“Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all”. This quote, spoken by Percy is a repetitive thought that he uses in his quest to persevere to the end. From movies, to stories, to plays, the hero undergoes a journey, that is universal in nearly all. This journey is referred to as the Hero’s Journey and consists of three stages with other elements within each stage, and was recognized by Joseph Campbell. The pattern of the journeys allows a universal audience that all, young and old, can relate to. A broad description of the monomyth includes the hero leaving their ordinary life, commencing the bulk of the journey, and returning home. In the movie The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, the protagonist Percy Jackson presents discernible …show more content…
As every work that involves a hero does, the journey starts with the Call to Adventure. Percy’s individual call occurs when he is on a school field trip after he is life alone with his teacher Mrs. Dodds. Without any indication, she transforms into a fury and viciously attempts to attack Percy. While in the process of this she repeatedly asks him “where is the bolt?”. Muddled, he evades her until his Latin teacher, Mr. Brunner gives him a pen that when clicks, transforms into a sword. Throughout the movie, this remains as Percy’s Talisman, or an item with special significance to the hero. At this point, Percy is completely bewildered. He is not yet told why that event occurred, but when he is, he is not promptly ready to accept his mission. This rejection is known as the Refusal of the Call and is another aspect of the hero’s journey. Percy does not believe that he could be a demigod, for he views himself as an inept, dyslexic boy with ADHD. He readily is taken home by Grover to pack and explain to his mom that he has been “found”. Grover then reveals himself as Percy’s protector and reveals that he is a satyr. In the hero’s journey, this mythical mentor is known as the Supernatural Aid. Grover then tells Percy that he is being taken to a safehouse, Camp Halfblood, for kids like him. As Percy, his mother, and Grover near the camp, a minotaur appears and endeavors to capture Percy for stealing …show more content…
The Refusal of the Return is when the hero refuses to return to where he began the journey, and Percy faces this once in the underworld. He only has three pearls which means only three can leave and one must reside in Hell. Percy offers to be the one who must stay behind, because he cannot bear to leave his friends or his mother behind, otherwise known as the rescue from without. This is because the audience sees Percy in a state of hopelessness. Upon Grover deciding that he will be the one to stay, Percy experiences a Magic Flight; the point after requiring the Ultimate Boon that the hero must escape something. In this journey, Percy must escape from the underworld using one of the pearls after receiving the bolt. As the bolt is returned, Percy masters both the immortal, his unfamiliar world, and the mortal, his familiar world. The Gods no longer have to battle for the disappearance of the lightning bolt, which would ultimately wreak havoc on the mortal world, destroying it in the process. Now that the hindrances have seized, Percy is free to return to Camp Halfblood. Once he enters, he crosses the Return Threshold, since he returns to his home. The last scene of the movie shows Percy and Annabeth partaking in a friendly duel, without any sign of worries. This is due to Percy resolving his problem of being named the “lightning thief”, and acquires Freedom to Live. These
Percy stranded and lost, amnesiac, and running from the gorgons, finds Camp Jupiter, the roman camp for demigods. He makes friends with Frank and Hazel. Together, they win Capture the Flag for fifth Cohort. Mars then claims Frank as his son and issues a quest to save Thanatos, the greek god of death, from LAceonus, a giant born to oppose Pluto, and issues Frank as the quest leader.
Watching a film, one can easily recognize plot, theme, characterization, etc., but not many realize what basic principle lies behind nearly every story conceived: the hero’s journey. This concept allows for a comprehensive, logical flow throughout a movie. Once the hero’s journey is thoroughly understood, anyone can pick out the elements in nearly every piece. The hero’s journey follows a simple outline. First the hero in question must have a disadvantaged childhood. Next the hero will find a mentor who wisely lays out his/her prophecy. Third the hero will go on a journey, either literal or figurative, to find him/herself. On this journey the hero will be discouraged and nearly quit his/her quest. Finally, the hero will fulfill the prophecy and find his/herself, realizing his/her full potential. This rubric may be easy to spot in epic action films, but if upon close inspection is found in a wide array of genres, some of which are fully surprising.
The Hero’s Journey is an ancient archetype that we find throughout our modern life and also, in the world of literature.Whether metaphorical or real, the journey that a character goes on shows not only the incredible transformation of the hero but it also gives them their life meaning. It is the ultimate human experience and it reflects on every aspect of life. Take Logan, also known as Wolverine, from the X-Men movie as an example. His adventure starts with “The Call,” which is the first step of the Hero’s Journey. This step happens due to the realization of imbalance and injustice that the character has in their life. Logan steps into the first stage of the pattern but is hesitant to start his adventure because he does not know what and
Percy had gone and consulted with the Oracle telling him “ You shall go west, and face the god who has turned, You shall find what was stolen, and see it 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.”( Page 141 Book) On his journey, he began to go west and faced Ares the god that turned on them. Then he found the Master Bolt in his backpack, which he safely returned it to Zeus. He was betrayed by Luke, who he called his friend. In the end, Percy failed to save his mother because he allowed her to save herself. Everything in what the Oracle had foretold came true, but it was the choices he made that made it come true. Kronos had the plan to steal the Master Bolt and had it all figured out, in addition to Ares joining. Moreover, Luke had given Percy his winged shoes which were cursed, and a backpack which Ares messed with already. When Percy gets to the Underworld, the winged shoes were supposed to drag Percy and the Master Bolt down the whole of Tartarus where Kronos could get a hold of the Master Bolt. Although the plan was that, but in the end Percy gave the shoes to Gover, so he was the one that got dragged, but was pulled back by his friends. (Pages 304-306 Book) Kronos’s plan failed show that his destiny beat the best of him. In both stories, the characters had an unexpected turning part in either their journey or
This is the true start to Percy’s quest. He made a few friends in the camp and they agreed to go on this journey with him. Those accompanying him were his protector Grover and Athena’s daughter Annabeth. They also get some helpful tools fro...
