The Lightning Thief, a fantasy-adventure novel immersed in Greek mythology by Rick Riordan, explores the story line of the Quest and engages readers in the conflict of haven versus wilderness. Riordan takes the characters on a journey where they encounter conflict as they try to complete their quest. Percy, the hero, who is not happy in his ordinary world, attends Yancy Academy, a school in New York City for troubled kids. He only has one friend, Grover, the trickster. He does love his mother and the color blue; however, his stepfather, Gabe, is described as smelly, disgusting, and mean. After school dismisses for the summer, Percy and his mother travel to the beach where they come across the Minotaur. As his mother races Percy …show more content…
Percy battles the Minotaur and wins, but the Minotaur takes his mother before Percy can kill him. In this story, his mother acts as the threshold guardian because she keeps the secret that Percy is a demigod until it is necessary for him to know. His call to adventure occurs when his mother disappears, and he must find a way to save her. His Latin teacher at Yancy Academy turns out to be the camp director, Chiron, a centaur and Percy's mentor. He also meets Annabeth, the platonic ideal. Percy's threshold is becoming a demigod and going to Camp Half Blood. Chiron tells Percy about an issue with the gods, but Percy refuses to do anything for the gods; he just wants his mother back. Despite his refusal, he is sent to the Oracle that acts as the herald who issues a quest. He takes his friends Grover and Annabeth with him on the quest, and along the way they encounter several tests and enemies. Early in the journey they meet Medusa. As they continue to travel across the country, they meet Echidna and her Chimera in the Arch, and Ares in Denver. All these characters pose as enemies and tests that Percy has to …show more content…
He bribes Charon to let them through to the Underworld with a promise to talk to Hades about a pay raise. When they get to the throne room, Percy’s bag starts to feel heavier. He talks to Hades about getting the Lightning Bolt and his mother back. Hades is angry, for his helm of darkness has been stolen, and he believes Percy stole the bolt and his helm. Percy promises to find and return his helm. In order to leave, he smashes one pearl, and then he smashes two more to take Grover and Annabeth with him. He does not have a fourth to save his
“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak is narrated by death and begins when Liesel’s brother dies on a train with her and her mother. At her brother’s burial, she steals her first book, “The Grave Digger’s Handbook” and soon after is separated from her mother and sent to live with foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann, in Molching, where the majority of the book takes place. At school, Liesel is teased because she can’t read so Hans teaches her to read when she wakes up from her frequent nightmares about her brother’s death. Hans is a painter and an accordion player and also plays the accordion for her after her nightmares. Liesel grows very close with Hans and also becomes close friends with her neighbor Rudy Steiner who constantly asks her to
In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak the narrator is Death, who shows itself as sympathetic and sensitive towards the suffering of the world and the cruel human nature, through its eyes, we can get to know the heartbreaking story of Liesel Meminger an ordinary, but very lucky nine-year old German girl; living in the midst of World War II in Germany. In this book the author provides a different insight and observation about humanity during this time period from a German view and not an Allied perspective, as we are used to.
Mark of the Thief is a book written by Jennifer A. Nielsen. This book is the first in the “Mark of the Thief” trilogy and is set in ancient Rome around the year 400 CE. The story itself takes place primarily in the city of Rome and the mines south of Rome where the story begins.
Percy Percy provides the novel with the perfect parallel to Dunstan. He does, however, contrast in many ways to Dunstan. They are best friends, but Percy rivalry results in the formation of the main setting of the novel. Percy also feels more of an attachment to material goods than Dunstan does. He thinks only of himself and is in constant pursuit of total and utter control. Percy was low moral standards in comparison to Dunstan and in some ways, feels he is of a higher stature than other human beings. This awkward relationship between him and Dunstan forms the basis of the novel.
