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a. Speech
The reader can understand the character through what he or she says when he or she is in conversation with other, and whenever he or she puts forward an
opinion.
b. Conversation of Others
The author can also give some clues to a person’s character through the conversations among other characters.
c. Reactions
The author gives clues about character’s personality through the character’s reaction towards various situations and events.
d. Direct Comment
The author describes or comments on a person’s character directly.
e. Thoughts
The author gives the readers information and understanding about what the character’s thinking about.
f. Mannerism
The reader can get some clues by knowing the author’s description of character’s personality through mannerism, habits, and many more in the novel
Murphy, 1972:161-173. By using those six ways, the writer knows what the character is and how
the character is characterized. The writer also can understand the main idea about whom and what kind of character that the author wants to say and shows
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2. Theory of Dyslexia
This study tries to analyze the main character who is Percy Jackson. He has a dyslexia syndrome. The syndrome occurs since the person in the childhood
period, around kindergarten until junior high school. According to James and Philip in Dyslexia: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated
Research Guide to Internet References, dyslexia is one of the most serious conditions afflicting the termination of human developmental disorders which
ranges from childhood like the development of their language, learning progress, and attention 2003: 3-64. It means that the syndrome of dyslexia can be seen
when the children go to school around kindergarten until junior high school. Furthermore, the syndrome of dyslexia can affect human development disorder
such as their language, learning progress, and attention. According to Bonnie R. Strickland in Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology,
the definition of dyslexia is a specific learning disability characterized by significant dispar
ity between an individual’s general intelligence and his or her language skill which is usually reflected from the school performance
Strickland, 2001: 200. Strickland wants to say that the dyslexia can disturb attention and cause hyperactivity disorder and disruptive behavior disorder.
For further explanation, the writer collects some information about dyslexia. The researcher Hughes quotes of a variety of indicators of dyslexia in
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