The golden mean of Loyalty

                                                                The Golden Mean

The Golden Mean is a balance of good and evil, bad and fair, light and darkness. When it comes to character virtue, the definition of The Golden Mean is this:

A preferred balance between too much of a virtue, and not enough of a virtue.

When it comes to loyalty there are different phases. Too little, The Golden Mean, and too much. An example of a character with too little loyalty is the hyenas from the lion king.

The hyenas from lion king have too little loyalty because they never listen to scar enough, who is their leader. They show that having little loyalty means you don't listen, and defy higher power.

The character that has too much loyalty is  members of the Charles Manson cult.

The Charles Manson cult is the perfect example of people with too much loyalty because they were told to kill other humans in cold blood because some crazy hippie with a Gandalf beard told them to. They didn't measure the consequences, they put way too much loyalty into Manson, and they payed the price.

The Golden Mean of loyalty is Samwise Gamgee. 

Samwise shows the Golden Mean of loyalty because he shows loyalty towards frodo without being too attached but at the same time being committed to him enough to push him through to the end. He showed perseverance when accompanying his friend and stayed loyal to save him from certain death.

Elements of a story

                                   McCarthy, Cormac. The road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print
The five main elements of this story are the plot, the characters, the conflict, the suspense leading to the climax, and the swift conclusion. 
          The first and most important to me are the characters. The characters are what make the story readable. In "The Road" the two main characters are the dad and the son. They are the only two that provide for the story. Their dialogue isn't really all that great, but they both have unique personalities. The father looks over his child and is very wise and clever. The child is accepting of his father's hard work and loves him. 
          The second main element is the plot. Knowing I haven't read much of the book yet I can't really comment on it too much but so far its quite original and creative. The plot is like the building blocks of the story. The plot in this book is quite evident.
          The third element is the conflict and conflict is the problem between two opposing forces in the story. In The Road the conflict is between the two characters, the dad and the kid, and the whole world. People and nature. "This door looks like the other door, he said. But it's not. I know you're scared. That's okay. I think there may be things in there and we have to take a look. There's no place else to go. This is it."
           The fourth element is the suspense leading to the climax. Its the long slope that slowly leads to the big finish. Things getting more and more tense. I haven't gotten to the climax of The Road yet but I must say there were little climaxes along the way. 
           The fifth and final element is the swift conclusion to the story. Its the thing that raps things up in a little bow and makes closure for the characters and plot in an efficient and effective way. 

HELLO READERS! My name is Ronan Balmain Hummel and I enjoy reading to a certain extent. Fantasy and Post-Apocalyptic are my favourite reading genres. The websites I read are, well, reddit and facebook, kind of.

The last two books I read were Blood Red Road and All Good Children. Blood Red Road was my favourite of the two and was set in a post apocalyptic America where people have created a desolate society through scavenging and getting together like a normal community would. This book is filled with action and suspense. It was well worth the read.

The best book I have ever read so far has been Divergent and Insurgent as a duo. Its like The Hunger Games and The Matrix had a grotesquely awesome baby that could do backflips. This book brings action to a whole other level, diving down deep into the root of peoples fears and emotions to class them into a certain category. There is Dauntless, the fearless. Eritude, the smart. Candor, the honest. Amity, the careful. And Abnegation, the Selfless. Its an amazing book and you should give it a try.