They never really got along, however he continues in the text saying that after his father’s death he began to contemplate and wonder why this was. He came to the retaliation that his father was very paranoid even with his own family. Before his death, he stopped eating food from his family because he believed they were trying to poison him. The rest of his essay speaks of the harsh society during the era of the civil rights movement. His father despised white people and barely ever trusted any of them, which was the stem of his paranoia.
In the group is Alison Reynolds the misfit, Andrew Clark the jock, Brian Johnson the geek, Claire Standish the princess and John Bender the rebel. It is apparent that they all have stressed relationships with their parents, are unsure about their future and have immense pressure from their peers (Loukides, 30). Allison Reynolds is a strange, unusually silent character, who is a mystery to most people. She did not do anything to deserve detention, except that she had nothing to do on this day and decided to go into detention in order to find company. Her parents are uninvolved and ignore her.
However, for someone who was so terrible at school he would entertain himself and others by writing silly stories and poems. Nobody really had any high expectations for Robert Munsch and everyone including himself thought he would not amount to anything special. Robert Munsch did not know what he wanted to do with his life. He went from job to job and even studied to become a priest, but nothing ever seemed right. While working in a daycare center trying to get the kids to be quiet he started telling them stories.
Growing up he always kept to himself and made himself distant from his family. An author from the VT review panel discovered early warning signs of Cho’s strange behavior. They wrote: Cho’s early development was characterized by physical illness and inordinate shyness. Even as a young boy, Cho preferred not to speak, a situation that worried and frustrated his parents. He was ostracized by some peers, though he did not discuss this with his family.
In most cases when bullying takes place in school the parents of the students are totally and completely unaware to it. This is attributed to the fact that in most cases the bully’s person is too afraid or just feels that there is absolutely no reason to come out and say what is happening. Most schools are so quick to judge one on their past actions, that they don’t take the time to really examine how the subject could be treated. As om the movie “Bang Bang Your Dead” The main character Trever, is bullied to the point that he totally changes his actions and outward felings that he’s considered dangerous, and shunned by all in his school and town. Directly following the first encounter with a bully he turns and retaliated the only way he can think of, threatening to bomb his high school’s football team.
My arguments that I will be discussing are depression that the two main characters show throughout their everyday lives, how they have difficulty in socializing with others and the negative emotional states, differences and struggles that is demonstrated by the two main characters in these novels. Meursault and Holden don't care much for life and never do their best at anything. We see early on that the two characters never perform to the best of their abilities. In "The Catcher and the Rye" Holden is doing very poorly in school, he is failing four out of five subjects. He doesn't try and does whatever he can to keep away from others.
Each one is from a different social group and they do not feel that they can spend time with each other in a friendly manner, leaving them to suffer Saturday detention by themselves. I remember a specific moment in high school where I was in detention and I was sitting alone. I felt bereft of friends and insecure. In fact, I began to get truly upset knowing that I would have to spend the rest of my day in seclusion without my friends or anyone I knew. It can be very upsetting to feel that you are ‘alone in a crowded room’.
My attention flitted here and there” (Rose 160). Not only he didn’t pay attention in class, but he “fooled around in class and read my books indifferently” (Rose 160). Rose became incompetent because there was no level set by the teachers and the “Students will float to the mark you set” (Rose 160). During the course of the school year Mike narrates how he is being abuse emotionally and verbally by his so called “teachers”. Rose describes why and how his teacher abuse authority in him and on other students and he says, “When his class drifted away from him, which was often, his voice would rise in paranoid accusations, and occasionally he would lose control and shake or smack us”.
Rose’s teachers were a nightmare; from an abusive homeroom teacher “he would lose control and shake or smack us†to an English professor who had little training in the subject. In Angelou’s essay, the problem is with the injustice of the system, there was no support from the government, but they had support from the community, unlike Rose. Rose was a mediocre student at best “I developed further into a mediocre student and a somnambulant problem solver, and that affected the subjects I did have the wherewithal to handle†he just did things to get by; there was no real connection with his studies. Angelou was an honors student, her “academic work was among the best of the year,†marked differences that only point to a system that does not recognize greatness, in Angelou because of the color of her skin, in Rose because of an administrative error; a confusion with another Rose; a placement test that categorized him as
In Alexie’s Indian reservation anyone who was smart was viewed as someone traitor and are not accepted into the community all because they were smart. Alexie thought himself how to read, so when he went to school he was more ahead of the other children in his Indian reservation who were still struggling with reading. The other classmates did not not like the fact that he was smart, so therefore he would get into fights with other classmates due to the classmates didn’t want him to answer a question that the teacher had asked due to the fact that he was