Sample Summer Project Response

To give you an idea of what I'm looking for in the summer project, here's an example from the novelization of the classic TV show Battlestar Galactica. (Many movies/TV shows have book tie-ins -- or are based on novels/short stories -- so if you know of an allusion in a movie/TV show, search Amazon for a novel/short story you can use for this assignment.)

In Battlestar Galactica, a novel by Glen A. Larson and Robert Thurston, we are introduced to Apollo, son of Adama (and brother of Athena) in Chapter One: "As they hurtled toward the old moon, Apollo felt uneasy that there should be any kind or disturbance within the unpopulated Lianus Sector (paragraph 19)." Apollo shares the love of truth (the disturbance where there should be none troubles him) and his deadly accuracy with his spacecraft (not quite a "silver bow," but they are silver) with his Greek god namesake. Furthermore his name, and that of his sister, reveal their father to be all-powerful and Zeus-like, as in the Greek myth, even though he (Adama) does not share the name of the supreme ruler in the Greek Pantheon.

Battlestar Galactica is taken, but if you can find a Magnum, P.I. or Die Hard with a Vengeance novelization you'll have a couple Zeus allusions to play with (and an Apollo, too, with the Magnum).

Got it? If you have questions, enter them in the comments.