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The Lightning Thief , written by Rick Riordan, is the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians serial. The book was adapted into a motion movie and a graphic novel in 2010.

This volume tells of the primary grapheme, Percy Jackson, as he discovers a world much bigger than he has ever imagined just is immediately handed a quest to redeem himself from a crime he never committed.

1 Plot
- i.1 Field Trip
- 1.2 Military camp Half-Blood
- 1.iii Starting the Quest
- i.4 Going Further West
- 1.5 Reaching the Underworld
- 1.6 The Lightning Thief
2 Prophecy
- 2.1 Unraveling of the Prophecy
three Chapter list
iv Characters
- 4.one Campers
- 4.ii Mortals
- 4.3 Immortals
- 4.four Gods
- iv.five Titans
- iv.6 Monsters
5 Deaths
6 Palatial Edition
7 Awards
eight Trivia
9 Gallery
- 9.ane Covers and Artwork
x References
11 External links

Plot

Field Trip

Percy Jackson is a twelve-year-onetime boy diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, and he has been expelled from every school he has e'er attended. While he is in sixth course on a field trip,^[one] a classmate of his, Nancy Bobofit, bullies his best friend Grover Underwood. Percy is outraged, and suddenly, water from a nearby fountain drenches Nancy in a very unnatural way merely the Mist makes information technology look like Percy pushed her. Their pre-algebra instructor, Mrs. Dodds, takes Percy for a individual talk, presumably to scold him. However, she suddenly turns into a Fury, a mythical fauna known from Greek mythology,^[ii] and tries to kill him. The Latin teacher, Mr. Brunner, charges in and throws Percy a pen that suddenly changes into a sword when he uncaps it. Percy kills the Fury in self-defense.

For the residue of the year, everyone in the campus thinks that Mrs. Dodds had never existed, and their pre-algebra instructor is Mrs. Kerr, a teacher he has never in one case seen before. Percy, still, suspects that something is going on since whenever he asks Grover, he hesitates. Percy is almost led to believe this, too, until he eavesdrops on Grover and Mr. Brunner proverb otherwise. On his mode home for the summer, he sees three very old women knitting, who turn out to be the Fates, cut a line of string, and Grover tells him this is worse than it actually seems. He explains to Percy that the Fates are the ones who decide the lifespan of a being. The string in their hand is the lifeline of a person and when cut, it signifies the person'due south death. Percy is very frightened by this and assumes that the string of yarn that had but been cut off was his. When they get in into Manhattan, Percy ditches Grover who has to go to the restroom.

Percy comes home to his mother, Sally Jackson. She tells him that, as a treat, they would get to continue a vacation to Montauk for a couple of days, and that they are to exit immediately. Though they encounter some complications, namely Percy's stepfather, Gabe Ugliano, they are able to go out for their destination.

Grover urgently comes to Montauk and tells Percy'due south mother that Percy must flee to a specific camp, Camp Half-Blood. Sally drives the two kids to campsite using Gabe'south motorcar. Within the auto, Percy discovers that his mother and Grover are familiar with i another; he also notices that Grover is a goat from the waist down. As they travel closer to the camp, they are attacked by a Minotaur. While trapped inside the car, Sally and so tells Percy to escape and run for the tree, but Percy disagrees and tells her that he is not leaving her behind. Leaving her no choice, Sally helps Percy with Grover as they run for the pino tree marking the borders of camp. Even so, Percy's mom could no longer go further and continues to distract the Minotaur, but information technology immediately grabs her and she dissolves into a golden shower of light.

Chiron, activities manager at Camp One-half-Claret.

Seeing this, Percy grows angry and charges towards the Minotaur. He is able to grab its horn and stabs information technology, causing the monster to crumble into grit. He walks to the army camp's borders with Grover before he collapses on the porch in front of a man and a girl.

