began with one book, during the complex years of fifth grade. Granite eyes pierce my body, pausing from my whispered conversation about Pokémon with a fellow student. “What are you doing?” questions Mrs. Barnes, my fifth grade teacher, glancing at me suspiciously. Scrambling for an excuse, I notice the book sitting abandoned on a desk. Exclaiming “I wanted to read that book!”, I grin at my flawless excuse. Mrs. Barnes just laughs, before pulling out the same book, The Lightning Thief, from her library
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reading this series. Rick Riordan wrote the Percy Jackson series and those were my favorite books, so I wanted to continue reading books like those. My first impressions were that it started it off slow but progressed quickly. The book was very exciting. The cover of the book was very interesting and wanted to make me read it because it shows two of the main characters that are allies fighting. In the second book The Son of Neptune , Percy, Hazel, and Frank met in Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of
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While some people may think that the banning of books could be a good thing and also do not want their children to read mature things, it is a fact that those who do not know history are bound to repeat it again and most of history is of falling of kingdoms and mass killings, so to you who doesn't want books that "put a bad name on certain people" would you rather not see such things or run the risk of committing such atrocities
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Percy tells Grover about his continuous dreams that he keeps having about Annabeth. Percy then hears that Zoe has had a dream that Artemis has become lost, after hearing this the hunters tried to leave the camp to try and find Artemis, but Chiron wouldn’t allow it. Percy sneaks into the attic later that day to talk to the Oracle, he ends up not getting an answer to his question then Percy and Grover go back to the attic, Grover then confesses to Percy that he hopes Pan returns because of the Great
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Percy Jackson is just a normal twelve year old boy. Sure he's got problems with school, bullies, and authority but at that age who doesn't? Getting kicked out of school after school does have a way of making one think he's a screw up though. One day though on a seemingly innocent visit to the beach with his mother Percy's life changes forever. Finding out his best friends is a satyr and being chased by the Minotaur into a camp for demigods is only the beginning of Percy Jackson's new life. Here he
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2) The book starts off with a trouble maker in high school, Percy Jackson. This young man soon realizes that his life is about to flip upside down really quick as soon as he finds out that he is the son of a Greek god, Poseidon. His mom tells him that the city is no place for him anymore and he is now going to go to a training camp for young decedents of the gods. Percy learns how to use his powers and then he decides to set out on an adventure to rescue his mom who had recently been taken by a bad
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follow the rule of God that he can not see his son that is half-blood and his mom need him to stay away from knowing who he is, his mom do this because to protect him from the monsters and other gods. This novel also shows about friendship that in the book Percy need to go to the hell to help his mom but he does not have enough ticket to go back to earth so his friend Grover says that he will stay here. This is how friendship is shown of two people that have been known each other and love each
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In the stories Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief and “The legend of Perseus”, the Legend of Perseus is modernized in Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief by changing the events, Hero Archetypes, and themes. Have you ever wonder how Roman stories are like today and how they are made modern to meet your expectations? Events are one of the main thing modernized from ¨The legend of Perseus¨ to Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief. The events are modernized through the Hero’s Journey because in “The legend
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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief remade the events of Danaus, Perseus, and the Gorgon. In Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Percy fights Medusa with the shield of Athena, with the sword and shoes of Hermes (Columbus). In Danaus, Perseus, and the Gorgon Perseus gets the same magical items as percy for example Athena’s shield, “Athena lent him her shield, polished as brightly as a mirror.(D’aulaires pg#117)” Secondly, both Percy and Perseus encounter the Hydra along their journey, In Percy
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The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, is about Percy and his friends, Annabeth and Grover, goi What is your definition of a champion (a.k.a. a hero and not the food hero ok.)? Who do you think is the real hero of The Lightning Thief? According to https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hero, “a hero is a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability; a person of extreme admiration and devotion”. ng on a quest to return Zeus’s lightning bolt which
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