Dual passage with from a student essay and a book
Ciara Reeder and E. M. Berens

Excerpt from a student essay called “The Twists and Turns of Matching a Modern Day Kid with Mythological Figures” by Ciara Reeder (Glidden High School 2016)

Twelve year old Percy Jackson is the main character in Rick Riordan’s Lightning Thief. His adventures begin when a school incident helps him discover that he is not like the other kids; he is half-human, half-god. His mother sends him to Camp Half Blood, hoping to keep him safe. But Percy still has dangerous, exciting, and mysterious encounters with temperamental gods, friendly demigods, and vicious monsters. At camp, Percy learns that his father is Poseidon, god of the Sea. Percy also hears about his two uncles: Zeus, god of the Sky and ruler of all gods and Hades, god of the Underworld!

Much of the plot involves the recovery of Zeus's master lightning bolt. Zeus angrily accuses Poseidon and tells Poseidon that he must return the bolt to Mount Olympus by the summer solstice. Zeus threatens to declare war on Poseidon if it is not returned. So Percy goes on a quest to find and return Zeus's master bolt. With the help of friends, including the daughter of Athena, he battles Medusa, is tricked by the god of war Ares, and barely escapes death. Now he believes Hades has the bolt in the Underworld, but Hades does not have Zeus's master bolt. What he does have is anger for Percy and his friends. The team narrowly escape Hades's fury. Next they meet Ares, the god of war, and Percy discovers that Ares not only stole the master bolt, but also something of Poseidon’s. Ares wants to start a huge war between Hades, Zeus, and Poseidon.

Excerpt from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome from 1800-1200 BCE by E. M. Berens (1979)

...At last it was settled by lot that Zeus should reign supreme in Heaven, whilst Hades governed the Lower World, and Poseidon had full command over the Sea, but the supremacy of Zeus was recognized in all three kingdoms, in heaven, on earth (in which of course the sea was included), and under the earth. Zeus held his court on the top of Mount Olympus, whose summit was beyond the clouds; the dominions of Hades were the gloomy unknown regions below the earth; and Poseidon reigned over the sea.

The division of the world being now satisfactorily arranged, it would seem that all things ought to have gone on smoothly, but such was not the case. Trouble arose in an unlooked-for quarter. The Giants, those hideous monsters (some with legs formed of serpents) who had sprung from the earth and the blood of Uranus, declared war against the triumphant deities of Olympus, and a struggle ensued, which, in consequence of Gæa having made these children of hers invincible as long as they kept their feet on the ground, was wearisome and protracted. Their mother's precaution, however, was rendered unavailing by pieces of rock being hurled upon them, which threw them down, and their feet being no longer placed firmly on their mother-earth, they were overcome, and this tedious war at last came to an end.

Among the most daring of these earth-born giants were Enceladus, Rhœtus, and the valiant Mimas, who, with youthful fire and energy, hurled against heaven great masses of rock and burning oak-trees, and defied the lightnings of Zeus. One of the most powerful monsters who opposed Zeus in this war was called Typhon or Typhœus. He was the youngest son of Tartarus and Gæa, and had a hundred heads, with eyes which struck terror to the beholders, and awe-inspiring voices frightful to hear. This dreadful monster resolved to conquer both gods and men, but his plans were at length defeated by Zeus, who, after a violent encounter, succeeded in destroying him with a thunderbolt.

Which best describes the relationship between these two passages?
A) The first passage takes its inspiration from events in the second passage.
B) The first passage is a scathing critique of the events in the second passage.
C) The first passage is used as inspiration for the events of the second passage.
D) The first passage is used as research for the information presented in the second passage.