Camp Half-Blood

Percy weaves in and out of consciousness, and when he is conscious, he sees the girl he had seen tending to him. When he comes to for good, Grover gives him dorsum the Minotaur horn and takes him to the man he had seen before. He finds out that the human is Mr. Brunner and is told that everything he had learned in Greek mythology is true. He is introduced to Mr. D, who is really Dionysus, and Mr. Brunner reveals himself to exist the centaur Chiron. Chiron hands him over to the girl who took care of him while he was unconscious, a girl named Annabeth Hunt, and she then gives him a tour of the camp and explains in detail their identity as demigods. He is taken to the Hermes Cabin, where he will exist staying, and is introduced to the caput counselor, Luke Castellan.

They are interrupted by Clarisse La Rue, a girl from the Ares cabin, as she tries to shove his head in a toilet equally role of an initiation anniversary, simply the plan backfires as the h2o arcs over his head and onto her and her friends, pushing them out the bathroom.

Percy prepares for his new life equally a demigod. During a Capture the Flag game, Ares campers assail him, all wanting revenge for what he had done to Clarisse. Clarisse stabs him with her electrical spear but he steps in the creek and gains the upper paw. He breaks Clarisse's spear and defeats his other rivals. Just equally he defeats all of the campers, Luke crosses the line with the enemy flag and wins the game. Among the celebration, Annabeth notices Percy's wound every bit he stays in the h2o, which seems to be healing. She asks Percy to step out of the water and Percy shortly feels weakened.

Annabeth jumps to the determination of who his male parent may be. Suddenly, a hellhound attacks Percy, wounding the demigod. Chiron kills the hellhound and Annabeth shows Chiron what happens when Percy is in the water. Percy is claimed as a son of Poseidon through a hologram of light-green light in the form of a trident.

This is a surprise to many as it is revealed that the 3 elder gods — Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades — have taken an oath to never take demigod children once again. Percy's appearance, a clear sign that Poseidon has broken the oath, tin simply hateful strange and obscure events for the future.

Percy is granted a quest to find Zeus' Primary Bolt, which Chiron believes Hades has stolen. Notwithstanding, Zeus discovers Poseidon's broken oath and believes Percy stole the bolt. Percy has ten days before the summer solstice to find the symbol of ability of the king of gods, and he is given magic shoes as a "gift" from Luke before leaving. However, Chiron tells him that it is a bad thought to employ the shoes since Zeus might smash him out of the sky, so he gives them to Grover. Chiron hands over a pen to Percy, informing him that information technology is a souvenir from his father. When uncapped, a sword, called Riptide or Anaklusmos, appears. Percy, accompanied by Annabeth and Grover, travels to western Long Island, leading them closer to the Underworld in Los Angeles.

Starting the Quest

After Percy, Annabeth, and Grover are driven into town, they take a bus into New Jersey. When they get on the double-decker, iii old ladies get on with them. Percy recognizes one of them as Mrs. Dodds. The Furies, as they are called, attack and they fight before they escape to Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium. After they are served food, Aunty Em wants to have a moving-picture show of them to apply equally models for her statues. However, she tries to plow them to stone instead of using them as models because she is Medusa. Percy cuts off her head, and they leave. They observe a lost domestic dog, return information technology, and get $200. They purchase train tickets with that coin and get off at the Gateway Curvation. When Percy is alone on the elevation, Echidna reveals herself, along with her pet, the Chimera. Percy battles the Bubble and is poisoned during the fight. Knowing that the water beneath him will purge the toxicant from his organisation, Percy jumps into the Mississippi River to escape the Bubble and is on the news — in a bad way.

Going Further West

Subsequently Percy lands in the Mississippi River he discovers some of his powers which include animate and staying dry underwater. A Nereid and then appears and tells him to go to the ocean earlier he goes into the Underworld. Percy finds his friends, and they get dorsum on the train and are taken to Denver. They get off, and go into a diner. Ares comes in and tells them to go his shield at Waterland, and, in plow, he would give them a ride west and data about Percy'south mom. They go to Waterland and find out the ride was set up upwardly with a trap by Hephaestus. They get out with Aphrodite'south Scarf and go back to the diner, and Ares shows them a Kindness International truck. He also reveals that Percy'south mother is not dead; instead, she has been taken as a hostage by Hades.

