A Gift of Love

“Mothers are the greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then mothers are that sweet flower of love.” (Unknown) The Son of Neptune, by Rick Riodan revealed that Frank, sent off to Camp Jupiter, a camp for demi-gods, six weeks after the funeral of his mother, was clumsy and a misfit. Although the transition to camp would have been easier with the help of a magical talent or countless friends, the tangible gift of his mother’s life would have given him the powerful love every human needs from a mother. Since his mother had died in the war, leaving Frank behind with his strict grandmother, Frank plummeted into a pit of despair. He felt useless, like a sore thumb that just got in everybody’s way, and the discovery that he was the son of the war god, Mars, just made him feel worse. With a mother to guide him, however, Frank could have the support of someone who loved him. Furthermore, his mother could help Frank along during tough times and give him courage to continue when all hope was gone. He would need someone to cry to during hard times, someone to push him on and someone to help him every time he fell. With his mother, Frank could have the complete, but definitely not normal, life that he had always dreamed for. Without his mother, Frank had to push on by his self, pick himself back up and fumble through the dark without the light of hope. As the famous orator and author, Edwin Hubbell Chapin once said, “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.”

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