Dunstan uses the geographical space Paul creates at the carnival, to meet carnivalesque characters who help him achieve personal freedom. For most of his life, Dunstan has lived in the sidelines of Percy’s life as a bystander and a catalyst. Instead of working to improve his own life, he has devoted it to keeping Percy’s secrets. This has given Percy the opportunity to live a carefree life while Dunstan can never truly enjoy his. He is unable to achieve personal freedom because he is constantly focused on caring for others and being the “low” that helps define them as the “high.” (Lens Group) Without Dunstan, Percy can not define himself, but that also leaves Dunstan unable to control his own life. It isn’t until the carnival where Dunstan …show more content…
At first glance, he does have wealth, the “perfect” wife and his business Alpha Corporations, which grows substantially throughout the novel. However, Percy was thrown into a bourgeoisie lifestyle at a young age that exposed him only to the external and materialistic aspects of life. He always follows society’s rules and expects those around him to mimic the preferred image that he has always followed. He claims, “there’s no such thing as trying too hard, whatever you’re doing.” (Davies 146) Those are the words that end up pushing the people closest to Percy over the edge, leaving him lonely. He’s surrounded by greedy people including his second wife Denyse, who excludes everyone and anything that does not improve his position in society. She excludes Dunstan who helps define Percy’s high position in society. He wants a break from life and ends up discovering his true personal freedom at the carnival. That is where Percy notices that the grotesque carnivalesque characters are truly happy without a “classically perfect” image while he’s unsatisfied with his high-status lifestyle. However, Percy is unable to fully transgress due to “a conservative desire on the part of the upper classes to separate themselves more clearly and distinctly from these popular [carnivalesque] activities.” (Stallybrass and White 103) This prompts him to lie about being in the audience for fear of being caught transgressing. He has never affiliated himself with the “others” of society and was always taught to oppose the people who created their own subculture. Percy finds himself wanting to “get into a car and drive away from the whole damned thing,” (Davies 232) but he eventually gives in to the carnival because of his realization that the “liberation from the prevailing truth and from the established order...marked the suspension of all hierarchical rank.” (Robinson) Although Percy can’t admit to
As soon as Dunstan realized that Eisengrim was Paul, he knew that he influenced his life and led him in the path he followed for his whole life. Body Paragraph 3: Point: A third character that sees Dunstan as a fifth business would be Percy Boyd Staunton. Growing up, Percy was Dunstan’s best friend and enemy (there were ‘foils’ for each other), and as time went on they grew apart from each other when Dunstan went to war. However, they never forgot about each other.
Percy is always afraid that his friends might die. He is constantly questioning his “own powers” (29, Riordan) and is unsure he can save his friends. The protagonist is unable to complete his missions properly, because he is always battling his own self confidence. Anyone who is incapable of having confidence in themselves will not obtain their goal. Moreover, when Percy realizes he is able to “destroy” (79, Riordan)
Percy’s relationship with other characters reveal a lot about who he is.The feelings with his mother is that there close. Percy feelings his dad is he thinks he’s a coward and Percy doesn't like his step father. Percy's feelings with his mom is that they are both close because in the text it says “But ever since, my mom went out of her way to eat blue. She baked blue birthday cakes. She mixed blueberry smoothies. She bought blue-corn tortilla chips and brought home blue candy from the shop. This—along with keeping her maiden name, Jackson, rather than calling herself Mrs. Ugliano—was proof that she wasn't totally suckered by Gabe. She did have a rebellious streak, like me.” This shows they are close because he calls her mom and cares about
...ts suicide at the end of the book. As with Dunstan, Percy is influenced by the powerful motivator of guilt. He felt so overpoweringly guilty because of what he did to Ms. Dempster that he committed suicide. If the motivator of guilt had not been present, he would have kept on living.
...th head towards the underworld were Percy’s mother is held in a cave. The reader is able to obverse that Percy as walking in to the most unsafe place and this could potentially be the most danger they have ever encountered. As they enter the secrete path to Hades layer Percy and his allies come across a guard with a boat man who does not allow any living people into the underworld. A problem is created as the man blocks the entrance to the underworld on the other hand Percy explains that nothing will stop him from get his mother back as he is will to do anything to obtain his mothers love. However Annabeth come up with an idea to gives him money. Her plan is successful as the man agrees to give them a ride over the underworld. The next step is get his mother back and return Zeus’s lightning bolt but in order to do that he must meet the god of the underworld hades.
