Character Analyisis

Authors Note: I wrote this character analysis to get a 9 or 10 character analysis and idea development on an open topic.

                           

If you’re walking down the street and you see a random homeless person doing bizarre things for money do you ever wonder why? Maybe it’s not their fault, maybe it was how they were treated when they were younger, maybe you knew him and he changed drastically? Would you pay attention then?

In the book The Lightening Thief the main character Percy Jackson is a little different than most kids. For example he can stay under water for as long as he wants. He has dyslexia so he gets pretty frustrated at school; finally he comes home to an unloving step- dad that abuses him. Yet almost all of it is no accident. Percy is the son of Poseidon which also makes Percy a half blood. He can stay under water longer because he is the son of the God of water. His dyslexia is a result of being able to read in Greek. His step dad on the other hand is realized by his father but he can’t do much about it except sit and watch to have Percy eventually figure it out.

Percy has always had a can do attitude. I mean he risked his very own soul for his moms by going to the underworld and never gave up while also being very ignorant because he fails to understand what's really going on. He values and cherishes his mother a lot because she is one of his closest family members the only one he knows well; like I mentioned earlier he risked his life for hers. But over the course of the book Percy realizes that the nonsense of being a half blood and the gods and goddesses were true; Percy had also believed that his dad had left for sea when he was born( which he did) but he soon found that his mom had been lying and that he was part god. Percy truly changed over the book and became a smarter more sophisticated person.

Percy reminds me of David the main character of Jumper. They both realize strange things that they can do, Percy can do many things with water and David can go anywhere he can visualize in his head. These are both very special talents but one thing they both lack is one parent David is missing his very loving caring mother( she was abused by his father) and Percy is missing his dad left with his loving mother and abusive step dad. All in all they both had it rough until they found out their lot in life running away; but if you really would have noticed them and their lifestyle they could have been the freak on the corner because when they ran away they lived a better life.