RIORDAN’S NOVEL “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING

THIEF”

Percy is the main character of this novel. He is a troubled kid who always makes his

school life ruin. He is twelve years old. He is a boarding student at Yancy Academy for troubled

kids in upstate New York. Percy has dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. He never makes

above C- in his school life. Percy lives with his mother and his stepfather. He never meets his

original father since a baby. His mother tells him that his father has to leave them because his

father has something important to do. Because he never meets his father, he really hates his

father. Percy claims that if his father never leaves him and his mother, they will have a good life.

It is because Percy and his mother have to live with his stepfather that never really cares about

his existence. Besides his background of Percy family, he has many struggles after he knows the

truth about his father. The fact is Percy's son of Poseidon. His father is a god of the sea and one

of the big three gods and then he is a demigod. Demigod is the terms of children from human and

god. Namely half-blood.

Percy lives in half-blood camp because his existence is in danger. After his mother disappears, so

he must live there. It is a big accident that happens and Percy is suspected do that. At the first, he

does not know the accident until Chiron tell him. He had a quest to finding something valuable.

Zeus's lighting bold. It is a long journey to finding it. Percy does his quest with Grover and

Annabeth. They face much hardness until Percy finds it and he meets his father the first time.