Terminal Zeus
I wanted to talk about this in class a bit but never got around to it.
I was more interested in the name of the game specifically so I guess I’ll break it down!
So Zeus, we all know who he is but in case someone doesn’t here’s some info: Zeus is the Greek God of the sky and of thunder. Not only that but he is the undeniable King of the Gods, ruling on high on Mt. Olympus.
That part isn’t confusing as far as the game goes. They pretend to use Zeus to fight all sorts of made up enemies using whatever power the minds of Howard and Danny can come up with. It’s a unique little game but the use of Zeus as their main protagonist in it didn’t confuse me at all. I imagine the two were interested in the stories of Greek mythology when they were kids. I know I was. It was a topic of wonder to a small mind so it’s of no surprise to me that this entity was chosen.
What I was confused on is the use f the word “Terminal” in their game but after some thought on it I think I figured out what was meant.
Terminal here, has nothing to do with technology or a place to meet a means of travel, no, I think it means an end. Used with Zeus it describes that fact that he is the ultime power in their game, the end to whatever they are facing. It makes sense to me being that Zeus is King of the Gods and his power would be absolute. He is the means to the end if you will.
Anyway, that’s my analysis on it.
April 3, 2009 at 4:09 am
I find that the name is meant to be like that. The game these boys play is highly imaginative and for them to use a fictional character that was a symbol of being all powerful and that could mean that they wanted to some day become all powerful too. I like that you thought of talking about this because essentially Danny and Howard invent this game because they do not have anything to do. It is almost a king of entertaining mechanism because the other cousins do not want to include them. I think at the time that Howard invented this game, he didn’t know that it would help him to become the man he is later in the story. I find that everything that has happened to Howard in the past, happened for a reason and his imagination is tied to all of it.