It began with a dream...

The Sea of Monsters

Rick Riordan 

Summary of chapters read (1-4)

       Percy Jackson was dreaming about his friend Grover, in the dream Grover was running from a monster and he hid in a wedding dress store, Grover said "Have to get away. Have to warn them!" (Riordan 2). The next day was Percy last day of school and he has not been in trouble the whole year. That morning, Percy's mom woke him up and he saw a shadow on his window. When he got to school with his friend Tyson (he is a poor guy with no parent and no education, adopted by Meriwether College Prep) they face bullies in the test that the English teacher had made about The Lord of the Flies. After that test, they had a dodgeball game without teacher supervision, popular guys vs. bullied guys, beside the popular guys, bigger and stronger people began to arrive. Percy realized that they were monsters, because in the game the monster began to throw dodge balls in fire. This game caused a lot of mess because the walls had holes and Percy was blamed for everything, when he ran away with Tyson they found Annabeth with a Yankees cap, a gift from Athena, her mother and the cap made her invisible. Then Annebeth took Percy and Tyson to a place and in there was a taxi with three old women. The taxi drivers said that they couldn't drive Tyson because he wasn't a half blood so Annabeth said she will pay more drachmas. The three women were blind and Percy was afraid. They returned to Camp Half Blood and saw two metal bulls that threw fire. Tyson could not enter because he was not a Half Blood, Annabeth gave and order, a lightning fell and Tyson was able to enter.  Percy reencountered with Clarisse and she was mad because she thought that if Percy did not arrive to camp she will defeat the bulls alone. The three of them fought and killed the bulls. Then Annabeth, Percy and Tyson went to Chiron office and he was packing up his stuff because he was going away. Percy and Annabeth were confused, they ask him what happened and he told that the Thaila's tree was poisoned, and the gods blamed Chiron. So the gods took out the immortality and he could not be the director of the camp any more...

"Grover stumbled, whimpering in fear. He muttered to himself, 'Have to get away. Have to warn them!' I couldn't see what was chasing him, But I could hear it muttering and cursing" (2). 

When I read this quote i feel that something was going wrong in the book, I didn't know what was going to happen, I was afraid. What will happen to Grover? is this a sign of a mystery? Is someone from the Half Blood Camp in danger? 

"Matt Sloan spilled a cage full of balls in the middle of the gym. "Scared,"Tyson mumbled. "Smells funny". I look at him. "What smells funny?" Because I didn't figured he was talking about himself. "Them". Tyson pointed at Sloan new friends. "Smells funny." The visitors were crackling their knuckles, eyeing us like it was slaughter time." (15)

This quote confuses me because when tyson said "smells funny". I didn't understand what was he talking about and if the smell had a meaning. Is Tyson the only one who can smell it? Or the rest of the school can smell it too? It was confusing to me because I did not understand the relationship between the dodgeball game and the smell.

Final Thoughts and Comments

I think the book is too awesome and also is interesting. What i think is going to happen on the next chapters will be that Grover will apear on the camp and Chronos is chasing him. Then the people of the camp will fight. Then Percy, Annabeth, Grover and Tyson will escape. So Chronos will chase them until dead.