Percy Jackson Book Club discussion

Kronos didn't really have to bother much to get demigods to join him. Yes, there were lots of demigods who didn't want to overthrow the gods and they did win the war, but there was a considerable number of demigods who followed the Titan.
And if we're reading the book at a young age we might find ourselves hating them for joining the clearly evil guy, but reading it when we've got a more mature vision of the world we can understand their reasoning. The Hermes cabin was crowded and not just because he had lots of children, but because there were many of them who were unclaimed. Unwanted by their parents. Waiting for them to finally find out who their godly parent was until they gave up hope. Watching others get claimed much faster than them, knowing that they will probably never find out who their parent is.
I've really thought about the way the half bloods are supposed to respect their godly parent, honour them [the gods] and worship them [the gods], but they [the half bloods] got nothing in return. Many were killed by monsters without their parents even caring.
Their were their parents' pawns, Percy was claimed at the perfect moment to be given the quest of retrieving Zeus' lightning bolt and stop the war between him and Poseidon.
They were the ones doing what the gods couldn't do because of oaths and stuff. Their kids were the loopholes.
There were obviously many monsters who joined Kronos' side. And don't even get me started on the monsters who (sometimes) were mere humans punished for what another god did (*cough* Medusa *cough*).
The gods were obviously not perfect and they were full of vanity, selfishness, anger and indifference.
Kronos/Luke didn't have to do much convincing, he just had to point out what some of the unclaimed children were already feeling and, well, the monsters would have gladly overthrown the gods.
What do you guys think about this?

I think it does make sense that so many demigods would feel betrayed by their parents and thus go to Kronos but I also think it might be because they didn’t have that guidance from their godly parent. Additionally their mortal parent might not have been as good at raising them because they were broken after being basically dumped by whatever god they married. This is largely true with Luke because we read about what was wrong with his mom when Percy went to her. Therefore I think it was very easy to get demigods on Kronos’s side because of a lack of guidance and feeling of betrayal. It’s a shame no one else replied.

yess!! and we see that annabeth’s father and stepmother couldn’t understand the demigod world and it’s dangers, making a 7 years old annabeth feel the need to run away because she was “hurting” the family. even if some of the demigods’ mortal parents could see through the mist, they couldn’t protect their kids

Yeah I’m just glad Annabeth didn’t fall down the wrong path like Luke did.

I suppose being a daughter of Athena she thought things through and didn’t let her emotions take over her.

Also I’m not sure how to message people so can you suggest to the other mods to set up a trivia challenge about the Riordanverse or at least PJO. Just a suggestion I’m not really sure how that could be made. Maybe where you have a team that all answer the questions together like a battle of the books if you’ve heard of those.

Yes, that sound very interesting! I'll let them know.

To message people you have to add them as friends and then click on "message", by the way:)

Noah wrote: "I suppose being a daughter of Athena she thought things through and didn’t let her emotions take over her."

And she also respected gods! Unlike Luke who saw their vanity, she saw them as the most important creatures and wanted to make them proud.