The Lost Hero vs. As I Grew Older

As I am reading The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, I somewhat noticed that this book is somewhat similar to a poem that I read which is called As I Grew Older by Langston Hughes. Just like the three main characters Jason, Piper, and Leo the character in the poem tries to escape the fate that they have in the moment. In the book, The Lost Hero, the author writes, "" Hail Piper McLean," Chiron announced gravely, as if he were speaking at her funeral. "Daughter of Aphrodite, lady of the doves, goddess of love."" Meanwhile, the author of the poem As I Grew Older writes, "Help me to shatter this darkness, to smash this night, to break this shadow into a thousands of lights of sun, into a thousand whirling dreams of Sun!" This shows that both the character in the poem and Piper don't want to be what others want them to be. The character in the poem wants their dreams to happen and is trying to escape the expectation. While Piper has been claimed as Aphrodite's daughter who is known as the goddess of love, but she doesn't want to become like her, but instead be who she was before. Even though the book and the poem seem the same, they are also different. For example, the book The Lost Hero uses Greek mythology, while the poem doesn't have a time period set, but this poem was written in the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Even though the poem and the book are different, they are still the same.