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supports him. The effect of that makes Percy always move from one school from to one another school. He becomes a troublesome kid in the school and does not
have many friends. The only friends he is Grover in the school and they become best friends since a long time. Besides, his best friend, Grover is the only person
who can show his fate about who is he and who is his father.
b. Dealing with His Fates and His Father
Percy never feels the feeling having a father and spending his time with father. That is why he has lost the father’s figure, even he has step father but he
cannot figure it out from him. At the first he never knows that he is a demigod. When he is in the half blood camp, one of his friends there tells that Percy is a
half-blood p.94. “Don’t you get it, Percy? You are home. This is the only safe place on earth
for kids like us… I mean not human. Not totally human, anyway, half human and half god.” p.94
At the first, he never believes that he is a demigod, who is a half human and a half god. This is a proof that his real father is still alive. The truth that he is a demigod
has brought Percy something that he really hates. He really hates his father who leaves him and his mother since he is a baby. His mother never tells Percy about
his father that makes Percy believes that his father is really bad that leaves his mother and him also makes his mother stuck with his step father. When Percy has
a school trip to Metropolitan Museum of art to look at ancient Greek and Roman stuff one of his teacher calls him to meet her after small accident that he never do.
Percy never realizes that he is in danger because it is just a trap on him, Mrs. Dodds is a monster. She wants to kill Percy. At the end of fighting, Percy can
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defeat the monster by the pen that Mr. Brunner give to him before p. 13. His mother notice about that and decide to send him to half-blood camp for someone
like him. The accident at the museum becomes the reason that Percy attends half- blood camp for someone like him p.40.
“I have tried to keep you as close to me as I could. My mom said they told me that was a mistake. But there’s only one other option, Percy- the place
your father wanted to send you. And I just… I just can’t stand to do it.” p.40
After many accidents, Percy must go to half-blood camp during summer. He finds the truth about him and his father. The fact that his father is still alive and he
has to head the big fate that change the world because of many things happen during the half-blood camp. Percy is accuses of the lighting thief.
In half-blood camp Percy find his truth about his father. He is a special kid because Percy is demigod but the biggest truth that his father is Poseidon, God of
the sea, and one of the big important gods and also Zeus’s second brother p.127. “The attack that scared ever body. It sent two messages: one, that I was the
son of the sea god and two, monster would stop at nothing kill me. They could even invade a camp that had always been considered safe p. 127.”
At that time Percy has a quest to find the lightening thief to make the world stable because there is a war between Zeus and Poseidon. p. 138.
“Imagine the world in chaos, nature at war with itself, Olympians forced to choose sides between Zeus and Poseidon. Destruction. Carnage. Million
dead. Western civilization turned into a battleground so big it will make the Trojan War look like a water-balloon fight p.138.”
Finally, Percy has to face his fate to find the lightening bold and starts his journey with Grover and Annabeth. It is not an easy journey. In order to find the
lighting bold Percy faces many difficulties. Percy goes to find the lightening thief PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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and save his mother in underworld, he believes that his mother is still alive. He have to meet Hades in the underworld because Hades suspects Percy as lightening
thief. It is becomes the first journey and dangerous for him during his life.
2. Percy Interpersonal Conflict through His Father
Most of children in this world want to spend their life with his father but for those children whodo not have complete family cannot feel a warm from
father. This happened to Percy Jackson, at the first he never know his father and he get bad experience with his step father. Percy does not believe in his father.
The only precious thing in his life is his mother and the hated thing is his father who leave him since his mother is pregnant. When he knows the truth about his
father that he is a son of sea God. He has to accept that he is the son of Poseidon, one of important Gods. The most unpredictable is the real identity of him that he
is a demigod, half human and half god. Percy has interpersonal conflict between him and his father. According to Erikson 1964, he believes that each stage of
development focuses on overcoming a conflict.
a. Helping His Father
In the novel, he gets a quest to find the lightening thief and returns it by the summer solstice. That is on June twenty-first, ten days from that time p.137.
He is in conflict because Percy has to help his father to find the lightening thief but his father had ignored him for twelve years and his father needed him p.145.
“My dad needs me. Emotions rolled around inside me like bits of glass in a kaleidoscope. I didn’t know whether to feel resentful or grateful or happy or
