The Lightning Thief Book Report

They had been very ambitious and had tried to attack the gods. He also uses the contributory cause that the gods could not wipe them out because they were to profitable, so instead Zeus had the idea to split them in halve so they were not as powerful. At a time when religion played a very large role in peoples life, the idea of rebellion against the gods did not seem like a foreign idea. Even today people of religious beliefs still blame tragedies on what ever their god is. This allows people to relate to a story, and helps them convey and explain to their children how love came

The Lightning Thief” is a fantasy fiction written by Rick Riordan. The book starts off with a normal kid going to school named Percy and his friend Grover. They were going on a field trip well the field trip didn't work out so well Percy’s teacher was some sort of creature trying to kill him. Also Percy’s other teacher was a nice demigod who gave him a pen that would turn into a sword, What percy didn't know was that Grover was half goat. Turned out Percy was also a demigod and stole the lightning bolt, but he had no clue what they were talking about. Grover brought him to camp and was the son of Poseidon and meant some people like Annabeth and one named Luke that gave him a shield for his mission, but little did you know the sword had the

The Lightning Thief is the first book in Percy Jackson & The Olympians series; it goes within the genre fiction and fantasy. The author of the book is Rick Riordan. Riordan was born June 5, 1964. During his childhood he was fascinated my Greek mythology and fictional books. During college, Riordan worked three years as the music director at a summer camp called Camp Capers. That is where he got the idea about Camp Half-blood, which you will read about later in this book report. Rick Riordan graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a double major in English and history. Riordan started getting interested in writing own books, and he published his first book (Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief from the Percy Jackson & The Olympians series) on June 28, 2005. The book was published all over the world and translated into

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.

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

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

Percy Jackson is selfless in many ways. He always puts himself in danger to help his loved ones out of danger while his friends ask him to leave them and finish the rest of the quest, but he stays and put himself in danger. Furthermore, on page 59 it says “Hey! I screamed, waving the jacket, running to one side of the monster. Hey, stupid! Ground beef!" this quote shows that Percy is trying to keep the attention on him so that his loved ones can get out. Instead of running away to the camp he stayed and helped his friend.

Death describes himself a little; he doesn't carry a scythe, or wear a black robe unless its cold, and he looks like any person. 1942 is a very busy year for him, and he needs a vacation. There are so many humans to collect and colors to see. War is not Death's best friend, as the saying goes, but more like a demanding boss. When he remembers that year he likes to think of a little beauty as well, though, so he returns to the book thief's story.

I think the title of a book is very important because I am the type of person who always read the title before choosing a book to read and so I think the readers will too. In my opinion, just one word or a short sentence is enough to tell the story content and meaning of that book. For

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a chilling tale of a young German girl who is shown the horrors of the period of Nazi Germany. Having little money and barely any responsibilities at this age, Liesel Meminger shares her love of books, writing, and learning with her friends and her foster family. From the beginning of the book, Liesel shows strong powers for secrecy and stealing. At the beginning, she steals a book about grave digging from her brother’s funeral and learns to read it after she ends up in a foster home after she is abandoned by her mother. Her foster father teaches her all he knows, and soon she’s able to write and read almost at her age level. Stealing many books, learning and keeping many secrets she shouldn’t, Liesel truly

By reading Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief, it led me to other action-adventure and fantasy books such as The Lost Hero, The Red Pyramid, and other similar books. It also changed the way I think of and relate other books with similar elements. After reading Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief, I have become a more mature reader, and have opened up to more genres as well as being able to think deeper and relate to other books more. Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief and the other books in the series made me a much better writer. It was truly a great story and it’s one that I will never

The book that I read this quarter was called Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters. The author of this book is Rick Riordan, who is also the author of the other Percy Jackson books. The genre of this book is fantasy fiction/greek mythology. This book has been put in this genre because the storyline discusses greek mythology and is not very realistic. The book takes place in modern day and it has multiple place settings. These main settings include Camp Half-Blood, and the Sea of Monsters. Camp Half-Blood is a camp where demigods train and have fun, the sea of monsters is a mythical sea that is very dangerous as well. The time frame of this book is about 3 weeks. This story is written in first person by none other than Percy Jackson himself. The themes of this book are learning to accept and love others as well as doing the right thing and fighting for what you love. The theme loving and accepting others was come across because Percy finds out he has a brother, who is much different than him. The other theme, fighting for what you love, has come across because Percy is fighting for a camp he loves and he will do anything to save it. This book shows strong themes of love and passion

Published in 2005, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Lightning Thief was written by Rick Riordan and starts off the adventures of a twelve year old boy named, Percy Jackson. Percy is a troubled student with ADHD,

As the reader looks through the story, he/she realizes many things. One thing that is realized by the reader in The Fun They Had, is the choice of the title at the beginning of the book. It is not quite apparent at the beginning of the story what the author is trying to tell us. The title gives us a clue, and as the reader goes through the story they realize how the title ties into the rest of the story. The title itself shows a message of

This story is about a family and the family is called the Thundermans and they rescue people who’s in a really bad danger but they only use their powers only if they’re in a really bad danger. The characters names are Barb Thunderman and Max Thunder man Billy Thundermans Phoebe Thunder man Nora Thunder man and last but not least Hank Thunder man. The family’s job is to go on a mission to save people from a really bad danger they also help each other if one person out of their family goes to a dangerous place they save them. Their dad is a super hero whenever people needs help he fly’s and then saves the people that are in a really bad danger. The mom’s power is a lighting she’s makes it rain on the bad guys.