About The Lightning Thief"Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves."
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Rick Riordan's: The Lightning Thief
“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 friend. And you shall fail to save what matters most, in the end.” Percy Jackson is a half-blood who doesn’t know it yet. He thinks his father abandoned him and his mother but his father is a god who is forbidden to see and stay with them. From Rick Riordan’s, The Lightning Thief we can learn that, your life can change in an instant, don’t assume things about people, and you can mean the world to the world.
First and foremost, Rick Riordan’s The lightning thief teaches us that your life can change in an instant. On page 56 the author writes, “...and the stern faces of a familiar-looking bearded man and a pretty girl, her blond hair curled like a princess’s. They both looked down on me and the girl said, ‘He’s the one. He must be.’” This teaches us that your life can change in an instant because Percy came to Camp Half-Blood not knowing anything or why he’s there, and he’s told that he’s “the one” when he thought that he was just an ordinary kid with ADHD and Dyslexia. If he hadn’t came to camp and went through what he did to get in he wouldn’t have found out he was “the one” and he wouldn’t have accomplished what he did. Clearly, even if we think nothing can happen in our life it can change all in one instant.
Furthermore, The Lightning Thief also gives us the lesson, don’t assume things about people because the whole thing could be wrong. According to page 346 in The Lightning Thief, “Your mother is a queen among women.” Poseidon said wistfully. “I had not met such a mortal in a thousand years. Still...I am sorry you were born, child. I have brought you a hero’s fate, and a hero’s fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic.” This provides evidence that we shouldn’t assume things about people because for all his life, Percy assumed that his father abandoned him and his mother and that he wanted Percy to have a bad life. Eventually, he realizes that his father is sorry and didn’t do any of this on purpose and he truly is sorry. We shouldn’t assume things about people because it could always be wrong.
Above all, this book teaches us that we can mean the world to the world. On page 141 Rick Riordan writes, “ Gabe turned toward me and spoke in the rasping voice of the Oracle: You shall go west and face the god who has turned. His buddy on the right looked up and said, in the same voice: You shall see what was stolen and see it safely returned. The guy on the left threw in two poker chips and said: You shall be betrayed by one who calls you friend. Finally, Eddie, our super, delivered the worst line of all: And you shall fail to save what matters most ,in the end.” This illustrates, the that you can mean the world to the world because the Oracle is telling Percy that in the end he “shall fail to save what matters most.” If the Oracle hadn’t told him this he wouldn’t’ve saved everyone and succeeded. Obviously, we can mean the world to the world at any moment.
In The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, it teaches us that your life can change in an instant, don’t assume things about people, and you can mean the world to the world. These lessons are important to our everyday lives because all these things can happen in a blink of an eye.