After crashing youre moms car, your now getting to do some community service with a old man named Sol, what could go wrong. In Notes from a midnight driver by Jordan Sonnenblick Alex is learning new ways of being himself. He starts off with a very bad deed but then he has to do some community service and threw that he learns from a polish man named sol that you will have to coop with your life When I first started reading Notes from a midnight driver you think that Alex is a no good person but after you start to be engaged with the book you start seeing that Alex has a more nicer version of himself. Alex is ignorant because he took the car without permission and crashed into a yard.(at page 3-5) This shows that he ignorant because taking things and breaking them and then he brushes the consequences away away. And he also says “It seemed like a good idea at the time” when obviously it was not, this shows that he is making excuses to brush this off and go on. Buwad was obviously not going to happen, he got in a lot of trouble and had to do community service and Sol which has helped alex grow a lot, and alex and …show more content…
sol became friends under a strange circumstance. When Alex became friends with the band kids even though he use to tease them all the time but with sols guidance he became friends with them and they had a concert, but alex would have never befriended them if he didnt meet sol and being nicer.
An example of him being nicer such as (page 249) stated by Annette “Your not more sensitive as a musician. -- You're A more sensitive person.Look how you used to make fun of us behind our backs.” and “See? You were almost going to apologize. A year ago, you would have denied the whole thing , then started making up jokes as soon as I stopped talking. But now you’re just,I don't know, better.Nicer.” This shows that he was a bad person until Sol came around and made him “better” This shows that with sols guidance alex made a friend that he would have never made before and in a strange circumstance which is my
motif. Alex also Shows that he made a better friendship with llora. He started of a lot of times slightly ignoring her but (again) with Sol pointing some stuff out Alex starts to “Like” her such as on page (104) He says “I had a horrible thought all of a sudden that she was really Was very pretty”. This shows that he is starting to like her more. He starts to notice her more he evan says “it's like sol put an evil spell on me” this shows that Alex is liking llora more because of sol. Alex started to like her after a encounter with Sol, and this shows that one strange circumstance with sol makes a whole different kind of friendship with llora All in all alex is a kind and caring person once you get to know him, once he becomes Sols friend, alex is a better person and he now knows that every friendship has a meaning. He also learned that friendship can be formed by unknown ways. So next time you make a friend wonder what it took to get that friend.
The main idea is to be yourself, not to change for someone else. In the beginning, Alex lived in Quill, a place where you could be anything but yourself. If you showed creativity in any way shape or form, you had an infraction. At age thirteen, those with infractions were Unwanteds, depending on how serious the infraction. Quill believed that all unwanteds were eliminated in the Great Lake of Boiling Oil- Even the high priestess.When Alex was “eliminated” he was welcomed by Marcus Today, and the world of Artimè, where creativity was embraced and taught- pretty much a polar opposite of Quill. Alex becomes good friends with 3 other Unwanteds, Samheed, Lani, and Meghan. They were all really close- until they all began Magical Warrior training- all except for Alex. Alex pulls away from the others for a while, until eventually he starts training himself. The whole group was really brought back together after the battle with Quill.
To begin, Alex is one out of the four characters that reveals self-awareness broadly. Alex begins by stating, “What’s it going to be then, eh” (Burgess 1). The use of this quote explains to the reader that Alex is not only self-aware of himself, but he is careless, and he is an outlaw. Another quote that Alex states throughout the novel is, “O my brothers” (Burgess 5). “O my brothers” reve...
chosen to undergo a new “treatment” that the State has developed to “reform” criminals. After the State strips him of his choice to choose between good and evil, Alex can only do good now and even thinking of doing something bad makes him violently ill. Then, Alex is “rehabilitated” considered “rehabilitated”. Afterwards Alex is released where he encounters an “ex-droog” and one of his enemies, they beat him to a pulp and leave him out in the middle of nowhere. After coming to his senses, Alex makes his way to a house and in that house, right before Alex went to prison, h...
The author then looks back upon the time in his life when her mother decided to drive Hunter Jordan’s old car. However, she didn’t know how to drive, and was generally afraid to get behind the wheel. On that day, she drove crazily on the road, and declared to never drive again. James McBride also reflected on his life up to a teenager, who knew that bad things would occur in the not too distant future if he didn’t change his ways and behavior.
How White people assumed they were better than Indians and tried to bully a young boy under the US Reservation. Alexie was bullied by his classmates, teammates, and teachers since he was young because he was an Indian. Even though Alexie didn’t come from a good background, he found the right path and didn’t let his hands down. He had two ways to go to, either become a better, educated and strong person, either be like his brother Steven that was following a bad path, where Alexie chose to become a better and educated person. I believe that Alexie learned how to get stronger, and stand up for himself in the hard moments of his life by many struggles that he passed through. He overcame all his struggles and rose above them
At the base of his family was Judaism. Their identity was firmly rooted in their religion. To Alex all he saw when he looked in the mirror or at other kids, at the furniture in people's homes, the way they spoke, was Jewish and not Jewish. His facial features and his name became sources of resentment and things he desperately wanted to change. Thoughts of being Alton C. Peterson and having a smaller nose consumed him. The pressure his parents put on him to go to temple and define himself as a Jew! Jew! Jew! Jew!, "sucking and sucking on the sour grape of a religion," made him crazy. Frustrated with dwelling on the past and the anxiety of being a perfect Jew, Alex insisted, "I also happen to be a human being!"
