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Percy Jackson and the Olympians

  • Date Submitted: 01/20/2011 05:55 PM
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This book is called Percy Jackson and the Olympians the lighting thief the. the

author this book is Rick Riordan. Percy Jackson and the Olympians has 375 pages. The

number of words in this report is from 800 to 1000 words. The opening of the novel

began by

Percy (the main character) speaking to us telling us that he never wanted to be half blood,

which was his first problem. He then introduced him self as a dyslexic boy who also had

ADHD, and he was 12 years old. The setting took place in New York City, Percy was

sent to a boarding school for troubled kids. The beginning of the book was a good hook,

it really got the reader wondering what will happen next. The beginning of the book was

just a little bit of information of how the rest of the book would go. In my perspective it

was a very good start.

The main problem in the novel was that someone had stolen lord Zeus’s lighting

Bolt. The gods could not take ones positions from one another so it couldn’t have been

one of the gods. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades are brothers and lately Poseidon and Zeus had

been fighting, so when the lighting bolt was taken he blamed Poseidon-Poseidon is the

father of Percy and since gods could not take others gods valuables then a half blood

would have no trouble doing it-. Zeus blamed Percy and swore if Percy didn’t return it

that he would start a war-in this book we are not to blame for our actions like war and

hunger, the gods are so according to the book ww1 & ww2 was caused by disputes

between the gods.- also would be known as ww3.   It was up to Percy to accept the quest

from Chiron   (a half human half horse teacher). Chiron was on the contrary that Poseidon

had not taken the bolt but that Hades had so he sent Percy off to find the bolt and return it

to safety. with his quest would also go his best friend/protector Grover ( half goat half

man) and   a girl named Annabeth -who was also a half...

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