Once they attain Las Vegas, a bellhop from the Lotus Hotel and Casino invites them to come in. Immediately, without even having to pay for annihilation, Percy, Annabeth, and Grover are given a room. After they bask the perks of staying in such a luxurious suite, they decide to go downwardly to the arcade. Afterward a while of playing, Percy finds a boy, Darrin, who thinks the year is 1977. Percy asks a few more people what the year is, to which they answer 1985 and 1993. Percy finds Annabeth and Grover and they immediately get out the hotel. They are relieved to find out from a newspaper that information technology is withal the aforementioned twelvemonth. Withal, v days have already passed, leaving only ane day to retrieve the lightning bolt.

Reaching the Underworld

They eventually go far to the ocean. Percy walks in and gets a ride from a mako shark to the Nereid. She gives him 3 pearls, maxim to apply them when they were in peachy demand. While searching for the entrance to the Underworld, they encounter Procrustes. He traps Annabeth and Grover using his signature technique — causing them to prevarication down on a bed while existence stretched past ropes until they are exactly the aforementioned height of the bed — until Percy tricks him into lying downward on one such bed. Procrustes is killed, and the trio proceed to DOA Recording Studios, the comprehend place for the gates to the Underworld, so enter. There, Percy bribes Charon into letting them in.

Once inside, they discover that the entrance to the Underworld proper is being guarded by Cerberus. Annabeth and then plays with the giant canis familiaris by using a little cerise ball, giving Percy and Grover plenty time to pass. They walk through the Fields of Asphodel and laissez passer by the path to the pit of Tartarus. Equally they approach the archway to Tartarus, Luke's shoes endeavour to pull Grover into it, simply he manages to slip free. They manage to get to Hades' palace. Percy confronts Hades who believes that Percy stole the Primary Bolt as well as his Helm of Darkness. Percy realizes that Ares has tricked him when he discovers the Chief Bolt is in his backpack. He and his friends then apply the pearls to flee from the Underworld without his female parent as he was forced to leave her, thus fulfilling the line in the prophecy that states, "You shall fail to save what matters virtually in the end".

The Lightning Thief

The pearls return Percy, Grover, and Annabeth back to the ocean. They reach the shore, meet Ares, and face up him. Percy and so challenges him to a fight. He uses Riptide to battle Ares. Percy eventually stabs him in the heel and Ares starts to drain ichor. He is about to kill Percy when an evil forcefulness in the class of a nighttime aureola convinces him to not strike Percy. Ares and so leaves, giving Percy the Helm of Darkness. Percy tosses it to the Furies, and they accept it dorsum to Hades.

Percy flies back to New York City to give the lightning bolt to Zeus, despite the dangers of flying. (Due to the rivalry between Zeus and Poseidon...) He proceeds to the Empire State Building and reaches the peak, where Olympus is currently located. Zeus accepts the bolt and Percy has a curt talk with his begetter, Poseidon, before returning to camp, where he learns that his mother is alive. He bumps into Luke, who reveals that he stole the bolt and captain for Kronos and then calls out a poisonous scorpion which stings and most kills Percy. Percy is unconscious after the attempt to impale him. Luke manages to escape and leaves Army camp One-half-Blood. Chiron cures Percy and they, along with Annabeth, discuss Luke'southward expose. The camp beads are awarded, and the dewdrop for this twelvemonth — Percy's first year — is a black dewdrop painted with a greenish trident in the eye. Annabeth leaves Camp Half-Claret for the first fourth dimension, to live with her dad, step-mother, and two half siblings. Percy then leaves to attend another school his female parent establish.

Prophecy

This book's prophecy was given to Percy Jackson.

You shall go west, and face up the god who has turned,
You shall find what was stolen, and see it safely returned,
You shall exist betrayed by one who calls you a friend,
And you shall neglect to save what matters most, in the end.

