In chapter 1 of Percy Jackson, The Lightning Thief, Percy Jackson is acting in a manner that shows he can quickly get angry, but still able to control himself. On page 9, the book says “I tried to stay cool. The school counselor had told me a million times “Count to ten, get control of your temper.” But my mind went blank. A wave roared in my ears.” This section in the book shows that even with techniques given to control his anger, he still can get angry. “Then, Nancy Bobofit snickered something about the naked guy on the stele, and I turned around and said, “Will you shut up?”” (Page 5). This shows Percy Jackson is short-tempered and also rude at the same time, for example using the term “Shut up” instead of politely asking them to be quiet. Another thing that is unique about this paragraph is that the writer wrote the words “Shut up” in the section with italics (as shown with underlining), which may hint that Percy Jackson may have emphasized that word. The writer may purposely have done that to express the amount of anger Percy is using. Finally, on page 3, Percy Jackson mumbled: “I’m going to kill her.” Here Percy is threatening to attack Nancy Bobofit for bullying his friend. Then later on page 3, after the continuous bullying on Grover, Percy responded: “That’s it.” Percy attempted to get up, but Grover reminded him “You’re already on probation, you know you’ll get blamed if anything happens”. Here, Percy tries to control his anger, but with the assistance from Grover, he prevented Percy to cause disorder even when that disorder is beneficial to him. Without Grover’s help, Percy may have got into trouble already. This concludes that Percy can get angry very fast, but has the ability to control his anger, occasionally with the help of a friend.
