Percy Jackson And The Olympians : The Lightning Thief : Book Analysis

Disclaimers: No matter how much I pray, I am not The Brilliance that is J.K. Rowling or Rick Riodian and do not own the rights to Harry Potter or Percy Jackson and The Olympians

Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief is a story of a boy in high school who has below average grades in a below average household, where he lives with his mother and a nasty old man who abuses his mom. One day while he was away on a school field trip, his life gets completely destroyed, and thrown into a spiral of Greek gods and prophecies. Where he meets a girl who shows him what it

One difference is that Percy Jackson and Annabeth are 12 in the book but 16 in the movie, and in the book Annabeth has blonde curly hair but in the movie she has brown straight hair. Another contrast between the two is that Mr. D (Dionysus god of wine, agriculture, and fertility of nature) is in the book but barely in the movie and we know that Percy is Poseidon's son from the beginning of the movie when he holds his breath in the pool for a couple minutes but in the book he's not claimed by his father Poseidon until he gets to camp Half-Blood. Percy gets told by Mr. Brunner (Chiron) that he can't have any electronics because the monsters will be able to track him but in the movie Percy has a iPod that helps him cut Medusa's head

When adapting a movie based on a book, there will be parts that are left out in the movie. These changes can either be good or bad, depending on how its executed. Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief fits under the latter category as the changes made were glaringly bad in my opinion and noticed by the fans of this book. In Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, I found three key differences compared to its film adaptation: how the journey started, the characters and their characterization, and missing plot points.

The Lightning Thief is the first book in Percy Jackson & The Olympians series; it goes within the genre fiction and fantasy. The author of the book is Rick Riordan. Riordan was born June 5, 1964. During his childhood he was fascinated my Greek mythology and fictional books. During college, Riordan worked three years as the music director at a summer camp called Camp Capers. That is where he got the idea about Camp Half-blood, which you will read about later in this book report. Rick Riordan graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a double major in English and history. Riordan started getting interested in writing own books, and he published his first book (Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief from the Percy Jackson & The Olympians series) on June 28, 2005. The book was published all over the world and translated into

Majority of movies don’t follow along with the books as an example my class read “The Outsiders” was written by S.E. Hinton and the director for the movie was Francis Ford Coppola. “The Outsiders” was about seven friends that were greasers, three whom were siblings, a greaser is a person who has long greasy hair, live on south side of town, and they ain't rich kids, but one night something happened that changed everything . We ended up seeing the movie but some of the scenes were nothing alike the book. I mean to be totally honest there wasn’t a lot of errors just missing some important parts I wouldn’t say they added some scenes to it. Naturally they were young men acting like greasers, but they really acted really well as a family, that is what I think made the movie like a true family bond. I think how they acted like very close and like caring, it was really good because in the book and the movie they were all very close and they acted like a real family. This writing is about what the differences are in the movie from the book and what important parts I thought they missed and didn't put in the movie what kind of

One of the hardest things for a director to do is to turn a book into a movie. There is a fine line between keeping the movie just like the book, and by barely crossing that line you can end up making a completely different vision than the book has set out for you. There are also many viewers out there that will completely hate the movie if it is nothing like the book that they read originally. The director has to realize that although there are many different types of audiences to please, that it still has to be a great movie that people cannot stop talking about.

The Lightning Thief is a fictional book that is in the point of view of the protagonist, Percy Jackson. In the beginning of the book, Percy discovers that he is a half-blood, a half-human half-God. After an encounter with a Minotaur and his mother mysteriously disappearing, Percy is sent to Camp Half-Blood. At Camp Half-Blood, Percy meets many kids just like him. Percy also discovers many more things about himself. For instance, he finds out that his father is Poseidon, and that his best friend Grover is a satyr. He also finds out that his father Poseidon is accused of stealing his brother Zeus’s master bolt, but Poseidon refused to accept that he had taken the bolt. Percy, Grover, and Annabeth; Percy’s other friend, set off on a quest to

The plot type of Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief is voyage and return and a quest. Percy Jackson has a voyage and return plot because Percy needs to leave his home to save his mom from Hades, who traped her in the underworld so that Percy would give him the lightning bolt; the story is a quest because he left home to search for something, in the movie percy was searching for the pearls so that he could escape the underworld when he whent to get his mom. Perseus also has a voyage and return plot because perseus leaves home to get a wedding gift for polydectes; medusa’s head. Percy Jackson used the theme of Perseus to render the story new because the author of Percy Jackson wanted the people that watched the movie to make the connection between the two stories that they

What is a hero? According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, and hero is “ in mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent in Dallas with great strength or ability.” Dictionary.com describes a hero as someone “ noted for courageous acts on nobility of character or someone who in the opinion of others has special achievements, abilities, or personal qualities and is regarded as a role model or Idol.” My personal definition is someone who is seen as sort of a higher up position but has a fatal flaw that inevitably leads to their downfall. You could some all of these definitions up and call Percy Jackson a hero.

In our world of advanced technology, we love to watch movies more than we love to read. Sitting in front of a flat-screen TV while eating popcorn and drinking soda would sound much more appealing than reading a book by the fire at night while drinking a frappucino from Starbucks. Now, producers and directors would take successful and famous stories and adapt it into a movie. Sometimes, they would succeed, with examples being the Harry Potter series, which received mainly positive reviews from both critics and the audience. However, most of the time these people would unknowingly butcher the book based movie by taking out many important characters and events, with good examples being The Lightning Thief and Eragon. Then another example of a

4:3:2 THE BOY At the beginning of the novel the father leads the story, later half of the story taken by the young boy, who is also unnamed throughout the novel. He is a “normal” character lives in the future world. So, he does not know the reality and the values of human beings. He does not even know to differentiate the good guys and the bad guys.

My original thought when comparing Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Lightning Thief the movie and Classical mythology was that there would be many more references to the myth of Perceus than any other myth throughout the movie in its entirety. That’s where I was wrong. After watching the movie again and researching the different hero myths my opinion has changed. My new thoughts are that the movie is not influenced by the myth of Perceus any more than other hero myths. The movie ties together many different heroes’ stories and mixes them together to make a wonderful story about a young boy. The movie was based on a book series written by Rick Riordan.

Percy Jackson is a twelve year old boy that lives in New York, in modern time. He has attended a few private schools for troubled students (Riordan 1). In fact, he describes himself as a “troubled kid” with dyslexia and ADHD (Riordan 7). Percy is used to being the loner of the group, after attending six schools in the past six years which probably means he doesn’t make many friends. (Schmoop). His classmates do not have a need to scramble for money.

All in all, Percy Jackson does a good job of representing the Greek Gods in a present day story that is entertaining and appropriate for families. Most of the characters are presented very accurately, and even the changes are not terribly drastic. The director balances entertaining audiences with informing them, and the new material doesn’t ruin any characters or storylines from the original myths. I think the movie did a good job of