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    The Lightning Thief By: Rick Riordan Journal #1 In the beginning of this story we meet Percy Jackson‚ a 12 year old “demigod.” Demigods are superhuman mortals born of the Gods. They are half man‚ half god and wield powers connected to the powers of their Olympian parent. Percy had no clue of what he was or what he was capable of. During a school field trip to the museum‚ Percy was not feeling well. He was seeing weird things such as water flying in the air and his teacher teleporting

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    sidekick; every captain needs a mate.” This quote means‚ even if a hero thinks they can do everything alone then they mistaken. In the book‚ The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. It is about young‚ brave Percy Jackson (son of Poseidon) who is on a quest to return the master Lightning bolt back to Olympus because if not there will be a war of the gods. Percy is being accused of stealing the bolt. He knows he didn’t take it but he doesn’t know who did. On his way to figuring out he stole the bolt he meets

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    In The Lightning Thief and Twilight‚ different experiences occur within both main characters Bella Swan and Percy Jackson. Both characters follow a path that will guide them into a new world. Bella and Percy are new to almost everything they discover within their new journey with the help of some close friends. Though from different mythologies‚ Twilight and The Lightning Thief share an archetypal pattern that requires a mentor’s guidance; as the protagonist becomes aware of a previously unknown

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    Contents Chapter One ....................................................................................................................................... 1 Chapter Two........................................................................................................................................ 7 Chapter Three ................................................................................................................................... 16 Chapter Four ............................

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    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

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    1). In the novel The Lightning Thief‚ by Rick Riordan‚ Percy‚ Annabeth‚ and Grover are trying to recover Zeus’ stolen master bolt. The main protagonist Percy is an outcast that struggles to fit in because he moves from school to school and is a lone child of Poseidon‚ yet he has lots of termitity. Another protagonist Annabeth is very smart and immaculate because she is a child of Athena. And the last main protagonist is Grover‚ he is Percy’s best friend and will stay by Percy through all of the trouble

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    In The Sea of Monsters‚ a 13-year-old demigod Percy Jackson goes on a quest with his friend Annabeth‚ a daughter of Athena‚ and Tyson‚ a Cyclops‚ who happens to be Percy’s half brother. They go to save Thalia’s pine tree‚ which has been poisoned mysteriously ‚ and to save Grover‚ Percy’s best friend. In order to get the Golden Fleece‚ which will heal the tree‚ he must travel across the omious Sea of Monsters to an island guarded by the Polyphemus and his man-eating sheep‚ where his friend Grover

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    The book “The Lightning Thief” is about a boy named Percy Jackson. Percy Jackson is a demi-god and is convicted of stealing Zeus’s master lightning bolt and only has ten days to return the lightning bolt before it’s too late by: Rick Riordan. The story of “The Lightning Thief” takes place in the modern USA from Las Vegas to New York. The main characters in the book are Percy Jackson the son of Poseidon; Annabeth the daughter of Athena and Grover the satyr that protects Percy Jackson and also Luke

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    The Lightning Thief is a novel written by Rick Riordan. In the novel‚ Riordan follows archetypes similar to other literature. The story line follows the quest because Percy’s ordinary home is made unordinary‚ and then he goes on a search for the stolen lightning bolt. The conflict is fire versus ice. Percy has knowledge that he did not steal the lightning bolt and saves humanity‚ while Luke and Kronos seek to bring death and revenge to all those around them. The hero enters the story as the narrator

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    choice for my book report is the lightning thief by Rick Riordan‚ it was called the lightning thief because Percy Jackson who is the protagonist of the story was accused of stealing the weapon of Zeus (the lightning bolt) Percy had two friends in camp half-blood namely Grover and Annabeth. These two people help our hero Percy in his quest to prove that he did not steal the lightning bolt from Zeus. There is also Luke‚ the real lightning thief‚ who acted nice to Percy in order to frame him up. To sum

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