Unraveling of the Prophecy

The group, Percy, Grover, and Annabeth, travel west to go and meet Hades, although the god who has turned was actually Ares.
Percy afterwards finds Zeus' lightning bolt in a backpack given to him past Ares. He returns it to Zeus, equally well as Hades' Helm of Darkness, which was also in the possession of Ares.
Luke, a son of Hermes whom Percy considered a friend, stole both Zeus' Master Bolt and Hades' Helm of Darkness, and later tries to kill Percy, ultimately betraying him.
In the end, Percy fails to save his mother from the Underworld, though she is given back when Percy returns Hades' Captain of Darkness dorsum to him.

Chapter listing

I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Instructor
Three One-time Ladies Knit the Socks of Expiry
Grover Unexpectedly Loses his Pants
My Mother Teaches Me Bullfighting
I Play Pinochle with a Equus caballus
I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom
My Dinner Goes Up in Smoke
We Capture a Flag
I Am Offered a Quest
I Ruin a Perfectly Good Bus
Nosotros Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium
We Go Advice from a Poodle
I Plunge to My Death
I Get a Known Fugitive
A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers
We Take a Zebra to Vegas
We Shop for Water Beds
Annabeth Does Obedience School
We Find Out the Truth, Sort Of
I Boxing My Jerk Relative
I Settle My Tab
The Prophecy Comes Truthful
(Preview of The Sea of Monsters)

Characters

Campers

Percy Jackson – The master grapheme and a son of Poseidon.
Annabeth Chase – A friend of Percy's and a daughter of Athena.
Grover Underwood – A satyr and a friend of Percy's, is also Percy's protector.
Clarisse La Rue – A girl of Ares and the leader of her cabin. She holds a grudge confronting Percy for how he embarrassed her and her father.
Luke Castellan – A son of Hermes and a traitor when he turns on Percy at the end.

Mortals

Nancy Bobofit – One of the bullies at Yancy Academy and greatly disliked by Percy.
Gabe Ugliano – Sally's husband whom she married to cover upwards Percy's one-half-blood odour with his stench.
Sally Jackson – Percy'southward mother. Percy said that she can see through the Mist better than him. She married Gabe Ugliano, who'south character is certainly disliked by Percy.

Immortals

Chiron – A centaur and the activities director of camp. He is (or was) chosen Mr. Brunner as an alias. He was one of Percy'due south teachers at Yancy. His male parent is Kronos.
Fates - the three divine personifications of destiny. They control the metaphorical thread of life for every living matter from birth to death.
Argus – the security guard for Campsite Half-Blood. He has bluish eyes all over his body, and usually when heroes need to go on quests, he would drive them in the white van to a certain identify, then head back to camp.
Charon - the Spirit of Boundaries and Territories. He is the ferryman that transports expressionless spirits to the Underworld.

Gods

Dionysus – God of vino and ritual madness. Goes past "Mr. D". He is the Director of Camp Half-Blood and despises Percy.
Poseidon – God of the Seas, Father of Horses, and Percy'due south father. Ane of The Big Three.
Ares – God of War, and Clarisse's begetter.
Hades – God and Ruler of the Underworld. 1 of The Large Three.
Zeus – God of the Sky, Rex and Ruler of the Gods and Heavens. He is the father of Thalia Grace, who was turned into the pine tree that enforces the magical barrier of camp when she had fallen in battle on peak of One-half Claret Hill. I of The Big Three.

Titans

Kronos – Appears as a voice in Percy's many nightmares throughout the book. Kronos tries to pull Grover, Annabeth, and Percy into the pit by the cursed shoes that Luke had given them so he could get the Master Bolt.

Monsters

Alecto and the other Furies
Minotaur
Hellhounds
Medusa
Echidna
Chimera
Procrustes
Cerberus
Pit Scorpion

Deaths

The Minotaur - killed by Percy Jackson at Military camp Half-Blood
Hellhound - shot by Chiron
Alecto - killed by Percy at Metropolitan Museum but reformed afterward
Medusa - head sliced off by Percy
Procrustes - caput sliced off by Percy
Gabe Ugliano - was killed by Sally Jackson when she uses Medusa's head. He was turned to rock and sold as "The Poker Player"

Palatial Edition

The Lightning Thief has been released in a deluxe edition version. The edition contains eight full-color plates past John Rocco, and comes with an elegant slipcase with a ribbon bookmark, rough edges, and a cloth embrace.

