The Lightning Thief

Hey everyone! Sienna Samour here! If you saw the last post, we saw Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and my mom was talking about that and our love of reading. Spenser and I love to read, but it seems like my mom and I are usually always having a book in our hand, unlike Spenser... I will give you a brief summary about the Lightning Thief, the movie, so you know what it is about.

The Lightning Thief is about Percy Jackson on an amazing adventure to bring the lightning bolt to Lord Zeus before the summer solstice, or there would be a World War III. He goes to Yancy Academy, is deslexic, and has ADHD. He has a greek mythology teacher/ english teacher, Mr. Brunner. He took the students, Percy, and Percy's friend Grover, to a new museum about the Greek gods. Mrs. Dodds climbed aboard, as well. She pulled Percy away from the group and took him into an empty room. The next thing we know, she turns into a monster saying, "Where is it?!" and attacking Percy.  Mr. Brunner and Grover walked in and saw the monster, and they threatened it, and it went away. Mr. Brunner made Percy and Grover go immediately to Camp Half-Blood. They grabbed Percy's mother and drove right to the camp. They were stopped by a minataur and their car flippped over. They tried to get out of the car, and to help, goat legs kicked the front windshield so they could escape. The goat legs were Grover's legs! The three started running toward camp. When they got there, they got passed the gate, but Mrs. Jackson couldn't come in, because she wasn't a half-blood. The minataur came closer and took Mrs. Jackson and squeezed her to death. Percy then attacked for the life of his mother. The minataur charged and went head first into a tree, and was stuck by the horns. The next part can be scary for viewers, so I won't say anymore about that. Percy continued on with his life at Camp Half-Blood, with Grover and other campers. He met a girl named Annabeth, and learned all about the Greek gods and other ancient Greek stuff. Percy learned to fight, and played his first game of capture the flag. There are two teams, red and blue, and the first team to touch and capture the flag, wins. Percy and Luke worked together to get the flag. Percy went to wash his face during the game, where he found the flag, standing right across a little pond of water. He walked up to it, and then Annabeth came out. She then fought Percy, and he got hit pretty bad. He then heard a voice in his head saying, "Go to the water, it will make you stronger." Percy dragged over to the water, then water healed all the scratches on his body. He then fought Annabeth again, and won the battle. He captured the flag and won for his team. Mr. Brunner was actually a centaur, and gave Percy his quest to bring the bolt back to Zeus. Lord Zeus had blamed Poseidon's son for stealing his bolt, and that is why Percy had to be the one to bring it back. Percy left with Annabeth and Grover for the quest, before they left, theythought how to get into the Underworld, and then went to friend Luke for some help. Luke gave the gang a pair of flying sneakers, his favorite shield, and a map to where the three pearls are. The pearls would help get the three out of the Underworld. The first stop was Auntie Em's Garden Gnome Emporium. They took a bus there from camp. When they got there, there were so many statues everywhere. They split up to look for the pearl. Annabeth was then surprised by a woman running away trying to get out. Auntie Em then came out of nowhere. Auntie Em was actually Madusa! The gang ran out and found the pearl. They drove to the nearest motel. The news was saying that Percy and his mom were missing, and his stepdad, Gabe, was saying lies about him. They decided to drive to the next stop, The Parthenon in Tennessee. The pearl was sitting right on top of a statue of Athena. The three came back after closing and put on the flying shoes to get to the top. The next part again was kinda scary..... The next pearl was in Las Vegas at the Lotus Hotel and Casino. The hotel had these really nice cookie- type things, and that instantly turned the three happy and they stayed there for five days. The hotel was filled with arcade games, and a casino games. Percy heard that voice in his head, and realized that he had to leave and find the pearl. The pearl was at one of the games, and they grabbed it and left the hotel immediately. They had gotten all the pearls and looked on the map where to find the Underworld. The Underworld was in Hollywood, CA. When they got there at  the Hollywood sign, there was a hole that magically opened, and they walked in. They found a man in a white robe named Charon, and he took them into the Underworld. He took them to Hades's palace. His wife met them at the door and took him into a room with him in it. Hades asked for where the lgihtning bolt was. He made a trade with him, the lightning bolt for his mother. Percy's mom appeared and he dropped everything and ran over to him. Hades saw a bright light coming from the shield. There was the lightning bolt, in Luke's shield. Hades's wife took it and zapped him. She gave it back to Percy, and told them to go to Olympus. Percy took out the three pearls. There were four of them, and only three pearls. Grover then sacrificed himself for the three of them. They stomped on the pearls, and got to the Empire State Building. They walked over to go into Olympus, but someone stopped them. It was Luke, on another pair of flying shoes. He had admitted that he had stolen the lightning bolt, and Percy took his pen, and clicked it. They fought, and Luke had questioned if Percy was really the son of Poseidon. There were four water towers around them, and Percy used his powers to break all four, and send all the water flying toward Luke, defeating him. Percy flew back to the Empire State Building, and entered the elevator, leading to Olympus. Mrs. Jackson couldn't go on, because of not being a demigod or a god. Annabeth and Percy went into the room filled with gods, only a few seconds to midnight. He gave the bolt to Zeus, and explained that he was not the thief, Luke was.  Zeus let it slide and Poseidon talked to Percy. He said he was sorry for not being there for when he was a child, but he couldn't. It was forbidden for gods to have contact with their children, and had to be raised by their mortal parent. Percy left and returned back to Camp Half Blood, and decided to stay there year-long.

That was the end of the movie. I know the summary was long... Sorry! It was a long movie, though! Anyway, enjoy the book and/or movie! Peace out!  :)