Summary Of The Lightning Thief

“If you’re reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life” (Riordan, 1). In the novel The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, Percy, Annabeth, and Grover are trying to recover Zeus’ stolen master bolt. The main protagonist Percy is an outcast that struggles to fit in because he moves from school to school and is a lone child of Poseidon, yet he has lots of termitity. Another protagonist Annabeth is very smart and immaculate because she is a child of Athena. And the last main protagonist is Grover, he is Percy’s best friend and will stay by Percy through all of the trouble they face. They all go on a quest to find the master bolt which they think was stolen by the antagonist Hades and to make things worse they have a time deadline. The genre is fiction, but it has real life places and ideas. The setting is multiple places around the U.S because they are traveling west to California.
The main problem Percy has is that he is sent on a quest to recover Zeus’ master lightning bolt. The problem is that there was a prophecy that he would be betrayed by someone he calls a friend. And because of that he second guesses himself in who he should trust. Another
This man versus man story shows the theme because Percy encounters monsters that seem humans, but in the end they end up being monsters and causing trouble. “Standing behind us was a guy how looked like a raptor in a leisure suit, he was seven feet tall with absolutely no hair… he moved towards us slowly… I'm Crusty” (Riordan, 277). Percy, Annabeth, and Grover fight the obstacles (monsters) by looking out for each other because sometimes the monsters seem like regular people and blend into regular life. Percy hopes to fight against the monsters by teamwork