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CHAPTER 4 ANALYSIS
In this chapter, the researcher discusses the characterization of Percy Jackson as the major character in the Percy Jackson and Lighting Thief novel. The
discussion of this chapter is divided into two parts based on the problem formulation. The first part is the discussion of Percy Jackson characterization and
the supporting characters. The second part is the reasons why he hates his real father.
A. Characterization of Percy Jackson
Percy is the main character of this novel. He is a trouble kid who always makes his school life ruin. He is twelve years old. He is a boarding student at
Yancy Academy for a trouble kids in upstate New York p.1. Percy has dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. He never makes above C- in his school life. Percy
lives with his mother and his step father. He never meets his original father since a baby. His mother tell him that his father have to leave them because his father
have something important to do. Because he never meet his father, he really hates his father. Percy claims that if his father never leaves him and his mother, they
will have a good life. It is because Percy and his mother have to live with his step father that never really cares about his existence. Beside his background of Percy
family, he has many struggles after he knows the truth about his father. The fact is Percy’s son of Poseidon. His father is a god of the sea and one of the big three god
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p.126 and then he is a demigod p.95. Demi god is the terms of children from human and god. Namely half-blood p.95.
Percy livesin half-blood camp because his existence is in danger. After his mother disappear, so he must live at there. It is a big accident that happen and
Percy is suspected do that. At the first he do not know the accident until Chiron tell him p .134. He had a quest to found something valuable. Zeus’s lighting
bold p.135. It is a long journey to found it. Percy do his quest with Grover and Annabeth. They faces many hardness until Percy finds it and he meets his father
at the first time. The analysis is based on Murphy’s 1972 theory of character and
personalities. As the result there were four of Percy Jackson’s characteristics found in Percy Jackson and Lighting Thief novel by Rick Riordan.
1. Troublesome
Percy is a troublesome kid. He is going to school at Yancy Academy, a private school for trouble kids in upstate New York p.1. He has dyslexia and
attention deficit disorder p.7. Because he had dyslexia he could not concentrate well in class and had difficult in reading. The past life of Percy, he had moments,
when his brain fallen asleep or something and the next thing he knew he had missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left staring at
the blank place behind it. His school counselor tell him he has ADHD. His brain can miss interpreting things p.11. Percy cannot concentrate well but from all of
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his subject his like his Latin class at the most. He often moves from one school to another school because of his disorder and disease.
2. Caring
Everyone has their caring side.Even Percy also hashis caring side to his family and his friends. Care is kind of affection to other people. There are many
cares that Percy shows to his family and friends. Percy really cares and loves his mother. He lives with his mother and step
father but his step father never treat him and his mother well. He will do anything to protect his mother from his step father because he know that his step father
never treats his mother well p.30. When Percy faces bull monster on the way to half-blood camp he tries to protect his mother but he cannot save her p.53 and
then he know the way to save his mother. “Then, within an angry roar, the monster closed his fists around my
mother’s neck, and she dissolved before my eyes, melting into light, a shimmering golden form, as if she were a holographic projection. A
blinding flash, and she was simply… gone.” p.53
He definitely cares with his mother because she is the only one he has and he never want to lose her even he must save his mother for underworld.
Percy also cares tohis friend named Grover. When Nancy Bobofit bullyingGrover, Percy wants to take revenge to her and hit her but Grover calm
him down p.3. “Anyway, Nancy Bobofit was throwing wads of sandwich that stuck in his
curly brown hair, and she knew I couldn’t do anything back to her because I was already on probation. The headmaster had threatened me with death by
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