Differences And Similarities Between Perseus And The Lighting Theif

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In the story Perseus and the movie Percy Jackson and the Lighting Theif, The Characters have some similarities and differences. To Start off in the story Perseus, Perseus was the Son of Zeus and Danae and in the Movie of Percy he was the Son of Poseidon. Also in the Movie Percy goes to school and doesn't know that he was a demigod. Percy Jackson retails the story of Perseus in a more modern way for more people to understand.Even though that Percy Jackson's story is in a more modern way the both storys still have the same main story plots. For example Percy had shoes that made him fly to go collect these tiny beads to get him to the other side of Olympus(these shoes had little wings on them), and Perseus had the same flying shoes and not to forget the magical weapons they had like the shield and sword that had a lighting bolt in it that Percy had no idea it was in there.Also the main point of it was Perseus and Percy went on a quest and in both of the quests they used meduesa's head as almost a weapon to turn anything into a stone when in trouble.This proves that even though they had differences it still proves that they had changed it to be …show more content…

When they were fighting meduesa they both used the mirror instead of uses their own physical strength.Why this is smart is because when your fighting medusea you can’t look straight at her in her eyes because then you turn into stone and with the mirror you could look at her without turning into stone.And also like when I said they used medusea’s head to fight against other people well like they used it to freeze the hydra’s which was a dragon that had multiple heads and they used it to freeze them because they were in

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