Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson and the Olympians is an important and relevant story because it is about Greek Ideology. Greek Ideology is important because even today we use in our buildings, our books, and many other things. The Dominant Ideology of Greeks makes us believe in things that can also be applied to our society. This movie came out in 2010. This work has been building over time and it part of a broader trend because it is a fantasy series. It is has became popular even today with our architects, for example our ampitheater has even been built in the form of the theater of Homer's Book: The Odyssey. Even though we still use these ideologies, people still think that that Greek Ideolgies are Myths.

This movie is about how the son of Poseidon is under investigation because of the burglary of Zeus' Lightning bolt. Zeus tells Poseidon that he has until the summer solstice to make Percy bring the bolt back to the Empire State Building which is where he must return the bolt or else the gods shall come to a battle between themselves. Zeus keeps on sending signs that he is angry and he sends bad signs to let them know that there time is running out. Along there way, Percy's mom is captured by Hades and they go to find three pearls that will lead them there. The first pearl is where Medusa resides for Percy, Annabeth, Grover and the bolt, where then they are witnesses of a poor woman who is turned to stone by Medusa's eyes. There next stop is at the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee, where then they are confronted with the Hydra, a beast that grows twice the amount of heads when you cut one off. They, then get the pearl and leave off to there third stop which is in the Lotus Casino in Las Vegas where they are addicted to Lotus flowers and are there for approximately five days in which then Percy is reminded by his dad, Poseidon. After that, they all come to mind, get the pearl, steal a car, and then are on there way to Hell, where his mom is, which is behind the Hollywood sign. In hell, they meet Hades and Persephone. Hades then, warns Percy to give the bolt or his mom will be vanished. Percy remembered that the shield belongs to Luke, son of Hermes, and then Persephone takes the bolt and blacks out Hades. The story is resolved by Percy returning the bolt to Zeus, after taking down Luke in a fight over the bolt.

The inner meaning of this movie, is to not steal and the ideology reflects that because Athena is the god of wisdom. That means that Luke, the son of Hermes had no wisdom, therefore Luke had no knowledge to understand that he was doing something wrong. It reflects on Greek Ideology because they believe in the gods, especially like this one, the god of wisdom, Athena. The stereotype for this movie is that Zeus did not believe in the other Gods having kids that are demigods. In the scene, where Percy is fighting toward the end with Luke the power of wisdom does still not reach him and he ends up unconsious/ dead, that is how everything ties in. Luke is like the main character because if he did not steal the lightning bolt, then none of the greek ideologies or the inner meaning of this movie would not be useful.