Legion of Super-Heroes Essays

The Lightning Thief is a fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology. It explores Greek mythology in a modern setting but, it does so as a humorous work of fantasy. It is the first novel in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It is a modern retelling of the Classical hero’s quest. It is perfectly paced, with electrifying moments chasing each other like heartbeats, and mysteries opening out in sequence. The Lightning Thief is an “An adventure-quest with a hip edge” (School Library Journal

what he so easily allowed to be taken. Cassius' motives are therefore based completely upon his hatred and envy of Caesar and his god like figure upon Rome and the attention of a hero being welcomed home. So Cassius kills Caesar to hopefully gain the heroes glory Caesar had received from the people of Rome. This similarly relates to Scar's motives from The Lion King, he kills his brother to gain the power he is convinced that he deserves under the belief that he can do better, but in actual fact the