Percy Jackson the Betrayed Hero Reads the Lighting Theif

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The Lightning Thief , written by Rick Riordan, is the first volume in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. The book was adapted into a motility moving picture and a graphic novel in 2010.

This volume tells of the main character, Percy Jackson, as he discovers a world much bigger than he has ever imagined simply is immediately handed a quest to redeem himself from a crime he never committed.

1 Plot
- 1.1 Field Trip
- 1.2 Military camp Half-Blood
- 1.3 Starting the Quest
- 1.4 Going Further West
- 1.5 Reaching the Underworld
- ane.6 The Lightning Thief
ii Prophecy
- 2.1 Unraveling of the Prophecy
3 Affiliate list
4 Characters
- 4.one Campers
- 4.two Mortals
- four.iii Immortals
- 4.4 Gods
- 4.v Titans
- 4.6 Monsters
5 Deaths
6 Deluxe Edition
seven Awards
8 Trivia
nine Gallery
- 9.1 Covers and Artwork
x References
11 External links

Plot

Field Trip

Percy Jackson is a twelve-year-old male child diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, and he has been expelled from every schoolhouse he has ever attended. While he is in sixth grade on a field trip,^[1] a classmate of his, Nancy Bobofit, bullies his best friend Grover Underwood. Percy is outraged, and suddenly, h2o from a nearby fountain drenches Nancy in a very unnatural way but the Mist makes information technology expect similar Percy pushed her. Their pre-algebra teacher, Mrs. Dodds, takes Percy for a private talk, presumably to scold him. However, she suddenly turns into a Fury, a mythical brute known from Greek mythology,^[2] and tries to kill him. The Latin instructor, Mr. Brunner, charges in and throws Percy a pen that all of a sudden changes into a sword when he uncaps information technology. Percy kills the Fury in self-defense.

For the rest of the year, everyone in the campus thinks that Mrs. Dodds had never existed, and their pre-algebra teacher is Mrs. Kerr, a teacher he has never once seen before. Percy, nonetheless, suspects that something is going on since whenever he asks Grover, he hesitates. Percy is almost led to believe this, too, until he eavesdrops on Grover and Mr. Brunner maxim otherwise. On his way home for the summer, he sees iii very former women knitting, who plow out to be the Fates, cut a line of string, and Grover tells him this is worse than it actually seems. He explains to Percy that the Fates are the ones who make up one's mind the lifespan of a beingness. The string in their hand is the lifeline of a person and when cut, it signifies the person's decease. Percy is very frightened past this and assumes that the cord of yarn that had simply been cutting off was his. When they go far into Manhattan, Percy ditches Grover who has to go to the restroom.

Percy comes home to his mother, Sally Jackson. She tells him that, as a care for, they would become to go on a vacation to Montauk for a couple of days, and that they are to leave immediately. Though they run across some complications, namely Percy'south stepfather, Gabe Ugliano, they are able to leave for their destination.

Grover urgently comes to Montauk and tells Percy'due south mother that Percy must flee to a specific camp, Campsite Half-Blood. Sally drives the two kids to military camp using Gabe's auto. Inside the machine, Percy discovers that his mother and Grover are familiar with i another; he likewise notices that Grover is a goat from the waist down. As they travel closer to the camp, they are attacked past a Minotaur. While trapped inside the car, Sally so tells Percy to escape and run for the tree, but Percy disagrees and tells her that he is not leaving her behind. Leaving her no choice, Sally helps Percy with Grover as they run for the pine tree marker the borders of camp. However, Percy'southward mom could no longer become further and continues to distract the Minotaur, only it immediately grabs her and she dissolves into a golden shower of light.

Chiron, activities director at Camp Half-Claret.

Seeing this, Percy grows angry and charges towards the Minotaur. He is able to grab its horn and stabs information technology, causing the monster to crumble into grit. He walks to the army camp's borders with Grover before he collapses on the porch in front of a man and a girl.

