There are several obstacles that characters have to overcome in The House of Hades by: Rick Riordan. Percy and Annabeth are pulled into Tartarus a place where monsters are reborn and where there is never ending torture. This place is not fit for demigods such Annabeth and Percy. Also, Percy and Annabeth’s friend Hazel have to defeat a goddess that can only be defeated by her with power that Hazel does not know how to use or…
Percy’s experiences goes through the steps of The Hero’s Journey. First of all,”The Hero’s Journey” first step is Separation and percy gets separated from every field trip he is on because is a troubled kid . Percy feels out of place being on field trips because on every field trip something weird or unlucky happens to him and only to him. For Example, on his fifth-grade school,he had an accident with a Revolutionary War Cannon and ended up accidently hitting the school bus. Being a Half-Blood makes him not normal. Furthermore, The second step is to call to adventure and percy got in trouble and had to go with Mrs.Dodds.When percy reached up with Mrs.Dodds told…
In Percy's essay The Loss of the Creature, he talks about the sightseer in the Grand Canyon. When looked up in the dictionary, a sightseer is a tourist who is visiting sights of interest. A sightseer can also be described as one given to seeing sights or noted things. This is important because in the essay, Percy talks about the value P and that if the Grand Canyon "is seen by a million sightseers, a single sightseer does not receive value P but a millionth part of value P". The sightseer is the one who perceives the Grand Canyon and will receive a certain amount of value P from that of the Spanish explorer. However, he cannot see the Grand Canyon for what it is when he perceives it according to the symbolic complex in his mind.…
My Opinion: I would say this book is very well written it gives very good detail of all the characters and the setting. When reading it you can clearly picture what is going on and where it is going…
Percy Jackson has to go through the Road of Trials, The road of trials confronts you with takes or challenges. Percy has to face many characters on his road to fix the gods. Percy fights medusa, cerberus, luke and others to get what he has came for, Poseidon's Bolt. His ability to continually beat and out fight opponents allows the Road of Trials to be noticed and to form. The hero takes him to Saint Louis, Las Vegas and back to NYC where he is met by his father. Saint Louis contains a needed pearl so does Las Vegas. This is called the Night or Sea Journey. The novel guides Percy around the United States so he can accomplish his goal. The Dragon Battle is not literally a dragon with a battle but a battle with a power that is clearly stronger than the hero. In the case of the Lightning Thief, Percy fights a Hades. Hades was the one who took the lightning bolt from poseidon and stirred all this mess. Lastly the Sacred Marriage comes into play. Even Though scared marriage can be a literal marriage, for Percy, it's not. As the story goes along Percy grows a strong emotional bond with his friend Annabelle. Percy allows this bond to continue to grow and uses it to his advantage at times. The Fulfilment, or part two of the Hero's Journey adds good plot to the…
I found the beginning of this book quite confusing. I had a difficult time discerning who the main characters were and what was the plot. I also wasn't quite sure when the Mother had died and it wasn't until later that I realized the reason that Carmen was present was because she had traveled home for her mother's funeral. However, once I got into the book and started to put the characters in context, I really began to enjoy it.…
In conclusion, I believe that this book is a great read and much like Taylor and Michael, the book is electric. I definitely recommend this book for anyone that is twelve and older, doesn’t enjoy reading, or just wants the escape the pressures of academics in school and outside of it. This is because it has an engaging plot and great, relatable character. Once you start reading the book you will make not want to put it down, as I didn’t, and will want to go on in the series as it has six books and is going…
Percy is the son of Poseidon, God of the ocean and mortal woman Sally Jackson. Percy is a demigod and his parents are Poseidon and Sally Jackson. “Percy goes on a quest to find the lightning bolt and his mother is turned into dust as she tries to rescue him, Grover and Annabeth.” Percy and his friends go on a quest to find the lightning bolt and on their quest, Percy finds out that his dad is Poseidon and that his mom is still alive.…
This novel has been oversimplified, attempting to make not only the setting but also the characters and plot simpler than what they really are. This novel is a fairly straightforward read for a young adult. The story is narrated in third person, gives the reader details of the entire world where the story takes…
Instead of simply being gifted with magic, Percy is the son of a Greek God. His friends aren’t mere mortals with spell books. They are Annabeth, the daughter of Athena, and Grover, a satyr. The section of school that hates him isn’t the old home of the series’ big evil, but the most competitive section of students, the children of the God of War, Ares. And instead of Quidditch, Percy finds himself participating in a chariot race. The world of The Lightning Thief brings Greek mythology into the modern world. Who knew that Mount Olympus was located on floor 1000 of the Empire State Building? Or that the Greek gods are responsible for the spread of Western civilization? Unbeknownst to us, we walk among monsters who scour the Earth hoping to find the children of Gods before the Gods do in order to eliminate their competition.…
I found the climax of the story to be the most interesting and surprising part of the book.…
The book was fast paced and always had me wanting to read the next page. The style of the book was a style with interesting characters and exciting action. Some of the main characters in the story are Jaron, Gregor, and Mott. Jaron in the beginning of the story was already a very well developed character since he is the most important of all the main characters in the…
Kody Scott grew up in South Central L.A. during the nineteen-sixties and seventies, soon after the creation of the Crips. Raised in poverty without a father, and a full family raised solely by his mother, Kody Scott led the stereotypical "ghetto" life, a poor and broken home. However he does not blame this on his own personal decision to join the Crips while only eleven year's old. The allure of the respect and "glory" that "bangers" got, along with the unity of the "set"(name for the specific gang) is what drew him into the gang. Once joined, he vowed to stay in the "set" for life, and claimed that banging was his life. After many years of still believing this, he eventually realized that the thug life was no longer for him, and that gangs were a problem on society and the "Afrikan" race(page 382-383).…
The action in this book is very suspenseful. For example, in one chapter the main character is alone in her deserted coffee shop, while her grandfather is asleep upstairs. Two adult thieves came in and Mattie hid. They looked around and shoved many of her special family heirlooms and other items into their big sacks. During this, one thieve almost cuts her with her grandfather's sword from the war. She comes out of hiding and runs. They catch her and tie her up. Her slap her to try and get her to spill were the coffee shop earnings are hidden. Her grandfather awakes and comes downstairs with a gun. He threatens to shoot and does, but the thieves dodge the bullet. Grandfather is thrown to the ground because of the force of the shot. One thieve runs away and the other goes and beats grandfather up. While this is going on, Mattie grabs her grandfather's sword and cuts the thieve on his shoulder. He cries out in pain and runs toward the door as Mattie chases after him, shouting some foul words the author unmentioned. After running a few blocks, she figured the thieves were long gone and rushed back to the coffee shop. To me, this scene was one of the most intense out of the whole book. I think it really does show how powerful this book is and it is packed with a lot of suspense. The interactions between the characters also made this book compelling.…
What I enjoyed most about reading this book was the way the author introduced and described all of the characters. I had a great picture in my mind about each and every character and I felt myself thinking about some of them even when they were absent from a page or two. It became so interesting that before I could finish the book, I had to turn to the internet to look up the characters of the movie. I just had to see them in the flesh!…