Ponyboy Curtis: Ponyboy is the fourteen year old narrator and the protagonist of the story. Ponyboy is with a gang that calls themselves the Greasers. Since both of his parents died in a car crash he lives with his two older brothers Sodapop and Darry. Ponyboy is different then the rest of his gang, mostly because he has different interests than they do. Throughout the novel he must overcome many challenges to save his friends, family, and himself.
These four often get into trouble with their drunkenness. Education wise Peter has been known to have attended Providence high School in Rhode Island, but to have never graduated. He also has no college experience. This all may explain why his low intellect places him in a category below mentally retarded. His mental shortcomings have resulted in various accidents to other people; most notably the death of his step-father Francis Griffin, and injuries on multiple occasions to his wife Lois Griffin.
He is very distant even from his family, his grandchildren don't like to visit him and they misbehave during the funeral. Walt also judges them without having into account that they are little kids and teenagers, he dislikes the way they dress and their attitudes. As for Walt's sons, my impression is that he feels like they are trying to send him to the old people's house to get rid of him and take over his belongings, the house and his beautiful car, the Gran Torino. Another issue that Walt has to face after the funeral is that Father Janovich is tries to talk with him in order to get him to confession, because he had promised Walt's wife he would do so after her passing away. This is very difficult to Walt because a younger man is talking him about life, being that he has had strong and near experiences with death, so Walt stereotypes him as a young virgin speaking things learned at school, but that the Father didn't even understand according to him.
As you read, you enter the mind of Holden and experience everything he is thinking, which isn’t exactly what I would imagine goes through the mind of every other teenage boy. Holden’s relationships with other people aren’t exactly normal and Holden is extremely affected by the death of his brother, Allie. He constantly finds himself alone and depressed and basically just lost in the world. It’s clear that Holden is psychologically disturbed. To start off, we know that Holden is a troubled kid from the get-go.
Paul Fisher is a scared 7th grader that doesn’t stand up for himself. Moving across the country, from Texas to Florida made it even worse. People often make fun of him, calling him names like eclipse boy. He has a lot of memories of people making fun of him and his brother is always there. In fact, his brother even scares him.
The Grinch was mean and angry about many things in his life, this part of his personality developed this way because when he was a child in school he was made fun of. The other kids were mean to him and so in turn he became mean and angry and this became ingrained in his unconscious and a part of his personality. The unconscious is divided into two parts, the Id and the SuperEgo, and both play different parts. The Id stores unconscious energy and is present at birth but the SuperEgo doesn’t develop until age 4 or 5 and prevents a person from doing morally wrong things. Most people would agree that yelling at, screaming at, and putting little children into sorting machines is morally wrong.
Depending on the drinker, anxiety and depression can be elevated or become less intense. Throughout the book it is evident Frankie’s father is addicted to alcohol and hated due to his neglect of his family. Though he most obviously loves them, he is unable to put food on
These people all face troubles in their everyday lives, and are treated unfairly. Elderly people are viewed as worthless and this is not fair. Candy was the elderly person in the novel who feared for his future. This was because he was aging and showing signs of weakness, and he wasn’t sure if the boss was going to let him keep his job for much longer. Candy did however have compensation for losing his arm, which he had kept saved encase he needed it.
It isn’t an easy ride to get a job or just live a normal life. But in the story “Papa Who Wakes up Tired” the little girl realized that her father isn’t as strong as she thought. She saw him crying and she was confused because she always thought that he was a big, tough guy who would protect her, but instead he was crying because of his fathers’ death. Their similar because in both works their both going through some type of pain or struggle in their lives. Well, in the story it was accidental that the little girl saw her father crying, but on the
“There was a time when I could have lost my friend,” he said, “I kept making excuses about not being able to go out on my bike with him.” Nelson is a kid who has high self-esteem. He had internalized his worry and stress and he would rather solve all the difficulties by himself than ask anyone for help. At first he became a social outcast because of his erratic behavior and he even got angry with his friend for telling the teachers about the things he was going through. Sometimes he even truants from school and fails to finish his homework. But what he didn’t expected was when all his friends knows about his condition, they volunteered their time to help him when he was falling behind the school, and sometimes even help him with his mum’s daily care.