Monday, February 6, 2012

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.      

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