Awards

Mark Twain Award 2008 (Missouri Clan of School Librarians)
Bluebonnet Laurels Nominee (Texas Library Association)
Askews Torchlight Award (United kingdom)
Best of the All-time Book List (Chicago Public Library)
Top Shelf Fiction List (Phonation of Youth Advocates)
Notable Book (American Library Association)
Best Book for Young Adults (Young Adult Library Services Association)
Red House Children'south Book Award Winner (Britain)
Choice Award; Notable Children's Book (Cooperative Children'southward Volume Middle)
National Quango for Teachers of English, Publishers Weekly National Children's Bestseller
Warwickshire Book Award Winner (UK)
Beehive Honour Winner 2006 (Children's Literature Association of Utah)
Maine Student Book of The Stupids

Trivia

The book was originally titled The Son of the Sea God, but information technology was changed after feedback from Rick Riordan'southward students stated it spoiled who Percy'south begetter was.

The titular "lightning thief" appears to refer to Percy, but actually refers to Luke.
In this book, Percy refers to other gods, or other gods refer to him by family names. Hades was repeatedly chosen uncle, Poseidon refers to Zeus as Percy's uncle, and Ares calls Percy his cousin. This, notwithstanding, is not continued in the remainder of the books, as Poseidon is the only god Percy refers to with a family unit proper noun (calling him his begetter or dad).
I Osculation Something Ugly is one of the deleted chapters in The Lightning Thief. It was later presented on Rick Riordan'southward Facebook.
When Percy arrives at the entrance hall of the Empire Land Edifice, he finds the baby-sit at the front desk-bound reading "a huge book with the picture of a wizard on the cover". The book was confirmed on Twitter to be a reference to the Harry Potter series.^[3] This is one of Riordan'south many references to popular culture throughout the series.

Gallery

Covers and Artwork

References

↑ pg. 2 "Meet, bad things happen to me on field trips."
↑ The Lightning Thief Chapter 1 (I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Instructor)
↑ https://twitter.com/camphalfblood/condition/386471959199895552

External links

Rick Riordan's official website
Percy Jackson official website
The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Core Serial:	The Lightning Thief \| The Body of water of Monsters \| The Titan'southward Curse \| The Battle of the Labyrinth \| The Final Olympian
Master Characters:	Percy Jackson \| Grover Underwood \| Annabeth Hunt \| Tyson \| Clarisse La Rue \| Thalia Grace \| Nico di Angelo \| Chiron \| Luke Castellan \| Rachel Elizabeth Dare
Secondary Characters:	Sally Jackson \| Travis Stoll \| Connor Stoll \| Mrs. O'Leary \| Silena Beauregard \| Charles Beckendorf \| Paul Blofis \| Blackjack \| Zoë Nightshade \| Bianca di Angelo \| Juniper \| Ethan Nakamura
Minor Characters:	Gabe Ugliano \| Frederick Chase \| Michael Yew \| May Castellan \| Austin Lake \| Kayla Knowles \| Maria di Angelo \| Will Solace
Olympian Gods:	Zeus \| Hera \| Poseidon \| Demeter \| Ares \| Athena \| Apollo \| Artemis \| Hephaestus \| Aphrodite \| Hermes \| Dionysus \| Hades \| Hestia
Small-scale Gods:	Amphitrite \| Ariadne \| Hecate \| Iris \| Janus \| Morpheus \| Nemesis \| Pan \| Persephone \| Triton
Titans:	Kronos \| Atlas \| Calypso \| Iapetus \| Krios \| Hyperion \| Oceanus \| Prometheus
Related Content:	Rick Riordan \| The Lightning Thief (film) \| Ocean of Monsters (film) \| The Demigod Files \| Demigods and Monsters \| The Ultimate Guide \| The Heroes of Olympus \| The Trials of Apollo \| Disney+ Series

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