The Lightning Thief: Reading Skills

          Overall, I would rate this book an excellent rating of 10/10.  As I was reading The Lightning Thief, in the beginning of the book, Percy talks about how he always gets kicked out of many schools because he has the worst of luck. I could relate to this because when I went to elementary school, I would also have bad luck with my teachers. I remember in second grade when I dropped my pencil, but my blind teacher thought I had taken my partners pencil, and thrown it on the floor. Like what?! Another conection I made from The Lightning Thief was to the Harry Potter series. I could connect these books together because they both had the same types of conflict, man vs society (Harry Potter also had a bit of man vs man). In The Lightning Thief, the conflict was man vs society because he was faced with the problems of having to find a lightning scythe within a certain amount of time. He faces many problems along the way creating tension between himself and the environment around him. Harry Potter was a man vs society conflict because Harry and his friends, Ron and Hermione, have to get through their dangerous school without dying, as well as having to beat Lord Voldemort. This is actually pretty hard to do considering they're being attacked by death eaters, trolls, and even their classmates when they duel. A text to world connection from The Lightning Thief was that the Greek Gods that were mentioned in book also show up in Greek and Roman religion. They both believed in the same Gods that were brought up in the book, and they also have the same powers. The book also has mythical creatures like Medusa and minotaurs that were believed to have existed by the Greeks.