Book Title: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympain
Author: Rick Riordan
Year Published: 2009
Summarize the novel in 5 sentences.
A demigod Persus Jackson is the son of Poseidon and he is destined to either save Olympus or destroy it. Throught the novel he is figuring out his prophecy while fighting against the mighty titan Kronos. Kronos is trying to get revenge on the Gods for cutting him into little bits, with his own sythe, and throwing him into the Tartarus. To take over Olympus Kronos sent Typhon, a monster that was condemed under a volcano for three thousand years, to distract the Gods while he takes over Olympus so its up to Percy, the other demigods, and magical creatures to stop Kronos and his army from taking over Olympus. If Kronos suceeds then everythings the Gods made will vanish. Even us.
Write a 5 sentence description of the hero of your novel.
Percy Jackson is the son of Poseidon and the Choosen One to defeat the evil Titan Lord Kronos. He starts his adventures when he is tweleve years old. When he defeats Kronos he was 16. So four years with battling monsters, almost getting killed and meeting some new people, really help Percy with his training. Percy didn't know much about greek mythology and he thought that it wasn't real. It didn't take much to convince him otherwise.
Explain what ideals or values the hero represents and his/her goals were.
His values were his friends, family and the world. His ideas was to keep them safe and alive. He couldn't help not keeping them safe and a few died so he didn't feel very goo throughout the book but at least the threat is gone for now. You can't really kill a Titan. When his values are hurt or killed he finds strength to do what he needs to do no matter who he fighting against.
Explain what the hero does to preserve his honor or fame.
He keeps his mind level and always did whats best for him and everybody else and people respected his curage. Also being the sea-kings son helped also because people expected great things from him and he gaved it. He proven himself to the Gods and is even changing some of their ways. So Percy is really making himself memorable.
Evaluate the hero’s role in any conflicts. How does he/she resolve them? Does he ever, through a character flaw, make them worse?
His role is useally the challenged. He resolves them by using his wits and strength to conquer whatever comes his way. He show that he trust people to easliy and when he does that either he gets hurt one someone close to him does. Sometimes he can make situations worse but usually they get better. When he challenges someone he usually gets himself in bigger trouble than before and one of those times he got a friend killed.
Identify and explain any changes or development in the hero’s character from the beginning to the end of the book.
During the begining of the book he finally figurse out where his life is ending but being a prophecy its never clear. So throughout the book the prphecy is unfolding and there is a surprise ending for our hero Percy Jackson. Over the time of the book he became the camp's leader to fight the Titan Lord even though a few hours earlier he was just shunned for the death of his friend. Some people blame him but others even the friend that got killed does not blame him. The friend risked his life to end Kronos. He did that himself Percy didn't make him or anything.
Independent Reading Assignment
Book Title: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympain
Author: Rick Riordan
Year Published: 2009
Summarize the novel in 5 sentences.
A demigod Persus Jackson is the son of Poseidon and he is destined to either save Olympus or destroy it. Throught the novel he is figuring out his prophecy while fighting against the mighty titan Kronos. Kronos is trying to get revenge on the Gods for cutting him into little bits, with his own sythe, and throwing him into the Tartarus. To take over Olympus Kronos sent Typhon, a monster that was condemed under a volcano for three thousand years, to distract the Gods while he takes over Olympus so its up to Percy, the other demigods, and magical creatures to stop Kronos and his army from taking over Olympus. If Kronos suceeds then everythings the Gods made will vanish. Even us.
Write a 5 sentence description of the hero of your novel.
Percy Jackson is the son of Poseidon and the Choosen One to defeat the evil Titan Lord Kronos. He starts his adventures when he is tweleve years old. When he defeats Kronos he was 16. So four years with battling monsters, almost getting killed and meeting some new people, really help Percy with his training. Percy didn't know much about greek mythology and he thought that it wasn't real. It didn't take much to convince him otherwise.
Explain what ideals or values the hero represents and his/her goals were.
His values were his friends, family and the world. His ideas was to keep them safe and alive. He couldn't help not keeping them safe and a few died so he didn't feel very goo throughout the book but at least the threat is gone for now. You can't really kill a Titan. When his values are hurt or killed he finds strength to do what he needs to do no matter who he fighting against.
Explain what the hero does to preserve his honor or fame.
He keeps his mind level and always did whats best for him and everybody else and people respected his curage. Also being the sea-kings son helped also because people expected great things from him and he gaved it. He proven himself to the Gods and is even changing some of their ways. So Percy is really making himself memorable.
Evaluate the hero’s role in any conflicts. How does he/she resolve them? Does he ever, through a character flaw, make them worse?
His role is useally the challenged. He resolves them by using his wits and strength to conquer whatever comes his way. He show that he trust people to easliy and when he does that either he gets hurt one someone close to him does. Sometimes he can make situations worse but usually they get better. When he challenges someone he usually gets himself in bigger trouble than before and one of those times he got a friend killed.
Identify and explain any changes or development in the hero’s character from the beginning to the end of the book.
During the begining of the book he finally figurse out where his life is ending but being a prophecy its never clear. So throughout the book the prphecy is unfolding and there is a surprise ending for our hero Percy Jackson. Over the time of the book he became the camp's leader to fight the Titan Lord even though a few hours earlier he was just shunned for the death of his friend. Some people blame him but others even the friend that got killed does not blame him. The friend risked his life to end Kronos. He did that himself Percy didn't make him or anything.