Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief Comparison

Once stated by Edith Hamilton, the author of the original myth “Perseus”, “The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.” (Hamilton). Meaning that you aren’t living unless you are truly face to face with death and risk. You are on edge and not cooped up afraid of going for something. And that is exactly what Perseus and Percy Jackson, two heroic figures, live up to. To that extent, “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” by Rick Riordan transforms the ancient legend of “Perseus” in a compelling, entertaining, and imaginative way through it’s craftsmanship of modernization, sequence of events, characters, and themes. The way in which the innovative retelling captures an audience is a direct statement of it’s creative remake based off the concrete foundation of the original copy produced centuries ago. Utmost, is the way in which the things of the past (a.k.a.-weapons, methods of communication, routine behaviors, etc.) were made present to fit in today's generation is quite an
It has been made know how the different one, two, and three-D characters effect and make the story. A miraculous transformation took place between the piece we currently have now and that one of thousands of years. It is almost as if the original copy went through a time machine and what we have now, is the end result. All the ideas bounced off one another and made sure to encompass a strong moral, an effective stream of developed characters, and a modern remake of the myth “Perseus”. That final product, with the remarkable and precise words, magnified through Rick and Chris, came out of the machine, and is what we now have in our