Percy Jackson Hero

“A hero is a person who has given his or her life than something bigger than oneself.” These are the words of Joseph Campbell and they have a significant meaning in Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief. As in the story, Percy Jackson is willing to face challenges and trying to get the bolt for Zeus so he can bring his mother back into the real world from the underworld. The Lightning Thief symbolizes the hero on a quest archetype.Percy Jackson is made up of Percy is on the quest of trying to get the Lightning bolt to Zeus. There are 12 stages of archetypes. The Archetype begins with the Ordinary world, Call to Adventure, Refuse to love the call, Meeting with the mentor, crossing the first Threshold, test allies, and enemies, approach, ordeal, reward, the road back, resurrection, and it tops off with the return of Elixir. Percy Jackson thinks he’s a “Normal Human” who his dad left him at the age of 7 months. This is the beginning of the Hero's quest in an ordinary world. Percy Jackson follows these 12 stages of the archetype which makes him the Hero of the film. The Three main stages of this archetype that Percy Jackson follows are the Ordinary World, Call to Adventure, and the Return of Elixir. These Three stages will prove the Archetype Of Percy Jackson's quest.

In the book Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, Percy is your typical 12-year-old boy who is a troublemaker in school and lives with his mother’s abusive husband. Percy’s life changes when he accused of stealing Zeus’ master bolt and attacked by monsters. Percy’s mother is killed along the way towards a camp called Camp Half-Blood and trains his heritage as a demigod. Percy is then sent on a heroic quest, with friends, to prove his innocence and along the way, rescue his mother from Hades. After a long and arduous journey of being chased by monsters, Percy managed to return the lightning bolt and save his mother. Percy is then betrayed by a close friend, as the friend was the thief, and escaped while warning them of the true mastermind.

Percy Jackson from Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief displays many qualities of being a hero. According to the article, “The Hero’s Journey”, there are many different stages of being a hero. Percy acquires many characteristics of being a hero. Some of the stages that Percy relates to are: “The Ordinary World”, “The Call to Adventure”, “Allies/ Helpers”, and “Master of Two Worlds/ Restoring the World”. Therefore, Percy Jackson is presented as a hero from the different stages of “The Hero’s Journey”.

Percy Jackson’s mum in the story is called Sally Jackson who was in a relationship with Poseidon, who left her to go on a journey across the Atlantic Ocean, and he never came back. Sally is now married to Gabe who wasn’t very nice, smelt and didn’t really care about Percy, but Sally may have married Gabe to protect Percy, because the smell may keep the monsters and bad away from him. We also get the feeling off Gabe that he doesn’t want Percy around (Riordan, 2005, p.32) ‘During school months, it was Gabe’s ‘study’. He didn’t study anything in there other than old car magazines, but he loved shoving my stuff in the closet, leaving his muddy boots on the windowsill.’ and would be happy to see him go, which is the same in the story of Perseus, where Polydectes tries to get rid of Perseus, because he doesn’t want Polydectes to be with Danae. Percy not liking Gabe could be part of a retelling of the story of Perseus. Where Zeus is portrayed as Gabe, and Danae is Sally, and Zeus sends Danae and her baby (Percy Jackson) to an island beach where a fisherman found them, took them home with him and looked after them. Where as in the Percy Jackson story, Sally takes Percy on a break to the beach (Long Island), much against Gabe’s wishes, and instead of a fisherman finding them; it was Grover who came to help them. The change to the myth story is because Riordan believes that this is the way this situation would be portrayed in a

How can we modernize a story to make it more relatable and understanding to a new generation of learners? The book, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief based on the original,“The Legend of Perseus,” is taken and molded into a new take on ancient greek mythology. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief draws on and adds to the original characters, uses similarities and creates differences to rejuvenate the old story.

When Percy and his mother, Sally go to Montauk Beach in New York, Grover comes to tell them to leave immediately. A terrible storm rages as the drive to the New York countryside, a Minotaur which is half man and half bull, attacks them. It takes Sally blinding a flash of gold light. Percy uses one of its horns to kill it. Percy wakes up three days later being healed by nectar and ambrosia, which is the food of the gods at Camp Half-Blood. Percy is places in a hermes cabin where all the unclaimed half-blood’s stay. After many water related incidents, a trident mark appears above Percy’s head as a father and then Poseidon claims him. The Oracle at the camp tells Percy to find the master lightning bolt of “Zeus” who is a supreme god of gods and Greeks, since Poseidon is contradicted for stealing it. Percy has defeated many mythological monsters, including Medusa and many more, Percy and his friends Annabeth and Grover find Hades who has taken Percy’s mother, Sally, but had his symbol of power stolen too. Hades also accuses Percy of stealing his Helm of Darkness and threatens him that he will kill his mother and release the dead into the world. Percy and his friends then use magical pearls to transport them out of Hades’s kingdom and then after

