In analyzing the literary devices within the book, The Lightning Thief, foreshadowing provides insight to the reader of how the story unfolds. One night Percy dreamed, “It was storming on the beach, and two beautiful animals, a white horse and a golden eagle, were trying to kill each other at the edge of the surf. The eagle swooped down and slashed the horse’s muzzle with its huge talons. The horse reared up and kicked at the eagle’s wings. As they fought, the ground rumbled, and a monstrous voice chuckled somewhere beneath the Earth, goading the animals to fight harder”(Riordan 44). Through the use of foreshadowing, a literary device, one can predict that percy is going to find a way to resolve the conflict between the two gods. Zeus is represented