A tough choice

Knowing you have to save the world is a ridiculously scary thing. In the book The Last Olympian Percy Jackson must do so. Leaving that responsibility to a 16 year old Half Blood with dyslexia and ADHD can really get in your head. You could do some incredibly stupid things or just hide from it. Throughout the story he realizes that he must do what has to be done.

He grows up faster than he should but sometimes it’s what is expected. He doesn’t always think things through like escape routes or good battle strategies he just walks right into traps sometimes. One of his good friends had died fighting the enemy because Percy forgot how they were going to escape Percy was lucky he left with his life. When he gets back to camp he can’t explain what happened really. “Charlie died because of my stupidity I will avenge his death.” That was all he could manage it shook him But somehow he got a great amount of determination because of this.

The determination led him to believe they could win the war. So they started running small raids on the enemy to slow them down. Some went well and which was a huge boost of confidence which means so much on the battlefield. On the other hand, when fellow Half Bloods would die it would mix his emotions and cloud his judgment because he wasn’t sure if he was doing the right thing. Battle strategies were not a huge strength of his he was just a great warrior. He felt it was the right thing to do because there wasn’t much else they could do.

Although sometimes doing what’s right isn’t always the best thing to do. The raids were practically doing nothing because of the size of the enemy army, while they were losing Half Bloods it was hurting him and affecting him in a bad way on the battle field he wasn’t as tough or smart. “I don’t know how much more of this I can take” Percy said.

All in all, growing up too fast can be a bad experience. Some of the decisions create too much pressure to put on Percy. But setbacks and sadness can push him to be very courageous and brave on the battlefield and throughout his life.