“Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all”. This quote, spoken by Percy is a repetitive thought that he uses in his quest to persevere to the end. From movies, to stories, to plays, the hero undergoes a journey, that is universal in nearly all. This journey is referred to as the Hero’s Journey and consists of three stages with other elements within each stage, and was recognized by Joseph Campbell. The pattern of the journeys allows a universal audience that all, young and old, can relate to. A broad description of the monomyth includes the hero leaving their ordinary life, commencing the bulk of the journey, and returning home. In the movie The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, the protagonist Percy Jackson presents discernible …show more content…
As every work that involves a hero does, the journey starts with the Call to Adventure. Percy’s individual call occurs when he is on a school field trip after he is life alone with his teacher Mrs. Dodds. Without any indication, she transforms into a fury and viciously attempts to attack Percy. While in the process of this she repeatedly asks him “where is the bolt?”. Muddled, he evades her until his Latin teacher, Mr. Brunner gives him a pen that when clicks, transforms into a sword. Throughout the movie, this remains as Percy’s Talisman, or an item with special significance to the hero. At this point, Percy is completely bewildered. He is not yet told why that event occurred, but when he is, he is not promptly ready to accept his mission. This rejection is known as the Refusal of the Call and is another aspect of the hero’s journey. Percy does not believe that he could be a demigod, for he views himself as an inept, dyslexic boy with ADHD. He readily is taken home by Grover to pack and explain to his mom that he has been “found”. Grover then reveals himself as Percy’s protector and reveals that he is a satyr. In the hero’s journey, this mythical mentor is known as the Supernatural Aid. Grover then tells Percy that he is being taken to a safehouse, Camp Halfblood, for kids like him. As Percy, his mother, and Grover near the camp, a minotaur appears and endeavors to capture Percy for stealing …show more content…
The Refusal of the Return is when the hero refuses to return to where he began the journey, and Percy faces this once in the underworld. He only has three pearls which means only three can leave and one must reside in Hell. Percy offers to be the one who must stay behind, because he cannot bear to leave his friends or his mother behind, otherwise known as the rescue from without. This is because the audience sees Percy in a state of hopelessness. Upon Grover deciding that he will be the one to stay, Percy experiences a Magic Flight; the point after requiring the Ultimate Boon that the hero must escape something. In this journey, Percy must escape from the underworld using one of the pearls after receiving the bolt. As the bolt is returned, Percy masters both the immortal, his unfamiliar world, and the mortal, his familiar world. The Gods no longer have to battle for the disappearance of the lightning bolt, which would ultimately wreak havoc on the mortal world, destroying it in the process. Now that the hindrances have seized, Percy is free to return to Camp Halfblood. Once he enters, he crosses the Return Threshold, since he returns to his home. The last scene of the movie shows Percy and Annabeth partaking in a friendly duel, without any sign of worries. This is due to Percy resolving his problem of being named the “lightning thief”, and acquires Freedom to Live. These
Percy jackson who is a twelve year old boy from new york. He tends to get kicked out of school but One day he went on a fieldtrip to a museum, which an incident happen and a teacher pulls him over to talk about it but what really happen is that she turn into a greek mythology creature which tries to attack him. Before she tries to act percy's teacher Mr.brunner throws a penny which turns into a sword that ends up helping percey kill the creature. Soon enough it was the last day of school which his mom brings him to a beach house. That night their was a huge storm which end up making them leave but by them leaving they end up getting attacked by minotaur. His mom sally jackson ends up getting taken away from the minotaur which she disappears
The Lightning Thief is about Percy Jackson, a 12 year old boy who has troubles at home (violent step father) and troubles at school (dealing with ADHD). During what seems like another normal day, he's attacked by his math teacher, only to learn that she is a monster called a harpy. Things only get crazier when he is saved by his best friend Grover, who reveal he himself is not human either, but is in fact a satyr, a creature from Greek myths. Percy learns of a world he never knew existed. He is in fact the son of the Greek god Poseidon, and he is what is called a demi god, half god and half human. Grover takes Percy to Camp Half-Blood, a safe haven for demi gods that are hunted by monsters. There he meets other half bloods, like the daughter
Percy is immensely brave. He is not afraid to do anything if it meant he could save another's life, like he
This is a diagram that shows how Percy feels in different events of the story. If you look closely, you can see that Percy has more negatives than positives. Percy is only happy 8 times in the story out of 24, which means he is happy ⅓ of the story, not even half of the story. I can infer he isn’t happy because he enters a place he isn’t familiar with. In the book it says “We made it a hundred feet before we were hopelessly lost.” (Riordan, 94). This states how they lost hope in the labyrinth because of how wide the brain twisting maze is. Also, it stated “He was driven insane. He didn’t die.” (Riordan, 47). This states that a man was driven insane from the labyrinth. I can infer that this scares Percy a lot because he can lose sanity from
Percy Jackson is the main character in this story, who is a demi god, who mortals are after. His name is short for Perseus and his father is one of the big three gods, Poseidon. He is suffering from dyslexia and ADHD, which could be deliberately added to the character by Riordan, to show he is meant to be a hero, and not to do well in school. This shows that school is not what he is good at, and he is destined to be a hero and save people. The character Grover, who plays Percy’s best friend, parallels a Satyr who is human from the waist up and goat from the waist down and is a companion of wine God, Dionysus, who we later learn, is the camp director for Half-Blood Camp.
