Book Report on Rick Riordan's "The Battle of The Labyrinth"

553 Words2 Pages

In a camp for half-human, half-gods, nothing is less than adventurous. Percy Jackson, the son of Poseidon, the sea god, and a mortal mother, attends Camp Half-Blood every summer. When an old rival, Luke, discovers the power of the Labyrinth, Percy, his friends Annabelle, and Tyson, a cyclops, must descend into the Labyrinth. They have to find the creator of the Labyrinth, Daedalus, before Luke does. Furthermore, Rick Riordan's brilliantly written and worded adventure novel, "The Battle of The Labyrinth," is a great addition to this series of books that tie directly into Greek mythology. Readers will definitely want to dive headfirst into this series, or for those already tangled up in the massively entertaining plot, directly into this book. Percy Jackson is a young demigod who seems to attract trouble wherever he goes. For instance, in the opening scene, Percy's mother's boyfriend, who happens to be the vice principal of a school, gives Percy a chance despite his history of being expelled from every school he has attended. However, within minutes, Percy finds himself trapped in a room with a monster that is trying to kill him, and chaos ensues from that point on. This book is exciting from the first page to the last.

Show More
Related

  • Harry Potter and The Hero's Journey

    1096 Words  | 3 Pages

    In movies, novels, and life, people are named as heroes. The heroes we establish and the heroes we recognize, however, may not meet the criteria for a mythic hero. A mythic hero ventures forth on his journey, and comes forth from the hero’s path to greatness. Joseph Campbell, a mythologist who studied many of the great human myths and religious tales, realized, in studying these myths and tales, that there were certain steps that every hero went through. Campbell called this “The Hero’s Journey”; it is based on Carl Jung's idea that all human beings have an archetype. After Campbell studied a lot of the great myths and realized this pattern, he published his findings in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Ever since then, authors have used “The Hero’s Journey” as an outline to tell their stories. “It is important to note that not all of these individual steps are present in every hero’s tale, nor is it important that they be in this exact order” (Vogler 20). The Hero with a Thousand Faces gives a sense of significance as it looks into the inner mind and soul. The author, Joseph Campbell, performs two extraordinary accomplishments: compelling his readers that myth and dream, those are the most effective and everlasting forces in life and a unification of mythology and psychoanalysis with a gripping narrative. One well-known example of “The Hero’s Journey” from popular culture is the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling. In the novel, Harry Potter, the main character, is the chosen one and “The Hero’s Journey” applies to his life from the moment he is attacked by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named as a baby.

    Read More

  • Fifth Business

    1558 Words  | 4 Pages

    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.

    Read More

  • Internal Conflicts In The Battle Of The Labyrinth

    476 Words  | 1 Pages

    Percy is always afraid that his friends might die. He is constantly questioning his “own powers” (29, Riordan) and is unsure he can save his friends. The protagonist is unable to complete his missions properly, because he is always battling his own self confidence. Anyone who is incapable of having confidence in themselves will not obtain their goal. Moreover, when Percy realizes he is able to “destroy” (79, Riordan)

    Read More

  • Ambition and Motivation in "Fifth Business"

    1042 Words  | 3 Pages

    ...ts suicide at the end of the book. As with Dunstan, Percy is influenced by the powerful motivator of guilt. He felt so overpoweringly guilty because of what he did to Ms. Dempster that he committed suicide. If the motivator of guilt had not been present, he would have kept on living.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Percy Jacson In The Lightning Thief

    239 Words  | 1 Pages

    Therefore, Percy Jacksons conflict would be that he doesn't want to be a half-blood. Also, he always had ADHD and dylexia. Throughout the book he struggles in class because of his ADHD. Besides that Percy always struggled with dyslexia because he gets easily distracted. On top

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Pan's Labyrinth

    751 Words  | 2 Pages

    "Pan 's Labyrinth" is directed by Guillermo del Toro, is a magical realism drama. The screen shows the magical world of bizarre situations, a fictional out of Pluto 's daughter "Ophelia" to roam the world. To 1944 as the background, the fascist murder of guerrilla fighters as a real-world story. The whole film myth and reality are intertwined, is a complete metaphor and reflection on the Spanish civil war. One side is the little girl innocent fairy tale, while the Nazis are inhuman torture and slaughter. Two living scenes intertwined in a film, brings out a moral and human conflict. This is the child to see everything in the eyes, and what we see, it seems that the other world.

    Read More

  • Summary of Percy Jackson Quest

    598 Words  | 2 Pages

    Percy stranded and lost, amnesiac, and running from the gorgons, finds Camp Jupiter, the roman camp for demigods. He makes friends with Frank and Hazel. Together, they win Capture the Flag for fifth Cohort. Mars then claims Frank as his son and issues a quest to save Thanatos, the greek god of death, from LAceonus, a giant born to oppose Pluto, and issues Frank as the quest leader.

