Helen

Author's Note: I wrote this piece for my final grade. I am also trying to get a 9 in conclusion.

Helen was a Greek legend for one of the most beautiful woman of Greece. She was so beautiful that the Trojan war started, just to have her beauty. If you could be a goddess, would you? Why? Just like Helen, Shay is a beautiful women in, No Safety In Numbers by Dayna Lorentz.

In the original story Helen is a very gorges lady but, it sounds almost as if she's not the sharpest tool in the shed. In the play she is acting as if she is a teen. Helen is moody and she gets what she wants. Not only is everybody fighting to win her love, she is dating people on  both Trojan's and Spartans.

Shay  is a popular girl and everyone around her wanted to be with her. She is imprisoned in a mall, due to a bomb in the parking garage. Once she is stuck In the mall, her grandma is getting really sick. The boy named Ryan is very helpful.  Once they start dating all the other boys are jealous and try to win her.  This is like Helen because the guys want her, for her beauty.

Beauty is the main subject of Helen and Shay. When Helen  shows her self, every body wants to be around her. This is the almost the same as the story, because when shay goes out of hiding, every guy falls in love.  The difference of the original story is Helen doesn't seem smart , but unlike her Shay is very smart and kind. She cares for all the people in her life.

Even thought some parts weren't the same I prefer the book that I am reading, because I can relate to it more, and it is more modern. Overall  the stories have the same concept of being beautiful, and everyone wants her.  Shay is smart and pretty, and Helen is mostly beautiful, but not that smart.