“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
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Parker once said‚ “Every hero needs a sidekick; every captain needs a mate.” This quote means‚ even if a hero thinks they can do everything alone then they mistaken. In the book‚ The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. It is about young‚ brave Percy Jackson (son of Poseidon) who is on a quest to return the master Lightning bolt back to Olympus because if not there will be a war of the gods. Percy is being accused of stealing the bolt. He knows he didn’t take it but he doesn’t know who did. On his way
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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
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The Lightning Thief Percy Jackson is main character. He has lots of issues in school because he has a hard time reading and focusing on his schoolwork‚ and he’s been kicked out of five schools already. The primary conflict which drives the action of the novel is that Percy must find and return the stolen master bolt to Zeus‚ king of the gods. He receives a hero’s quest from the oracle at Camp Half-Blood that he must "go west‚ and face the god who has turned find what was stolen‚ and see it safely
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Have you ever read a book that is not like the movie? In Percy Jackson the movie‚ he is a teenager and in the book he is in sixth grade. There are differences between the Lightning Thief book and movie; however‚ there are similarities as well. Some similarities are how the book and movie start. In both the book and movie the story starts off with the main character and his best friend‚ Grover‚ in Manhattan‚ New York. They go on a field trip at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. As the story progresses
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The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series consists of five books‚ Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief‚ the Sea of Monsters‚ the Titan’s Curse‚ the Battle of the Labyrinth‚ and the Last Olympian. Each book has a quest that Percy and his friends Annabeth Chase‚ daughter of Athena‚ and Grover‚ a satyr go on. Each one has a different purpose and all leading up to the war with the Titan Lord Kronos in the last book. The opening situation is in the first book when Percy is introduced as the kid
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including loss of his mother‚ Percy finds out that he is a demigod‚ and son of Poseidon‚ the God of Sea. He also discovers that he is accused of stealing the weapon of GodZeus‚ the lightning bolt. Now‚ to clear his name off this thievery‚ and to save the world of World War III‚ he must find the real thief and return the lightning bolt to Zeus. Thus Percy Jackson‚ along with two companions‚ Grover Underwood‚ a satyr and Annabeth Chase‚ daughter of Athena‚ start on a journey to the Underworld and the God
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BOOK REPORT THE LIGHTNING THIEF Gianne Angelo R. Valdez 9- St. Alphonsus Author: RICK RIORDAN Rick Riordan is the #1 New York Times bestselling Author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series‚ the Kane Chronicles‚ and the Heroes of Olympus. He is also the author of the multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults. For fifteen years‚ Rick taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. In 2002‚ Saint Mary’s
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was The Lightning Thief‚ the first novel in the five-volume Percy Jackson series‚ which placed a group of adolescents in a Greco-Roman
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companies‚ games‚ and other things. Among the vast amount of aspects of Greek mythology that have been integrated in our modern world‚ the name Pandora chosen for the jewellery company and books‚ such as “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief”‚ stand out the most to me. Throughout this unit‚ I have learned that very many companies’ names are derived from Greek mythology. These include Hercules (Heracles)‚ Poseidon Seafood‚ Amazon‚ Pandora‚ Medusa (the cement company)‚ Nike
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