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Saturday, February 22, 2014

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Title: The Lightning Thief
Author: Rick Riordan
Pages read: BOOK COMPLETE

The protagonist in this book, Percy Jackson, has been faced with numerous obstacles, all of the same nature: mythical beings attempting to kill him. Most have no real reason to harm him (the Minotaur, the Chimera and the Echidna, and Procrustes) but there are others that have motives. The Furies attacked Percy, Annabeth, and Grover on the bus when they were trying to retrieve Hades's Helm of Darkness. The hellhound was summoned by a person inside the camp which revealed that someone inside the camp was trying to kill Percy. It can also be theorized that Medusa wanted to kill Percy, Annabeth, and Grover because Annabeth is a daughter of Athena and is trying to get revenge. the most interesting obstacle was Ares. He appeared as a good guy, despite sending Percy to the amusement park where he knew Hephaestus's prank was set up, giving Percy, Annabeth, and Grover backpacks with Oreos, fresh clothes, and money and also providing them with transportation to Los Angeles. But later in the story, it turns out that Ares tried to frame Percy by putting the Master Bolt in the backpack he gave Percy.


1 comment:

  1. Very good Anna! I really like how you wrote your paragraph with such detail! :)

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