By New York to Los Angeles, FLORIDA, and all the stops as you go along. Are you ready to visit around America, following Percy on his pursuit? This tale takes place all over the place: in the sky, in the sea, subterranean, and all across America. It takes place in the present, and so you’ll likely recognize a lot of the places that Percy sessions, both in the world you live in as well as the Ancient Greek stories you may have discovered.
New York: Yancy Academy, Sally’s Apartment in Queens, and Montauk Seaside
Percy is from Queens, NEW YORK. His mother lives in a bit apartment with Percy’s stepdad, Smelly Spende. Percy often seems to feel homesick just for this apartment. This desire to go home tells us a lot about how much he adores his mother, because going home does mean confronting the worst stepdad in the world. This is the good information of what it’s usually just like at home: Stinky Gabe is at the living room, playing poker with his buddies. The tv blared ESPN. Chips and beer were strewn all over the carpet.
Gabe uses Percy’s space as his “study”, littering his magazine and soiled clothes all over the place. Percy and his mom have being likely to Montauk Beach front since Percy was a baby, and this beach is also where Sally fell in love with Poseidon. When they visit, all of their concerns seem to melt away, and Sally seems to obtain younger and even more carefree. That they tell reports and intercontinental real world pertaining to the weekend. Percy later realizes that whenever he was very little, he accustomed to see the encounters of smiling women inside the beach surf ” they were Nereids, keeping watch over him. Here, Percy describes all their rental log cabin at Montauk: Our leasing cabin was on the to the south shore, way to avoid it at the suggestion of Li. It was just a little pastel container with passed curtains, 1 / 2 sunken in the dunes. There is always fine sand in the bedsheets and bots in the cabinetry, and most of the time the sea was too cold to swim in.
At this point, doesn’t that kind of seem like cabin #3 at Camp Half-Blood? Yancy Academy is usually “a personal school to get troubled kids in upstate New York” (1. 8), and it is a boarding school. There, Percy is between kids very different from him: They’re kids by very rich families, yet whose parents don’t necessarily care much about them. The moment Percy understands at the end of his sixth-grade year that he will not be invited back, he tells us that he will miss, “the view of the woods out my own dorm window, the Hudson River inside the distance, the smell of pine trees”.
Camp Half-Blood
Camp Half-Blood isn’t very your regular camp where the campers learn skills just like swimming, canoeing, and artistry and crafts. It’s a camp for fresh demi-gods and demi-goddesses (a. k. a. the children created of Olympian gods and their human boyfriends/girlfriends). There, half-bloods train in the art of killing enemies and of surviving in the human and immortal worlds. Dionysus ” a. k. a. Mr. D ” is definitely the camp overseer, and Chiron, a renowned hero trainer, helps out. Percy tells us that, “in all there are maybe a hundred or so campers, a couple of dozen satyrs, and several assorted wooden nymphs and naiads” (6. 109). Have a look at Percy’s map of Camp Half-Blood as you read his information of it: The landscape was dotted with buildings that looked like ancient greek language architecture”an open-air pavilion, and amphitheater, a circular arena”except that they all looked brand new, their light marble columns sparkling under the sun. In a close by sandpit, several high school-age kids and satyrs enjoyed volleyball. Canoes glided across a small pond. Kids in bright orange colored T-shirts just like Grover’s were chasing one another around a cluster of cabins nestled in the woods. Some shot goals at an a bow and arrow range. Others rode horse down a wooded trail, and, except if I was hallucinating, some of their race horses had wings Here, the next thunderstorm is always wonderful, and that never down pours. That is, unless of course Zeus chooses to make that rain. Listed below are the cabins at Camp Half-Blood (check out the “Characters” section to learn more about whom these gods are and what they are like). Imagine them in a U-shape with Zeus and Hera’s cabin rentals at the head. Percy describes them as “without doubt one of the most bizarre collection of buildings I’d ever seen”. We located a map of the cabin rentals for you too if it will help. Cabin #1: ZeusCabin #2: HeraCabin #3: PoseidonCabin #4: DemeterCabin #5: AresCabin #6: AthenaCabin #7: HermesCabin #8: ArtemisCabin #9: HephaestusCabin #10: AphroditeCabin #11: Hermes
