Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief Reading Book Free Download
The Lightning Thief
past Rick Riordan
The Lightning Thief Chapter 1 Summary
How It All Goes Down
"I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher"
- Meet our narrator. He doesn't beat out around the bush. He immediately warns us that what we are well-nigh to read is dangerous with a uppercase "D."
- He tells us, "if you're reading this because you think you might be [a half-blood], my advice is: close this book right now" (1.2).
- OK, give thanks you Mr. Narrator. At present, who are you lot? And what exactly is a "half-blood"?
- He tells united states of america that, if we feel like we might be a half-blood or know what he means past the term "half-blood," to finish reading this book at all costs. Because "they'll come for you" (1.iv).
- Ummm, Mr. Narrator, who exactly will come for us?
- This volume is unsafe.
- Our narrator introduces himself: "My name is Percy Jackson" (1.7).
- Percy is twelve years old and "until a few months agone, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a individual school for troubled kids in upstate New York" (one.eight).
- He describes his life as "short" and "miserable" (1.11) and decides to starting time his story past describing a field trip his sixth grade class took concluding May to New York City.
- Percy's story begins now:
- Field trips don't usually work out for Percy, considering he always gets into trouble. Before this item field trip to New York Metropolis, even so, Percy promised himself he would be good. He even keeps absurd when, on the school motorbus, Nancy Bobofit pelts pieces of Lead&J at his best friend Grover'due south head.
- Mr. Brunner, Percy's favorite instructor, leads the field trip through the rooms of the museum: "It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, iii thousand years" (1.30).
- Mr. Brunner calls on Percy to tell the class who Kronos is and what he did. Percy knows his stuff and is able to reply this question. He says that Kronos was a Titan, "and […] he didn't trust his kids, who were gods. So, um, Kronos ate them, correct? But his wife hid infant Zeus, and gave Kronos a stone to eat instead. And later, when Zeus grew up, he tricked his dad, Kronos, into barfing upwardly his brothers and sisters–" (1.46).
- Right on, Percy!
- Mr. Brunner continues the story:
"Zeus did indeed feed Kronos a mixture of mustard and vino, which made him disgorge his other five children, who, of grade, being immortal gods, had been living and growing upward completely undigested in the Titan'due south tummy. The gods defeated their begetter, sliced him to pieces with his own scythe, and scattered his remains in Tartarus, the darkest part of the Underworld." (1.56)
- Percy tells us that Mr. Brunner is cool, but that he pushes him really difficult in class. He expects Percy to know everything about Greek history and culture.
- Percy tells us that he has dyslexia and attention deficit disorder, "and I had never made above a C- in my life" (1.68).
- Percy joins his classmates for lunch on the forepart steps of the museum.
- The sky is stormy.
- Percy tells u.s. the weather condition has been really funky lately: flooding, snow storms, "wildfires from lightning strikes" (i.72).
- Nancy Bobofit drops her half-eaten tiffin in Grover's lap, and this really frosts Percy's cookie.
- The side by side thing nosotros know, Nancy is sitting in the fountain. She claims Percy pushed her. Other Yancy kids are whispering about how the water seemed to grab her. Say what?
- Mrs. Dodds, the scary math instructor who hates Percy'southward guts, leads him into the museum, as though she were leading him to bigtime punishment.
- They go back to the Greek and Roman section where the class had merely been, and then Mrs. Dodds starts to growl. Seriously:
- "The look in her optics was beyond mad. It was evil" (1.120).
- And then Mrs. Dodds tells Percy that, "It was but a affair of fourth dimension before we institute you lot out" (1.124). Whaaaaa?
- Percy has no idea what Mrs. Dodds is talking about – accept the teachers institute his illegal processed stash?
- And then, Mrs. Dodds'due south eyes glow red, she grows wings and talons, and she transforms into some kind of…animal, "with bat wings and claws and a rima oris total of xanthous fangs, and she was most to slice me to ribbons" (i.130).
- Mr. Brunner appears.
- But as Mrs. Dodds lunges for Percy, Mr. Brunners throws Percy a ballpoint pen which transforms into a sword.
- Percy slices Mrs. Dodds right before she kills him, and she vaporizes similar "a sand castle in a power fan" (i.142).
- Suddenly, Percy is alone. The sword is a ballpoint pen once again. And at that place's no sign of Mr. Brunner.
- What just happened? Did it even happen, or did I imagine information technology? – these thoughts run through Percy's mind.
- Things get stranger.
- When Percy returns to the front of the museum where the residual of the class is, nobody knows who Mrs. Dodds is. And there's a new teacher around who Percy has never even heard of: Mrs. Kerr.
- Even Grover and Mr. Brunner don't seem to know who Mrs. Dobbs is.
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