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A keeper is a young satyr disguised as a human who guards and protects demigods still living in the mortal world.
Keeper Quotes in The Lightning Thief
The The Lightning Thief quotes below are all either spoken by Keeper or refer to Keeper. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5
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“Will Grover be okay?” I asked Chiron.
Chiron nodded, though he looked a bit troubled. “Old Dionysus isn’t really mad. He just hates his job. He’s been...ah, grounded, I guess you would say, and he can’t stand waiting another century before he’s allowed to go back to Olympus.”
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Keeper Term Timeline in The Lightning Thief
The timeline below shows where the term Keeper appears in The Lightning Thief. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 5
...just doesn’t want to have to live with Smelly Gabe. Grover explains that he’s a keeper; it was his job to protect Percy and he failed. Grover helps Percy to drink....
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Chapter 8
...mentioned Grover’s big career plans, and he asks if Grover got the credit for his keeper’s assignment. Grover sadly says that Mr. D decided that this assignment isn’t over yet; if...
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...of Zeus’s broken promise. Hades let monsters out of Tartarus to torment her, and Thalia’s keeper couldn’t keep her safe—at the top of the hill above camp, Thalia told her keeper...
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Chapter 12
...good person, since she forgave Grover. Percy realizes that Annabeth must’ve been Grover’s first, disastrous keeper assignment, but Grover refuses to talk about it. He says that on the bus, the...
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Chapter 16
...about nobody turning into a pine tree. Grover brays and confirms that he was Thalia’s keeper and that the two half-bloods who got safely to camp were Annabeth and Luke. Annabeth...
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