Rick Riordan

wrath of mythology. While it might not be one book, this series has impacted my life in many ways, including the fact that Rick Riordan is my favorite author, I researched and fell in love with Greek Mythology, and the series has made me more open-minded as a person. To start, one reason that the Percy Jackson series affected me was that through those books I learned that Rick Riordan is my favorite author. The first semester of this year I didn’t read many books. Our class didn’t visit the…

Thematic Essay: Blood Of Olympus In the book, “The Blood Of Olympus” by Rick Riordan, throughout the story the theme of sometimes there is power in numbers is evident. The story unfolds as seven demigods, the children of god or goddess and a human, have to fulfill the prophecy and save the world. The book begins as the seven must fight off giants and one of the demigods, Jason, the son of Zeus, is impaled and the theme is introduced as the seven join with their power in numbers to defeat the…

Microsoft, Rick Riordan the number one bestselling author in New York, and Mahatma Gandhi a non-violence activist. My Mount Rushmore is important to me, because it has shown me the people that I admire the most in my life. These four figures on my Mount Rushmore have made me become a person that sees the world with inquisitive eyes. I choose Todd…

Transitioning from the Percy Jackson Series, Rick Riordan’s new works, Heroes of Olympus, brings a new twist to the already famous story of Percy Jackson. Instead of the one-dimensional focus on Percy Jackson, the other heroes that accompanied him on his journeys are now brought into the limelight. One of his famous companions, Annabeth Chase, now tells us what it is like to be a demigod through her eyes. In the book, The House of Hades by Rick Riordan, Annabeth was sent on a wild goose chase to…

I am The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. I must be saved because I am an influence on young teenagers everywhere. I can help readers make important decisions. I can also encourage readers to go and live important lives. Since an important theme of mine is identity, I help children if they’re going through identity issues. This is why I should be saved. I am about twelve year old Percy Jackson, who always seems to get into trouble. Percy gets the shock of his life when he finds out he is the…

The Lost Hero is the first book in the Heros of Olympus series by Rick Riordan. It is about the friendship between three demigod children and it reveals that friendship is the greatest gift. The main characters are Leo, the son of Hephaestus, Piper, the daughter of Aphrodite, and Jason, the son of Zeus. Jason Has lost his memories and he goes on a quest with Piper and Leo to get them back. In addition to getting his memories back Jason has to find Percy Jackson who disappeared. Leo, Piper and…

fighting monsters with his soon to be brother Tyson. This book Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan, is a thrilling fantasy. This book contains a adventure to save Thalia’s Tree that protects the camp for half-bloods. I believe that you should always fight for your friends and family. Rick Riordan used the setting Sea of Monsters because they needed to get the golden fleece and they need it to save Thalia’s Tree. I think Rick used this setting because in the book the setting the Sea of Monsters is a…

Interpreting the myths more thoroughly implied that Riordan to could simply add characteristics and abilities onto characters within his novels that wouldn’t be too far-fetched as to be implausible. One of the first thing Riordan implements to legitimize his novels into modern society, is explaining that Mt. Olympus was attached to western civilization, and therefore moved in accordance to…

Meeting one of my oldest friends, Dakota Black, helped to introduce me to the world of reading and writing. I met Dakota on my third day of fifth grade; I was playing with the tetherball during recess when I played against him. We started talking and decided to hang out after the school day, and once my mom dropped me off at his house we started chatting. I learned he was interested in writing and I feigned an interest to keep the conversation going. He talked about the stories he was writing…

The Lightning Thief “ Because where his feet used to be, there were no feet. There were cloven hooves “(43). This is one out of many unusual quotes found in The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. In this book the characters are in an academy, a private school for troubled and disobedient kids in the past. Our hero is known as Percy/Perseus Jackson throughout the story and is considered a troubled student that has been kicked out of many schools. He is twelve years old and is the son of the Sea…