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The Lost Hero
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Chapter 33 Summary
Piper wakes up after being dunked in the river to fully reverse being turned to gold. In addition to having hurt her foot, she is cold and shivering. Jason holds her. Coach Hedge explains that the gods “hate needing humans” (366). Piper mulls her dilemma: she can either save her father or stay loyal to her friends. She thinks back to a memory of her father, during which he explained he named her Piper because her grandfather believed she would “be the greatest musician of the family,” and capable of singing Cherokee songs (371). She resolves to stand by her friends, and finally tells them the truth about her dreams. Jason assures her that they can save both her father and Hera.
Chapter 34 Summary
The group hears wolves, but Piper is too weak to stand and fight. A pack enters the cave, accompanied by their king, Lycaon. Piper knows his story: he fed Zeus mortal flesh, so Zeus killed his sons. He threatens to kill them all, save for Jason, who one of his “compatriots” wants to kill herself. Leo creates a wall of fire to protect them, and then the Artemis Hunters arrive. Jason introduces himself to Thalia.
Chapter 35 Summary
Thalia sends Piper to Phoebe to heal her ankle and hypothermia. Jason asks Leo to stay with him as he speaks to his sister. Leo finds Thalia extremely cute, but listens quietly. Thalia explains that she had long thought Jason dead. Their mother was an unstable TV actress; she knew her children’s father was Zeus, and “couldn’t accept it when he left” (389). When Thalia was 7, their mother brought them both to a park, and returned from a walk without Jason. This led Thalia to run away. They try to make sense of Jason’s Roman heritage, noting that they’ve heard evidence of other Roman children on their journey. Leo wonders if there is a second camp for demigods. Thalia agrees to take them to Aeolus.
Chapter 36 Summary
Jason is upset by Thalia’s revelations, and Leo isn’t sure how to comfort him. They draw near to Aeolus’s floating palace, which is approachable only by a bridge. On the bridge, Leo has a sudden thought, “If Jason is a bridge, what’s he connecting?” (401). Thalia learns that Hera is in the Wolf House, and leaves for it immediately, telling Jason and the others to find Piper’s dad. As Leo is overexcited, he begins to melt the bridge. Jason flies them to the other side.
Chapters 33-36 Analysis
These chapters resolve Piper’s internal struggle. As she thinks through the Cherokee values she learned from her father, she remembers the importance of sacrifice, and is determined to help her friends, no matter what it means for her father. However, when she tells them the whole story, they are immediately ready to help. Increasingly, the demigods’ goal is not simply to complete their quest, but to support and uplift each other.
The chapters also solve one mystery about Jason, and move towards solving another. Thalia explains the reasons she thought her brother was dead, and Jason is disappointed to learn about his mother’s shallowness, unsupportiveness, and abandonment of him. While Thalia has no answer for how Jason survived outside of Camp Half-Blood, Leo gathers evidence: the Cyclops claimed to have eaten a Latin-speaking teenager, and Medea’s department store featured a tattered purple shirt like the one Jason wore at the Wilderness School. Furthermore, he thinks Jason must be a bridge between Camp Half-Blood and some other place. As they gather more information and work together, all three demigods get closer to their individual truths.
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