Question

Provide a synopsis of events involving the battle with the Minotaur in the book called the Lightning theif. I don't know the book that well and I need answers

Answer 1

The car has been struck by a lightning bolt and lies on its side in a ditch. The roof of the car has been blown out.Sally tells Percy to get out of the car and run as fast as he can past the tall pine tree on the crest of the hill near them.Percy refuses to leave his mom behind, but she tells him that the thing that's chasing them wants Percy only.But Percy still refuses to leave without Sally and Grover, so Sally helps him pick Grover's limp body up and carry him up the hill towards the pine tree.The monster we learn is "Pasiphae's son," whatever that means. He can't hear or see very well, but he can smell them.The monster destroys Gabe's car completely, causing the gas tank to explode.Sally tells Percy that if the monster charges at him to jump out of the way at the very last minute. This monster is bad at changing directions.The monster gets closer and closer, and Sally tells Percy to go on without them, to run as fast as he can.Percy does so, but when he realizes that the monster is charging at him, he follows his mom's advice and jumps to the side just before the monster gores him with his horns.The monster is furious that he missed his target.Now the monster focuses on Sally, who has just laid Grover's body down on the ground by the pine tree.Sally inches her way downhill, and the monster grabs her by the neck.Suddenly Sally turns into a glow of light and is gone.The monster next makes a bee-line for Grover, who is still lying on the ground.Blinded by anger and sadness at having watched his mother disintegrate, Percy waves his red raincoat at the monster and gets his attention.The monster charges at Percy, and Percy jumps straight up using the monster's forehead as a springboard. He lands on the back of the monster's neck, holding onto his horns.Percy doesn't know how he did this, but he doesn't have time to think about it.After a huge struggle, Percy pulls one of the horns of the monster's head and falls backwards off of the monster. His head hits a rock.The monster is really miffed now and charges at Percy. Percy drives the broken-off horn into the monster's ribcage.The monster dissolves into a sand-like substance, just like Mrs. Dobbs did.Percy is grief-stricken thinking about his mom, but he knows he has to take care of Grover.He carries Grover down the hill and into the valley below. He walks towards the farmhouse his mother told him to find.He falls barely conscious on the steps of the farmhouse, vaguely seeing the faces and hearing the voices of Mr. Brunner and a pretty girl with princess hair.