Camp Half-Blood

Percy weaves in and out of consciousness, and when he is conscious, he sees the girl he had seen disposed to him. When he comes to for good, Grover gives him back the Minotaur horn and takes him to the man he had seen earlier. He finds out that the man is Mr. Brunner and is told that everything he had learned in Greek mythology is true. He is introduced to Mr. D, who is really Dionysus, and Mr. Brunner reveals himself to be the centaur Chiron. Chiron hands him over to the daughter who took care of him while he was unconscious, a girl named Annabeth Chase, and she and then gives him a tour of the camp and explains in detail their identity equally demigods. He is taken to the Hermes Motel, where he volition exist staying, and is introduced to the caput counselor, Luke Castellan.

They are interrupted by Clarisse La Rue, a girl from the Ares cabin, every bit she tries to shove his head in a toilet as function of an initiation ceremony, but the plan backfires equally the h2o arcs over his head and onto her and her friends, pushing them out the bath.

Percy prepares for his new life as a demigod. During a Capture the Flag game, Ares campers assail him, all wanting revenge for what he had done to Clarisse. Clarisse stabs him with her electrical spear but he steps in the creek and gains the upper hand. He breaks Clarisse'due south spear and defeats his other rivals. Simply equally he defeats all of the campers, Luke crosses the line with the enemy flag and wins the game. Amidst the commemoration, Annabeth notices Percy's wound equally he stays in the water, which seems to be healing. She asks Percy to pace out of the water and Percy shortly feels weakened.

Annabeth jumps to the conclusion of who his begetter may be. Suddenly, a hellhound attacks Percy, wounding the demigod. Chiron kills the hellhound and Annabeth shows Chiron what happens when Percy is in the water. Percy is claimed as a son of Poseidon through a hologram of green low-cal in the form of a trident.

This is a surprise to many every bit information technology is revealed that the three elder gods — Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades — have taken an oath to never have demigod children again. Percy's appearance, a articulate sign that Poseidon has broken the oath, can only mean strange and obscure events for the time to come.

Percy is granted a quest to notice Zeus' Master Commodities, which Chiron believes Hades has stolen. Yet, Zeus discovers Poseidon's broken oath and believes Percy stole the bolt. Percy has ten days before the summer solstice to find the symbol of power of the king of gods, and he is given magic shoes every bit a "gift" from Luke earlier leaving. However, Chiron tells him that it is a bad idea to use the shoes since Zeus might nail him out of the sky, and so he gives them to Grover. Chiron hands over a pen to Percy, informing him that it is a gift from his father. When uncapped, a sword, chosen Riptide or Anaklusmos, appears. Percy, accompanied by Annabeth and Grover, travels to western Long Island, leading them closer to the Underworld in Los Angeles.

Starting the Quest

After Percy, Annabeth, and Grover are driven into town, they accept a bus into New Jersey. When they get on the bus, three quondam ladies get on with them. Percy recognizes 1 of them equally Mrs. Dodds. The Furies, as they are called, attack and they fight earlier they escape to Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium. After they are served food, Aunty Em wants to take a picture of them to use equally models for her statues. However, she tries to turn them to stone instead of using them as models considering she is Medusa. Percy cuts off her head, and they leave. They discover a lost canis familiaris, render it, and get $200. They purchase train tickets with that money and get off at the Gateway Arch. When Percy is lonely on the summit, Echidna reveals herself, along with her pet, the Chimera. Percy battles the Chimera and is poisoned during the fight. Knowing that the water below him will purge the poisonous substance from his system, Percy jumps into the Mississippi River to escape the Chimera and is on the news — in a bad fashion.

Going Further West

Afterwards Percy lands in the Mississippi River he discovers some of his powers which include animate and staying dry underwater. A Nereid then appears and tells him to get to the ocean earlier he goes into the Underworld. Percy finds his friends, and they get back on the train and are taken to Denver. They get off, and become into a diner. Ares comes in and tells them to get his shield at Waterland, and, in turn, he would give them a ride due west and data nigh Percy'southward mom. They go to Waterland and discover out the ride was set up with a trap by Hephaestus. They get out with Aphrodite'southward Scarf and go back to the diner, and Ares shows them a Kindness International truck. He also reveals that Percy's female parent is not dead; instead, she has been taken every bit a hostage by Hades.

