Lightning Thief

In my novel Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson, a young troubled kid with ADHD, has been having troubles. First of all Percy is about to be kicked out of boarding school again; along with that lately Gods of Mount Olympus seem to be coming out of his mythology textbook and into his life. With all of that Percy has trouble’s with his family because his real dad had left him and his mom and his step-father is an alcoholic. Percy Jackson definitely has a life of struggles. 

 In the book Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan Percy the main character has troubles with his life and many of those problems come with his family. Throughout his life he has to deal with Greek Mythology, with Poseidon being his dad. The story starts out when Percy realizes Poseidon is his real dad. Percy hadn't seen his first dad for a while because he had left them to stay up at Olympus. Also, Percy's step-father has a big problem; his problem is that he has a huge drinking issue. Also his step-father isn't helping out the family in any way.

Greek mythology plays a bigger role in his life than just his dad being a god. When Zeus the master of power accuses Percy of taking his lightning bolt Percy has a limited amount of time to get it back. But Percy keeps on telling Zeus that he didn't take it but Zeus still doesn't believe him at all. So Percy has till summer solstice to return it or else he will pay the price. What I mean by that is, if he doesn't return it before the summer solstice there will be a war between the Greek Gods. So when Percy brings back the Lightning Bolt Zeus now trusts Percy again and there is no battle or war between the Greek Gods.

As Percy struggles in life, his only true friend and family member is his mother. With Percy's ADHD he has problems that he can't control, if his mother wasn't in his life he might not be here today. Also his mother is trying to help him in any way that she can and trying to give him a good life. It is a good thing that he isn't living with his father because he would have probably already been peer pressured into drinking and doing bad things such as alcohol. With all of the stress and dieses on his shoulder he is being dropped out of bordering schools left and right.

In conclusion Percy has a tough life most of the time; with his two dads that don’t pay any attention to Percy and both of the dads have done really bad things too.  Percy deserves a better life than he has been given from his fathers. So as Percy’s journey in life continues, he will hopefully have a better life and live a better with only his mother.

Lightning Thief

In the book Lightning Thief there are many conflicts involving Percy Jackson. While there are many the main conflict is Man v.s Circumstances. The conflict is between Percy and The Greek Gods, not realizing that the Greek Gods alive. The story starts off when Percy and his class go to the museum. When they arrive to the museum he realizes that his Latin teacher and his best friend are slaves of the Greek Gods, after he realizes that he finds out that he two is one of the slaves. Even while that trouble is going on there he has to deal with his family at home. His real father had left them and his step-father is an alcoholic, and Percy has ADHD. Another issue in this story is when Zeus’s Master Lightning Blot gets stolen and its up to Percy, Annabeth and Grover to get it back. With all of that on there shoulders they have to return it before the summer solstice or there will be a battle between the Greek Gods. Percy is trying to get the lightning bolt back because Zeus is accusing Percy of taking it.