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    The Lightning Thief By: Rick Riordan Journal #1 In the beginning of this story we meet Percy Jackson‚ a 12 year old “demigod.” Demigods are superhuman mortals born of the Gods. They are half man‚ half god and wield powers connected to the powers of their Olympian parent. Percy had no clue of what he was or what he was capable of. During a school field trip to the museum‚ Percy was not feeling well. He was seeing weird things such as water flying in the air and his teacher teleporting

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    In the book‚The Lightning Thief‚ Percy Jackson‚a troubled kid who lives in New York with his mother Sally Jackson. Percy’s father left them when he was a baby and was lost at sea.He goes through crazy battles and adventures when he is accused of stealing Zeus’s master bolt and discovered his missing father is Poseidon‚which makes him a half-blood. Now‚ Percy and his friends are sent on a quest to get the lightning bolt back to Zeus before the summer solstice ends. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

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    Percy Jackson is an interesting character. In the book The Lightning theif by Rick Riordan the main character Percy Jackson is somebody that changes a lot. He started as an outcast who gets picked on daily and becomes the Demigod (a demigod is somebody with a normal human parent and one god parent) that everyone wants to be and looks up to. Percy’s change didn’t happen overnight though; it took him the course of the book for his true colors to show. Beginning the book off‚ Percy has a negative

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    In The Lightning Theif‚ a novel by Rick Riordan and in The Sword in the Stone‚ a novel by T. H. White‚ both of the main characters face some sort of life altering conflict which leads them to change and grow over a period of time. In The Lightning Thief the main character‚ Percy Jackson‚ discovers that he is the son of the god Poseidon‚ and must go on a quest to prove his innocence when he is accused of stealing Zeus’s master lightning bolt. In The Sword and the Stone the main character‚ called the

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    of Percy’s most pivotal moments in “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief‚” are; his mom is stolen by the minotaur‚ he meets Annabeth‚ they go to the lotus hotel in Las Vegas‚ they go to the underworld‚ and they meet the gods. When his mom is stolen by a minotaur is a crucial moments‚ because in the movie‚ while he’s on his journey to rescue his mother‚ he finds out that he’s been blamed for being the Lightning Thief. When he meets Annabeth‚ is also crucial‚ because she concludes that

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    Strength is a quality exhibited and possessed by the characters in Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. While on a chase during a rainstorm to escape a monster from taking them alive‚ lightning strikes their car and are stuck to fight with the monster itself. His mother is killed after the monster takes her in his grip and Percy furiously takes on the monster and grabs its horn to stab it‚ even if it was twice his size. Even if the monster is something nearly impossible to win against‚ he pushes himself

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    Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief The action packed Film “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” directed by Chris Columbus‚ exemplifies a hero’s journey through Percy Jackson being confronted with the task of bringing the thunderbolt to Zeus‚ saving his mother‚ and saving the world. From being a normal kid in high school to finding out that he’s a demigod‚ Percy faces many challenges that test his abilities as a hero. In the ordinary world percy’s life consisted of

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    dream of being a hero or having hero-like abilities. Percy Jackson‚ in the novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan‚ lived that dream. Percy heads on a journey to fix the gods problems by going over the united states to collect orbs for them to get back to the real world. Percy fights many enemies on the way and through it all‚ he completes his task and get backs to where he belongs‚ Throughout the novel‚ The Lightning Thief‚ the hero’s journey is shown through the plot. Hero’s Journey shows the first

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    Percy Jackson and the lightning thief Author: Rick Riordan. Place: the books takes place in the United States of America‚ mainly in New York and Los Angeles. Date of publishing: June‚ 2005 Publisher: Miramax Books Number of pages: 384 Summary: This book is about the story of a boy named Percy Jackson. He’s 12 years old and on the first day of summer‚ just after the end of the sixth-grade year‚ he discovers there’s something wrong with him. He learns that he is a half-blood: half-human

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    Introduction My choice for my book report is the lightning thief by Rick Riordan‚ it was called the lightning thief because Percy Jackson who is the protagonist of the story was accused of stealing the weapon of Zeus (the lightning bolt) Percy had two friends in camp half-blood namely Grover and Annabeth. These two people help our hero Percy in his quest to prove that he did not steal the lightning bolt from Zeus. There is also Luke‚ the real lightning thief‚ who acted nice to Percy in order to frame

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