Compare And Contrast Essay On Cronus

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Chronous was the father of Zeus and his brothers and sisters.Chrouns was scared that his children were going to overthrow him on his throne like what he had did to his father. So chrouns ate all of his children, for he thought he had but his wife tricked him into eating a rock instead of the baby.These stories both tell me that they had the STRUGGLE OF POWER and they needed help with it. In the lightning thief Percy had trouble with controlling his powers and his feelings.“Cronus was the God of time. When he had his children with his sister he was scared that they may kill him and take his throne so he ate his children."“His father predicted that this would happen. In order to kept sure that his power would stay and the prophecy would never be true he attempted to swallow all of his children so that this would not happen”.”They told her to get a rock the size of the baby and wrap it in baby cloth. She gave it to Crouns and he eat it with even knowing”.He didn’t want to give up his place, future. He was selfish and cared nothing for his kids. In all Cronus was selfish with his powers and …show more content…
The beast squealed once a terror. Then it was gone, swallowed by the sea.This quote means Percy couldn’t control his powers because his feelings were in the way so he couldn’t control his powers.In all Percy’s feelings are interfering with what he knows about his powers and what he doesn’t know about his powers. And he won’t know how to control his powers until he controls his

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