Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Adaptations Sources-Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Social history:

"Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief." IMDb. IMDb.com, 12 Feb. 2010. Web. 29 Sept. 2015.

T     This source went into detail about the plot and the cast and crew and what the movie is really about. We get to see how the movie is portrayed and how successful the movie was.

"Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan – Review."Guardian.com. Children's Books, 26 July 2015. Web. 27 July 2015.

In this source we see one person's opinion about the affect Greek mythology has on children in our generation. The source says how good the book is for children and how the history can be very beneficial to what the children are learning nowadays.


Genre:
Shmoop Editorial Team. "The Lightning Thief Genre." Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 29 Sept. 2015.

We discover in this source more of what the genre is for the movie and for the book. This source dives into the fact of how the Greek mythology affects the way that we read the book and see the movie. According to the source, without Greek mythology, Percy would not be the way that he is.

"Percy Jackson and the Olympians." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 29 Sept. 2015.

This source shows how this genre came about in this book sense and the movie sense and some of the successes. This genre, however, goes very in depth of the importance of the Greek mythology and how it pertains to normal life. We also get a more detailed synopsis of the book and the movie so that we can really tell what he differences and similarities are.



1 comment:

  1. Very surface-level courses in each case. You need deeper stuff on mythology not about PJ, more on YA fiction and some stuff on social history.

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