Percy Jackson Vs Perseus Research Paper

In the movie, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief draws on and transforms The Legend of Perseus, by connecting to the hero's journey, hero archetypes, and the basic plots. In the hero’s journey, Percy Jackson starts off in the ordinary world as a basic teenager that has ADHD and Dyslexia. In the Legend of Perseus, Perseus starts off in the ordinary world by growing up with a fisherman that had pulled in the chest that had Danae and Perseus. Perseus grew up being poor.

In the book Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, Percy is your typical 12-year-old boy who is a troublemaker in school and lives with his mother’s abusive husband. Percy’s life changes when he accused of stealing Zeus’ master bolt and attacked by monsters. Percy’s mother is killed along the way towards a camp called Camp Half-Blood and trains his heritage as a demigod. Percy is then sent on a heroic quest, with friends, to prove his innocence and along the way, rescue his mother from Hades. After a long and arduous journey of being chased by monsters, Percy managed to return the lightning bolt and save his mother. Percy is then betrayed by a close friend, as the friend was the thief, and escaped while warning them of the true mastermind.

Percy Jackson is the main character in this story, who is a demi god, who mortals are after. His name is short for Perseus and his father is one the big three gods, Poseidon. He is suffering from dyslexia and ADHD, which could be deliberately added to the

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief has very similar plot types and structures to the original “The Legend of Perseus”. However, there are a few essential changes to help restore the original. To start, in the call to adventure Percy Jackson’s mother is taking Percy to the beach and cabin to relax and get his favorite blue candies.

Percy Jackson and the Story of Perseus in Greek Mythology are both very well known. But taking a closer look they are more than a movie and a greek legend. They are stories that draw off each other and change the story to fit the time. For Percy it’s Modernized, but for Perseus it was in the Greek era. In this essay you will learn that Percy Jackson draws on the original legend of Perseus by generally keeping the plot the same and the characters. Although, the characters are a bit more modernized to be easier to connect to. It changes the legend in adding on a couple of other greek legends to add depth. This is shown through the plot modernization that takes place in real places, the Characters that are modernized but are the same on the inside,

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

The movie Percy Jackson Lightning thief transforms the legend of perseus by modernization of the hero's journey, the hero archetypes, and classic hero themes. Percy Jackson is not the same hero as perseus, but they do have a lot of things in common. The movie, Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief directed by Christopher Colombus was about how Hades, took Percy's mom because he thinks that Percy has Zeus’s lightning bolt. The story of Perseus published by D'Aulaire is about how the hero Perseus needed a wedding gift for polydectes, so he whent to kill medusa.

Having the respect of the gods and receiving help from them does not come easy. Not every hero receives help from them. Odysseus falls into that category. He has to work to earn the gods respect, but Perseus already has their respect and receives help from them throughout his entire journey. Odysseus had to take on his journey without the gods help, but he still tried to earn their respect. “But Zeus disdained my offering; destruction for my ships he had in store and death for those who sailed them…” (512). This offering that he made was given to the gods after Odysseus and his men escaped from Polyphemus. Odysseus was trying to make up for insulting Poseidon, but it did not work. The gods, specifically Zeus, refused his offering and refused to help him. Odysseus knew that they were offended and planned for his destruction, but he continued on his journey. He conquered his fear of the gods and replaced it with determination and bravery. Odysseus could not count on the gods for help so he had to make up for it himself. The reader sees this trait shown when Odysseus faces an obstacle, more than when Perseus faces an obstacle. Perseus does not have to be as brave and fearless as Odysseus. He has the immediate help of two gods. “But Perseus was saved from his folly. Two great gods were watching over him” (871). The quote says ‘saved from his folly’, which leads us to think

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.

“My nightmare nightmare started like this.” This was said by Percy before he explained this vision of Grover being in danger. The camp is in trouble and Grover found the one thing that could save it but he was captured and can’t escape without Percy’s help. He sends messages to Percy in his nightmares hoping Percy will listen to them. Soon percy will go on a quest with his friends Annabeth and Tyson to rescue Grover and get the Golden Fleece from the Sea of Monsters to save Camp Half-Blood from destruction. The Puritan would protest Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters due to the women playing a strong role in the quest, lack of family values, and its support of unnatural beings and multiple gods.

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

Early in the film, the relationship between the two is hinted at when Chiron, disguised as Percy’s teacher, Mr. Brunner in a class trip to the museum, asks him to give an example of a demigod hero, suggesting, ‘I’ll give you a hint - you have something in common’. This causes Percy to inspect an exhibit with ancient Greek writing at the top, of which the letters rearrange themselves, to spell out ‘Perseus defeats Cetus’, to which he uses to reply correctly, ‘Perseus’ to his teacher. The aforementioned scene not only appears to be drawing attention to the name that Percy shares with the hero, Perseus, but it also gives insights to the audience of a deeper connection between the two, as well as the fact that Percy is not an ordinary human, as it was established at the start of the film that he has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder(ADHD) and dyslexia, but manages to be able to read ancient Greek words. In fact, these psychiatric disorders that Percy is associated with is a modernised explanation for his incapacity to properly read English, with the surprising compromise of the ability to read and comprehend ancient Greek. In fact, these disorders are used as modern explanations because they are very well known mental conditions in modern times, due to their rising

The boy everyone looks up to Percy Jackson has done a ton of thing that show he is strong. He is the son of Poseidon which make him a natural leader. Percy goes on many quests; ones that could kill him because of his stronger demigod smell. He killed a minotaur with no training at the age of twelve and he is accused of stealing

Something we all know about the Greek Gods is that there are a lot of them. From the God of Wine, to the Goddess of childbirth, there is a God or Goddess for everything. The main ones are the twelve with thrones made in Mount Olympus. And whom could be a better story teller of these then Percy Jackson? Percy takes the tales of how the world began, to each god and their personal battles, whether it was in war or love. With some side jests, and remarks for the readers, Percy takes each tale and gives it its own unique twist, keeping you captured till the end.

Percy Jackson thinks he is a normal twelve years old student. Well, not normal because he has Dyslexia and ADHD. One day, after encountering a mythological creature, chasing after him for an unknown reason, he learns that he is not ordinary, after all. He is a son of an Olympian God, Poseidon, and his best friend, Grover, is not a boy, but a satyr in disguise. He does not have Dyslexia and ADHD, he just has the ability to read Ancient Greek, and act like a warrior. His mother kept