The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanChapter 7 and 8
“ My Dinner Goes Up in Smoke”“We capture a Flag”
Presentation by Kathrina piper and Andrew KaneBlock A3
Plot The Sequence of Events
• Percy gets to the haft-blood camp and meets Annabeth and Luke his counselor.
• Percy learns that Annabeth was related to Athena
• And tries to learn who his father is in part of the dinner sacrifice to the gods
Plot continued
• Percy was only good at canoeing and sword fighting• There was a fighting in the woods with teams of
Zeus and Poseidon • Percy was not good at any sports he tried them all
out and sucked at all of them except sword fighting and canoeing
• The trainer for sword fighting taught him a new trick know one could ever do and he did that trick to the trainer and he was amazed
Conflict a struggle between opposing forces
• internal in chapter 7 – Percy feels like he doesn’t belong at camp haft-blood
• Internal in chapter 8• -Percy does not fit in any sport and is left out• External in chapter 7 – Clarisse and Percy both hate each other
• External in chapter 8• -Percy is the best on the sword fighting team and
loves it
Settings when and were a story takes place
• Chapter 7 takes place at camp half-blood in a dining hall
• Chapter 8 takes place at the half-blood and in a field where they start trying to capture the flag
Charters the people in the story
• Protagonist(s) charters who work for the good of the story– Percy Jackson -Luke– Annabeth - Zeus– Poseidon -Grover– Chiron
– Antagonist charters who work against protagonists– Clarisse– Hades
Mythological Allusion
• Athena is a goddess of wisdom and war.• Athena is Annabeth mother, and annabeth has
only seen her once when her and a few of her friends went to Olympus
Mythological Allusions Continued
• Zeus was the god of thunderstorms Poseidon was the god of the sea and all sea creatures
• Zeus was one of the teams for capture the flag and Poseidon was the other
Mythological Allusions Continued
• Ares was the god of war • In chapter 8 Ares has kids that are strong and
in chapter 7 he is mentioned my Luke
Review Questions
• What camp does Percy go to ?• What game do the campers play?• Who Percy's counselor ?• What is Percy good at?• What type of camp does Percy go to?
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