Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief By Rick Riordan

For this long write, I decided to look at relationships between characters over time + themes. The two relationships I decided to focus on were Percy and Annabeth, and Percy and Grover.

As for the movie, Percy is your stereotypical 16-year-old teenager who also lives with an abusive stepdad. Similar to the book, Percy is attacked by a monster and his life forever changes. Percy’s

Percy Jackson - Percy Jackson is the twelve-year-old protagonist of The Lightning Thief. He is the narrator and the hero of The Lightning Thief. At the beginning of the story, Percy's life perspective is pretty negative. Percy is a 12-year-old boy who has been expelled from every school he has attended in the past 6 years. Percy is dyslexic and has ADHD. A scene that best shows this is when he says, “I could start at any point in my short and miserable life to prove it.” When he begins telling his story, he's a bit grumpy, angry, or even depressed. Percy comes from a very humble background, meaning he is grateful for the simple joys in life. Percy never knew his dad. His mother eventually married a guy named Gabe Ugliano, Percy calls him Smelly Gabe. They live in a small apartment in Queens, NY, and Gabe enjoys making Percy's life and Percy's mom's life miserable.

that Greek gods exist, and have been closely observing western culture and ideas. The author draws parallels to Percy’s life, who is an American teenager, with that of Greek heroes. This parallel helps the readers to relate to the book, essentially engaging the young readers to learn about Greek mythology and the lessons of life that it teaches, in a not so bland way. The protagonist of the novel, Percy Jackson, is revealed to be special in some way. This section also develops other supporting characters, such as Chiron, Percy’s teacher, who also was mentor to Hercules and Grover, who is Percy’s sidekick, a multi-dimensional character with his own past, hopes and concerns. The association of Chiron and Percy foretells that Percy will carry on heroic deeds in future. Percy fights Minotaur, a monster that even Theseus fought and defeated. In the process of defeating Minotaur, Percy loses his mother, which he feels was his last hope to returning to his normal human life. By drawing parallels between Percy and various heroes of Greek Mythology, the author shows Percy in the light of a hero. A hero who is yet to prove his worth in the Camp Half-Blood. His encounter with Clarisse at a bathroom in camp, allows him to show his strength, which was very similar to that of his father Poseidon, but also instils in some ways fear amongst the camp

Percy wakes up at a place called camp half-blood. Camp half-blood is created by magical borders in order to protect demigods so they can continue to train while being safe. After entering camp half-blood Percy learns about his identity of being a demigod. A demigod is child from a human and Greek god parent. He learns that he’s the son of one the three major Gods, Poseidon. Also, that his mother is very much alive but is kidnapped by Hades one of the three major Gods as well. Percy then goes into training and utilizes his dragon to be a positive trait that helps him settle into his new life. As his dyslexia functions for mythology and his ADHD helps him keep moving in

Next, Percy Boyd Staunton, lives his life in denial. Percy values materialistic things over relationships. Percy is self-obsessed and egotistic. Percy does not have a strong relationship with his family and he uses his closest friend for personal gain. Percy never took responsibility for his actions. Percy contrasts the main character Dunstan. This makes him a very hard character to like because he believes he is higher than others. Percy 's id controls him with this especially. His materialistic values cause an imbalance within himself and he chooses his wants over his needs.

First of all, they both have the same hero archetypes. They are both known as the misfit. I got this, because they are both kind of the outcast or people are trying to get rid of them. For example, how Percy knew what the greek writing was but didn’t know the answer. “Sorry don't know” (Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief scene 1) This shows that he is different the rest of the people in the world. Second, Percy has dyslexia and ADHD. “I think this Dyslexia thing is getting worse.” (Percy jackson and the lightning Thief scene 3) Third, in Perseus, the King of the island was trying to find ways to get him off the island. “No man had ever set out to kill Medusa had come back, and the king

Throughout the novel, Percy Jackson is a known trouble-maker, sent to a school for troubled kids, called “Yancy Academy’. He is out casted from classmates and sees very unusual things during his time at Yancy Academy. His teacher Mr. Brunner and his friend Grover act very unusual after Percy spies on them during the night. During Percy’s summer his father

