ABSTRACT
It is amazing how Rick Riordan, a popular prolific writer, can draw children into stories that involve Greek and Roman myth, their gods and goddesses, and modern global ethical problems to boot. In The Lightning Thief (2005, 190), Percy Jackson, a kid living in the modern world, is talking with Grover, a satyr who continues to exist in this same world:
“But you still want to go,” I said amazed. “I mean, you really think that you’ll be the one to find Pan?” “I really have to believe that, Percy. Every searcher does. It’s the only thing that keeps us from despair when we look at what humans have done to the world. I have to believe Pan can still be awakened.”
