Text to Self: The Sea of Monsters

     I am reading the book The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan. This book is the second book part of the series called: Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The book is about Percy Jackson (the main character), Annabeth, and Tyson a, friend of Percy's that's a cyclops. They are tying to save camp half-blood, a camp that is a camp for demigods which are half god half human. The problem with it is that the barrier is getting weaker and weaker. This is because Thalia's tree has been poisoned, and Thalia's tree is basically a barrier keeping out monsters and other things out in the world, to get in everyone needs permission from someone that is allowed in. The golden fleece can revitalize any land where it's placed like cure sickness, strengthens nature, cleans up pollution, and other things, and Percy and Annabeth think that it can revive Thalia's tree, so they are on the quest to find it. To find this fleece, they have to go in to the Sea of Monsters, which the humans call it the Bermuda Triangle.

     Something that reminds me in the text is me and Percy Jackson. This is because I am in 7th grade and Percy in the beginning of the book Percy finishes 7th grade and is on summer break. So Percy may be older but we are still both in middle school. In the story someone gave him four numbers, Percy later figures out that those Numbers were for longitude and latitude and time, I haven't really learned completely on longitude and latitude but I think I probably will later through the year in Social Studies. Also I feel like some of Percy's actions I can connect to me like doing what's most important not what others think holding you down. Knowing the difference between right and wrong. Making the right decision and trying to connect the dots to try to figure out the best way to solve something. For example, when I have to make a decision like a murder mystery games, I have to be smart and figure out who the killer is, for Percy He is very smart when fighting monsters like when fighting evil pigeons he thought of using music which they are weak to.

     I love the way how you have to pay attention to almost every detail in the story and almost always connects in the end. An example of that was when Chiron was talking about his music records and music player staying at the camp, and randomly monster pigeons came out later and they had to use the music because it hurt them because they were weak to sound. I really like how it explains what other people and things are in the story by explain what they are in Greek mythology. One thing I got confused about was that why couldn't Dionysus give Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson the quest instead of Tantalus. I really hate Tantalus because he hates Percy and everything he does, even though everything Percy does is the right thing to do. Percy and Annabeth kills all the deadly pigeons and saves everyone at camp, Tantalus blames everyone getting hurt and the pigeons getting there on Percy and Annabeth which really makes me angry at him. Practically the whole story is unrealistic with lots of monsters and gods from Greek mythology. I wonder what would happen if Thalia's tree was perfectly fine and not poisoned, then Chiron wouldn't be gone, and then they might have had a different approach to saving Grover.