Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief Research Paper

Many books and movies are different but have mainly the same plot, but in the book, Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan and the movie, Percy Jackson and Olympians The Lightning Thief, by Chris Columbus have a whole different way of telling the story. But then again it still has some similarities.
Some things that the book and movie that are the same is in the beginning Percy has dyslexia and ADHD, this makes him feel like he is dumb and lame, but the only thing that Percy can read clearly is Greek. In the movie when Percy wakes up at Camp Half-Blood everyone is in battle armour and has swords and stuff In both the book and the movie Percy is really hard on himself. One example of this is when he very first gets to Camp Half-Blood while

‘Stay with me, Percy. All you have to do is look up’" (186) She keeps on trying to get Percy to look at her but in both stories he doesn’t do it.
The book and movie also have quite a bit of things different from each other. To start with, the age of the characters Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase are twelve years old in the book, but in the movie they are seventeen. Something that the age changes is, in the movie they drive themselves places and you cannot drive until you are at least sixteen years old, wherein the book they don't because they aren’t old enough to drive yet. Percy and Poseidon are explained in the book with black hair and green eyes but in the movie Percy has dark-brown hair and blue eyes and Poseidon has light brown hair and blue eyes. In the book it states that In the movie where she has straight dark brown hair and blue eyes, but in the book it says, “With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the