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Similarities Between Percy Jackson And Odysseus

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Percy Jackson is more of a hero when compared to Odysseus. A hero must be helpful, selfless, and forgiving to others. Percy is a character from the movie “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters'' and is a helpful, selfless, and forgiving character. Odysseus, on the other hand, is from a story called “The Odyssey” and is less helpful to others, selfish, and unforgiving. With these traits, Percy is more of a hero than Odysseus.

For someone to be a hero, they must be helpful to others even if it doesn’t immediately benefit them. Percy helps his friends and others when they are in need. An example is when that one kid at the beginning of the film got stuck on a contraption he then helped even if he lost the game. Odysseus on the other hand only really …show more content…

An example of being forgiving is Percy forgiving others even if they aren’t nice to him. Despite nearly being killed by a metal bull that Luke sent, Percy still tries to help Luke change even if it doesn’t work out. In the story, Odysseus killed all the suitors that wanted to be with his wife because they thought he was dead since it has been years since he was last heard from. Odysseus doesn’t give any of them a chance for forgiveness, he opted to kill them instead. Odysseus is less of a hero when compared to Percy Jackson. Fast food workers can have heroic traits like how they try their best to give a customer the best experience even if they aren’t being very good customers. Fast food workers can be very helpful to customers by taking their order and making sure it is right, cleaning up a customer’s mess, as well as packing up their food for takeout. A fast food worker can also be selfless by doing an order differently just for a single customer, standing against a Karen, and in the rare case where they agree to stay a little longer at work when their boss asks them to. Lastly, a fast food worker can be forgiving even to a Karen, a Kevin, some guy who lies about hair being in their food, or a beggar who has enough money to buy the thing but chooses not to. No matter though if you are like a fast food worker, Percy, or Odysseus you can still have the traits of

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