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How Percy Jackson’s Personal Relationships Affect his Life at Yancy Academy

Posted on by Henry

During the book “Percy Jackson and the Olympians book 1, the lightning thief” chapters 1-3. I realized that Percy doesn’t actually have any friends that can actually help him. (he actually only has one friend called Grover.) Grover usually tries his best to calm him down, but it’s usually no use because Percy also has a hard time controlling his emotions (I used to try to calm my sister down after making her mad, but that just makes her scream at me even more), especially when there’s no friends helping him, so it’s affecting his attitude towards school thus making him really miserable because he’s constantly Kicked out of multiple schools and gets into a lot of trouble. So in this blog post, I will give him some advice on how he might be able to solve his personal relationship problems. (which I think are the most important.)

His personal relationship problem is making him stand-alone all the time, (like when I had no friends at kindergarten.) like when everyone was saying that there wasn’t a Miss Dodds the day after he was attacked, Mr. Brunner (his favorite teacher.) expects him to be better than everyone else when he’s never made above a c- for on his report card, and strange things happening but he seems to be the only one that feels it or sometimes the opposite. The only sweet place for him is his home with his mom, but his dad was gone before he was born so all he’s really left with is his stepfather “smelly Gabe” which is one of the people he hates most.

 

Possible solutions

First of all, the most important part of solving his personal relationship problem, is of course getting more friends because he only has one so far. To do that, he could try to be interested in the things the other person likes. like, if you’re trying to befriend Bob, “you could ask more questions/pretend to be interested in the topic” that bob is interested in, apart from talking about the things that you’re interested in. (unless Bob likes it too.) Once you’ve done that, the way to make that relationship even stronger, is to remember the above; “spending time with your friend while they’re going through a hard time, to them, means more than gifts of any kind”, spending time with them in the holidays is also a great way to strengthen their relationships, even “checking in with them to see how they’re doing every once in a while could mean something”.

If Percy manages to do all of the above/get some more friends with the advice that I gave him. He would be happier, which could potentially lead to a better attitude towards school and an easier time managing his emotions.

 

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