Percy Jackson:
Harry Potter:
Ideas:
Mist
Train Station
Gods
Council of Wizards
Different Magic
1. Compare and contrast how authors use the same or different themes in a setting.
Love
Percy Jackson’s fatal flaw is love
Family
Versions of reality
Mist
Wizards authority
Identity
Compare and contrast how authors use the same or different themes in a setting.
Rick Riordan’s book Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and J.K Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone both share themes but are both portrayed in different ways. In Riordan’s text he demonstrates love through Percy Jackson and also shows different versions or reality through the mist. Rowling also demonstrates love and identity through the protagonist Harry Potter, bit in very different ways. Rowling also separates the worlds but in a completely different way to Riordan using the Ministry of Magic.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief begins with Percy Jackson at school but he is soon attacked by a monster. He kills it with sword he received from his Latin teacher who turns out to be Chiron the minotaur. His mum is then taken by Hades and used as a hostage as Hades believes Percy has stolen a powerful weapon. Harry Potter lives with his abusive aunty and uncle under the stairs but then gets a letter telling him he is a wizard. This leads to him going to …show more content…
They both have a supernatural side to the stories as well as the normal world we live in. The supernatural side of the story is split up with different methods in both books. In Percy Jackson “the mist” is used to trick humans to “wrap their mind around things and fit them into their own vision of reality”. Instead of seeing a battle between two demigods they will see what ever makes sense to them. This could be two kids fighting with fake swords. In the Harry Potter book wizards are not allowed to use magic until they are adults in the “muggle”
Harry Potter:
Ideas:
Mist
Train Station
Gods
Council of Wizards
Different Magic
1. Compare and contrast how authors use the same or different themes in a setting.
Love
Percy Jackson’s fatal flaw is love
Family
Versions of reality
Mist
Wizards authority
Identity
Compare and contrast how authors use the same or different themes in a setting.
Rick Riordan’s book Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and J.K Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone both share themes but are both portrayed in different ways. In Riordan’s text he demonstrates love through Percy Jackson and also shows different versions or reality through the mist. Rowling also demonstrates love and identity through the protagonist Harry Potter, bit in very different ways. Rowling also separates the worlds but in a completely different way to Riordan using the Ministry of Magic.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief begins with Percy Jackson at school but he is soon attacked by a monster. He kills it with sword he received from his Latin teacher who turns out to be Chiron the minotaur. His mum is then taken by Hades and used as a hostage as Hades believes Percy has stolen a powerful weapon. Harry Potter lives with his abusive aunty and uncle under the stairs but then gets a letter telling him he is a wizard. This leads to him going to …show more content…
They both have a supernatural side to the stories as well as the normal world we live in. The supernatural side of the story is split up with different methods in both books. In Percy Jackson “the mist” is used to trick humans to “wrap their mind around things and fit them into their own vision of reality”. Instead of seeing a battle between two demigods they will see what ever makes sense to them. This could be two kids fighting with fake swords. In the Harry Potter book wizards are not allowed to use magic until they are adults in the “muggle”