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    The Lightning Thief

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    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

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    The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan does not contribute to a white supremacist narrative. The arguments for this being the case (namely that the gods stay in western civilizations and that the battle at the St. Louis Arch both promote white supremacy) can be refuted. I also disagree with the notion that Percy Jackson’s focus on western civilization pushes white supremacy. Greece and Rome are commonly called the birthplace of western civilization, and this is the narrative that Riordan follows

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    book was published on July 1, 2005. This book is written by Rick Riordan who was an American author best known for writing the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. This book is categorized in Greek Mythology with a total of 375 pages. The Lightning Thief, written by an American author Rick Riordan is about a 12 year old kid names Percy Jackson, who lives in New York. He suffers from Dyslexia and ADHD. In this book he explains how he has been expelled from every school he went to, which he says

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    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

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    Lightning Thief Heroes

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    Being a hero isn't all about fighting monsters. In the novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, we watch as a 12-year-old boy named Percy Jackson has his world thrown upside down when he finds out he's part god. Everything rides on him, the son of Poseidon, to find the answer that will stop the war that brews between the gods. Heroes meet monsters, suffer from wounds, have remarkable ancestry, have a loyal band of companions, and wield a weapon only they can control. Most heroes are best known

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    Lightning Thief: Chapters

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    AP Lit 16 August 2014 Summer Work: How to Read Literature Like a Professor 1. Chapter 1: Every Trip is a Quest (Except When it’s Not) Example text: Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan [Quester] - Percy Jackson [Place to go] - The Underworld and Mount Olympus [Stated reason to go there] - To retrieve the lightning bolt from the Underworld and return it to Zeus, in order to prevent a war of the gods from erupting. [Challenges and trials en route] - Before Percy even begins his actual

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    this book –The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. The Lightning Thief is about a young troublesome teenager, Percy Jackson who discovers he’s the son of Poseidon which turns his entire life upside down. He was taken to a camp made for his kind where there are children called “Half-bloods” who are also sons and daughters of many other

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    In the book The Lightning Thief, there is a prophecy the main character, Percy, is told. The prophecy says “You shall go west, and face the god who has turned, you shall find what was stolen and see it safely returned, you shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend, and fail to save what matters most, in the end.” Here in this essay, you’ll find out how it comes true in the book. For the first part “You shall go west, and face the god who has turned,” it is confusing about how it actually came

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    The movie, The Lightning Thief, is appropriately different from the book. It is a film adaptation of the first book in The Lightning Thief series by Rick Riordan. A boy named Percy Jackson is the main character, and lives in a dystopian world where the Greek gods exist. The gods have children with humans in this world. When this happens, the offspring is called demigods. Percy finds out that he is the son of the god Poseidon, and he is part of an ancient prophecy. Following this, he must go on a

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    Lightning Thief Classic

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    Classic? The first quality a classic must posses are universal themes. The Lightning Thief looks at two co-existing worlds: the mortal world (the world as we know it) and the immortal world (the world of the gods). Similarly we look at the mortal world as rational thinkers, while the immortal world are religious. Percy Jackson learns that there are different versions of reality in the world, and that "reality" is just the way people choose to interpret a situation. For example, if thunderstorms

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