Lawson Oden's Literary Analysis

Fifth grade, it's the last hoorah of pure childhood before students are thrown into the shark tank known as middle school. The majority of my fifth grade memories are overwhelmed by one painfully awkward musical about The American Revolution so to get a fresh perspective, I talked to Lawson Oden. Lawson is eleven years old, in the fifth grade and is the youngest of five children. Lawson (among many other things) enjoys drinking tea, sporting fedoras, and playing the video game minecraft. Lawson’s day starts at 6:30am. He doesn’t need to be at school until 8 but he says he has to get up at 6:30 to get all the things he needs to get done. Those things vary from day to day, sometimes he simply needs an extra thirty minutes to find his school …show more content…
Following Vocabulary, Lawson had Literature. I took this opportunity to ask him if he's reading any books right now. “I just started reading Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard,” Lawson told me, “It's about Norse Mythology.” Lawson explained to me that this is the newest series from author Rick Riordan. Lawson is an avid fan of the author, who wrote the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and The Kanes Chronicles series which focuses on Egyptian mythology. Lawson told me he borrowed two more Kanes Chronicles books when his Literature class visited the school library today. Lawson mentioned to me that he was writing a book. The name is, Inside the Computer, Lawson shared an excerpt from Chapter One “The Portal” with me. Inside the Computer follows a character named Ian Quail. The following is the opening from the upcoming novel.
“Hello my name is Ian Quail, my friends call me IQ.I am a complete geek. I play tons of video games, I am an okay mechanic, and I can program.You get why peaple call me IQ right,but anyways lets get on with this story.