2nd Choice Book Report!!!

Choice Book Report #2
By: Caysi Simpson
I read the book Percy Jackson and The Olympians, The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan. The main character of this book (the first of 3 others) is Percy Jackson. He is a twelve year old boy with dyslexia and ADHD. He’s been to so many schools in his lifetime, and he’s not entirely sure why. That’s when he’s finds out he’s a half god, and the son of Poseidon. So danger sort of just comes to him. In the beginning of this book my impression of Percy is that he’s just a misunderstood person. No one helped him through his schooling, which is why he got such bad grades like D’s and F’s. Plus, Percy is a half god, so not many people understood why he could do such weird actions, and therefore they kept away from him. I also think that Percy was obedient in the beginning of the book. His mom kept sending him to different boarding schools, telling him it was because of his grades (when really it was because monsters had caught his demigod scent and were going to come after him). And he would follow his mom’s orders and be sent of to another school where he would be ignored and embarrassed by the teachers. In his last school that he went to there was one teacher (who ended up being magical himself) who really pushed Percy and told him that he was expected to do very well in that class. Percy didn’t want to let his teacher down and was even kind of afraid to, so he would study his best and work as hard as he could to make that teacher proud. Overall my impression of Percy was pretty good, I didn’t hate him, but I didn’t quite love him.
By the end of this book my impression of Percy is that he’s brave. An example is that he accepts this quest, even though it means going into the underworld and possibly never coming out. Percy battles monsters, Gods, and demons and still manages to make it out alive. I found that pretty impressive. Another is that Percy stood up and completely back talked to the God of War, Ares. And of all the Gods, Ares is not one you would want to talk back to. So I think that makes Percy pretty brave, and maybe a little stubborn for trying to beat the God of War in an argument. Also he never left behind his friends and saved them when they were in danger. Another characteristic of Percy Jackson is that he is a loving person. His mom is a very strong woman who protected Percy his whole life. Percy loves her with all his heart and stands up for her when his stepdad Gabe is being a complete jerk to her. Part of the reason Percy went into the Underworld was to save his mother (because he found out that she wasn’t quite dead yet, her body was alive but frozen into a gold statue). The last characteristic I found of Percy is that he is smart. In the beginning of the book I didn’t think a kid with dyslexia and ADHD could be very smart. But by the end of the book I realized that there are different kinds of smart. Percy may not have been very smart in school, but when it came to survival and battling, Percy was a natural with quick reflexes. Percy is especially skilled in water, since his dad is Poseidon; Percy has a special power with water. In the end my overall impression of Percy is that he is a brave fighter and a loyal friend.
I enjoyed this book a lot. It was a mixture of action, comedy, and love. I liked how this book made me jump up and down in excitement when I thought that Percy and his friends weren’t going to make it out alive. I laughed at the sarcasm the author Rick Riordan put in even at the most intense of parts. And I smiled at the parts where Percy wouldn’t leave his friends no matter what. And the part where he walking talking about how much he looked up to his mother and how much she meant to him. This book was full of all of that. I recommend this to anyone who liked to action and sarcastic comedy books. Also if there is someone interested in Greek mythology, this book is full of information about the Greek Gods and the world they live in. It got me very interested in Greek Gods, so I want to find other books about Greek Gods so that I can learn more. This book was good enough that I plan on reading the next three books in the series. I recommend this to a wide variety of people, mostly teens my age. Unless you don’t like fantasy, action, or comedy I would definitely read, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Lightning Thief.
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