    Read More

  • Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

    552 Words  | 2 Pages

    The characters in my book are very interesting, there are 3 main characters. Percy, Grover, and Annabeth. Percy is the son of Poseidon who is a Greek God. A powerful God who rules over all the oceans and everything in them. Then there is Percy's best friend Grover, is a Satyr, that is someone who is half horse & half man. Annabeth is the daughter of Athena who is a Greek Goddess.There are other important characters as well in the story like Percy's mom, or the other Gods. Percys personality in the beginning of the book is best described as shyness or acts like he doesn't care, but over the book he expands out of that stage and becomes more outgoing and courageous. Grover is fearless, he has to be because he is Percys protector. But when they go to the underworld he is kinda freaked out by Hades. Annabeth is not afraid of anything because she is the daughter of Athena, goddess of wisdom and war. Annabeth has trained for many years and w

    Read More

  • Pan's Labyrinth Sparknotes

    1434 Words  | 3 Pages

    Pan’s Labyrinth is a splendid magic realistic movie directed by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro. It has gained worldwide popularity for its profound themes: antiwar, pursuit of democracy, woman’s rights, etc. The style of magic realism and sectional narration in this film technically expresses the directors’ antiwar attitude by showing the psychological injury on the female characters during a war period.

    Read More

  • Greek Mythology in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

    1443 Words  | 3 Pages

    Greek Mythology in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. Rick Riordan’s ‘Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief’ focuses on Greek mythology and interprets this into a children’s story. Throughout the story, there are many references and adaptations to mythological tales, and each one is portrayed in a different way. Riordan writes this story as though Hercules, Zeus and Poseidon were still around today, and this would be the effect they would have on people in this day and age.

    Read More

  • The Loss of the Creature by Walker Percy

    1062 Words  | 3 Pages

    The current world has so many packages that most people do not even realize they are missing out on something. Percy tries to open everyone’s eyes to why these packages need to be taken apart and ways to go about doing it. Things like travel, organized sports, self-help books, and social media all take away a person’s ability to live their own lives freely as they choose. The packages that are put in front of people look so appealing that they jump to have them, not even think about what they are losing. Everyone deserves to be a sovereign individual who learns, lives, and dreams all on their own. No one needs to organize it for them or verify their experiences. They have the ability to live a successful life all on their own. As soon as people fight to break free from the packages they get their lives back.

    Read More

  • In This Strange Labyrinth, by Mary Wroth

    655 Words  | 2 Pages

    In conclusion, Mary Wroth’s sonnet “In This Strange Labyrinth” alludes to the myth of Theseus and Minotaur in the title and in the symbolism found throughout the poem. Theseus had to defeat a Minotaur, just like the speaker has to get conquer a monster. The sonnet tells the story of a woman’s struggle to make choices regarding love and also revolutionizes the topic of an abusive romance.

    Read More

  • Hercules: The Hero's Journey In The Hunger Games

    1802 Words  | 4 Pages

    The monomyth or also known as the hero 's journey, is found in many different types of stories/myths/movies from around the world, no matter what the culture or setting it is a part of. There are twelve stages in which the hero participates in, where the hero goes on an adventure, is in a decisive crisis, wins a reward and comes out of it a changed or transformed person. Hercules, is a Greek myth and is an American animated film loosely based on Ancient Greco-Roman mythology, Heracles. The story is modernised in the 1997 to a Disney film and follows the hero 's journey structure. The Hunger Games is a Dystopian fiction set in American, is written by Suzanne Collins and also follows the same structure of the hero 's journey. Regardless of the

    Read More

  • Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

    3090 Words  | 7 Pages

    Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Lightning Thief the movie is about a young boy who has just discovered that he is a demi-god Percy Jackson. His father is Poseidon and his mother has been keeping it from him for many years. There is a lightning bolt that is stolen from Zeus on Mt. Olympus and Zeus believes that Percy has stolen it and demands its return by the summer solstice. In the mean time Percy gets attacked by multiple magical and mythological beings. There is a camp that demi-gods are safe from these things which is where Percy’s mother and his protector, Grover, take him to. This is where Percy’s journey begins. After a few days of being at the camp he realizes what he has to do. His mother was taken by Hades to the underworld and Percy has to save her all while trying to prove to Zeus that he did not steal the Lighting bolt.

    Read More

  • Analysis of Percy Jackson and the Olympians

    2756 Words  | 6 Pages

    Suffice it to say that Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a contemporary masterpiece of a series and is more than worth its salt in the context of classic, factual Greek mythological references. Therefore, one can examine the series through the scope of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey and explore the heroic parallels between Percy Jackson and the great Greek heroes Perseus, Theseus, and Hercules through a timeless lens. No paragraph provided.

    Read More

More about Book Report on Rick Riordan's "The Battle of The Labyrinth"

Open Document