One time they achieve Las Vegas, a bellhop from the Lotus Hotel and Casino invites them to come in. Immediately, without fifty-fifty having to pay for anything, Percy, Annabeth, and Grover are given a room. Later on they relish the perks of staying in such a luxurious suite, they decide to go downward to the arcade. After a while of playing, Percy finds a boy, Darrin, who thinks the year is 1977. Percy asks a few more than people what the twelvemonth is, to which they answer 1985 and 1993. Percy finds Annabeth and Grover and they immediately leave the hotel. They are relieved to find out from a newspaper that it is notwithstanding the same year. Notwithstanding, 5 days have already passed, leaving merely one twenty-four hours to retrieve the lightning commodities.

Reaching the Underworld

They eventually arrive to the ocean. Percy walks in and gets a ride from a mako shark to the Nereid. She gives him iii pearls, saying to apply them when they were in dandy need. While searching for the archway to the Underworld, they run across Procrustes. He traps Annabeth and Grover using his signature technique — causing them to prevarication down on a bed while being stretched by ropes until they are exactly the same height of the bed — until Percy tricks him into lying down on ane such bed. Procrustes is killed, and the trio proceed to DOA Recording Studios, the embrace place for the gates to the Underworld, then enter. There, Percy bribes Charon into letting them in.

Once inside, they discover that the entrance to the Underworld proper is being guarded by Cerberus. Annabeth then plays with the giant dog past using a piddling reddish brawl, giving Percy and Grover enough time to pass. They walk through the Fields of Asphodel and pass past the path to the pit of Tartarus. Every bit they approach the entrance to Tartarus, Luke'due south shoes try to pull Grover into it, but he manages to skid complimentary. They manage to get to Hades' palace. Percy confronts Hades who believes that Percy stole the Main Bolt as well as his Helm of Darkness. Percy realizes that Ares has tricked him when he discovers the Principal Bolt is in his haversack. He and his friends then utilise the pearls to flee from the Underworld without his mother equally he was forced to leave her, thus fulfilling the line in the prophecy that states, "You shall neglect to save what matters almost in the end".

The Lightning Thief

The pearls return Percy, Grover, and Annabeth dorsum to the ocean. They attain the shore, meet Ares, and face up him. Percy so challenges him to a fight. He uses Riptide to battle Ares. Percy somewhen stabs him in the heel and Ares starts to bleed ichor. He is about to kill Percy when an evil forcefulness in the form of a night aura convinces him to not strike Percy. Ares and then leaves, giving Percy the Captain of Darkness. Percy tosses it to the Furies, and they take it dorsum to Hades.

Percy flies back to New York City to requite the lightning commodities to Zeus, despite the dangers of flight. (Due to the rivalry between Zeus and Poseidon...) He gain to the Empire State Building and reaches the tiptop, where Olympus is currently located. Zeus accepts the commodities and Percy has a brusk talk with his begetter, Poseidon, before returning to campsite, where he learns that his mother is alive. He bumps into Luke, who reveals that he stole the bolt and helm for Kronos and then calls out a poisonous scorpion which stings and nearly kills Percy. Percy is unconscious after the try to kill him. Luke manages to escape and leaves Camp Half-Blood. Chiron cures Percy and they, forth with Annabeth, discuss Luke's expose. The camp beads are awarded, and the bead for this year — Percy's first year — is a black bead painted with a greenish trident in the middle. Annabeth leaves Camp One-half-Blood for the first fourth dimension, to live with her dad, footstep-mother, and 2 half siblings. Percy and so leaves to attend some other school his mother plant.

Prophecy

This book'south prophecy was given to Percy Jackson.

You shall go west, and face the god who has turned,
You shall find what was stolen, and see information technology safely returned,
You shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend,
And you shall fail to save what matters most, in the end.