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
Percy’s relationship with other characters reveal a lot about who he is.The feelings with his mother is that there close. Percy feelings his dad is he thinks he’s a coward and Percy doesn't like his step father. Percy's feelings with his mom is that they are both close because in the text it says “But ever since, my mom went out of her way to eat blue. She baked blue birthday cakes. She mixed blueberry smoothies. She bought blue-corn tortilla chips and brought home blue candy from the shop. This—along with keeping her maiden name, Jackson, rather than calling herself Mrs. Ugliano—was proof that she wasn't totally suckered by Gabe. She did have a rebellious streak, like me.” This shows they are close because he calls her mom and cares about
“You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.” - Rick Riordan, The lost hero is a fantastic fiction book written by Rick Riordan. This book is about a group of heroes who have to go on a quest to save Hera and stop Geae from rising and taking over. This is not the first book of the series there are a few books before this but this one starts when Jason wakes with no memory of his pasted life sitting next to a beautiful girl. He’s on a school bus full of kids his age. This girl he finds out that her names piper McLean Who is his girlfriend well that is what Leo Valdez says. The boy named Leo says he is Jason's best friend. The school bus was taking him and the rest of the kids who belong to the wilderness school to the Grand Canyon. The bus stopped and they all walked on to the glass walkway that stretches over the Grand Canyon. Well they are on the skywalk a group of storm spirits attack the three of them. With the help of their teacher coach Giessen Hedge who ends up being Seder. Jason's finds a coin in his pocket and he has a sudden urge to flip the coin so he does and it turns out to be sword. He uses the sword to fight the spirit. Coach Hedge is captured by one of the Spirit and is taken into the sky and is gone. The fight was over and as they were standing around after the fight two packages landed next to him caring chariot with a girl named Annabeth and a guy named Butch. Annabeth explains to them that she had a vision of Hera that told her she would find a clue to find missing boyfriend Percy Jackson. She was told to look for a “boy with a missing shoe”. Jason had lost his shoe during the battle but sadly she doesn't find Percy and Jason and has no idea of the whereabouts of her boyfriend.
...th head towards the underworld were Percy’s mother is held in a cave. The reader is able to obverse that Percy as walking in to the most unsafe place and this could potentially be the most danger they have ever encountered. As they enter the secrete path to Hades layer Percy and his allies come across a guard with a boat man who does not allow any living people into the underworld. A problem is created as the man blocks the entrance to the underworld on the other hand Percy explains that nothing will stop him from get his mother back as he is will to do anything to obtain his mothers love. However Annabeth come up with an idea to gives him money. Her plan is successful as the man agrees to give them a ride over the underworld. The next step is get his mother back and return Zeus’s lightning bolt but in order to do that he must meet the god of the underworld hades.
“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.” -Fredrick Pohl. A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury is about a man name Eckel who was seeking the ultimate hunt of killing a tyrannosaurus rex in the past. However, he had failed to follow the rules and went off the marked path, killing a butterfly. When he and the rest of his troop returned back to their time they found things had changed and Eckel was soon after shot for what he had done. Nethergrave by Gloria Skurzynski is about a young boy named Jeremy who was seen as a failure in real life, but made a home for himself online. He was transported to a website he had never seen before and chose to stay inside the game rather than return to his
Percy and his friends are in many different settings in the stories, all having their similarities and differences. The one that stands out to me is the Labyrinth. Percy spends the most time in the Labyrinth than any other setting. Also, this one is completely the opposite of the other two settings. In the text it says “We made it a hundred feet before we were hopelessly lost.” (Riordan, 94). This states how they’ve only been walking for a little bit until they were lost. This represents how confusing the labyrinth is. Then, the setting is Camp Half Blood. This is the place where Percy trains for his upcoming battles or events. In Chapter 13, page 226, Percy arrives back at camp, and he is welcomed by familiar faces. This explains how relieving
Percy is immensely brave. He is not afraid to do anything if it meant he could save another's life, like he
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.
Then they find Percy, dripping wet and angry, but with the eagle standard. They climb on Arion with a load of weapons and rush to make it back to camp Jupiter before it’s destroyed. They find it at war. The legion is outnumbered and surrounded. Arion can’t run any farther. Tyson, Percy’s cyclops-half-brother, and Mrs. O'Leary, his giant hellhound from camp half blood show up. They charge and bring the weapons to the legion. Percy, aboard his colossal canine, fires lightning from the standard that incinerates half of the giants army. The amazons, lead by Queen Hylla, come to aid them in battle. Percy heads straight for the giant Polybotes. After luring him into city limits, he and Terminus, the god of boundaries, slay the giant and save the camp. The army chants to make him praetor. They do and they begin repairs. They get a magic scroll telling them that the Greeks are coming in a flying warship. They see it a go out to meet
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...
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 ... ...