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Compare & Contrast: The Lightning Thief The movie, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is supposed to be an adaptation of the book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. The Lightning Thief is an award winning novel and the first book in the famed series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The series has sold over forty-five million books worldwide, and gained a very loyal legion of fans. Its popularity led to it being adapted into a huge Hollywood movie. However, with so many…

This essay is about the text Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. I firmly believe that things in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief are not what they seem. For a start, Ares was not as he seemed because he served Kronos and backstabbed Percy. The backpack was not as it seemed, it was the master bolt all along. And Luke was definitely not as he seemed. He was the traitor in the prophecy. He served Kronos. First up, Ares... Ares was one of the facets of Kronos’ plan. He…

The main characters in this book are Percy, Grover, Annabeth, Chiron, Poseidon, Ares, Hades, Luke, and Zeus. The book primarily takes place in Camp Half Blood. This book is about Zeus’s lightning bolt getting stolen by Luke. The problem in this book is Zeus’s lightning bolt gets stolen and Percy has a quest to find the bolt before the summer solstice. When Percy is on the quest he has to take a taxi, car, and bus from New York to Los Angeles to get to the Underworld. He has to go to the…

In the novel “The Titan’s Curse”, the protagonist Percy Jackson experiences “Road of Trials” from the Initiation Stage in Joseph Campbell’s monomythic cycle. Percy must conquer some of the most hideous and vicious beasts alive to achieve success. This particular quest was no piece of cake. However, Percy Jackson is quite an ambitious young man. He was willing to accept a challenge, but not defeat. The hero mustered his courage and demonstrated his heroic qualities like never before in order to…

James Altucher is an American best-selling author. He has written and published eleven books so far. Many of Altucher’s writing have appeared in publications such as the Financial times, Wall Street Journal, and the Forbes. James Altucher wrote a book in 2011 called I Was Blind but Now I see reached number one in Amazon.com’s motivational books section in 2011. USA Today also named Altucher’s Choose Yourself among the twelve best business books of all time. James Altucher is a very successful…

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…

Rick Riordan is an American author who has written over twenty novels for young readers. Some of Rick Riordan’s well known works are the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, The Heroes of Olympus, The Kane Chronicles, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, and The Trials of Apollo. He has received various awards for his novels, including a two-time Mark Twain Award, and the Children's Choice Books Awards for Author of the Year in 2011. He is also a #1 New York Times best selling author. I chose…

I have a strong belief that Percey Jackson from the movie is a better and more relatable Perseus. An interesting fact, Percy Jackson is a little more selfless. Which a hero has a right to be. Also, due to the settings being in modern times it helps making him more relatable. It also makes it feel like he has more of a social life. In Perseus the text never states that he hangs out with his friends which leads to my assumption that he just hangs out with his mom a.k.a. a mama's boy. Now that it’s…

Both Annabeth and Grover help Percy in his mission. "The Lightning Thief" is a dream experience youthful grown-up novel that was composed by Rick Riordan. It is the first book in the "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" arrangement, and characters from Greek mythology are utilized as a part of the novel. "The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel", composed by Rick Riordan and outlined by John Rocco is the comic book adjustment of the first book in the "Percy…

Eyes of the innocent What if you found out that someone who seemed totally innocent was actually evil? In the novel by Brad Parks, Eyes of the Innocent, A fast moving fire at about nine o’clock the night before had swept through a house on Littleton Avenue in Newark, killing two little boys, Alonzo and Antoine Harris, ages four and six. An Investigative journalist Carter Ross is obligated to write a story about an apartment fire that took the lives of two young little boys. Carter realize…