Percy is given a quest from Chiron.Chiron tells Percy to go to the attic and find the oracle.Percy does what he is told and the prophecy tells him ‘You shall go west,and face the god who has turned.You shall find what was stolen,and see it safely returned.You shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend.And you shall fail to save what matters most,in the end.Percy sees the prophecy is a message inside a mummy.This is how the quest began.
On his first day of summer he discovers something is different about his normal self. Percy later learns that he is a half-human and half-god and is sent to a camp nearby in New York called the Half-Blood. The camp protects him from harmful monsters that are craving to eat kids just like Percy. Percy learns more about himself while he is at this new camp, he finds out that Poseidon is his father, and Zeus and Hades are his brothers. During the story Zeus’s lightning bolt is stolen, this bolt allowed him to create lightning whenever he pleased. Zeus accused Poseidon and demands that he must return it to Mount Olympus by the Summer Solstice or else he will declare
Percy is mystified, when he woke up from his very long sleep, he knew nothing but his name. His brain was still confused, even after a wolf told him he is trained to fight with the pen that turns into a sword in his pocket . In some way Percy manages to make it to a camp for half-bloods, even if the fact is that he has to keep killing monsters along the way. But he doesn't remember the camp. The only thing he can remember is that of a persons name, Annabeth.
Percy Jackson is a twelve year old boy who has dyslexia and ADHD. During a school trip to a museum, Percy defends his friend Grover from a bully by making the water in the fountain grab the bully. Percy’s teacher Mrs.Dodds then separate Percy from the rest of the class before she transforms into one of the creature from Greek mythology and attack him. Percy then uses pen which transforms into a sword and kill the creature. After school Percy’s mother Sally takes him and Grover to the beach house unfortunately they are attacked by a Minotaur while driving to the countryside and Sally disappears in a gold light when the monster grabs her. Enraged, Percy kills the Minotaur and passes out. Three days later, he wakes up in the infirmary
Once he was back in Santa Monica he fought Ares and found out he stole both the magic items. He got help from someone at the camp but, Percy did not know who it was yet. Percy won the battle and gave back the gods what matter most to them. When he goes to his mother’s house he finds out that his mother was still alive because Hades had been happy with the crown. Percy makes it back to camp and finds out that the one who betrayed him was Luke. Luke had stolen the items and had given them to his father to hide from everyone. Furthermore, the reason Luke did this was because the king of Titians had told him that he could he free and on his own if Luke was part of his army. Then out of nowhere a scorpion that almost kills him is out on Percy by Luke. Percy had to decide if he wanted to train to fight Luke for revenge or to spend time with his mother in the summer. Even though Percy needs to train he decides to be with his mother and work extra hard the time he is at the camp. Percy could not be
Percy had gone and consulted with the Oracle telling him “ You shall go west, and face the god who has turned, You shall find what was stolen, and see it safely returned, You shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend, And you shall fail to save what matters most, in the end.”( Page 141 Book) On his journey, he began to go west and faced Ares the god that turned on them. Then he found the Master Bolt in his backpack, which he safely returned it to Zeus. He was betrayed by Luke, who he called his friend. In the end, Percy failed to save his mother because he allowed her to save herself. Everything in what the Oracle had foretold came true, but it was the choices he made that made it come true. Kronos had the plan to steal the Master Bolt and had it all figured out, in addition to Ares joining. Moreover, Luke had given Percy his winged shoes which were cursed, and a backpack which Ares messed with already. When Percy gets to the Underworld, the winged shoes were supposed to drag Percy and the Master Bolt down the whole of Tartarus where Kronos could get a hold of the Master Bolt. Although the plan was that, but in the end Percy gave the shoes to Gover, so he was the one that got dragged, but was pulled back by his friends. (Pages 304-306 Book) Kronos’s plan failed show that his destiny beat the best of him. In both stories, the characters had an unexpected turning part in either their journey or
Percy Jackson is seen nearing the end of his seventh grade year and although excited about being done with the school, and going to Camp Half Blood for the summer, Percy is concerned about a vivid dream he has had regarding his friend Grover. Percy is not sure what the dream has meant but ultimately decides he has to focus on school. When Percy arrives at school he and his friend, Tyson, are bullied by a group of new boys that have arrived. Tyson
This is the true start to Percy’s quest. He made a few friends in the camp and they agreed to go on this journey with him. Those accompanying him were his protector Grover and Athena’s daughter Annabeth. They also get some helpful tools fro...
Text to Text: What I just read in the book is similar to Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief, because both Harry Potter, and Percy Jackson were trying to protect a precious object and also they both didn’t know about an ability they had before. Percy didn’t know about him doing stuff like breathing underwater, getting healed from water, and other things. Harry Potter didn’t know he could do magic, ride a broom, and other wizard stuff. Percy was trying to protect a thing called the lightning rod that Zeus, the greek sky god, used. Harry potter was trying to protect the Sorcerer's Stone, which is a thing that can make the elixir of life, and make metal turn into gold.
Despite his good intentions of protecting his only friend Grover from a bully, Percy gets in trouble at school and is pulled aside by one of his teachers, who is revealed to be the Fury Alecto, one of Hades's servants in disguise. It is at this point in the story that the second stage, The Call to Adventure, comes into play.... ... middle of paper ... ...