When describing the effects of the mist, Chiron says, "Remarkable really, the lengths humans will go to fit things into their version of reality." How is this true in the novel? In Greek mythology?
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28 October 2009
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In the novel Percy pulls out riptide(his sword)the mist comes into play and covers it up to where people think that he pulled out a baseball bat. & when the Chimera came up on the arch the family thought it was a bear, and then on the bus they thought Percy was attacking 3 old ladies. In Greek Mythology the mist comes into play with how things came up, and how things appeared.
-Jennifer Williams, Blake Clark, Curtis Cribb.
In the novel, multiple things happen which society today would classify as irrational. However, the Mist, an ancient greek phenomena that causes people to see what they want to see, hides these occurences and creates slightly more rational yet still bizarre circumstances. In Greek mythology people chose to create stories about Gods and Heroes, because they could not explain natural phenomena such as winter or volcanoes.
-Marina and Jeremy
Humans make themselves believe that the world they live in is reality. In the novel Percy takes out his sword but the mist covers the sword portraying it as a baseball bat. The human's minds are so limited to the real world that they aren't able to unveil the truth. In Greek mythology the people back then made up these stories in order to have an explanation for eveything that happened around them. Therefore, leaving them to believe that their world was reality.
DiMon Green & Tala Khatib
It is true in the novel because when Ares and Percy were fighting on the beach the humans thought they were holding guns but in reality they were usings swords. The humans saw it more as what would be logical to their eyes. This is true in greek mythology because they used it to make things appear differently or the way they wanted it to.
^ Lizzy P and Alex P ^
In the novel, the newspaper said that Percy attacked several elderly women but really they were the furies. In Greek Mythology, the greeks made up stories about the gods to explain natural occurences in nature.
-Tin Nguyen and Kelly Jones
Some of the examples of the 'mist' in the book include when Percy fights the Chimera on the arch, the mist acts to cover up the explosion. Mist deludes the mortals around it into believing a plausible explanation for events that they cannot comprehend or understand.
In the beginning of the book, after Percy defeats Mrs. Dodds, no one remembers her. The mist covered up her disappearance to mortals.
When Percy goes to Underworld and sees a preacher in line for judgment, he asks Grover about Hell and Heaven and what happened to them, Grover says:
"Who says he's seeing this place the way we're seeing it? Humans see what they want to see. They're very stubborn-- er, persistent, that way" (Riordan 293).
Greek Myths and stories also present examples of the distances humans will go to find logical explanations that fit into their sense of reality. Fictional tales were created to explain things that they couldn't, like seasons, animals, weather, and emotions.
Sorry, that was Ari and Rosa.
In the novel, humans naiveity is important because it changes the reality of what really happens. For example, at the underworld Percy asks what asks what about christanity and heaven and hell. The responce is, humans view this according to their relition, and see it however they want. Another example is when Percy is fighting Ares and the police think they are fighting with a pistol and a shot gun.
Trevor Artz and Hamp Beddoes
This is true in the novel because all of the humans in the novel that are bystanders post stuff in the news and take pictures and ASSUME what the monsters are even though they only see mist.
In Greek mythology, the mist was something the people believed in and didn't have a fit over.
--Amanda and Lindi
This is depicting the common belief that humans believe only what they want to believe. It is portrayed a lot in modern day life. For example, say I thought I did really good on my test and I run around telling people that I did really good. I get my test back and I got a 75, which is horrible. Now I start maybe lying about my grade, saying that the test was really hard, telling my parents that I did better than most, etc. It doesn't work very good that way.
Andy - Nicole
In the story when Percy pulls out his sword the mist comes in to hide it, so the people thinks hes pulling out a bat, and in the beach scene when Percy was fighting Ares they pullied out theyre sword the mist came in to create an illusion, so mortals thought they were guns. In Greek mythology, the greeks used story to describe how thing came to us to day. like the story about Persephone and how her story describe the season.
-Shay Hayes and Daniel Smith
Well in the novel the people would go to any length possible to make things fit into their version. By that I mean they would have false things for the truth-for an instance when the car blew up and Percy's mother disappeared, they blamed Percy and believed him to be the cause of it. In Greek mythology this is true because whenever the God's caused an occurance if people were not around they made up whatever made sense to them.
-Lauren Bennett
In the Lighting Theif the crowd of people thought Ares had a gun and Percy had a smaller gun inteads of seeing their swords.
In greek mythology they saw the thinks that happened as what they really were because they believed in what they saw
In The Lightning Thief, when Percy is attacked by the Furies on the bus, He pulls out Riptide and everyone sees him holding a baseball bat and beating the Furies. In Greek mythology, the mis represented how things appeared.
-Jennifer Wachowiak, Lea Cenname
madison & morgan
The mist in 'The Lightning Thief' allows Percy, Annebeth, and Grover to use magical items without normal people seeing. In the novel normal people see only a simmering object rather then a full length sword. This mist idea applies to Greek Mythology Greeks came up with different gods and goddess and their stories in order to explain the natural occurences in the world. This applies to how humans will go to any length to put things in their vision because the Greeks wanted to explain the unexplainable.
Alyssa DaVolio and Kendall Moore
It is true in the novel that humans will believe whatever they want to believe when the mist is around. An example of this in the novel is when Perceus Jackson encounters Echnida and the dreaded Chimera on the Arch. Through the mist that was created, civilians thought that they saw Perceus Jackson blowing up a segment of the arch and then plummeting to his death in the Mississippi river. Another example is how Percy continually reassures himself that his mother is awaiting his rescue in the Underworld, even though he is not completely positive. In Greek mythology, Cronus truly believed that he would never be overthrown by his children, the Olympians. As a precaution, he swallowed his children *slurping noise*. Unfortunately, he was flippin' wrong and FLIPPIN' died, because his children overthrew him.
Nos amamus tu,
CJ (Moros Eros) and Olivia (Asta Vega)
People will get something into their mind that they think is the truth and they will stand by it until the end. This is also true in Greek mythology because they will believe that the cods created everything like the seasons.
austin and noah
In the book the humans don’t even notice if a satyr is among the students at a school, they can’t even notice that one of the teachers is a centaur. When Percy defeats Ms. Dodds, nobody else remembers her ever existing, the mist covered it up. People in the book aren’t aware that Percy was actually fighting a mythical creature on top of the Arch and was chased off; they just thought he was committing suicide. When Percy pulls out his sword, people think it’s just a baseball bat. The people on the bus didn’t even know that Furies were attacking Percy. They saw something different, and Percy suggests that they might see three old ladies getting beat up by children. The mist stops people from seeing a lot of things as they are.
In Greek mythology, the people made up the gods and heroes to explain the unexplainable, such as seasons, volcanoes and other natural phenomena’s. The mist represents how things appeared and showed that people believe in what they want to believe and sometimes just can’t accept what they see. It’s really an issue with beliefs, what they want to see, is blocking the actuality of what’s happening because in their minds they find it unacceptable and so they filter it into a version they see fit.
In real life if you do something, or say something that you may later regret, sometimes you may start thinking “That just couldn’t have happened”. You may start believing your own lies to the point where it is embedded in your memory, and there is no distinction from what really happened and the story you created of the situation. An example is if I said something really mean to someone because of anger, or whatever, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it and it was ruining my life, then I might just tell myself “How could I say something like that?” Then eventually just decide that that couldn’t have happened and believe in it.
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