Lightning

boring. They wouldn’t go on big expeditions to kill the bad guys or have to defend their loved ones, without villains they’d set on their couch watching tv alday. In the Percy Jackson series there are many antagonists. In the first book the Lightning Thief Percy’s teacher is the antagonist because…

Once I got attacked by a swarm of bees. I was seven years old and sitting out of the first quarter of my soccer game. My team was called “Lightning Bolts” because our jerseys were electric green. I was playing with my friends little brother near a gate covered in ivy and we were kicking the ball against the gate and it would come back, then we would kick it again, over and over again. Our game did not last that long, barely five minutes, because my friends brother and I kicked that ball high…

Lightning Strikes the Heart Was it a spare of the moment or was it a-long-time-coming? In Kate Chopin’s, “The Storm,” the main characters go by the names Calixta and Alcee. Both individuals with a family, have a rather interesting encounter when a storm brings them together. In reality, it is common for a serious life-threatening event or natural disaster to lure people together. However, in this case, the storm not only brought Alcee and Calixta together, it also sparked a romantic relationship…

With very little investigation, one may think “The Lightning-Rod Man,” written in 1853 by Herman Melville, is a simple story about a man selling lightning rods who hopes people’s desire to stay safe during a storm and the closeness of the storm will help him in trying convince people to buy his product. Upon further investigation, I do not believe Melville meant for this story to just have one simple meaning. The complex style of writing leave many readers looking for more on what Melville means…

strong relationship, she knew what I truly enjoyed. I received a book from here that I would hold deeply to me the rest of my life—Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief. My grandma knew how much I enjoyed an action filled adrenaline rushing story line. More importantly, she knew how it would affect my life for the better. Receiving The Lightning Thief did not excite me at the moment, but it eventually came to grow on me. I remember opening that first page and starting that first paragraph and…

movie from the book? Sometimes the book is so long the director needs to cut some parts out of the book. In the book and movie, “The Lightning Thief”, is a sci-fi book and movie that mainly takes place in New York, and the main character Percy has to learn who he really is, to only find out he is the lightning thief. In the movie and book version of “The Lightning Thief”, there are many differences which the director of the movie created in order to make the movie quicker and not boring. Since…

There were several “characters” which I found interesting, however the stories told by Michael Zinzun, Theresa Allison, and Gil Garcetti stood out to me. These passages were a few of the most provocative, thought invoking, and emotionally impacting descriptions of police brutality from the reading. It additionally causes the reader to think of the image of the police officers instilled in their minds. “When I Finally Got My Vision/Nightclothes”, the passage spoken by Michael Zinzun, stood out…

The classic greek mythology tale of Perseus has been revived and retold over and over. One of the newest being a modern version of the tale, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. While both of these stories share a similar main character and similar plot, they have quite a few differences. These differences include characters, events, and hero archetypes. The story has truly been rewritten in a new way and tells the story in a more relatable fashion for today’s youth. Percy struggles with ADHD…

“Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” takes place in modern day New York, in a world where Greek Gods rule the world from Mt Olympus. The star of the story Percy Jackson is just like your average teenager other than the fact that he is dyslectic and has a case of ADHD. Little does he know that he is actually the son of Poseidon, and also a demigod. In a matter of hours, his world will be turned upside down as he has to accept the responsibility to stop Zeus and Poseidon from going to war with…

taken to the woods by Luke, one of his companions who at last admits that he was the person who was responsible for the missing bolt. After he tells him, Luke leaves percy to be stung by a creature which nearly kills him. I especially appreciate The Lightning Thief the most out of the other four books in light of the topics it addresses in the story. The story is about character and about discovering identity. Percy has not found who his father is or what capacities are.. He views himself as a…