The Lighting Thief - Setting

Gerald Bulloch
Setting

The time period for the adventurous story is modern day, all over various spots in America. The places were described with intriguing detail, and almost made you feel you were in that very spot. The author did a very good job by adding in certain extra details such as other people around them, buidlings, weather, and various other little details. I would enjoy to be in most of the settings that the author portrayed in his book. If the story was set in a different time period, the book would be very dry and boring. When it is set in modern day time period, the reader can relate more to what the author is talking about instead of a book in centuries ago where the reader doesn't quite fully understand what the author is talking about. The book was a cliff hanger and always wanted to make you read more and more, and a big reason for that is the setting. "And yes, Percy, of course they are now in your United States...And we are here" (73). The quote explains that the Olympians (Zeus, Poseiden, Athena, etc..) currently live in America, more specifically on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building.