Fall 2022 English 250-A0
Main Points
1) Percy has had a difficult life growing up due to family dysfunction. His father is absent, mother is secretive, and stepfather is abusive.
2) Percy began to experience unusual things, which results in his mother telling him the truth and ending up at Camp Half-Blood.
3) Through the unknown at Camp, Percy makes lifelong bonds with Annabeth and Grover, and they soon become family.
4) How Riordan uses the concept of friends becoming family to illustrate the fantastic.
5) The importance of the underlying theme of friends becoming family.
Activity 2
Look to the right and complete the word search. Every word is related to both the Lightning Thief and the Sea of Monsters.
Family Issues
How the family issues affected Percy's Relationships
This video shows his mother and stepfather, which is Percy's life at home without his biological father
Gap Between Research
Almost all research points to the negative behaviors and results of stepfamilies and absent parents. With the research I used in my paper, neither text mentioned the positive results from family dysfunction. After reading Rick Riordan's book, it is evident that family dysfunction can lead to positive benefits gapped by research. From his books, the audience can see the strong friendships formed, the change in behavior in a positive way, and the willingness to make things better by trying to save camp, the world, and his friends.
Rick Riordan uses the fantastic to show a common issue in the world that kids face. Family dysfunction is more common than most think, and he uses his book to address the positive results that kids can have from their difficult circumstance. Riordan is not justifying the issue, but using this fantasy as a way to relate to readers and highlight the positive results for children with absent parents and family dysfunction.
Analysis of Fantastic
Conclusion
In summation, Rick Riordan uses The Lightning Their and The Sea of Monsters to develop the concept of friends becoming family. After you find the people you can count on and you go through so much with them, they are no longer just your friends; they are your family. These books allow the audience to see that family is important, blood related or not, and that you should always be there for someone because you never know what they are going through.
