Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Post 3

Hi all, I read 'Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief' written by Rick Riordan for my book report, and I finished reading the book (all 375 pages out of 375). 

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     (Okay, I am going to write an introduction even though I wrote them already in my previous posts.)

As you might know already, this book (actually the whole series and the 2nd series) is based on Greek Mythology, so there are the Olympians, the 12 main gods of Greek Myths (there are a lot of minor gods too), and monsters and other mythological creatures. There are three main characters: Percy Jackson (a son of Poseidon and the most important character), Annabeth Chase (a daughter of Athena and who is really smart), and Grover Underwood (a satyr: a half-man, half-goat). They go on a quest to retrieve the stolen lightning bolt of Zeus, the god of lightning and one of the Olympians, because Zeus accuses Percy of stealing his lightning bolt and Percy needs to prove that he is not guilty. They have to retrieve it by the summer solstice, which is June 21st. The three main characters move around the United States to find who stole the lightning bolt and to retrieve it. 

       I think type of the main conflict of this book is 'Man vs. Man', because the main conflict isn't really any other type than that (they fight monsters mostly). But I am not so sure because the main conflict has a lot to do with time because as I said before, the characters have to return the lightning bolt by the summer solstice. So I think the type of the main conflict might also be 'Man vs. Time', if there is a type like that.

       I think the main conflict of this book is retrieving the lightning bolt because that is what the whole quest and the book is about. I explained above what the quest was about. There are obstacles on the quest that prevents the main characters in succeeding in the quest, for example: various ancient and dangerous monsters (for example: Chimera, Echidna, etc.) that attack them (the three main characters).

       There are other small conflicts like fighting monsters, etc., but they are not the main conflict. There are some big conflicts too, which are visiting Hades, the lord of the dead because it is very likely that he is evil and he has stolen the lightning bolt, fighting Ares, the god of war and finding out everything about the incident/quest/stolen lightning bolt (like who stole the lightning bolt, why this happened, etc.), and going back to Olympus to return the bolt to Zeus.

       The conflict is resolved when Percy and his friends return the lightning bolt to Zeus and the Olympians on Mount Olympus. Then all of the gods decide not to kill Percy and stop thinking that he stole the lightning bolt.