It is so massively insane that the issue these men have with Puck Connolly entering the races isn 't her lack of a capall uisce, but because of her sex. I was so ready for her to get her finger cut so she could add her blood to that rock full of men. The men of Thisby seem to be like the modern version of meninist; they are threatened by a woman that can take care of herself, and possibly change the world.
The love story between Puck and Sean was refreshing. Something that bothers me about a lot of Young Adult Literature is the fact that authors seem to think that the protagonist(s) can only either have one epic love story, or throw in a love triangle for drama. Maggie Stiefvater breaks the normal of this problem throughout The Scorpio Races with her realistic romance between Puck and Sean. For, there is enough drama concerning the capall uisce, the races, and the constant fear of both characters losing what they both hold
The folklore surrounding the mysterious water horse myth has always captured my fascination. Maggie Stiefvater 's The Scorpio Races takes this exceedingly ancient folktale and beguiles audience 's with her own unique retelling. There are decidedly few authors that can write in such a way that not only makes readers envision the setting, but she transports us there. Stiefvater 's opening of The Scorpio Races is both thrilling, and yet haunting with the declaration that someone will die on this day.
Initially, I cared more for the characterization of Puck Connolly, as opposed to Sean Kendrick 's attitude. Surprisingly, a character that I adore to bits is the youngest of the Connolly 's, Finn. I have a brother that …show more content…
"I stare at Eaton and the men around him. Something about the way they stand together is familiar, comradely. Like a herd of ponies bunched up against the wind. Or sheep, staring warily out at the collie that means to move them. I 'm the outsider. The woman" (195). It is so massively insane that the issue these men have with Puck Connolly entering the races isn 't her lack of a capall uisce, but because of her sex. I was so ready for her to get her finger cut so she could add her blood to that rock full of men. The men of Thisby seem to be like the modern version of meninist; they are threatened by a woman that can take care of herself, and possibly change the world.
The love story between Puck and Sean was refreshing. Something that bothers me about a lot of Young Adult Literature is the fact that authors seem to think that the protagonist(s) can only either have one epic love story, or throw in a love triangle for drama. Maggie Stiefvater breaks the normal of this problem throughout The Scorpio Races with her realistic romance between Puck and Sean. For, there is enough drama concerning the capall uisce, the races, and the constant fear of both characters losing what they both hold