Caring Characterization of Percy Jackson
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group. Despite that he suffers from dyslexia and could not concentrate well and hard to study. Percy is in stage of identity vs. role confusion Erikson, 1959.
Percy tries to find his identity and he still confuse of himself after he knows the truth that he is a demigod. In Percy’s life, he is lacks of parents’ role because his
father leaves him since he is a baby and his step father treats him like he does not exist. He only gets parent role from his mother. Percy lives in single parent family
condition and according to the Baxter et al. 2011 children living in two-parent families have better emotional outcomes than children living in one-parent
families. After controlling for demographic, socioeconomic and personal characteristics, children from single-parent families continue to display lower
emotional development. Percy always gets mad if his step father treats his mother like a slave p.30.
“Between the two of us, we made my mom’s life pretty hard. The way Smelly Gabe treated her, the way he and I Got along… “p.30
Besides, he hates his real father because his father left him. He never knows how father’s love like every father always plays with his son. He also
never gets love from his step father. “I felt angry with at my father. Maybe it was stupid, but I resent him for
going on that ocean Voyage, for not having the guts to marry my mom. He’d left us and now were stuck with Smelly Gabe”. p.39
This condition makes his emotional unstable and Percy has lower emotional development because he does not know how to share his feeling and what he
wants. As a son, Percy needs complete parents to support for his study, his social life and his personal development but in fact his father and his step father are not
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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.