Sunday, February 2, 2014

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Post 2

The book I read for my book report is 'Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief' written by Rick Riordan, which I said on my previous blog post. I read all 375 pages out of 375.
Picture source: en.wikipedia.org 
      This book is based on Greek Mythology, so it has a lot of mythological monsters and the Olympians, the gods and goddesses in the Greek Myths.
      (I think) There are three main protagonists in this book, who are: Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Grover Underwood. I think there are two main antagonists (SPOILERS!), no, actually three antagonists in this book, who are Kronos, a Titan and the Lord of Time, Ares, god of war, and (SPOILERS! (again)) Luke Castellan, who is a traitor and a son of Hermes, god of thieves, and messenger of the gods, etc.
      Percy Jackson is a half-blood, meaning that he is half god or one of his parents is a god or a goddess. He is a son of Poseidon, god of the sea and earthquakes, which gives Percy the ability to breath underwater, not get crushed by the pressure of water, be safe in water, control it, etc. Percy's appearance is not really mentioned in the book (I guess you can just imagine it or look at the picture above). He is twelve years old in this book, and he is brave, because he cares and for his friends and protects them. He stands up for monsters and enemies too, for example, when he stood up to fight the Chimera, an ancient and powerful mythological monster and one of Echidna and Typhon's (both ancient and mythological monsters) children. Percy has/uses one weapon, Riptide (a.k.a. Anaklusmos), a sword made out of celestial bronze, a type of metal that can hurt mythological creatures.
      Annabeth Chase is a daughter of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, crafts, etc., so she is very smart and intelligent like her mother, and she loves architecture. It is mentioned that she has blonde curls and is very athletic. She uses one weapon, which is a knife made out of celestial bronze.
      Grover is a satyr, which means that he has goat legs from the waist down, and is human from the waist up, and has horns (but they are barely visible). It is mentioned that he has acne and has a goatee. I think he is very scared sometimes, because he mostly gets scared a lot when monsters appear or attack.
      Kronos is a antagonist because he wants to attack the gods of Olympus and to cause a war among the the gods. He appears in people's dreams and lures them to help him gain his full strength and body again, since he was cut into pieces and banished to Tartarus, a dungeon for evil monsters or creatures. He is the brains behind the whole plan to cause a war.
      Ares is a antagonist because he tried to cause or help the war happen, and he wanted that to happen because he is the god of war, and war would be an advantage to him. So he attacked Percy when things didn't go as Kronos planned/Ares wanted to. But Ares doesn't and didn't work for Kronos.
      Luke isn't an actual main antagonist, because it is not discovered that he is an antagonist until the end of the book, when he summoned a scorpion to poison and kill Percy. Luke joined and worked for Kronos and helped him so things will go as Kronos planned.





5 comments:

  1. You are very descriptive, I liked how you explained their powers. And alerted people to the spoilers, I didn't do that...........:)

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  2. Great Post! I really enjoyed reading and hope you enjoy the book.

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  3. Thank you! I enjoyed it, and now I'm on the 5th book.

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    1. I am so close to getting to the 2nd series!

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  4. AMAZING! u describe really good and u wrote everything really detailed! I am reading the same book lol (you spoiler!!! (just kidding(lol))) NICE JOB!!!!!!!!!! AWESOME JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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