NOVEL STUDY

 






Finger Walking

 

- This book was published on 2005 as what I get the information on the internet.

 

- The Illustration on this book just one, on the cover. It shows Percy stands on Zeus - with his lightning through the sea. Which means Percy is the son of Poseidon, god of the sea.

 

- This book has chapters. The chapter’s titles given us imagination for what happens in every chapters.

 

- I open page 30. This book is using english as their main language. For the point of view, it’s first person point of view, from Percy’s.

 

 

Reading Comprehension

 

Central Idea / Theme

This is not just a journey to find Zeus’s lightning, the main thing is to find the real identity. It shows us how Percy finally finds out that he’s demi-god with many god complicated things.

 

 

Characters Examination / Plot Development

 

Percy Jackson

A weird who changes into strong person when he realizes that he is a demi-god. He really loves her mom which means he’s a family lover. As the main character on this story, Percy takes the biggest portion on the plot. This novel mainly tells about his journey to find his real identity.

 

Grover Underwood

A 20’s years old satyr who has maturity level of a middle school student since satyrs only grow half as fast as humans do. Although he may not that perfect, but he’s a person who always ready to help his friends no matter what.

 

Annabeth Chase

She is the daughter of Athena and strongest girl on the Camp Half Blood. She is smart but always feels abandoned by her parents, especially Athena. She was surprised when found out that Poseidon was Percy’s dad. Since usually, demi-god can’t be friend with their parent’s rival. But finally she became on of Percy’s best friends.

 

Luke Castellan

Luke, son of Hermes and a senior on Camp Half Blood is one of antagonists in this novel. He feels having a cruel family relationship and even dare to steal many things, as golden apple or Zeus’s lightning. He is also a double agent and try to imprisoned Titan Kronos on this story.

 

Clarisse La Rue

Clarisse is a bully person for Percy. One of Ares’s daughters on the camp unintelligent, brutish, and overly interested in embodying all of Ares’s undesirable qualities

 

Sally Jackson

A heart-warming mom who loved a lot by her son Percy. She has unlucky life as, being orphan on young age, working on candy shop instead of being a writer, married a bad husband, but at least she has Percy.

 

Chiron / Mr. Brunner

Mr. Brunner is Percy’s latin teacher on Yancy Academy. He is actually a chiron / the mythical centaur who trained classical Greek heroes like Theseus and Hercules. He’s one of protagonist characters in this story who helps Percy a lot.

 

Silena Beauregard

Percy says that she is the nicest girl on Aphrodite cabin as she always be kind and caring all people on the camp.

 

 

 

Summary

 

A journey of Percy Jackson who finally realize his true identity as demi-god. It’s also because he is suspected to stole Zeus’s lighting and must find and return it to him as long as 10 days.

 

 

Facts and Opinions

 

Facts

Percy is a demi-god, son of Poseidon

Luke is the one who stole Zeus’s lighting

 

 

Opinion

Zeus thinks that Percy is the thief

People in camp thinks that Percy was weak at his first coming

 

 

 

Sequencing

 

A weird Percy Jackson found out that he was a demi-god  -> He was suspected stolen Zeus’s lightning -> They found out that Luke was the one -> Percy returned the lightning and Luke was cursed

 

 

 

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Sources

 

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxyZWFkZnJlZWFuZGVuam95MXxneDplYTVmYmRjNjk3YzU5ZTQ

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=percy+jackson+lightning+thief+original+book+back+cover&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwirvMjPsYr1AhWDKbcAHSd2BWMQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=percy+jackson+lightning+thief+original+book+back+cover&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoECAAQE1CEB1ilHGCDH2gAcAB4AIABggGIAcADkgEDNS4xmAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=ag3NYavfDYPT3LUPp-yVmAY&bih=657&biw=1366&rlz=1C1GIWA_enID842ID842#imgrc=BlPR7R6mOYTxnM

 

https://riordan.fandom.com/wiki/Silena_Beauregard

 

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-lightning-thief/characters

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=main+characters+of+percy+jackson+novel+the+lightning+thief&rlz=1C1GIWA_enID842ID842&ei=5CPNYZL6Fa2WseMPu7yN4Ak&ved=0ahUKEwiS_KyHx4r1AhUtS2wGHTteA5wQ4dUDCA0&uact=5&oq=main+characters+of+percy+jackson+novel+the+lightning+thief&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANKBAhBGABKBAhGGABQAFjIGmCMHGgAcAJ4AIABbYgBgwmSAQQxNC4xmAEAoAEBwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz

 

https://rickriordan.com/book/the-lightning-thief/

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=percy+jackson+lightning+thief+original+book+cover&rlz=1C1GIWA_enID842ID842&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwik7v70-or1AhV57HMBHXWOC68Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1366&bih=657&dpr=1#imgrc=cYnSbgOIyVJoPM


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