Lightning strike

in the bend. All four feet rigid in the air and bloated with gas to the size of a fattened calf. “I told you not to do that. You’ve stunk up the car.” “The poor thing.” “They’re as stupid as heck. Probably fell asleep on the side of the road.” Lightning crackled over the line of jagged hills that ran like a row of broken teeth along the horizon. Another roll of thunder. Not so distant. “I wish we were home,” Penny muttered to herself. “Why? You afraid?” She smiled at him. “I usually like…

Cal and Frida decide to move from somewhere in LA to a city that is less crime and is more calm where nobody knows them and they can run away from their horrible past in LA. They decide to move and live in the middle of nowhere basically in the wilderness where their if few to no people around. I think they decided move because they were scared that what they had done was going to catch up to them and turn their lives to misery again. They then start to describe how different and amazing the…

Betrayal is a common theme in many stories and novels along with plays. One always has a motive behind betrayal which has severe consequences one repents. In the play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare, Macbeth, the main character, betrays one person after another. Amy tan’s novel, The Kitchen God’s Wife, a historical fiction, novel consists of a character named Winnie who’s betrayed by her own loved ones. In the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Luke, the antagonists, betrays the…

I just got done with my shift to protect Camp Half-Blood feeling very tired and stressed. With the camp’s protection being down and most of the campers going back to their families for the summer, this meant that there were very few of us to guard our safe haven. Not to mention I was still recovering from my broken ankle. I decided to take a walk down to the beach near the camp. Lately, I’ve found the sound of crashing waves, wind brushing through my hair, and the slight smell of salt hitting my…

“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.” This quote is from the first book of the Percy Jackson series, The Lightning Thief, created by Rick Riordan. Like most books, it became popular and was created into a movie. However, the movie and the book share an abundance of differences, but there are also aspects that the movie and the book share. Percy, a demigod, finds out that his father is Poseidon, god of the sea, and he has to leave…

The book, The Sea of Monsters written by Rick Riordan is a book like no other. The author integrated the the real world with Greek stories to show the readers how life would be different this way. The main character, Percy faced problems with his families such as accepting Tyson as his brother, Percy learns to accept the fact that even though his dad was a busy man he still showed sympathy towards him. At the end, Percy learns from his problems that acceptance is the guideline to triumph. In…

In the book, The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan, the main character Magnus and the Sword of Summer (or Sumarbrander, in Norse) had a relationship that changed through the storyline. In the beginning they didn’t know or trust each other, but later in the book they developed a strong bond of friendship. Magnus and the sword first met when Magnus pulled it up from the bottom of the Charles river to fight the fire giant king Surt. At first, Magnus and the sword were total strangers to…

Percy Jackson Essay In the stories Percy Jackson and the Olympians the Lightning Thief and “Danaus, Perseus, and the Gorgon” shows how the percy jackson movie modernises the perseus story with the events, hero types, and the theme. The first the that I am going to start with is the events. It transforms it through the events with the the start of the each of their quest. It all starts with both of them trying to save or get there mom back with persuas he was trying to protect his mom from the…

half-blood. He is taken to Camp Half-Blood, a place for people like him are safe from monsters. At camp, He learns more about himself and his family. He learns that his father was Poseidon. He also learns that Poseidon was blamed for stealing Zeus’s lightning bolt. He tells him that the bolt must be returned before summer solstice or else he will declare war with Poseidon. Poseidon needs Percy’s help to bring back the bolt. Percy went on a quest with Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, and…

come up with something new, but with similar characters to his previous stories.Motivated by his son’s request, Rick Riordan managed to come up with the main character he named Percy Jackson. He told Haley about Percy’s long quest to recover Zeus’s lightning bolt in modern-day America. This story took three nights to tell and by the time Rick was done, his son suggested he should write a children’s book.As an instructor, he got motivation for names incorporated into his top of the line Percy…