Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series by Rick Riordan

Author:Rick Riordan [Riordan, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Collections, Juvenile Fiction, Science Fiction, Literary Collections, Essays, Literary Criticism, Science Fiction & Fantasy
ISBN: 9781937856373
Google: doYl-nZAzKYC
Amazon: 1933771836
Publisher: Smart Pop
Published: 2013-07-02T07:00:00+00:00

Unsatisfactory (Grade = D)

Only mildly better than the actively evil parents are the negligent ones. Thalia’s mom falls into this category. All we know about her is that she was an alcoholic who died when she drove drunk. But that’s more than we know about the other D-grade parents. The other near-failures are the scores of deities who fail to acknowledge their offspring as their own. Cabin eleven at Camp Half-Blood is filled with Undetermineds (kids whose parentage is clearly divine but unknown). Percy describes them in The Lightning Thief as “teenagers who looked sullen and depressed, as if they were waiting for a call that would never come. I’d known kids like that at Yancy Academy, shuffled off to boarding school by rich parents who didn’t have the time to deal with them. But gods should behave better.”

Because of this parental negligence, the Undetermineds are left to feel bitter and angry—and are therefore vulnerable to manipulation by Luke and Kronos. Thanks to these D-grade parents, Kronos’s army grows. And that’s just inexcusable. Maybe gods aren’t into the whole introspection thing, but you’d think that after several centuries of parenthood, they’d absorb a few tips, perhaps read a few self-help books (Men Are From Mars, I Am Venus . . .). I’m with Percy—the gods should know better.

If it weren’t for the fact that all of Western Civilization would be destroyed in the process, I’d say these deadbeat moms and dads deserve the walloping that’s coming to them.

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