Percy's Labyrinth In Frankenstein

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This is a diagram that shows how Percy feels in different events of the story. If you look closely, you can see that Percy has more negatives than positives. Percy is only happy 8 times in the story out of 24, which means he is happy ⅓ of the story, not even half of the story. I can infer he isn’t happy because he enters a place he isn’t familiar with. In the book it says “We made it a hundred feet before we were hopelessly lost.” (Riordan, 94). This states how they lost hope in the labyrinth because of how wide the brain twisting maze is. Also, it stated “He was driven insane. He didn’t die.” (Riordan, 47). This states that a man was driven insane from the labyrinth. I can infer that this scares Percy a lot because he can lose sanity from

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