Unraveling of the Prophecy

The group, Percy, Grover, and Annabeth, travel w to become and come across Hades, although the god who has turned was actually Ares.
Percy after finds Zeus' lightning bolt in a backpack given to him by Ares. He returns it to Zeus, as well as Hades' Helm of Darkness, which was also in the possession of Ares.
Luke, a son of Hermes whom Percy considered a friend, stole both Zeus' Master Bolt and Hades' Captain of Darkness, and later tries to impale Percy, ultimately betraying him.
In the terminate, Percy fails to save his mother from the Underworld, though she is given back when Percy returns Hades' Helm of Darkness back to him.

Chapter list

I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher
Iii Erstwhile Ladies Knit the Socks of Death
Grover Unexpectedly Loses his Pants
My Mother Teaches Me Bullfighting
I Play Pinochle with a Horse
I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom
My Dinner Goes Up in Smoke
We Capture a Flag
I Am Offered a Quest
I Ruin a Perfectly Good Bus
We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium
We Become Communication from a Poodle
I Plunge to My Death
I Become a Known Avoiding
A God Buys U.s.a. Cheeseburgers
Nosotros Accept a Zebra to Vegas
We Shop for H2o Beds
Annabeth Does Obedience School
We Find Out the Truth, Sort Of
I Battle My Jerk Relative
I Settle My Tab
The Prophecy Comes True
(Preview of The Ocean of Monsters)

Characters

Campers

Percy Jackson – The main graphic symbol and a son of Poseidon.
Annabeth Chase – A friend of Percy's and a daughter of Athena.
Grover Underwood – A satyr and a friend of Percy'southward, is besides Percy'due south protector.
Clarisse La Rue – A daughter of Ares and the leader of her cabin. She holds a grudge against Percy for how he embarrassed her and her father.
Luke Castellan – A son of Hermes and a traitor when he turns on Percy at the stop.

Mortals

Nancy Bobofit – One of the bullies at Yancy Academy and greatly disliked by Percy.
Gabe Ugliano – Sally'due south husband whom she married to comprehend up Percy's half-claret scent with his stench.
Sally Jackson – Percy'due south mother. Percy said that she tin can see through the Mist better than him. She married Gabe Ugliano, who's character is certainly disliked by Percy.

Immortals

Chiron – A centaur and the activities director of camp. He is (or was) called Mr. Brunner as an alias. He was one of Percy's teachers at Yancy. His father is Kronos.
Fates - the three divine personifications of destiny. They command the metaphorical thread of life for every living thing from birth to decease.
Argus – the security baby-sit for Camp Half-Blood. He has blue eyes all over his body, and usually when heroes demand to proceed quests, he would bulldoze them in the white van to a certain place, and then head back to campsite.
Charon - the Spirit of Boundaries and Territories. He is the ferryman that transports dead spirits to the Underworld.

Gods

Dionysus – God of vino and ritual madness. Goes by "Mr. D". He is the Managing director of Campsite Half-Claret and despises Percy.
Poseidon – God of the Seas, Father of Horses, and Percy's begetter. One of The Big Three.
Ares – God of State of war, and Clarisse'due south male parent.
Hades – God and Ruler of the Underworld. I of The Large Three.
Zeus – God of the Sky, King and Ruler of the Gods and Heavens. He is the father of Thalia Grace, who was turned into the pino tree that enforces the magical barrier of camp when she had fallen in battle on top of Half Claret Hill. One of The Big Three.

Titans

Kronos – Appears as a voice in Percy's many nightmares throughout the book. Kronos tries to pull Grover, Annabeth, and Percy into the pit by the cursed shoes that Luke had given them then he could get the Principal Bolt.

Monsters

Alecto and the other Furies
Minotaur
Hellhounds
Medusa
Echidna
Chimera
Procrustes
Cerberus
Pit Scorpion

Deaths

The Minotaur - killed by Percy Jackson at Camp Half-Blood
Hellhound - shot past Chiron
Alecto - killed past Percy at Metropolitan Museum but reformed later on
Medusa - caput sliced off by Percy
Procrustes - head sliced off by Percy
Gabe Ugliano - was killed by Sally Jackson when she uses Medusa's head. He was turned to stone and sold as "The Poker Thespian"

Deluxe Edition

The Lightning Thief has been released in a deluxe edition version. The edition contains eight total-color plates by John Rocco, and comes with an elegant slipcase with a ribbon bookmark, crude edges, and a cloth embrace.