The Lightning Thief is a book about a boy named Percy Jackson who is dyslexic and has ADHD. He has a very hard time in school until he meets Grover. Grover is a satyr that was sent to protect Percy because he might be a son of one of the Greek gods. Grover was sent by Chiron who is the director of activities at Camp Half-Blood. Chiron also happens to be a centaur. Camp Half-Blood is a safe place for the children of the Greek gods from monsters. There are different types of monsters like “The Furies” also known as “The Kindly Ones”. Percy Jackson used to go to a boarding school called “Yance Academy”. Chiron was his latin teacher and noticed that he might be a demigod (half god and half mortal/human) and sent Grover to protect

To begin with Percy Jackson has a very brave and daring personality, but at other times he just seems like a normal child. When Percy found out his mom was still alive in the underworld he wanted to take the challenge. Percy is brave because he fought Clarisse and she is one of the best fighters in camp. He also decided to fight Luke instead of letting Luke just demonstrate a fighting technique on him. While Percy Jackson struggles with ADHD and dyslexia just like many other children all over the world and he loses his mother to Hades. With Percy's dyslexia he can read Ancient Greek because that's how his brain is set up. Also with Percy's ADHD he has fast reflexes for when he's fighting. Also the Minotaur abducts his mom and takes her to the

The character I have chosen is fictional. He is from a series of books based on the Greek Gods. This character, who made his debut in 2005 in The Lightning Thief, goes by the name Percy Jackson. We follow Percy’s journey through five books by Rick Riordan in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, and in another 5 books in the Heroes of Olympus series. Percy’s odyssey includes overcoming many obstacles like finding his mother in the Underworld and finding his way through Daedalus’ Labyrinth, and meeting gods like his father Poseidon and the Queen Hera. Many of Percy’s characteristics lead him to be a successful leader.

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan is fiction, specifically fantasy, adventure, and humor. In the beginning of the story, Percy Jackson, a twelve-year-old boy, is taken to Camp Half-Blood, a safe haven for children of the Greek gods and goddesses like himself, and then, it is soon revealed that Percy is the forbidden son of the sea god, Poseidon. Later, the camp’s counselor and centaur, Chiron, explains to Percy that Zeus suspects that Poseidon had Percy steal his master bolt during the meeting of the Winter Solstice, which Poseidon argues that Hades has it to backstab them both, and in order to prevent any war between the Greek gods and goddesses, Percy is assigned a quest alongside Grover and Annabeth to retrieve Zeus’s bolt from Hades in Los Angeles and return it to Zeus as a peace offering by the Summer Solstice or by ten days. The morning after, the three travel from New York City to Denver surviving attacks by the Furies, Medusa, Echidna, and Chimera, and fortunately, with the help of Ares, the war god, they hitch a ride to Las Vegas in an animal transport service along with receiving a backpack filled with clothes and money. When there is only one day until the quest ends after Percy, Annabeth, and Grover overstayed their break in a time-delaying casino, they race into DOA Studios, the entrance to the Underworld, to confront Hades about the master bolt, which results in Hades’s outrage of being excused, claiming that Percy not only stolen Zeus’s master bolt, but

Percy Jackson is 11 years old and is known to not be one of the best students. He has ADHD, Dyslexia and has been kicked out of sever schools he has attended. The one subject he seems to be good at is history and mythology which is good because these two things will come to dictate the world which Percy lives in. During a field trip for his history class Percy is shocked to find out that he is actually a greek demigod. Unfortunately he only learns this when his teacher turns out to be a monster from classical antiquity sent to kill him. From here on Percy is plunged into a mythical world ruled by the greek gods and goddesses and it is up to him to restore order in this world and ensure the safety of western civilization. The book is good for

That is why the book is more intriguing. For example Nancy Bobofit, Echidna, and even Crusty. The book is better because it has Nancy Bobofit in it. Nancy Bobofit is Percy’s bully.

A twelve-year-old Percy Jackson believed that he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. He gets in trouble wherever he goes. He has a best friend Grover (who is also his protector) who’s always been with him.