that Greek gods exist, and have been closely observing western culture and ideas. The author draws parallels to Percy’s life, who is an American teenager, with that of Greek heroes. This parallel helps the readers to relate to the book, essentially engaging the young readers to learn about Greek mythology and the lessons of life that it teaches, in a not so bland way. The protagonist of the novel, Percy Jackson, is revealed to be special in some way. This section also develops other supporting characters, such as Chiron, Percy’s teacher, who also was mentor to Hercules and Grover, who is Percy’s sidekick, a multi-dimensional character with his own past, hopes and concerns. The association of Chiron and Percy foretells that Percy will carry on heroic deeds in future. Percy fights Minotaur, a monster that even Theseus fought and defeated. In the process of defeating Minotaur, Percy loses his mother, which he feels was his last hope to returning to his normal human life. By drawing parallels between Percy and various heroes of Greek Mythology, the author shows Percy in the light of a hero. A hero who is yet to prove his worth in the Camp Half-Blood. His encounter with Clarisse at a bathroom in camp, allows him to show his strength, which was very similar to that of his father Poseidon, but also instils in some ways fear amongst the camp

Christopher Reeve once said, “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to preserve and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” A hero is a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. Hero’s are around us in our everyday lives such as firefighters who put their lives on the line to protect people and their property. Other hero’s can be found in literature. These hero’s, also know as an epic hero, exhibit superhuman qualities to help fight and protect others while on their quest. Being a hero means taking on enormous responsibilities. With these responsibilities comes great praise from others which both Beowulf and everyday firefighter receive for their extraordinary work.

Hero - Percy Jackson, the hero of the book, comes across as every kid you'd ever meet or ever would. He's no brainiac (he has dyslexia and ADHD) but he has friends who are. But he is courageous and clever, stubborn and loyal. He is the best he can be, and he's getting even better.

Throughout the series, the demigods discover their identity and what they are really capable of that can be compared with the real world, we discover something new about ourselves each day and so do the demigods. At the beginning of our narrator's tale, Percy Jackson does not yet know who his father is or that he has any special powers of any kind. He thinks of himself as a "bad kid”, one who always gets in trouble. Although, he discovers new things about himself each day that he never thought would be possible.

Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief Characters 1. Percy Jackson Percy is used to being the outsider, the loner, and the dummy. He describes himself as "a troubled kid”. The fact that he has attended six schools over the past six years tells us that he must be really good at adapting to new places, but that he probably doesn't have many friends. (Page #1) Percy tells us that he is twelve years old and until a few months ago, he was a student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.

Percy defeats the scorpion, but gets stung in the process, on page 369. Percy has to run into camp before he passes out, so that he can get help. Due to this happened, he was betrayed by Luke. The final part, “and fail to save what matters most, in the end,” had come true before everything else had.

I choose to read Percy Jackson lightning thief because one of my friends has read the entire series and it was a really good read and they made movies out of it so i wanted to see how good the movie did compared to the books. The main theme of the book is that Percy Jackson is telling a story of what happen to him last year he was in sixth grade that he went on a field trip to a ancient greek gods museum when he was there he messed with a girl that was annoying him and the teacher got angry at him for messing with the student so she pulls him into the museum to yell at him then she turns into a bird like creature trying to kill Percy the other teacher that was there hands his pen that turns into a sword and Percy kills her and everybody acted like it didn't happen even the teacher so Percy got looking around and confronted the who says that he is a half blood and he has to go a camp with all the other half bloods so he wouldn't die and the story goes on from there.

Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse. In this latest installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos' army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth - a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn. Along the way Percy will confront powerful enemies, find out the truth about the lost god Pan, and face the Titan lord Kronos’s most terrible secret. After the adventure at Percy’s birthday, Poseidon appeared. Then, Nico came and told Percy that he knew how to defeat the titan armies for good.

The major character of this story is Percy Jackson the son of Poseidon. He is a 13 year old. He is a person that is very brave and trusting. In the story he wears a t-shirt with jeans. Other characters that matter to him is Annabeth,Tyson,and Grover. His role in the story is he is the person that gets the message from Grover throw a dream. In the massage Grover tells Percy that he has found the golden fleece,but he was captured by a cyclops. Throw that message a quest begins. His weapon is a pen that can turn into a sword.the pen also always reapers in his pocket, so he can never lose it.He is the only half blood that is the son of poseidon.