Awards

Marker Twain Honor 2008 (Missouri Association of School Librarians)
Bluebonnet Award Nominee (Texas Library Clan)
Askews Torchlight Award (UK)
Best of the All-time Book List (Chicago Public Library)
Peak Shelf Fiction List (Voice of Youth Advocates)
Notable Book (American Library Association)
Best Volume for Young Adults (Immature Adult Library Services Association)
Red Firm Children's Book Award Winner (UK)
Pick Award; Notable Children'south Book (Cooperative Children's Volume Center)
National Council for Teachers of English, Publishers Weekly National Children's Bestseller
Warwickshire Book Award Winner (Great britain)
Beehive Award Winner 2006 (Children's Literature Clan of Utah)
Maine Student Book of The Stupids

Trivia

The book was originally titled The Son of the Bounding main God, only it was changed after feedback from Rick Riordan's students stated it spoiled who Percy's father was.

The titular "lightning thief" appears to refer to Percy, simply actually refers to Luke.
In this book, Percy refers to other gods, or other gods refer to him by family names. Hades was repeatedly called uncle, Poseidon refers to Zeus equally Percy's uncle, and Ares calls Percy his cousin. This, however, is not continued in the rest of the books, as Poseidon is the only god Percy refers to with a family name (calling him his male parent or dad).
I Kiss Something Ugly is one of the deleted chapters in The Lightning Thief. It was after presented on Rick Riordan's Facebook.
When Percy arrives at the vestibule of the Empire State Building, he finds the guard at the front desk-bound reading "a huge book with the picture of a wizard on the cover". The book was confirmed on Twitter to be a reference to the Harry Potter serial.^[3] This is ane of Riordan's many references to popular culture throughout the series.

Gallery

Covers and Artwork

References

↑ pg. 2 "Run across, bad things happen to me on field trips."
↑ The Lightning Thief Affiliate one (I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher)
↑ https://twitter.com/camphalfblood/status/386471959199895552

External links

Rick Riordan'south official website
Percy Jackson official website
The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Core Series:	The Lightning Thief \| The Sea of Monsters \| The Titan's Expletive \| The Boxing of the Labyrinth \| The Concluding Olympian
Chief Characters:	Percy Jackson \| Grover Underwood \| Annabeth Hunt \| Tyson \| Clarisse La Rue \| Thalia Grace \| Nico di Angelo \| Chiron \| Luke Castellan \| Rachel Elizabeth Dare
Secondary Characters:	Sally Jackson \| Travis Stoll \| Connor Stoll \| Mrs. O'Leary \| Silena Beauregard \| Charles Beckendorf \| Paul Blofis \| Blackjack \| Zoë Nightshade \| Bianca di Angelo \| Juniper \| Ethan Nakamura
Minor Characters:	Gabe Ugliano \| Frederick Chase \| Michael Yew \| May Castellan \| Austin Lake \| Kayla Knowles \| Maria di Angelo \| Volition Solace
Olympian Gods:	Zeus \| Hera \| Poseidon \| Demeter \| Ares \| Athena \| Apollo \| Artemis \| Hephaestus \| Aphrodite \| Hermes \| Dionysus \| Hades \| Hestia
Pocket-sized Gods:	Amphitrite \| Ariadne \| Hecate \| Iris \| Janus \| Morpheus \| Nemesis \| Pan \| Persephone \| Triton
Titans:	Kronos \| Atlas \| Calypso \| Iapetus \| Krios \| Hyperion \| Oceanus \| Prometheus
Related Content:	Rick Riordan \| The Lightning Thief (film) \| Sea of Monsters (film) \| The Demigod Files \| Demigods and Monsters \| The Ultimate Guide \| The Heroes of Olympus \| The Trials of Apollo \| Disney+ Serial

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