Lightning Thief Archetype

In The Lightning Thief and Twilight, different experiences occur within both main characters Bella Swan and Percy Jackson. Both characters follow a path that will guide them into a new world. Bella and Percy are new to almost everything they discover within their new journey with the help of some close friends. Though from different mythologies, Twilight and The Lightning Thief share an archetypal pattern that requires a mentor’s guidance; as the protagonist becomes aware of a previously unknown parallel world, a mentor surfaces to escort along the path of knowledge and survival.
In Twilight, Bella Swan moves with her father to Forks, Washington. Bella is soon introduced to her present best friend Jacob Black (Taylor, Web). Bella is attending
The both characters are becoming aware of their new unordinary surroundings. They are both new to everything they are about to discover. This is when the mentor’s guidance starts to come into effect with the knowledge stage. Bella and Percy start to notice all these things that the Greek gods/vampires are doing and their true innocence of not knowing what is going on starts to show through. Even though Bella is dealing with blood sucking creatures and Percy is dealing with Greek gods, they both represent the archetypal innocence. Bella and Percy are very new and unfamiliar to what they see and the information that the guides have given to them. With Bella, she is aware of Edward’s condition but she decides to search up other signs that Edward is giving to her in order for her to finally believe and admit to herself that he is in fact a vampire. (Taylor, Web). Once she confronts him about his situation, he ends up revealing to Bella that the reason he avoided her on the first day was because of the scent of her blood and his temptation for
Jacob and Edward are not trying to harm Bella in anyway but simply trying to protect her. One of the main things that Bella noticed that she knew Edward was not going to harm her was when she was nearly ran over by a classmate’s van and Edward swarmed in and pushed the van with his bare hands (Taylor, Web). After realizing that Edward will not hurt her, she finds comfort in him. Jacob tries to still warn Bella that she needs to be careful because Edward may not be like that, but it does not mean that the others won’t be.
While in the Lightning Thief, After figuring out that he his a demigod and that his father is Poseidon, he decides that he is going to go all over Los Angeles with his best friends Grover and Annabeth and try to find more people like him to get some insight and really understand how and why he is half mortal and half god. This is when the survival stage comes in for Percy. Both of his friends are there to help him understand that he has the powers not most of these creatures do and he needs to be careful as to who he uses these powers on. The guides not only are there for Bella and Percy as friends, but they are there to make sure they are okay in every situation that they may