Chapter Three of Percy Jackson, The Lightning Thief, the chapters title is "Grover Unexpectedly Loses His Pants." While Grover has been in the bathroom, Percy tries to get home. Grover's is also behaving to weird even for Percy. Percy decides to take a cab home to visit his mom's apartment located in Queens. Percy is greeted by his step dad, Gabe Ugliano. He has a strong dislike for Percy. Gabe is in the middle of a poker party with his friends, and he forces Percy to give up any money that he has on him. Percy tries to stay calm, especially while giving Gabe any leftover money from his cab ride. Percy's
mom finally arrives home, and everything begins to lighten up again. Sally Jackson is his mother's name and she loves Percy more than anything in the world, and she doesn't
even bother to mention about the fact that he got expelled from Yancy Academy. She just seems too want
to know if he's alright and how his year has been. Percy doesn't really express the horrible things about
school and chooses to focus on only the good parts about Yancy Academy like
his friend Grover and Mr. Brunner. Percy
decides not to tell his mom about what happened with Mrs. Dodd's or
about those three old ladies he ran into at the fruit stand. He doesn't want to bother
her with it. Percy's mom begins to tell him that she's going to take him to Montauk beach to stay in a little house only for the weekend. Percy is very thrilled and excited. Gabe has commanded Sally to make some seven-layer bean dip in front of Percy and he nearly loses his patience. Percy's
mom reminds and explains to Gabe about the trip she and Percy will be taking to Montauk beach,
and Gabe is not happy about the idea and says "no way." Then Sally promises to fill up the fridge with all different kinds of bean dip for the entire weekend, and Gabe relaxes. Sally and Percy get to drive Gabe's car to the rented house on the beach that they reserved. Percy
explains to us that his mom had met his dad on this very same beach. She
loves visiting it, and they've been going to Montauk since Percy was only a baby. Unfortunately their trip gets reduced very shortly when Sally realizes that Percy didn't tell her everything, and Grover arrives the next day during a hurricane at the front door, and Sally tells everybody to get into the car immediately.
In this chapter I was very eager to find out about Percy's home life at Queens. I will admit, I dislike Gabe a-lot, he is by far the worst enemy in the series if you ask me. I love how his mother is involved in this book through a great deal of the story. She has a very well made character, and a lot of surprises. I thought this chapter was a pretty good one. With fun characters mixing together into a Greek mythological story, sets the bar very high in my ratings book.
I think this had a type of cause and effect organizational pattern. Percy is wanted by "Gods only knows whom" is after him, and because of this he has to leave Montauk beach.
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