For example, in the book Jack is seen having various conversations with his friend Arthur about Dwight and how he treats him. He even plans to run away to Alaska This shows that Jack is calling out for help and that he needs a way to vent his frustrations he has built up inside of him because of Dwight. All the stress caused by Dwight causes Jack to gets mixed in with the wrong crowd at school as well. He befriends a group of kids that disobey rules, smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, and generally just do bad things. One day, Jack and his crew were hanging out, when they decide to siphon gasoline from the _________ car, they are a poor family with extremely antisocial children that live in poverty.
They exert their extreme sense of frustration at the man in the Thunderbird. They pelt him with eggs as a reflection of their own sense of wasted power, their aggression and their envy. “He had everything that we didn’t have (38) They become expert thieves and break, undetected, into the school cafeteria (50). The fact that they are not caught gives them a degree of notoriety; he becomes more confident, “cocksure, insane in our arrogance” (50) But their growing sense of violence, conceals a yawing sense of helplessness. Toby and Terry Silver practice looking cool in front of the mirror.
Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers Darry and Sodapop. Darry repeatedly accuses Ponyboy of lacking common sense, but Ponyboy is a reliable youth. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy struggles with class division, violence, innocence, and familial love. He matures over the course of the novel, eventually realising the importance of friendship and the feeling of respect. Though he is only fourteen years old, he understands the way his social group functions and the role each group member plays.
This is due to his abusive father who calls him a gutless wonder ‘’Gary is scared about being 1st ruck in the footy grand final by accident he helps the team by getting in the umpires way and makes him loose time and misses. Then became a hero. At presentation night he won best T man trophy. His dad comes to the presentation night and for once is proud of his son and shakes his hand. Eventually he grew in confidence and stood up in front of
Holden Caulfield, a seventeen year old boy who does not quite fit the world he lives in. While Holden is an intelligent soul he gets kicked out of one of the prestigious military schools, Pencey Prep. Not so close with his mother or father and anti-social with the “phonies” he calls friends, Holden cannot seem to get anything right. This patient was admitted to this institution because his parents notice his erratic behavior. If my observations are correct, Holden Caulfield is suffering from his brother Allie’s death.
His mother, Mary, a tough and driven woman, fought to hold home and hearth together. She hoped to send George to school in England, but these plans were aborted and the boy never received more than the equivalent of an elementary school education. Although George was shy and not highly literate, he was a large, strong, and handsome child. His half brother Lawrence, fourteen years George's senior, looked
3. What, briefly, has happened to Arthur “Boo” Radley?He used to run with the wrong crowd. So his dad punished him. He stabbed his dad and went to jail. 4.
Feeling successful, Sara returns home to find her mother fatally ill. After her mother's death, her father remarries only to find his new wife, Mrs. Feinstein, is a gold-digger after his late wife's lodge money. Sara and her sisters, still angry over their father's treatment of them, become enraged at his quick marriage after their mother's death and refuse to help him when his new wife spends all his money and refuses to work. Sara goes back to New York and finds a teaching job. Mrs. Feinstein is not satisfied with Reb's money and wants more from his daughters. She is angry that Sara is avoiding her father, so she writes a nasty letter to the principal of the school where Sara is teaching, Hugo Seelig, in an effort to give her a bad reputation.
1. In Skellig Michael begins as a lonely, troubled boy but after some traumatic experiences and meeting intriguing characters such as Mina, Skellig, Joy and his Dad, he begins to change into an independent and enlightened young man. He has a very young sister (who they later call Joy) with a heart problem which creates the possibility of him losing a sibling at a young age and through this he grows significantly wiser. His dad helps him to be settled and keep the family together while they all learn to cope with Joy’s ill health. When Michael is just getting used to his new house he meets his new neighbour, a girl called Mina.
[pic] James Baldwin (1924-1987) - born in New York, foster son of a clergyman and factory worker; the step-father, an evangelical preacher, struggled to support a large family and demanded the most rigorous religious behavior from his nine children; - Baldwin was an excellent student who sought escape from his environment through literature, movies and theatre; during the summer of his 14th birthday he underwent a dramatic religious conversion, partly in response to his nascent sexuality and partly as a further buffer against the ever-present temptations of drugs and crime; - youth minister at Fireside Pentecostal Assembly NYC 1938-1942 (storefront fundamental religion); gradually lost his desire to preach as he began to question