How do the 'The lightning Thief' book and movie differ?

Answer 1

First, no one knows who Percy's godly parent is until after the game of capture the flag. Next, in the game, Percy and Annabeth are on the same team. Percy doesn't get the flag. Percy is a pawn in Annabeth's strategy; she puts him in the center of the area, alone, so that Clarisse, daughter of Ares and recently humiliated by Percy via toilet water, will focus on getting revenge rather than playing the game.

Luke does give Percy the shoes, but no map. The whole thing involving the Parthenon in Tenn. is not in the book. As they travel across the country, they're not looking for pearls, they are simply trying to get to L.A. They do defeat Medusa and encounter the Lotus Eaters. They also encounter Ares who has them retrieve his shield in exchange for help. He helps them by giving them cash, and fresh clothing in a blue nylon backpack. When they arrive in LA, Percy receives the pearls from a helpful sea spirit/goddess/something. They pay Charon, the ferryman, to get into the Underworld.

Once there, they befriend Cerberus in order to get past him. But then, the flying shoes Luke gave Percy, who then gave them to Grover because he wasn't allowed to wear them, started dragging Grover towards the deepest part of the Underworld, Tartarus. Grover, Percy, and Annabeth eventually get the shoes off and they fly into the pit. As it turns out, Luke was helping Cronos, the king of the Titans. The shoes were supposed to drag Percy to his death. You think you can trust a guy. So anyway, they then confront Hades and find that his Helm of Darkness (godly thing) is also missing and that the backpack was a trick. When Percy entered the Underworld, the masterbolt appeared in it. Percy then swears to find Hades's Helm and the three of them use the pearls to escape.

When they make landfall, the pearls don't take them just anywhere, only straight up, just off the coast of California, Ares confronts them and Percy and Ares fight. Percy wins and Ares runs off, leaving the Helm. The Furies, Mrs. Dodds included, arrive and Percy gives them the Helm. Percy then flies back to New York, like, on a plane, and goes to Mount Olympus. Olympus is accessed by an elevator, not a door on the roof. Then, Percy finds his mother at home (Hades released her after his Helm was returned) and gives her the head of medusa, which she uses on Gabe at another time. He goes back to Camp and sees Luke. They go out into the forest for a couple Cokes and Luke betrays him again making a scorpion sting him. Luke then leaves. Percy is found by Annabeth and Chiron and, thus, survives.