The Lightning Thief Conflict
The Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson is main character. He has lots of issues in school because he has a hard time reading and focusing on his schoolwork, and he's been kicked out of five schools already. The primary conflict which drives the action of the novel is that Percy must find and return the stolen master bolt to Zeus, king of the gods. He receives a hero's quest from the oracle at Camp Half-Blood that he must "go west, and face the god who has turned find what was stolen, and see it safely returned". Percy has to go into the Mississippi River from the Gateway Arch a Nereid sent by Poseidon, tells Percy to go to Santa Monica When he arrives, a nereid gives Percy three pearls saying they are gifts from his father.
Poseidon Percy takes the pearls with him to the Underworld. Hades tries to kill Percy, Annabeth, and Grover when they smash the pearls at their feet, the pearls then carry them to the middle of Santa Monica Bay because, as the Nereid said, "What belongs to the sea returns to the sea." The pearls' main power is to return the user back to the sea. When the pearl is smashed by the user, nothing will happen for a few seconds. When Percy was in the underworld, he used a pearl, and a bubble surrounded them, bringing them up from the underworld …show more content…
The camp beads are awarded, and the bead for this year — Percy's first year — is a black bead painted with a green trident in the middle. Annabeth leaves Camp Half-Blood for the first time, to live with her dad, stepmother, and two half siblings. Percy then leaves to attend another school his mother found.
The Lightning Thief is all about identity and about discovering identity. At the beginning of our narrator's tale, Percy Jackson doesn't yet know who his father is or that he has any special powers of any kind. He thinks of himself as a "bad kid," one who always gets into
Percy Jackson is main character. He has lots of issues in school because he has a hard time reading and focusing on his schoolwork, and he's been kicked out of five schools already. The primary conflict which drives the action of the novel is that Percy must find and return the stolen master bolt to Zeus, king of the gods. He receives a hero's quest from the oracle at Camp Half-Blood that he must "go west, and face the god who has turned find what was stolen, and see it safely returned". Percy has to go into the Mississippi River from the Gateway Arch a Nereid sent by Poseidon, tells Percy to go to Santa Monica When he arrives, a nereid gives Percy three pearls saying they are gifts from his father.
Poseidon Percy takes the pearls with him to the Underworld. Hades tries to kill Percy, Annabeth, and Grover when they smash the pearls at their feet, the pearls then carry them to the middle of Santa Monica Bay because, as the Nereid said, "What belongs to the sea returns to the sea." The pearls' main power is to return the user back to the sea. When the pearl is smashed by the user, nothing will happen for a few seconds. When Percy was in the underworld, he used a pearl, and a bubble surrounded them, bringing them up from the underworld …show more content…
The camp beads are awarded, and the bead for this year — Percy's first year — is a black bead painted with a green trident in the middle. Annabeth leaves Camp Half-Blood for the first time, to live with her dad, stepmother, and two half siblings. Percy then leaves to attend another school his mother found.
The Lightning Thief is all about identity and about discovering identity. At the beginning of our narrator's tale, Percy Jackson doesn't yet know who his father is or that he has any special powers of any kind. He thinks of himself as a "bad kid," one who always gets into