Luke

Luke Fisher 3B

__Entry # 1 Thursday, April 29th__

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Title I've created: //A Rude Awakening//

Date: 4-26-10

Significant Quote: "And the ADHD--you're impulsive can't sit still in the classroom. That's you battlefield reflexes. In a real fight, they'd keep you alive. As for the attention problems, that's because you see too much, Percy, not too little."(Page 88)

Quote Explanation: The reason I chose this quote for being significant to the story is because this is when Percy really first finds out that what problems he had in the real world were really gifts that would help him in the mythical world. Percy always used to feel depressed in the real world when he couldn't focus in whatever he was doing, but here with other people he can relate to hes feels accepted for the first time and he likes it. Another significant part about this quote is who's saying it. Her name is Annabeth and the rest of the conversation that this quote is from leads to Annabeth being the first friend Percy makes once attending Camp Half-Blood. This helps him feel more secure their and Annabeth eventually helps Percy get his mother back and she wouldn't have helped him if this conversation had never taken place.

HOTQ: Do you agree with Percy's mother's actions of not telling him his true identity?

Answer: I do agree with Percy's mother's actions because the only thing she wanted for her son was to have the most normal life as possible. By not telling him, she protected him from a whole world that every else believed to be make believe. In addition, with their father/husband abandoning them Percy's mother wanted to give Percy the one thing that no one else but her could give him as much of, love. If she had told him his true identity he would have had to Camp Half-Blood much earlier leaving his mother with little chance of seeing her again in the future.

Connection: One connection I can make to my book is when Percy finds out that mythical creatures are real. I shared the same emotion when I found out the Santa Claus wasn't real. I just remember feeling like I wouldn't be able to tell what was real and what was not because for so long I saw Santa Claus as fact and now that he was just suddenly turned fiction, I thought what else might be come fake? This is the exact same feeling that Percy felt when he realized mythical creatures were real and that they had been existing without his knowledge he thought, what else am I not being told?