Lis S.’s Reviews > Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series > Status Update

Even a virtue can become a weapon for wrongdoing if it is manipulated by an evil force, just as a disability can serve as a mark of heroism and strength.

Our twenty-first-century heroes’ weapons were courage and strength beyond any ordinary mortal’s wildest expectation, courage and strength on the scale of those exemplified by those old Greek gods.

…becoming oneself is always seen as a crime against the masses, and act of rebellion against the establishment.

Mythology is the symbolism of civilization. It contains our most deeply embedded archetypes.

In the story, Percy Jackson discovers that being different can be a source of strength—and a mark of greatness. Being academically hopeless does not mean you are a hopeless person. Percy was my way of honoring all the children I’ve taught who have ADHD and dyslexia, but more importantly he was a myth for my son to make sense of who he is.

PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot—BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR. — Mark Twain