The Lightning Thief: Theme and Summary 2

    One of the themes of The Lightning Thief is that maintaining healthy relationships between family and friends, can be destructive, yet inventive. This theme occurs many times within The Lightning Thief in many scenarios, an example of when a family is destructive is when one of the campers, Luke, feels unclaimed by his father, Hermes. This causes Luke to attempt to cause chaos between the Gods. An example of families being inventive is when Percy fights off the minotaur when they are entering Camp-Half Blood. What had happened was that Percy's mom was being attacked by a minotaur and so Percy fought the minotaur to help save his mom. However, his mom didn't make it, so Percy decides to take matters into his own hands and travel all across the country with Grover and Annabeth to help bring his mother from the dead.