There was one scene that I thought was very exciting in the book. During Percy’s fight with Kronos’s army a flying pig (The Clazmonian Sow) attacks Percy and he uses Daedalus’s inventions, the statue automatons, to take down the sow. He throws a rope around the pig while it is flying, trys and fails to climb up it, but successfully guides it to the statues that take it out. Percy says, “It’s one thing to climb a rope in gym class. It’s a completely different thing to climb a rope attached to a moving pig’s wing while your flying at a hundred miles an hour” (250).
This scene shows how Percy is brave and how he is smart and uses strategies. When he knows that he can’t take something down himself, he finds a different way to take it down instead. This event might foreshadow him defeating his main threat, Kronos. Kronos is more powerful than Percy and he is going to have to find away to defeat Kronos with strategy and not just power and strength. His ending plan for defeating Kronos is by dipping himself in the river Styx and becoming invincible.
The significance of this scene is that this flying bore is extremely powerful and no other half blood can take it out, but Percy. This scene shows the other half bloods how much they need Percy and the difference that he makes for them. Not only is Percy powerful and a good leader, but he doesn’t rely only on brute strength and his power for everything. He shows the Half bloods that he can pick his battles right and he knows what to do during them. Percy knows his limits. The only thing Percy gets out of this fight is that he realized that he met his match, that he came close to dying, and he has to be more careful next time. This scene was very exciting to read through because a lot of things were going on during it.
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