Percy's Life
Due to fighting, low grades, and insulting a teacher, Percy is expelled from here.
What is Yancy Academy?
Percy is first assigned to this cabin because he is "undetermined."
What is Cabin 11.
Theme or Main Idea:
Completing a quest is important to Annabeth.
What is a main idea?
Percy's father
Who is Poseidon?
Metaphor or Simile
"We sloshed across mushy ground, through nasty twisted trees that smelled like sour laundry" (169).
What is a simile?
She is gentle and looks out for Percy, but does have a "rebellious streak."
Who is Sally Jackson, Percy's mom?
Who is Clarisse?
Theme or Main Idea:
Hard work pays off.
What is a theme?
The "Big Three.
Who are Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades?
The two things being compared in this simile:
"Plus you've never smelled Aunty Em's burgers. The aroma was like laughing gas in the dentist's chair - it made everything else go away" (173).
What are the "aroma" of Aunty Em's burgers and "laughing gas?"
Sally wisely marries him because of his repulsively human smell.
Who is Gabe Ugliano.
He's the leader of cabin eleven, and one of the year-rounders, but ever since his trip to the Garden of Hesperides didn't go well Chiron hasn't allowed him to go on any more quests.
Who is Luke?
Theme or Main Idea:
Challenges help to strengthen one's character.
What is a theme?
"The first weapon made by the Cyclopses for the war against the Titans, ... that sheered the top off Mount Etna and hurled Kronos from his throne; ..." (135).
What is Zeus's master lightning bolt?
Metaphor or Simile
"She met my eyes, and a flood of memories came back to me - all the weird, scary things that had happened to me, some of which I'd tried to forget" (40)
What is a metaphor?
all the weird, scary memories are being compared to a flood.
Percy has an especially hard time reading a red cursive neon sign because of this.
(Annabeth has a hard time too for the same reason.)
What is his dyslexia?
In the attic of the Big House, she sits beside the window on a wooden tripod, wearing a tie-dyed sundress, lots of beaded necklaces, and a headband.
Who is the spirit of Delphi, the Oracle?
Theme or Main Idea:
Humans are a source of entertainment for the Greek gods.
What is a main idea?
(This statement is true for the gods in The Lightning Thief, and can also be true in many myths, but it's not universally true for a wide variety of stories.)
The winning gift in a contest between Athena and Poseidon to become the patron god of the city of Athens.
What was the olive tree?
(Not pizza, which Annabeth would have understood)
Metaphor, Simile, or Personification:
"Long Island never sees hurricanes this early in the summer. But the ocean seemed to have forgotten" (42).
What is personification.
The ocean is being personified because it is described as having the ability to forget.
After thinking over Medusa's comment, about how he was being used by the gods, Percy is straight with Grover about the real reason he has agreed to go to the Underworld.
What is so he can bring back his mother?
Zeus's half-blood daughter Thalia, who died fighting off all three Kindly Ones and a hoard of hellhounds, is memorialized as this at the top of Half-Blood Hill.
What is a pine tree?
Theme or Main Idea:
Half-bloods have complicated relationships with their immortal parents.
What is a main idea?
(This statement is true for the characters in The Lightning Thief, but it is not a statement that can be true for a wide range of stories.)
Three mythological monsters that have attacked Percy thus far.
What are Furies, the Minotaur, a hellhound, and/or Medusa.
The kind of coins which were, "as big as Girl Scout cookies and had the images of various Greek gods stamped on one side and had the Empire State Building on the other" (149).
What are golden drachmas?
(Percy is loaned 20 at the camp store before leaving on his quest.)