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Rick RiordanThe Lost Hero
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BetaChapters 53-56Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 53 Summary
Leo shows his cabinmates and Chiron Bunker Nine, as well as his ability to create fire. Hephaestus has left Festus’s head on the table. Leo explains to his group that he wants to begin building the ship with Festus’s head that he has seen in the bunker’s diagrams, as well as in his own dreams. Chiron explains that the bunker was built during the Civil War between Greek and Roman demigods (an event that the American Civil War paralleled). Since then, each group has been ignorant of the other’s existence. Leo is confident that they must all prepare for the seven demigods’ quest to save the world.
Chapter 54 Summary
Chiron tells the group that they have six months to construct Argos II. The group of seven demigods will need to travel by sea and air. Leo is made head counselor of his cabin.
Chapter 55 Summary
Jason’s old memories are coming back, and he is fairly sure he had friends and even a girlfriend at his last camp. He speaks to the statue of Zeus and asks for help on his quest. Hera appears, and tells Jason that Zeus has already sent guidance in the form of Piper and Leo. Jason asks why Hera sent him to Camp Half-Blood, and she explains, “an exchange of leaders was necessary” (543). The group of seven demigods will comprise of Greek and Roman demigods, and he was sent to win over and befriend the Greeks. She assures him that he will be her hero. Jason remains afraid, but he accepts his destiny.
Chapter 56 Summary
Chapters 53-56 Analysis
These chapters primarily serve to introduce the plot of the remaining books in the Heroes of Olympus Trilogy. After rescuing Hera, Jason has additional information about his true identity: he is a Roman demigod, raised by Lupa at a camp in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hera took his memory so that he could befriend Greek demigods and become their leader without remembering his ingrained loyalties. Furthermore, the missing camper, Percy Jackson, is likely with the Roman demigods. Hera deemed this exchange necessary to form a group of the seven strongest demigods. When Boreus, Aeolus, and others talked about the demigods ripping one another apart, she referred to the longstanding, historical tensions between these two groups.
It’s clear that, in Book 2, the Greek demigods will journey first to find Percy Jackson, and then to Greece, to defeat the giants and Gaea once and for all.
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