Cultural Differences In Percy's Riordan

One thing the book talks about is keeping childhood innocence. Mostly through the characters of the story the novel also shows how easily experience can change people and cause them to lose their youthful traits. Dallys rough youth has made him tough and fearsome, and he seems not to care about anything. But Dally has a soft spot too caring for Johnny.

"Relax, Children. You'll just be attending a boarding school to keep a mortal safe." He starts, not really blaming Percy and Annabeth for their reaction, after all they have been to Tartarus and back. As Chiron explains the situation, Percy and Annabeth relax, but Nico becomes tense.

Therefore the residential impacted him a lot.But in the end it showed him what is good and what is not. How to act,How to not.Later on he is going to find something that impacts him even more than the residential school;Hockey.

Last but not least, Ponyboy faces the society’s impression of the greasers. Everybody thinks that they are hoods and that nothing good can come out of them. The greasers are judged strongly because of their economic status and face judgment from everyone. Nobody cares to understand their life and what experience on a daily basis. He also finds out when he was in Windrixville, that people don’t judge them like they do in their city. The whole conflict of the story is the Greasers and the Socs. The characters in the story have gone about their own ways to at least try to fix the problem. Many chose fighting and violence in general, but Ponyboy choose to write a book for a writing assignment. He discovers that there is no difference between them

Therefore the residential impacted him a lot.But in the end it showed him what is good and what is not. How to act,How to not.Later on he is going to find something that impacts him even more than the residential school;Hockey.

Ponyboy, just like his older brother Darrel, his grades are great. Ponyboy said “ I’m suppose to be smart. I make good grades and have a high iq. “ With good grades, you get more opportunities and have more potential for a bright future. Not only he’s good academically, physically he’s in good shape. Good enough for a possible athletic scholarship. “ i'm on the a-squad track team, the youngest. “ Curtis is also a grade ahead, he’s a freshman on the best team. A person goes to school to learn. There’s also benefits like sports, clubs, friends. But, there’s also fights, hatred , and people not getting along. A good student goes to school to get an education and try not to pick fights. After PonyBoy befriended the ‘soc’ Sherri ‘ Cherry ‘ Valance, it was a risky thing to school. Pony and Cherry once said to each other, “ If I see you in the halls at school...don’t say hi. It’s not personal or anything it’s just. “ I know “ I said. ( Pg. 45 ) If Ponyboy did say hi, and Cherry’s soc friends saw, there would’ve been fighting, physical

In particular, school is an imperative part of a child's life that shapes who we become as adults. The difference between the type of school a person goes to, can determine the kind of person they will become later on in life. For example, the author, Wes Moore, is sent to military school after he was placed on academic and disciplinary probation at his public school. While he is at Valley Forge Military Academy he learns several characteristics such as leadership skills, respect and discipline. Shortly after arriving at Valley Forge, Wes observed how a young man quickly caught every person’s attention and how he demanded respect from his peers, the kind you earn from being a true leader. He described how it was the first time he was beginning to truly understand his surroundings:

Also Percy and Thalia received a few problems of their own. During a game of capture the flag between the half bloods and the hunters Thalia and Percy had a misunderstanding. During the game Thalia and five others from halfblood team went out to capture the flag and Percy got put on defence. From their Percy decided because there were no one attacking happening so he went out for the attack. But little did Percy know the hunters were just in the coast of the forest which is right by their flag. So the hunters were able to ctf because Percy left and Thalia got mad because Thalia and her group of half bloods were about to cross the line. The passage states “‘Percy what are you doing me and my squad were about to strike and capture the flag, and now because of you we lost the game”(Page 156 ) This evidence shows that Percy and Thalia were having problems which was unintentional a good thing because later in the book because they realized they are best friends. The passage states “Thalia, Percy that’s enough you both just had a little misunderstanding”’ scolded zoe“(Page 157) This evidence shows Percy and Thalia realized that they were overreacting and that they both had good intentions.

Percy begins yelling "dead man walking" as he brings the prisoner into the E Block. In Percy's mind it is his role to be portrayed as a brutal guard. He emulates a violent man with arrogance and believes that he has to demonstrate his power over the prisoners and he says and does as he pleases with little regards to others. On many occasions through the film, Paul initiates Percy's punishments in subtle ways with the other guards

The novel is an extremely immersive experience owing to the protagonist - Percy Jackson - regularly breaking the fourth wall and speaking directly to the readers. It builds up suspense by foreshadowing the events to come, giving the readers a taste of the challenges awaiting Percy in the pages ahead. Percy is portrayed as the modern-day equivalent of classical heroes. Like the past heroes, Percy is treated differently by those around him, and has trouble fitting in with them. An absent father and a lack of knowledge of his own past help draw further parallels with the classical 'hero' figure. The significant people in Percy's life appear to know something about Percy that he doesn’t know and seek to protect him. Percy, however, is a stubborn

The Outsiders written by S.EHinton continues to be a literary influence on the lives of many teens. This novel has been translated in thirty languages, and many find personal connections with either the plot or the character themselves. The way I connected with the novel is complicated I don’t really know how to explain it but I can explain why I connected with Two-Bit. I connected with Two-Bit because he’s the happy guy who makes jokes and that’s who I am at school. I can’t relate to this but I thought it was a funny quote and the page number is page 10 Hinton “I do school for kicks” I can kind of relate but I like school I just go to have fun with my friends. Ponyboy said it about Two-Bit Ponyboy was talking about characters at the moment its important because it really describes Two-Bit.

The call to adventure of Percy could be when they had a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art where his math teacher Mrs. Dodds was one of the three furies and after something happened to his classmate Nancy Bobofit (he did something with water that made her wet). Mr. Brunner, his Latin Teacher, showed up and threw a pen in him that became a sword (Riptide/Anaklusmos). He fought Mrs. Dodds and swung the

Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief is a story of a boy in high school who has below average grades in a below average household, where he lives with his mother and a nasty old man who abuses his mom. One day while he was away on a school field trip, his life gets completely destroyed, and thrown into a spiral of Greek gods and prophecies. Where he meets a girl who shows him what it

Through out the movie you see difficulties that the students are trying to finally fit to be part of the system but they still may not be accepted because of their classes. With low achieving school, have a suspicious amount of high test scores the reliability and dependability are questioned. Conflict theory is used that the struggle in society and schools between the haves and have nots. For example, not funding for computer, not having computers, no air conditioning for summer and less opportunities for students in general. The school is portrayed as a place where students do not want to be or care about being in school. The staff don’t care about the students especially they gave up on them. There is a quote that I got from the movie, that Mr. Escalante was asking the math department for calculus

No one should ever be forced to read The Moviegoer. A good book, especially for high school students, should contain good morals, fully developed topics, and cut straight to the point. Most important of all a good book should contain a relatable goal for the reader to relate to. These criteria are not only important to keep the reader interested but to ensure that they are not influenced by the questionable actions of these characters. The book written by Walker Percy has a lousy plot that usually consists of scratching the surface of a topic and discarding it before it gets anywhere interesting or otherwise decisive. It also contains questionable themes such as nonchalance towards suicide attempts and incestual marriages. These morals Percy shows in his book are among the last things early high school students need floating around in their heads. Not to mention that the goal stated by the main character is not only poorly introduced to the reader, but confusing and contradictory. 4-5 pages