One of the main characters is Percy Blakeney who we later learn is also the Scarlet Pimpernel. He is Englishman who is also the husband of Lady Blakeney. Percy is characterized as the richest and most fashionable man in England, but also as a complete dunce. He is called a dull turkey. Physically, he is solidly built with large shoulders and muscles. He is also mentioned as being handsome. However, Percy is seen as very dull to many people including his wife. Percy ca...
They talk for a little while, but Chauvelin keeps looking down at his watch. Sir Percy realizes this and know what is going on when he hears commotion outside the building. Percy invites Chauvelin to the fire and he empties out his snuff box and fills it with pepper. He offered some to Chauvelin and he began to sneeze violently. At this point, Percy runs out the door and down the street to get his horse to take him to another hut. Desgas walks in and brings a Jew that says he knows where Percy is heading to. They take off after PErcy and Lady Blakeney follows beside them in a ditch. Desgas says he did not see Percy but did see smoke coming from the inn. After all the playing dumb Percy did, he is an especially smart man to do all of this. For him to be able to get known around Europe as “the dumbest man in Europe” when he was so smart all along would be extremely hard. He had his wife thinking he was not smart. At that ball that was going on where Chauvelin was getting Lady Blakeney to work for him, Percy was in the room, and Chauvelin thought nothing of it. That night was probably when Sir Percy realized who his enemy was. The reason he made it out of France so many times alive was because of his
Percy’s and Dunstan’s characters contrast in many ways. The most prominent way in which they contrast is their values. Dunstan values spiritual things, while Percy values only material things. Percy is impressed by and yearns for money, while Dunstan could care less about it. Dunstan explains his lack of desire for materialistic things:
Percy is immensely brave. He is not afraid to do anything if it meant he could save another's life, like he
Percy Jackson is the main character in this story, who is a demi god, who mortals are after. His name is short for Perseus and his father is one of the big three gods, Poseidon. He is suffering from dyslexia and ADHD, which could be deliberately added to the character by Riordan, to show he is meant to be a hero, and not to do well in school. This shows that school is not what he is good at, and he is destined to be a hero and save people. The character Grover, who plays Percy’s best friend, parallels a Satyr who is human from the waist up and goat from the waist down and is a companion of wine God, Dionysus, who we later learn, is the camp director for Half-Blood Camp.
The current world has so many packages that most people do not even realize they are missing out on something. Percy tries to open everyone’s eyes to why these packages need to be taken apart and ways to go about doing it. Things like travel, organized sports, self-help books, and social media all take away a person’s ability to live their own lives freely as they choose. The packages that are put in front of people look so appealing that they jump to have them, not even think about what they are losing. Everyone deserves to be a sovereign individual who learns, lives, and dreams all on their own. No one needs to organize it for them or verify their experiences. They have the ability to live a successful life all on their own. As soon as people fight to break free from the packages they get their lives back.
disguises in the book. Percy uses a disguise when he is trying to smuggle out
This is the true start to Percy’s quest. He made a few friends in the camp and they agreed to go on this journey with him. Those accompanying him were his protector Grover and Athena’s daughter Annabeth. They also get some helpful tools fro...
...w, agonizing death. Percy is a formidable antagonist for one reason: his political connections. He’s related to the governor of state, enabling him to do as he pleases without repercussions. Paul could have dealt with him after the brutal execution of Del out of impulse and rage, but he somehow restrained himself. Perhaps he knew more than the reader, perhaps he knew Percy would face karma eventually. If he would have acted on it, he could have had Percy fired. There was many witnesses at the execution, enough to be on Paul’s side. If Paul had gotten rid of Percy before Del’s execution, life would have gone a lot smoother. Del wouldn’t have suffered as much, and the witnesses wouldn’t be disturbed. Paul and the other guards should have took the initiative and dealt with Percy in the long run before he got out of control.
The first novel of the series, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief , is where Percy’s Hero’s Journey begins, encompassing the first five stages. The Ordinary World, the first stage, is the introduction of the main hero. “The hero, uneasy, uncomfortable or unaware, is introduced sympathetically so the audience can identify with the situation or dilemma” (Campbell). Percy Jackson, a twelve year old diagnosed with both dyslexia and ADHD living in New York with his loving, over-worked mother and abusive stepfather, begins his story attending a boarding school for “troubled youth” and having a less than spectacular time being the new kid. Despite his good intentions of protecting his only friend Grover from a bully, Percy gets in trouble at school and is pulled aside by one of his teachers, whom is revealed to be the Fury Alecto, one of Hades’s servants in disguise. It is at this point in the story in which the second stage, The Call to Adventure, comes into play. Percy defeats the Fury with the help of a centaur named Chiron, t...