This
is a Character Analysis piece. On the Percy Jackson book series. Readers should look for the lead-on's of the story and the good word choice. Readers should also look for the descriptive details.
In the beginning of The Percy
Jackson series Percy, the main character is just a regular kid who has
two huge secrets. They’re so big that he doesn’t even know about them. Until
the day of truth Grover his best friend who is secretly a “Goat-man” has been
watching over him making sure he’s in no harm’s way. Percy has an amazing gift,
he can control the water. He can hold his breath while underwater for over 5
minutes and he can move the water anyway that his heart desires, but he doesn’t
know that yet either. The other is his real dad is Poseidon or the "God of Water". You can understand why someone might want Percy dead,
right. Being the son of one of the most important Roman gods, having control
over any water that is in sight, and he is one of the top threats to the underworld gods.
When Percy eventually finds out
who he actually is he becomes mad because nobody told him, yet they were doing
the right thing because like it said in the book “A young demi-god who knows
what he can do is very dangerous”. Once he had some time to process that
fact I guess it really clicked in his head about all of the sacrifices that his
friends and family made. His attitude shifted and he became stronger than he
was before he also became more considerate and caring. Once he decided that who
he was, was ok he started to be a lot more confident and powerful. While at the
camp he started to be nicer and more open to new ideas. His change kind of
reminds me of The Maximum Ride series, because Max was kind of (well at least
she thought she was) a regular kid and then a huge event happened and then she
became a little too protective, but then after a while she started to loosen up
in a similar way that Percy did. I think Percy made the biggest change in
personality, he wasn’t just this ordinary kid that got pushed around by his
stepdad anymore after he found out he became stronger and I think he finally
felt as if he was important to the world. That change reminds me of the movie
“Cyberbully” because Taylor Hillridge (a.k.a Emily Osmet) became stronger
throughout the movie and didn’t care what people thought of her.
At the end
of the books it was obvious that Percy had become stronger and a lot more
confident than he was before. You could tell that by the way he acted towards
everyone he had a lot of confidence, he almost sounded like he knew exactly
what was going to happen, where it was going to happen, and why. I wrote this
because of the amazing change from a regular kid that got bullied in school to
the hero to the world, son of a Roman god, and a kid with an extraordinary
ability.