Percy Jackson is seen nearing the end of his seventh grade year and although excited about being done with the school, and going to Camp Half Blood for the summer, Percy is concerned about a vivid dream he has had regarding his friend Grover. Percy is not sure what the dream has meant but ultimately decides he has to focus on school. When Percy arrives at school he and his friend, Tyson, are bullied by a group of new boys that have arrived. Tyson
Text to Text: What I just read in the book is similar to Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief, because both Harry Potter, and Percy Jackson were trying to protect a precious object and also they both didn’t know about an ability they had before. Percy didn’t know about him doing stuff like breathing underwater, getting healed from water, and other things. Harry Potter didn’t know he could do magic, ride a broom, and other wizard stuff. Percy was trying to protect a thing called the lightning rod that Zeus, the greek sky god, used. Harry potter was trying to protect the Sorcerer's Stone, which is a thing that can make the elixir of life, and make metal turn into gold.
Percy is immensely brave. He is not afraid to do anything if it meant he could save another's life, like he
The character Grover, who plays Percy’s best friend, parallels a Satyr who is human from the waist up and goat from the waist down and is a companion of wine God, Dionysus, who we later learn, is the camp director for Half-Blood Camp. As a reader, Grover is portrayed as a very concerned friend throughout the beginning, however, we know he is more than this, and it is his job to protect Percy from whatever evil may come his way. Grover shows some signs of heroism himself, especially towards the end where he offers to sacrifice himself so as Percy can save his mother, (Riordan, 2005, p.316)‘He can torture me until I die, but he wont get me forever.’ and as a reader, Grover can come across a little bit dumb and clumsy, but this makes us look up to Grover, and force us to rethink our opinions of Grover.
Percy Jackson is a twelve year old boy who has dyslexia and ADHD. During a school trip to a museum, Percy defends his friend Grover from a bully by making the water in the fountain grab the bully. Percy’s teacher Mrs.Dodds then separate Percy from the rest of the class before she transforms into one of the creature from Greek mythology and attack him. Percy then uses pen which transforms into a sword and kill the creature. After school Percy’s mother Sally takes him and Grover to the beach house unfortunately they are attacked by a Minotaur while driving to the countryside and Sally disappears in a gold light when the monster grabs her. Enraged, Percy kills the Minotaur and passes out. Three days later, he wakes up in the infirmary
This is a diagram that shows how Percy feels in different events of the story. If you look closely, you can see that Percy has more negatives than positives. Percy is only happy 8 times in the story out of 24, which means he is happy ⅓ of the story, not even half of the story. I can infer he isn’t happy because he enters a place he isn’t familiar with. In the book it says “We made it a hundred feet before we were hopelessly lost.” (Riordan, 94). This states how they lost hope in the labyrinth because of how wide the brain twisting maze is. Also, it stated “He was driven insane. He didn’t die.” (Riordan, 47). This states that a man was driven insane from the labyrinth. I can infer that this scares Percy a lot because he can lose sanity from
The first novel of the series, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief , is where Percy’s Hero’s Journey begins, encompassing the first five stages. The Ordinary World, the first stage, is the introduction of the main hero. “The hero, uneasy, uncomfortable or unaware, is introduced sympathetically so the audience can identify with the situation or dilemma” (Campbell). Percy Jackson, a twelve year old diagnosed with both dyslexia and ADHD living in New York with his loving, over-worked mother and abusive stepfather, begins his story attending a boarding school for “troubled youth” and having a less than spectacular time being the new kid. Despite his good intentions of protecting his only friend Grover from a bully, Percy gets in trouble at school and is pulled aside by one of his teachers, whom is revealed to be the Fury Alecto, one of Hades’s servants in disguise. It is at this point in the story in which the second stage, The Call to Adventure, comes into play. Percy defeats the Fury with the help of a centaur named Chiron, t...
On his first day of summer he discovers something is different about his normal self. Percy later learns that he is a half-human and half-god and is sent to a camp nearby in New York called the Half-Blood. The camp protects him from harmful monsters that are craving to eat kids just like Percy. Percy learns more about himself while he is at this new camp, he finds out that Poseidon is his father, and Zeus and Hades are his brothers. During the story Zeus’s lightning bolt is stolen, this bolt allowed him to create lightning whenever he pleased. Zeus accused Poseidon and demands that he must return it to Mount Olympus by the Summer Solstice or else he will declare
Percy is given a quest from Chiron.Chiron tells Percy to go to the attic and find the oracle.Percy does what he is told and the prophecy tells him ‘You shall go west,and face the god who has turned.You shall find what was stolen,and see it 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.Percy sees the prophecy is a message inside a mummy.This is how the quest began.
Percy is mystified, when he woke up from his very long sleep, he knew nothing but his name. His brain was still confused, even after a wolf told him he is trained to fight with the pen that turns into a sword in his pocket . In some way Percy manages to make it to a camp for half-bloods, even if the fact is that he has to keep killing monsters along the way. But he doesn't remember the camp. The only thing he can remember is that of a persons name, Annabeth.