9.) Guerrilla Uprising

Book Title: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Pages: 240-307 since last week; 564 since semester

At seven years old, Calliope sneaks out of the attic in which her and her mom and brother are hiding and she sets off on her bike to find her dad. She follows a tank there, and her dad is in front of the store watching it burn down, thinking about all of the insurance money he's going to rack up because of it.

I thought it was really cute that Callie went to go find her dad, because she saw her brother sleeping in the attic and saw how pathetic and feeble he looked, so she took on the duty of saving her father herself. It just goes to prove that not all heroes are manly men, and that even the scrawniest seven year olds can be heroes. This reminds me of Macbeth, because I think Macbeth is definitely a story about characters who aren't what they seem. Calliope is first seen as a little girl, a frail, feminine child, but she obviously isn't. She went and saved her father no matter how much she didn't fit a heroe's descpription, and she grows up to be a man instead of a woman. Macbeth is seen as brave and manly, but he constantly self-doubts himself and Lady Macbeth is even more powerful and ambitious than he is-- not exactly the characteristics of a housewife.