Twelve Olympians

“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…

than at things that involve their brain. The two protagonists have two sidekicks, who are a boy and a girl. The villains, Kronos and Voldemort both become stronger every book. In both books, there is an item they use to get away with things. In the Olympian series, Annabeth has an invisible Yankee’s cap which was given to her from her mother. In the Harry Potter series, he owns an invisibility cloak which once belonged to his dad. Throughout the series, there are two characters, Dumbledore and…

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…

Rick Riordan is the reward winning, first class maker of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and the creator of another game plan The 39 Clues. For Rick Riordan, a rest time story conferred to his most oldest child was just the begin of his enterprise into the universe of kids' books.Born on June 5, 1964 in San Antonio, Texas,Rick Riordan still keeps sharing his insight into Greek Gods and different things through his books. Rick Riordan experienced childhood in Texas and went to…

Summary Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, lived with his mother in Manhattan, New York. On the first day of summer, just after his sixth-grade year, he realized he was 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…

Rating On a scale from 1 to 5, I give The House of Hades a rating of 4. There were many interesting parts and there were some parts that I tried not to fall asleep on. Some of the interesting parts were when Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase were in Tartarus fighting monsters, slowly dying. They are met with past enemies and make unforeseen alliances. In the Prophecy of Seven, one of the lines say, “And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death”. Their foes in the story are Bob the Titan, AKA…

I recently went to an AA meeting at the Lamb Center in Fairfax, Virginia. It is a small center and by approaching the center I could tell that the meeting would be held in a smaller circle than what my classmates told me from their experiences. Even though I am a very relaxed person, when it comes to meeting total strangers I had my reservation on what to expect. We were instructed to be sitting in the back and basically just observe; yet I could see that “hiding” in the back at this place was…

Types of Treatment Available for Drug Addictions Once you have arrived at the place in your life where you have accepted the fact that you have a drug addiction problem, your next step is to get help. There are different Levels of Care for Drug Treatment Centers as well as different types of treatment. Patient have various needs that depend upon the extent of their addiction and the type of drug that is being abused. The following is an overview of what is available, and the needs that are met…

The idea of a perfect world is very complex and often confusing to understand; it becomes simpler to imagine such world if suffering existed within it. However, if a perfect world contains suffering, it then becomes flawed. In Ursula Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, the narrator struggles with the problem of creating a realistic ‘perfect world’, and as a solution she has created two contradictory worlds in which the existence of one is dependant on the other. the narrator provides…