Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters
by Rick Riordan
Some of the main characters, and the author
Rick Riordan
The author of the book and of the book series titled, Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
Percy Jackson
He's a demigod son of Poesidon who was accused of stealing Zues's master lightning bolt last summer. He's the brave, loyal, and strong lead character of the story.
Tyson
He's Percy's demigod brother/ a cyclops that Percy befriended during the past school year. This mistrusted, powerful, and loyal cyclops serves as one of the 2 central supporting characters for the story.
The Theme: "This is a story of heroism."
It's a story of heroism because Percy and his friends have to go some lengths to save Camp Half-Blood and Grover Underwood from meeting their dooms. Percy needs to save both things before time.runs.out.
Precept:
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
Summary
One year after the events of "The Lightning Thief", Percy and his friends Annabeth Chase and Tyson deal with problems that threaten the the survival of Camp Half-Blood. When Thalia's tree is poisoned, the magical borders that surround the camp begin to fade. And nobody knows who truly poisoned it, and the threat of Kronos looms distantly. Then when Grover is trapped on an island in the Sea of Monsters, the trio must have to sneak out of camp to rescue him and obtain the Golden Fleece to save Thalia's tree. Will they return in time, and in One .... PIECE?
Type of Conflict
The conflict for the book is man vs. man, because much of the plot is focused on retrieving Grover and the Golden Fleece from Polyphemus, a cyclops. And the threat of the titan lord, Kronos, and the demigod traitor, Luke, is always looming.
A Quote about the conflict
page 239: " You were going to heal Kronos."
Symbolism
The piece of symbolism for the story is the Golden Fleece, the objective for retrieving from Polyphemus along with Grover Underwood. It could be used to heal Thalia's tree. It stands for the possible survival of Camp Half- Blood and for healing of things that are hurt, poisoned, and wounded.
Setting
The setting is again, Camp Half-Blood, the Greek demigod camp in New York state. The magical borders around it are fading due to the poisoning of Thalia's tree. This puts the camp's survival at stake.
Holding Out For a Hero- Bonnie Tyler- lyrics