Percy Jackson Essay

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Percy Jackson is a twelve-year-old New Yorker who has dyslexia and ADHD. He attended Yancy Academy, a private school for "troubled" kids somewhere in upstate new york. Percy's troubles started in May of his sixth grade year, when his class traveled to manhatten to a musem. This girl named Nancy bullied his friend, Grover by hitting him in the back of the head with bits of sandwich. Percy was unable to stop her because he was being watched and if something went wrong he would suffer in school suspenstion. Mrs. Dobbs, a math teacher from Georga would look at him with an evil eye everytime he would tell the kids to shut up. Nancy was sitting in the fountain and Nancy blamed Percy. Mrs.Dobbs took Percy away from the kids, and she brought him to …show more content…

Later Percy was kicked out of Yancy Academy after this year. Later he is taken to Camp Half-Blood in New York, a camp for kids just like him that is safe from monsters that like to attack half-bloods. at the camp Percy learns more about him, like his father. Percy's Father is Posiden the king of the seas. The camp finds out that Zeus' Lightning bolt is missing and that Posiden is blamed for theft. Percy is sent by the Oracle to go recieve the bolt which is thought to be in Hades' captivity in the Underworld. Helping Percy are Grover, his best-friend, and Annabeth, a smart demi-goddess and daughter of Athena. The three take a bus, a train, a truck, and a taxi cab to make their way across America, from New York to Los Angeles, where the gates of the Underworld are located. During the trip the group battles creatures like Medusa. They also find disaster on the observation deck of the Gateway Arch, tricked by the god of war (Ares), nearly lose their memories in an enchanted Vegas casino, and they are almost stretched to death. The group arrive in the underworld to only discover that the bolt isnt there. Hades accuses Percy of stealing both the master bolt and the helm of darkness for his father,

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