Reading Circle - Reflection 9

Our group reviewed the first two chapters of the sequel to "The Lighting Thief" by Rick Riordan called The Sea Of Monsters. The book starts with Percy having a nightmare about his friend Grover who is the satyr who brought Percy to camp Half-Blood. In the nightmare Grover is chased by a large monster near a beach. The monster seemed to want something from Grover as it screams "MINE!" He then woke up startled. There was a knock on his bedroom door and while his mother called him down as he was late he thought he might have seen a shadow flicker across the glass. It was his last day of school and the year miraculously went by without any incidents. Percy eats his breakfast of blue waffles and blue eggs and tells her about his dream. She then says if Grover was in trouble they would have heard from camp and offers to take Percy and his friend Tyson to Rockefeller Center. Percy then points out that they were supposed to pack for camp. His mother says that she got a message from Chiron saying that camp might not be safe.

Percy goes to school meets up with his friend Tyson and later they get bullied by Sloan and his gang. As Percy and Tyson leave class a girl's voice whispers Percy's name. He shrugs it off and goes to gym. In gym class as they were playing dodgeball Sloan's friends suddenly turn eight-foot-tall giants. Annabeth materialises out of nowhere and helps Percy kill the giants. As the teachers arrived confused, Percy, Annabeth and Tyson escape through a hole in the wall caused by one of the giants.

The book like the last one is told in Percy's point of view. Percy a teenager with ADHD and Dyslexia and is a demigod similar to those in Greek myths. Because Percy defends Tyson from the bullies it shows that he helps people in need and that he is a loyal person.

In the discussion we talked about Percy's life according to the start of the book, why camp isn't safe for him at the moment and if what he dreamt predicted the future or is showing him what was happening at that moment. Next time I will be the summariser and I will try to shorten the summary of the next five chapters by only adding in the important bits.