Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a series of books that give a modern twist to the well known stories of the greek gods. The Lightning Thief is the story of Poseidons half mortal son. Percy Jackson has always been different; ADHD and anger problems included. He lives with his mother in a trashy apartment with his step dad who he can't stand. His only friend, Grover, is handicapped and straight forward. Percy soon finds out that he is the son of Poseidon and is thrown into camp half-blood for protection. There he meets plenty of other half human, half god teenagers. His friend Grover, is actually is protector and has been protecting Percy from the very first day that they met. He is a satyr which is a half man, half goat. Percy soon finds out that he has the ability to develop powers given to him by his godly genes. He is also shocked to found out that he is the only son of Poseidon, therefore the only one in his dormitory at the camp. The camp is split up by which god or goddess you belong to. Most half-bloods are angry with their parents or don't understand why they aren't able to speak to their parents. Percy is upset that he had to leave his mother. After just a week of training Percy is sent on a mission to retrieve Zeus' lighting bolt which has been stolen. He goes through many different trials and tests before he finds out that the person who stole the lightning bolt was actually one of the students from the camp and Percy's friend. Percy overcomes his fear of using his power to retrieve the lightning bolt and returns it to Zeus' before a war broke out.

Beauty and the Beast

"Tale as old as time, true as it can be. Barely even friends, then somebody bends, unexpectedly."

Beauty and the Beast is the absolute best love story ever shown in theatres. This movie recently came back into theatres on January 13th and because it's one of my favorites I just had to write this blog about it. The movie starts out by giving you a bit of background information so that you know why the beast and his servants are cursed. That reason is because of the beast selfish heart, to break the spell he must love someone and have them love him in return.

Belle is a small town girl living with her crazy father. Her father is the town joke because of his inventions, but Belle is known as the most beautiful, yet strangest girl around. Gaston is the most popular guy in town because of his good looks and hunting ability. He believes that Belle is supposed to be with him. After being denied by Belle he becomes angry.

Belles’ father was going to take his invention to a fair and lost his horse. He came to the Beasts’ castle and the Beast locked him up. Belle later came looking for her father and exchanged her captivity for her father’s freedom. Belle hated the Beast for a few days for what he had done and for who he was. She left the castle one night and the Beast saved her from wolfs. Belle began to get to know the Beast and started to enjoy her time spent in the castle with the Beast and his servants. When the Beast finally allows her to see her father she realizes that he is very sick, so the Beast releases her. When she gets back into the little town she showed the townspeople the beast so that they would not think that her father was insane. The townspeople attacked the castle and Gaston goes after the Beast. The Beast doesn’t even fight back until he sees Belle. Gaston ends up stabbing the Beast in the side so the Beast drops him from the top of the castle. As the Beast is taking his last breath, Belle tells him that she loves him. He then transforms back into a human and they live happily ever after.

This movie shows us that we shouldn’t judge a person by their outward appearance; instead we should judge them by the sincerity and kindness in their heart. Belle found her true love by looking past the Beasts’ hair and fangs. The Beast learned to care for someone other than himself, which is also one of the greatest lessons anyone could learn.