Chapter 23: Mrs. Dodds.
Mrs. Dodds was this little math teacher from Georgia who always wore a black leather jacket, even though she was fifty years old. She looked mean enough to ride a Harley right into your locker. She had come to Yancy halfway through the year, when our last math teacher had a nervous breakdown.
From her first day, Mrs. Dodds loved Nancy Bobofit and figured Percy and James were demons. She would point her crooked finger at us and say "Now honey" real sweet, and we knew we were going to get after-school detention for a month.
One time she had us erase answers out of old math workbooks until midnight, we told Grover that we didn't think Mrs Dodds was human. He looked at us, real serious, and said, "You're both absolutely right".
Chapter 24: Back to the Museum Tour.
Mr. Brunner kept talking about Greek funeral art. Finally, Nancy Bobofit snickered something about the naked guy on the stele, and Percy turned and said, "Will you shut up?"
It came out louder than he meant it to.
The whole group laughed. Mr. Brunner stopped his story.
"Mr. Jackson" he said, "did you have a comment?.
Our faces were totally red. We said, "No, sir".
Mr. Brunner pointed to one of the pictures on the stele, "Perhaps you'll tell us what this picture represents?" He looked at the carving, and felt a flush of relief, because he actually recognized it. "That's Kronos eating his kids, right?"
"Yes," Mr. Brunner said, obviously not satisfied. "And he did this because . . . "
Well . . ." Percy racked his brain to remember. Kronos was the king god, and-----"
"God?" Mr. Brunner asked.
"Titan" Percy corrected himself. "And . . . he didn't trust his kids, who were the gods. So, um, Kronos ate them, right?
But his wife hid baby Zeus, and gave Kronos a rock to eat instead. And later, when Zeus grew up, he tricked his dad, Kronos, into barfing up his brothers and sisters ------"
"Eeew!" said one of the girls. behind Percy.
"------and so there was this big fight between the gods and the Titans," He continued, "and the gods won".