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“The whole disaster with Dorothy Giddens made me realize that I wasn’t anywhere close to being smooth with girls, not so much because I was ugly but because I was to chicken to ever say anything to a girl.” he said. Manny talked about this situation with his friend Frankie, who decided that joining a gang would be the best solution to the issue. The next day, Frankie introduced Manuel to the gang. “I felt really uncomfortable with the group, they were the complete opposites of me, I didn’t think I would get to do what I really joined a gang for, make out with girls," Manny said. Manuel had to take an initiation to test his courage; he could either sissy out or have Mondo think he was brave enough to stand the punishment.
In the two short stories it seems as if the sons’ relationships with their father were quite different, but they also had their similarities because both of them cared for their son. In the story “Powder” the father took good care of his son for he continually tried to give his son what he thought was best. He fought for the privilege to see his son after he already snuck him into a jazz club to see Thelonious Monk (Wolff 1). He was a good dad, for as his son says “He wouldn’t give up. He promised, hand on heart, to take good care of me and have me home for dinner on Christmas Eve” (Wolff 1).
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August knows that June is afraid to fall in love again because the last man that she fell in love with left her. June and Neil argue a lot about the issue of marriage; once their fight gets so bad that June tells him that if he leaves then he should never come back because she will never marry him. Even though at the beginning of the novel June did not want to take a chance and let people love her, she realizes that if you let someone in life becomes a lot
In conclusion the reader feels most sympathetic for George because taking care of Lennie caused him many unavoidedable problems, emotional burdens that will haunt him for the rest of his life, and a shattered dream. Without Lennie George is nothing but a lonley ranch worker, and his lonliness is what makes the reader feel most sympathetic for
Holden shows constant fear of Jane losing her innocence; he always loved her innocent nature and approach to life. To Holden, the museum is a representation of innocence, since it was one of his favourite places as a child, and his red hunting hat protects him from those places with lack of innocence. It is human nature to evolve into an adult, and to change your personality somewhat to become an adult. At times humans want to remember those childhood moments that they lived, however Holden takes this feeling to an extreme, by doing anything to hold onto innocence for himself and his close friends and people he cares
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