Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan involves a group of friends who go on a quest to save two of their other friends through determination and loyalty. This book proves that with determination and loyalty, anything can be accomplished using emotional diction, counterexamples, and overstatements. Emotional diction shows Percy’s feelings when he says, “I took Annabeth’s baseball cap out of my backpack and set it on my nightstand. I’d give it to her when I found her. And I would find her” (page 65). Percy shows how loyal he is to his friend, Annabeth and he feels very bad about losing his beloved friend. Emotional diction makes the intensity level rise especially when Percy says, “I have to find Annabeth, I have to help, even if they don’t want me to” (page 119). Percy’s word choice makes him seem very determined to find his lost friend. Percy also uses diction to show how loyal his friendship with Annabeth is when he says, “I couldn’t stand it if… I don’t want you to-” (page 291). Percy proves his loyalty to Annabeth by saying what he truly feels which is Annabeth is very important to him. Diction demonstrates that anything can be accomplished with determination and loyalty and Percy accomplished his goal by rescuing Annabeth. A counterexample is shown when Zoë constantly argues with Chiron about the lost goddess. “Zoë said she needed permission to leave camp immediately. Chiron refused. He remained Zoë that the Hunters were supposed to stay here until they
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.
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.
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.
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”.
Rick Riordan’s ‘Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief’ focuses on Greek mythology and interprets this into a children’s story. Throughout the story, there are many references and adaptations to mythological tales, and each one is portrayed in a different way. Riordan writes this story as though Hercules, Zeus and Poseidon were still around today, and this would be the effect they would have on people in this day and age.
The theme of the story “The Titan's Curse” by Rick Riordan is No Friendship Is Perfect But It can Be Made Better Only Problems Can Occur To Do So. The author shows this by using very complex description. in the story AnnaBeth & Percy two of the main characters in got into a giant fight because Annabeth had to move across the country due to her dad having a knew job `that would benefit their family greatly. Because of this Percy was outraged and was just upset he was losing his best friend. The only thing is he hadn’t realized this until the end of the story. Also Percy and another one of the main characters Thalia dealt with the problem that they had a misunderstanding. They got into a fight where they because to abuse there powers that
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.
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
which is the prime mover in the action of the novel which force's Percy to allow
In the beginning of the book. Percy believes that all he is, is a kid who loves his mother, has ADHD and dyslexia, and is not able to stay in the same boarding school for more than a year without being expelled. This is shown on page 10, where the narrator says, “..this was my sixth school in six years, and (I) was probably going to be kicked out again.” This quote shows that Percy does not have much confidence, and is expelled from school a lot. Also towards the beginning of the book, on page 44, Percy begins to recall multiple instances where “something creepy” had happened in a school, before he got expelled. Percy is beginning to understand that he is different, in a special way. In the middle of the book, Percy is introduced to new beliefs, a change in character, and he starts to develop a new attitude. He learns that he is a half-blood, which explains why he has ADHD and dyslexia, and also explains why he had to transfer schools so frequently. This is shown on page 93. Annabeth, Percy’s new half-blood friend, explains to Percy that most half-bloods move from school to school constantly, and are diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. Percy began to finally realize that he wasn’t just some strange kid, who had problems with reading and staying still. He was a half-blood, and there were tons of other kids just like him. He was more confident, brave, and more willing to take risks.
Remember the Titans is a film from 2000 displaying a true story of a racially divided football team from the 1970s. The movie highlights the relationships of the black and white people, and how they learned to interact with each other in a time when this was not the way of life. It brings up a number of questions throughout, of what is right and what is wrong, and really challenges the characters, making it a very interesting movie to watch. I have seen this movie many times, and each time I feel like I get something new out of it. It is a movie that can be used as a teaching tool, it does a great job of interpreting not only what was happening in the United States of America at that time, but social psychology concepts through real life
In the excerpt the author uses first person point of view to achieve having suspense because it makes the story way more exciting and interesting, and who doesn’t love a good cliff hanger? He wants more people to read his books. When the author says on the last sentence “and I knew if I asked her any more questions she would start to cry” and the excerpt ends on that to make people want to hear more and purchase the book. Another reason why the author uses first person point of view is to explain how Percy thinks he is “not normal”. “What was so great about me a dyslexic hyperactive boy with a D+ report card”
The hero’s journeys of Gilgamesh and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series shape the central characters and develop their qualities so they can rise to their station and overcome their difficult tasks along the way.
The Odyssey, written by Homer, tells the story of the hero Odysseus as he tries to make his way home from the battle at Troy. His journey is filled with hardships and opportunities to grow and change as a man and become a better person. Percy Jackson and The Olympians: Sea of Monsters, written by Rick Riordan, is about two 12/13-year-old friends, Percy and Annabeth, who are children of Poseidon and Athena respectively. They go on a quest to rescue their friends and the camp they attend, where children of the gods are protected. Percy and Annabeth also go through hardships which help them to grow and develop characteristics that are valued in society. Both Homer and Riordan reveal the personality traits of their characters, and the
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.