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Rather than being ruled by logic, strategy, or the gods, Percy illustrates the ways in which he values friendship by choosing to go on a quest with friends, despite the Oracle’s warning that he will be betrayed by a friend.
On his journey west, Percy becomes secure in his identity and in his powers as the son of Poseidon. He is also more secure in his friends and family. This gives Percy the confidence to fight Ares, despite how uneven the fight between a mortal demigod and immortal god should be.
Percy grabs the pearls to leave Hades, but realizes he only has three and cannot save himself, his friends, and his mother. He gives up the idea of a joyful reunion with his mother and uses the pearls to escape with Annabeth and Grover in order to return the master bolt to Olympus.
Grover is beside himself as Annabeth angrily pulls him and Percy along. After a minute, Annabeth thanks Percy for coming back for her, but she says that if he’d died, she would’ve lost her only chance to see the outside world.
Percy and his friends may be on a quest in the divine world, but they still have to deal with all the issues that go along with being 12-year-old kids on the loose in the mortal world—especially when humans see things like explosions, not swordfights with monsters.
Like Dionysus, the only other proper god Percy has met at this point, Ares reads as distinctly human: he’s dressed in a way that allows him to fit into modern society, and he clearly knows how to move through the world and get what he wants.
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When Percy and his mother go for a weekend retreat to the beach, their time together is interrupted by a storm and a horrible wailing in the middle of the night. Percy’s friend, Grover, appears at their door and reveals himself as a satyr.
