Similarities Between 'Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief'

Rick Riordan is an amazing author that is well known for his amazing books and novels. Rick Riordan wrote several novels, but his most famous series is the Percy Jackson. The Lightning Thief was the beginning of the series. Percy had to accept how he is a half-blood and has to return the stolen lightning bolt from Hades before a war starts. The authors style is fiction and greek mythology.

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.

How can we modernize a story to make it more relatable and understanding to a new generation of learners? The book, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief based on the original,“The Legend of Perseus,” is taken and molded into a new take on ancient greek mythology. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief draws on and adds to the original characters, uses similarities and creates differences to rejuvenate the old story.

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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, who is considered a troubled kid in this book. Has transferred to many schools that are considered ‘Appropriate” for his type of education. Percy in a 12 year old troublemaker, that has done serious trouble that lead to him changing to many schools. Right now Percy Jackson is attending Yancy Academy, which is a school for his type of kid. For example, Percy exploded a school bus on a field trip, ON ACCIDENT!

I read the Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. In Percy Jackson he doesn’t want to be a demigod and in the Hunger Games Katniss doesn’t want to be a tribute but they both had no choice. In both books plenty of people are trying to kill them both, but they always prevail in the end. They are both brave and both will do anything for their family’s like go to the Underworld or volunteer for your death sentence. Also they both have special skills only one was inherited and the other was learned.

Rick Riordan did an amazing tale with this novel. Filled with short stories you learn a lot about each of the Greek gods, while keeping entertain with Percy’s side quotes. From Aphrodite

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