Percy Jackson

Hi! Today I am going to list ten differences in Percy Jackson in the book and the movie. After I watched the movie, I was quite reluctant to read the book as I thought the whole book would follow the movie's storyline. But, amazingly, I discovered that was not so. Here, let me list a few differences:

1. In the book, the scenario started with Percy going to the museum for a field trip.

In the movie, the scenario started with Poseidon walking out of the sea to meet Zeus.

2.In the book, Nancy Bobofit seemed to play quite an important character (she was Percy's classmate who liked to get Percy in trouble)

In the movie, there was no mention of Nancy Bobofit.

3.In the book, Percy was attacked by "Mrs Dodds" after they went for lunch.

In the movie, Mrs Dodds called Percy into a room where she attacked him.

4.In the book, Mr Brunner apparently threw the pen to Percy when the 'Kindly Ones' was attacking an dleft him to fend for himself (Percy later returned the pen)

In the movie, Mr Brunner gave the pen to Percy after he fended off the 'Kindly Ones'

5.In the book, when Percy was in Camp Half Blood, he was shown to a cabin by Annabeth.

In the movie,when Percy was in Camp Half Blood, Mr Brunner, a Centaur showed Percy to a house Poseidon built for him

6.In the book, Percy's first encouter with Annabeth was when she saved him after he fought the Minotaur.

In the movie, Percy's first encouter with Annabeth was when he regained conciousness and Grover took him for a tour.

7. In the book, Annabeth was in the same team as Percy in capture the flag.

In the movie, Annabeth was of the opposing team in capture the flag.

8.In the book, after capture the flag, hellhounds appeared to attack Percy.

In the movie, after capture the flag, Hades personally came to bargain with Percy to exchange the lightning bolt with his mother.

9.In the book, Percy was assigned a quest to go to the underworld to retreive the lightning bolt, thats why he went.

In the movie, Percy went to the underworld solely because he wanted to save his mother.

10. In the book, Luke gave Percy the flying shoes but Percy gave them to Grover.

In the movie, Luke gave Percy the flying shoes an dhe accepted it.

I prefer the movie version more as it gives a better mental picture and is definitely more interesting. I like the ending where Percy finally met Poseidon. Percy blamed Poseidon for ditching his mom and himself. There is a very emotional conversaton between the two of them. I think that was touching moment. Even though Poseidon was portrayed as a very powerful god, he actually felt guilty towards his own son not like other gods like Ares, god of war. Well, thats all for this post. See you next time!

TAT--Thematic Apperception Test

Hi! In this blogpost, I will be talking about the TAT, also known as the Thematic Apperception Test. It is a test to test a persons cognitive skills and is also popularely called the picture interpretation technique. It uses a set of ambiguous pictures printed on cards and the subject must tell a story using the pictures provided. Each set consists of 31 cards and includes pictures such as a man, a woman or sometimes a blank card.But even though the set consists of 31 cards, the tester would normally give only 10-14 cards to be used for testing. The subject would be asked to tell the story as dramatic as possible and will show to have low cognitive skills if he omitted the following when he told the story: What leading up to the event in the picture; what is happening at the picture; what the characters are feeling or thinking; and what is the outcome.

TAT was created by two American physiologist called Henry A. Murray and Christiana D. Morgan in the 1930s. their pupose was to explore the concepts of human personality such as dominant drives and interests. The SCOR scale was used to evaluate and it consists of 4 components: Complexity of the subjects nature; affect tone of relationship; capacity for emotional investments and understading of social causality.

Now TAT is used not only to find out the cognitive skills of people, it is also widely used to find out about dreams, fantasy, mate selection and motivation to select a particular occupation. Sometimes, crime suspects are also evaluated using the TAT.It is also proven that this test gains more popularity than the Rohschach test involving inkblots.

In the past, seperate sets of cards are used for people of different age, gender or race, but recently, they removed the practise and used the same set of cards for different patients. There are two approaches in interpreting TAT, the nomothetic and idiographic. To put it simply, nomothetic means that the subject would prefer to use ideas using the normal society life while the idiographic means that the subject thinks out of the box. Needless to say, examiners would usually prefer the idiographic approach. examiners would usually focus their attention on three points which is the content of the stories, feeling or tone in the story and non verbal remarks such as blushing or fidgeting.

Well thats all I have to say in this blogpost. See you in my next blogpost. Bye!