ies about high schools.
             Emphasizing "normalcy" may seem strange to an audience whom know just from the title that they are watching a fantasy genre film (lightning thieves are not a common problem in any reality I'm a part of), but the genre actually necessitates this emphasis. In her essay on film criticism, Katherine A. Fowkes outlines some of these influential characteristics of the fantasy genre. In interpreting "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" through the lens of disability, Fowkes assertion that, "By raising questions about reality and by revealing repressed dreams or wishes, fantasy makes explicit what society rejects or refuses to acknowledge offers an explanation of how the film relates to society's conceptions of disability."(3) In purely fantastic films such as Percy Jackson, "hesitation and uncertainty experienced by the characters and/or the reader/viewer when faced with an impossible occurrence" encourage the viewer to reevaluate all of the reality they are presented with by of the mi
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