![]() ![]() By making Percy sixteen, we lessen this impact. The audience’s view of Percy is changed from a pre-teen overcoming his fear to yet another teenage YA protagonist going on a heroic journey. He was a child fighting monsters that adults fear. He was forced to grow up and fight for survival. In the books, Percy and Annabeth were twelve while Grover was twelve passing. The story of twelve-year-old Percy was about a young boy struggling through childhood and wanting to find a place to belong. He was a character that the target audience could project themselves onto. After all, doesn’t everyone in middle school want something better? Percy’s youth also creates a fascinating contrast between a scrawny twelve-year-old boy and centuries-old monsters. I had a very different reaction when I learned of the movie. Still full of wonder from reading the book for the first time, I watched the movie and left feeling astonished… How could such a good book turn into such a bad movie? With Disney announcing they will be turning the first book into a show for Disney Plus, we will be going down memory lane and discussing what went wrong and if anything went right. Upon learning that it was the second book, I immediately begged my mom to buy the first book and every book thereafter. I very vividly remember finding The Sea of Monsters in our mini 4th-grade library and reading the whole thing in less than a week. ![]() One of my favorite book series growing up was Percy Jackson and the Olympians. ![]()
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