Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief Essay

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. The book is told in first person and begins with Percy Jackson, a 12 year old boy with dyslexia and ADHD, living in New York City. He lives with his mother and awful stepfather and doesn’t know who his real father is. Percy is brought to a camp called “Camp Half-Blood” where he meets people who are just like him, a demigod. A demigod or half blood, is the son or daughter of one of the gods from greek mythology, who Percy discovers are real. Eventually, he learns that the master lightning bolt of Zeus was stolen and the gods believe that Percy is the thief. Zeus believes this because Poseidon is Percy’s father and Zeus believes that Poseidon put him up to it in order to steal power. To clear his name, Percy must undertake a dangerous quest with a other campers, Annabeth and

The main character has many differences. Book Percy Jackson and movie Percy Jackson differ in their ages, in the book Percy is 12 however, in the movie he is 16. Another character, Annebeth, is similar to Percy in the aspect that she is supposed to be 12 and not 16 like how the movie portrays her. Also, she is supposed to have blond hair and gray eyes, whereas in the movie she has brown hair and brown eyes. Emotionally, Annabeth is more of a stereotypical girl in a movie (not wanting to like the hero and trying to be commanding, but ultimately making her look bossy), however, in the book she is not bossy but smart. Percy is very unsure of what is going on and Annabeth helps him. Grover, physically, is completely different, in the movie he is a African American 16 year old and in the book he is a caucasian 12 year old with red hair. Also, in the book, Grover is a lot more jittery and not very confident in himself. One other thing that occurred was the deletion of some characters for the movie, such as Mr. D, Ares, Clarisse,