The answer is: Serious and forceful.
Tone: Is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. Tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words, or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject. In this case Lake´s words give the impression he is being serious and forceful.
Look at THOSE cool looking shoes!
THOSE boxes look heavy.
Are you sure THOSE are the right boxes?
Answer: Percy loves to be in the water, he can hold his breath underwater with little to no problems at all. He can read greek easily which he thought at first was a reading disability.
Percy has never been "normal" in his life. What does "normal" mean anyway? Well, it probably doesn't refer to somebody who has attended six different schools in six years. That's right – Percy has a knack for getting kicked out of school. It's not his fault, though. You see, trouble seems to find him wherever he goes. He's a trouble magnet, no matter how hard he tries to keep cool and make himself invisible. Take, for example, his school trip to the New York museum:
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