Harry Potter, Katniss Everdeen, Percy Jackson, Edward Cullen: all of these movie characters were once words on a page. Stories put into books have brought an array of wondrous tales to billions of eyes for longer than anyone could ever remember. These words have proven powerful and created a phenomenon that can never be outdated. While for the majority of the population books are just black and white characters scrawled across many pages, books are actually the magical vessels from the mind to an infinite amount of other worlds, lives, and times. Everyone knows what a book is, but not everyone knows just how far one can travel while reading. Among the letters and words strung along throughout a book there are far away lands such as Hogwarts, Mount Olympus, and even real places like Florida that can seem so real even if one has never been there. In books there are new people and creatures to meet such as witches, talking animals, and other mythical beings. The best authors create the most vivid images in the mind of the reader such as John Green in “Paper Towns.” He writes, “On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink …show more content…
In between the bindings of a book there is no telling what is to come. From the first sentence to the last, every sentence in between tells a story that can be eye opening and enlightening. The Fault in Our Stars is a very simple story about a young woman suffering from stage four thyroid cancer who lives her days watching TV and taking loads of medicine. Nothing extraordinary happens to Hazel in this story, but the profound love she meets along her journey is in itself extraordinary. In this case, a simple story, one without a deathmatch or wizards, can be a heartbreak that is remembered for a lifetime. It is often forgotten that books, short or long, are so different than any other medium of
Percy’s sword is a symbol of justice against the forces of evil. It is also a symbol that shows he is the son of Poseidon. In the book it says. His sword is also loyal to him, because no matter what, his sword returns back to him. In the book it says, “I felt my pen return to my pocket, but Antaeus wouldn’t know that.
In Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson Sea Of Monsters, a thirteen year old demigod named Percy Jackson, goes on a quest with his best friend Annabeth and his recently discovered half brother to retrieve the Golden Fleece to save Thialia’s poisoned pine tree that protects the campers at Camp Half Blood, and to save Percy’s best friend Grover. So what does it truly mean to be successful at something? Does it mean to be known for what that person did or does it represent the feeling someone feels after completing a task. To one, it could mean the satisfaction of accomplishing something after a long time of concentration and hard work.
Percy Jackson, The main character in the Lightning Thief is following the path of a hero in “The hero's Journey. Percy does not believe he is ordinary which scares him because he thinks other people don't either but he fights through it. He now goes to half blood camp with other non ordinary people he wants to be normal but he was born with a god being his father so he got half of his father's power and he is a son of one of the most powerful gods. That god is poseidon the god of water it self.
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.” (Bradbury 79).
Percy Jackson and the lightning thief is about the offspring of poseidon and a mortal, going on a quest with his friends to find Zeus’ missing lightning bolt. The bolt went missing and Percy Jackson is accused of taking it. This is an excellent book that was made into a film. Though the film was good it was very different from the book.
Have you ever wondered how it would feel to be the son/daughter of a Greek god? Well that’s exactly what happened to Percy Jackson, an average 12 year old boy with ADHD. Percy Jackson and his mom Sallie Jackson had quite a hard life where they lived in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Percy had been moving from school to school due to expulsion and his severe dyslexia which of course kept him from reading properly. During a school trip to a Greek museum, Percy finds himself being taken away by a teacher named Mrs. Dodds to be punished but he gets a not so pleasant surprise but another teacher comes and gives him a pen which can turn into a sword.
Percy Jackson and the sea of monsters Analysis Have you ever wanted to be able to use god-like powers? In Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan, Percy has to travel through the bermuda triangle while facing his greatest rival and his yacht full of monsters! The Protagonist Percy Jackson is poseidon's son making him a demi god ( demi god means he’s half human and half god), he has the ability to control water, he is also the chosen one that can either save the world or destroy it! Luke Percy’s arch rival is trying to resurrect Kronos a god that would kill his children and everything in his path! The book is a mythical fiction and takes place in the unforgiving bermuda triangle.
Let Life Live Spiritual Guru, Osho once stated, “Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated”. This ties into The Fault in Our Stars by John Green because, Hazel only lived her life safely, until Augustus came along and showed her all of the excitement her life could have, if she let it. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is a story that takes place in a small town in Indiana where teenager, Hazel Lancaster, is suffering with terminal cancer, which causes her outlook on life to be incredibly negative, until Augustus Waters; a boy who went from cancerous, cancer-free, to cancerous again comes along. He changes her life for the better, and shows her the importance of living and leaves her with that importance when he passes away.
In The Sea of Monsters Percy Jackson’s seventh grade school year has been stress free, and also monster free. Of course in the life of Percy Jackson that all changes on the last day of school, when gym class turned into a war zone, with cannibals trying to kill Percy by hurling explosive dodgeballs that sends Percy to retreat to Camp-Halfblood, the safest place for Half Bloods kids who are half and half deity. Upon Percy and his friend Annabeth’s return to the camp, they discover that the camp 's tree that shields the camp from monsters is weakened causing monsters to charge into the camp. Percy and his friends set out to find the golden fleece that will restore the tree 's health, however the golden fleece is deep in the sea of monsters.
The Fault in Our Stars is a beautiful novel written by John Green. This story takes place in Amsterdam and Indianapolis, where it 's based mainly on two characters, Hazel, and Augustus. Hazel is facing stage four Thyroid cancer, and Augustus suffers from osteosarcoma, another form of cancer. Hazel is a very heartwarming character who never gives up no matter what, but like most teenagers, she dislikes doing what her parents believe is good for her. Her parents tried convincing her to attend a support group, but she just didn 't buy it until one day her mom forces her to go.
Have you ever thought how comparing a movie should be like comparing creamy and crunchy peanut butter. In the Lightning theif's case it's more like comparing an chuck Norris to a piece of bacon. So without further ado, I present a compare and contrast of the movie and book, Percy Jackson and the Olympians the Lightning theif. We will examine weapons, landscape, and finally story. First let's start with the the landscape choice.
a good leader can make decisions. if you are able to make decisions how are you going to leave our people? with making decisions comes communication. Percy Jackson was a great leader, he was able to make certain decisions and communicate with others to leave them, and tell them which path he chose to follow. Percy jackson is a fictional character in a book series.
You could say Percy Jackson is a troubled kid. Having previously been kicked out of every school he has attended he doesn’t have the highest hopes for his most recent one, Yancy Academy. So when his Pre-Algebra teacher tries to kill him he knows he will not be lasting very long. When his mom finds out she decides that its finally time for him to know the truth about himself and his father. Join Percy as he starts his journey at Camp Half-blood, is accused of stealing a gods symbol of power and is thrown back into the world he used to know, only to find it crawling with monsters who are out to get him.
“The bull-man screamed and flung me through the air. I landed flat on my back in the grass. My head smacked against a rock. When I sat up, my vision was blurry, but I had a horn in my hands, a ragged bone weapon the size of a knife. The monster charged.”
Surely one can’t find it so hard to find a single book?’. Yet, even as I wonder this, I, myself will go out to a bookstore or the local library and proceed to do exactly as the people described above have. Such is the phenomenon that struck my initial interest, and dug its claws in deep. After making these observations I went to several family members and close friends and asked for their opinion on the matter.