Percy Jackson and the Olympians

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    Antigone and Percy Jackson Comparison Essay Family: People you love and who love you back, not necessarily blood or biological, but you trust them and they trust you, and they take care of you and you take care of them. Although Antigone died in the end and Percy Jackson did not, they both had been held back or even killed because of their love and dedication to family. Antigone, represented in the story Antigone written by Sophocles, has a brother, Polyneices, that has not been buried after his

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    Garrett Krix Mrs. Atkin ELA 8 6 December 2014 The Titan’s Curse Just when we thought the series couldn’t get any weirder, it does. In this book (the third in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series), travel with Percy and his friends through well known locations such as Washington D.C., Hoover Dam, and San Francisco. Read through as they come face to face with new monsters, humans, and gods. Though the last two books simply set the stage, this one is packed with monsters, action, and

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    “Title” When my parents first started to read to me, I was not but a year old. They read to me every night, Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. Goodnight Moon was my favorite bedtime story, and I probably could have recited the whole book word for word back then. It was a book made to lull small kids to sleep with the content of the book. Then, when I grew up a bit, they started reading the Magic Tree House books by Mary Pope Osborne to me. I loved those books because they were interesting and

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    Character – A person, animal, or creature that takes part in the action of a story, play, or other literary work. Forrest Gump played by Tom Hanks is one of my favorite all time characters. I chose for stomp as my choice to illustrate the elements of character because he is the main character that takes part in the whole action of the story. Forrest Gump is child like, and innocent. His heart warming outlook on life is inspiring. Forest Gumps naïve way of thinking enables him to have no prejudice

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    This book begins with Percy Jackson, a 12 year old boy with dyslexia and ADHD, as he began to suspect that his life was not what it seems when his class took a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and his teacher, Mrs. Dodds transformed into one of the three Furies of Greek legend and attacked him. Percy's Latin teacher, Mr. Brunner, threw him a magic sword named Anaklusmos, or Riptide, and killed her. When Percy came out from the battle, nobody remembered Mrs. Dodds and his best friend Grover

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    1) The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series take place in modern day civilization, but Greek Mythology still exists. This means the gods, monsters, and creatures still exist and live with normal mortals. Normal mortals are not able to witness the mythological view since their brains are incapable of processing it. So instead, it is blurred out and for it a different situation is replaced such as a car crash, a house in fire, etc. The gods have children with mortals and they make demigods, half

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    surface. Annabeth and Percy both understand what has happened but Grover still isn't catching on. They explain to Grover that Ares stole both, the master bolt and helm of darkness, purposely trying to frame Percy. They notice Ares is waiting for them at the shore on his motorcycle. But when they accuse him of what he had done, he claims to not have stolen the bolt personally, not telling them who did. Ares then waves Hades's helm in their faces and bragging about it. Percy assumes that the being

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    point of these references would not be using too much of the actual films because there are so many of them to choose from such as Troy, Jason and the Argonauts, Immortals, Clash of the Titans, Wrath of the Titans, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters and hundreds more. All well-known amazing films where effect that would not be hurting the holder, if anything it would be

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    The novel Percy Jackson and Olympians The Lightning Thief is a fictional mythological story about Greek Gods and their Children. Percy, the protagonist, is a twelve year old Demi-God or half blood that is the son of the Greek God Poseidon. Percy was raised by his mother who is a mortal women after he was told at a young age that his father was lost at sea and never returned. Percy is forced to go to Yancey Academy, a school for troubled kids because he has been kicked out of nearly every school he’s

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    Demeter, Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, and Hades, Cronus did not want his kids to kill him so he ate the babies.Zeus killed his dad and became supreme god of mt olympians. Zeus also saved his brothers and sisters.Theme is Cronos Was trying to get Out of the pit of tartarus. He was using LUke and Ares to get out and he sent luke to kill Percy but Percy was never killed.Cronus was afraid that one day his children would kill him.He married his sister Rhea, and together they had three sons and three daughters

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