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Comparing Perseus And The Lightning Thief

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Perseus and Percy both have a brains over brawn theme. Although it is modernized in The Lightning Thief because Percy goes to a special camp for half bloods, which is more realistic nowadays. When Perseus tries to cut off Medusa's head, he looks through the reflection on his mirroring shield, while it is much more modern in the book as Percy looks through a reflection on a glass. The items in The Lightning Thief are more updated. In the book Percy uses a lot more knowledge than in the myth. This is because he endures many quests while in one big quest, which are added on to the one quest in Perseus. Percy gets some ideas from Hades when he travels there and has to think hard about where the lightning bolt went. While, in the myth Perseus only
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