Seven Elements Of Fantasy In The Lightening Thief By Rick Riordan

Seven Elements of Fantasy – Below are the seven basic elements of fantasy and a description of each. After reading your chosen book, use that information to fill in the blanks from each of the seven elements. If your book does not have one of the elements, please list that as well.
1. Magic
Magic is the most basic element of fantasy. Magic is that in which charms, spells or rituals are used in order to produce a supernatural event.
- In the book “The Lightening Thief” by Rick Riordan, there is a lot of magic. The book is about the all-powerful Greek Gods and half-bloods (half human and half god). Within the book the Greek God Zeus’s magic lightening blot and the Greek God Hades’s helm of darkness get stolen. It is up to Percy Jackson,
Otherworlds
Otherworlds are an imaginative creation by the author of a place that is nothing like earth. It is a completely imagined world where anything can happen and is only limited by the author's imagination. One thing I respect the most about fantasy writers is their ability to create from scratch an entirely imagined world where unreal things happen. The author has two choices when introducing an imaginary world to the reader. He or she can begin the book by locating all characters in this imagined world and never refer to what we know as the real world. The characters can also have the ability to jump between two worlds.
- In the “Lightening Thief,” there is another world called the Underworld which is the realm of darkness ruled by Hades. There is also a place called Olympus where the Greek Gods live. Olympus floats above New York City. Although it is not techniqilly in another world, it is a place that humans do not know about.

3. Universal Themes
Universal themes are a must-have in a fantasy story. The most basic of these is good versus evil. There's always a good guy trying to fight for what is right against the powerful force of a bad guy. A great example of good vs. evil is A Wrinkle in Time. Other themes include love (Pinocchio), friendship (Charlotte's Web) and perseverance in the face of danger (Lord of the
Some examples are fairies, giants, ogres, dragons, witches, unicorns and centaurs. We love these characters because they are so different from what we find in our daily lives. However, a good author can shape the character in such a way that the reader has no problem believing that such a being could exist.
- There are a lot of different special characters within this book. There are Greek Gods and half-bloods (half humans and half god). There are also centaurs and many different kinds of monsters.

6. Talking Animals
The use of talking animals or anthropomorphism in fantasy stories can be used for several purposes. Sometimes the animals can talk to humans, as in James in the Giant Peach or The Chronicles of Narnia. Then sometimes the animals only talk amongst each other and are incapable of talking with humans, as in Charlotte's Web, Redwall or Rabbit Hill. The need and use for communication is prevalent in both types. Here we can also mention the use of talking toys, as in The Velveteen Rabbit or The Indian in the Cupboard.
- Although there are not full animals talking, there are half animals like centaurs that can talk and communicate with humans.

7. Fantastic