Percy Jackson's Life

We have all read books about heroes and monsters and princesses in towers, one of these books that I have read is Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief. Many people like this book, and here are a couple reason why I loved reading this story. Including how the hero defeats the evil, and how he saves the world. A modern life high school boy who gets thrown into chaos.

A significant event in one's life forces a person to reevaluate their current situation and decide how they will adapt to a new situation, or cause them to look back on the steps they took to get into that situation. In life as well as in the literature Crosswalk In The Rain, and THE TENT DELIVERY WOMAN’S RIDE, people have to adapt to what is happening in their lives, despite conditions they may have been through in the past. In life at some point there will be crossroads that a person must cross, they can either look back at what they have done to end up in that position or they can look forward and see what they must do to continue moving forward.

The Past, an ever growing pool of time, is always biting at the heels of a person. It reminds him of what they have done wrong, done right, or when he did nothing. For most people, recalling the past leads to loose ends and blanks where memories should be. No matter how much a person may want to return to the past, it is not possible. It is lost forever. These forgotten moment lead to uncertainties and confusion in the present, and chaos in the future. Forgetting the past leads to spirals, spinning downwards as people look to what they have lost. They retrace their steps hoping to find a sliver of who they are and what may become of them. In the poem, Itinerary, Eamon Grennan shows how an individual searches through his past, but can never return to it. Through the poem and with a personal experience I will explain how individuals deal with uncertainties in their pasts.

This account obviously refers to reincarnation which was a common belief among Jews of that era, which was approximately 85 AD. The Jewish book of Zohar is a text which explains that all souls are subject to trials and transmigrations. It continues to state that all souls must reenter the absolute substance from which they have emerged. This can only be achieved by becoming perfect; if perfection is not achieved within one lifetime then they must live another life and another life until finally reaching a condition which enables them to become reunited with God where they will live for eternity.

Percy Jackson from Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief displays many qualities of being a hero. According to the article, “The Hero’s Journey”, there are many different stages of being a hero. Percy acquires many characteristics of being a hero. Some of the stages that Percy relates to are: “The Ordinary World”, “The Call to Adventure”, “Allies/ Helpers”, and “Master of Two Worlds/ Restoring the World”. Therefore, Percy Jackson is presented as a hero from the different stages of “The Hero’s Journey”.

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,

The novel is an extremely immersive experience owing to the protagonist - Percy Jackson - regularly breaking the fourth wall and speaking directly to the readers. It builds up suspense by foreshadowing the events to come, giving the readers a taste of the challenges awaiting Percy in the pages ahead. Percy is portrayed as the modern-day equivalent of classical heroes. Like the past heroes, Percy is treated differently by those around him, and has trouble fitting in with them. An absent father and a lack of knowledge of his own past help draw further parallels with the classical 'hero' figure. The significant people in Percy's life appear to know something about Percy that he doesn’t know and seek to protect him. Percy, however, is a stubborn

A democratic society was on the rise and many Americans believed in equality but ignored enslaved African Americans. Government moved out of the houses of rich men and into the houses of the middle and lower- classes; education improved, suffrage laws were enacted, and newspapers were increasingly circulated. The political parties greatly changed; third parties began to rise, four candidates were chosen for one party, and Andrew Jackson lost his first election to John Adams. Adams lost his reelection to Jackson; both of whom created smear campaigns for each other, this improved voter turnout. Jackson represented the common man, throughout his presidency he served

basically says that if your faith is not strong enough to go through a little challenging then it could

Chris is saying that there is no greater pleasure in life than to be able to start over every day that you can. Chris is saying that everyday should be and is a different beginning and that it is a privilege to be able to have a new day every day. Chris is saying that you shouldn’t live your life in the same way every day because then you won’t experience true happiness. And that being able to have a different beginning each day is an opportunity that you should take advantage of instead of living life in the same way because there is no point or reason to living that way.

It means that if someone has kept doing something that they always do and never make a mistake. But start never start a new thing. It tells that Albert Einstein always had new ideas and tried to find the way it was real or true. He would also get science problem and tried to find the correct answer. But sometimes he would get the problems wrong. Albert Einstein impacted the citizens of the United States because by changing how people would think about the universe, he would change the way how scientist would think about energy and matter. Albert Einstein would also recommended the United States to make to build the first nuclear weapon. He felt that this nuclear

At this time, the author maintains, we have two kinds of lives. There is the natural life and the spiritual life and they are opposed to each other. The natural life knows that if the spiritual life got a hold of it, all its self-centeredness and its self-will would be killed. Therefore, it fights for its life. The author compares this to a child who tries to bring to life his toy tin soldier, but the toy soldier did not want to be alive. So, just like us, it would rebel. Because the toy soldier likes the tin, he would think that you are killing him if you tried to change him. Similarly, man has some things about him that he likes, and probably wants to keep. He, too, may become obstinate even if God tried to change him. The author explains, however, that God sent this one man through whom all other men could become a Son of God, and the natural man would have to change for this process to take place. Man could resist, but the opportunity is still there for

Once you accept your past, new beginnings are a necessity to help find happiness in something you love doing. New beginnings means a brighter future and a happier life in the future. This is shown in the book the invisible man because he finds new a beginning, “This was a new phase, I realized, a new beginning, and I would have to take that part of myself that looked on with remote eyes and keep it always at the distance of the campus, the hospital machine, the battle royal—all now far behind. Perhaps the part of me that observed listlessly but saw all, missing nothing, was still…the dissenting voice, my grandfather part; the cynical disbelieving part—the traitor self that always threatened internal discord. ( chapter 16)” the invisible man was able to overcome his past with shock therapy in the hospital and he didn't listen to his grandfather when he constantly doubted the invisible man. He joins a group called the brotherhood of harlem. It is a group of men that try to gain rights that they deserve. They are sick of being restricted from going into bars and other places just because he is black so him and this group try to gain back what they deserve. This is the invisible man's new beginning. He just wanted a place to belong so he became apart of a group that thought like

This means a body can have a soul at youth for a certain amount of years, then have another one in adolescence, and another during adulthood. Similarly, the same can have different bodies. So the same soul can be in a body in the year 1200, then in year 1850, and so on.

Things that I think I would think is the text have me think that if we see the past we can fix the future.Also we can have seen those mistakes and never make them again and watch out for the future.Then when we think of mistakes we made like the great depression or like world war 1 and 2 we can fix it.Lastly the future has things we might come upon that happened in the past and we can look back and see what happened.That is how if we look at our past that it can help out future.