Lightning Thief Archetype

Thesis: 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 parallel world, a mentor surfaces to escort along the path of knowledge and survival.

In The Lightning Thief and Twilight, different experiences occur within both main characters Bella Swan and Percy Jackson. Both selections follow the path of the archetypal pattern of a mentor’s guidance. The mentor’s guidance plays a major role in both selections in outlining important aspects of the mythologies and parallel world. While Percy and Bella are not familiar to anything other than human kind, they both find a way to become aware of their future surroundings.

Bella starts out at a new high school where she is warned about the mysterious Edward Cullen. People don’t really know why he is so pale and has been at that school for more than any high student should be. Bella has many questions and that’s when her new friend Jacob comes in and helps guide her in the path of finding out that Edward Cullen is a vampire. While in The Lightning Thief, Percy Jackson has been sent off to a boarding school where his mom put him from him finding out that his dad is a Greek king in the land of Crete. Percy ends up getting kicked out of his boarding school and his forced to be sent with his father where he discovers the new Greek mythology world he never knew of with the help of his best friend Grover, who is a

Hanging around the Cullen’s leads Bella into some serious trouble. Sure the Cullen’s may be the nice ones, but that does not mean that there are not any bad ones around. Bella ends up finding herself in a conflict when these three vampires try to come and get her. In the end Jacob and Edward are there to rescue and save her from what could have ended really badly. For Percy, his best friends help him go on this adventure but just like Bella, he gets himself into a battle. As they are traveling and searching for what is like them, the run across the Furies attacking them. They are a group of Greek people who were targeting Percy. As for Percy and his friends, they are able to defeat them and complete their mission. Along the way they meet a ton of people who are like them and he discovers a whole new world that Percy wish he had known all along. Percy and Bella are very different but will always have that common background when it comes to the archetypal pattern of the mentor’s guidance and having that knowledge of the parallel