Symbols In The Lightning Thief By Rick Riordan

In the fictional novel for young adults, The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, the main character, Percy Jackson, finds out that the life he has known is all a lie. He learns that he is the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea. He also finds out that Zeus, the god of the skies, has accused him of stealing his most precious weapon, a lightning bolt. Throughout the book, Percy goes on an exciting journey to find the true culprit of the crime he has been accused of, and stop a civil war between the gods. In the end, everything that Percy faces in his journey forces to conquer his fears and finally get to meet his father. Within the chapters of The Lightning Thief, a major theme is identity. Throughout the entire Percy struggle to find out …show more content…
Consider how great of a presence water has in this story. For instance, when Percy is playing capture the flag and he gets into a fight with Clarisse, after he gets beat up pretty bad, he crawls over to the river, and it immediately starts to heal him. In this case, water symbolizes how powerful the connection between a parent and a child can be, and what effects it can have. Another symbol in this book is, the master bolt. Although the most common thing readers will think of when they hear “master bolt” is power, it can also symbolize peace. Think about it, when the bolt is with Zeus there is tranquility all through the world, but when it goes missing, there is a tremendous amount of …show more content…
He had to find out that everything he knew was a lie in order to discover what his true purpose in life was. I connected with this because when I was in 3rd grade, my parents got divorced. At first I was completely shocked. I was so used to having both my parents in the same house, I couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that my dad wasn’t going to be living with us anymore. However, after a little while, I actually started to do better in school than I had when my dad was still living with us. That made me realize that maybe it was for the best my parents weren’t together. The novel The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan is a fantastic novel for readers that like mythological stories. I would recommend this book for people like weird and unexplainable mixed with a little violence . If certain readers are in to these kinds of books, this book would be a very good choice. They will pick the book up and not be able to put it down for hours. They will just want to indulge themselves in the exciting plotline that Riordan has created. I haven’t read any of his other books, but this book definitely gets an A+ from