ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE STRUCTURE IN PERCY JACKSON & THE

OLYMPIAN: THE LIGHTNING THIEF FILMS

Azmi Julian Mawardi, Renata Leoni Nasution, Risky Amalia Putri, Muhammad
Fayyad, Najla
English Literature Department, Faculty of Adab and Humanities, Universitas Islam Negeri
Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Indonesia.
mawarr.azmi18@mhs.uinjkt.ac.id, renata.nasution18@mhs.uinjkt.ac.id,
risky.amalia18@mhs.uinjkt.ac.id,

Abstract
This article discusses about narrative structure in “Percy Jackson & The Olympian: The
Lightning Thief” Films. It is an action-adventure fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus in
2010. This film is the first in the Percy Jackson film series, adapted from the 2005 novel
“The Lightning Thief”, which is the first in Rick Riordian’s Percy Jackson & Olympian
series novels. This movie is very interesting and can find modern similarities to Greek
mythology. The plot heats up Zeus (Sean Bin) and Poseidon (Kevin Mckidd) meet on the top
Empire State building to disscuss Zeus’s missing lightning bolt. Why, when, or how allegedly
might do this began to be a mystery to Percy, but in the end the situation led to a fierce
special effects sequence as the gods and demigods were fighting. The film was released in the
United States by 20th Century Fox on February 12, 2010. Dramatic structure is a narrative
structure that remains the basic narrative framework on which the majority of successful
novels, plays, or films are based. In 1863 German playwright Gustav Freytag indentified a
five-act structure; exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denoument or also
known as the freytag pyramid. The method used in this article is qualitative research method.
Where the researchers will explain the narrative structure of this movie by using the fraytag
pyramid.

Keywords: Narrative Structure

Percy Jackson
Freytag’s Pyramid