All stemming from the beginning lie regarding the truth about the state of the GDR, Alex continuously has to raise the ante. Alex has to fabricate the news from the
In the short story “Night Drive by Will F. Jenkins”, Mr. Tobar did not commit any crimes because he needed to get revenge. His wife was killed by the same man which was Bob. On page 6 it states “Mrs. Tabor was killed somewhere along here.” Since the man killed his wife he gets the right to figure out who it is. Also, on page 8 it says “It was a bludgeon, a club, a thing with which to batter in lustful frenzy at a body helpless to resist any longer.” According to this quote Bob was about to make an effort to kill Mr. Tabor, which gives him the right to defend himself.
Alexie begins the essay by telling the audience some background information about himself and his family. He tells of how they lived on an Indian Reservation and survived on “a combination of irregular paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food.” (Page 1, para. 1) Right from the start, Alexie grabs the emotions of his audience. Alexie then goes on to talk of his father and how because of his love for his father, he developed a love for reading. “My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well.” (Page 1, para. 2) He talks of how he taught himself to read and that because of the books he began to thirst for more knowledge. Alexie says that once he learned to read, he began to advance quickly in his schooling. However, because of his thirst for knowledge, he got into much trouble. “A smart Indian was a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians alike.” (Page 2, para. 6) This statement is one of the most powerful statements in the entire essay. The reason for this being that Alexie knows that trouble will come but he was not going to let it ...
As in all art, each masterpiece has a distinct mark from their specific artist. The literary arts are no exception, with each author leaving a prominent rhythm, style and language. Thomas Hardy is known for his poems of separation. Thomas found love when he was 30 years old, but his relationship went sour when his marriage to Emma Gifford became estranged. Emma later died leaving her husband an outcast. It was not until 1914 when Thomas Hardy married his second wife, Florence, that he understood how much he missed his first wife. In his poems, Hardy focuses on withering love and the being miserable after a loss. Also, he uses rhyme scheme, multiple cesuras and end stops and symbolism to conceal a deeper meaning of the poem. The two poems that connect the two aspects of Thomas Hardy’s style are Your Last Drive and The Workbox.
One case on how Alex is naïve is when he believed everything Julia Rothman, the head executive of Scorpia and also and criminal mastermind, told him. She told him lies about his boss and how his father died, which Alex, at the time, believed. Alex believed her because he didn’t know any better than to not trust strangers, especially from a criminal organization. Another example would be when Julia Rothman kept putting him through tests and procedures and he decided to be witty, versus use logic and ask around. “Doctor: I am perfectly qualified to give you an injection. You’re not going to tell me you’re afraid of a little prick? -Alex: I wouldn’t call you that”(Horowitz 171). That quote is related to why Alex is naïve because it shows he is not paying attention or looking out for anything that looks suspicious. Instead, he insults the doctor with the childish personality that he tends to display. This personality is consistent throughout the book and adds to his complacency within the
If all of these events did not happen, Alex would still be a static character. Through all of his courage, he found what he was looking for. He dug deep and went to the extremes that were not normal of himself. All of his work lead to his dynamic
His clothing, his words, his overall attitude. The distinction between the two is triggered by the gentle sounds of Ludwig Van. Beethoven. The.. & nbsp; The psychology of Alex would be that of a serial killer. He is a classic.
In the incident at camp he stood by his friend, Jack, and helped him up. This is kind because Auggie could have just ran without helping Jack up. Also, Auggie did not press charges against Julian even after he made the “plague”, put unkind notes in his locker, and had everyone ignore him and Jack. Lastly, Auggie did not hold a grudge against Jack when he talked bad about him on Halloween but instead forgave Jack when he asked for forgiveness. Those are some examples of Auggie’s kindness.
All Alex knew was to be violent due to the failure and lack of family structure, the school system and the law. The lack of these assertive institutions Alex couldn’t properly generate proper moral values and social norms. According to Mead he analyzed that a child gets some sort of understanding of how to act properly by how others act toward the child. Later on in the child’s development he/she learns and understands “the generalized other”, values and cultural rules (textbook). Alex was never pressured into going to school, there is one scene where his mother wakes him and tells him to get ready for school and Alex tells her “he doesn’t feel like going today” and that was the end of it. With Alex missing out on school he never really self-aware and knowledgeable. His family is absent also. Again with Alex telling his mother he doesn’t feel like going to school and his mother just lets it go shows the carelessness of his parents. Alex can pretty much do whatever he wants when he wants. With their lack of parenting he never truly gained proper values and morals and instead he created his own by the morals and values his “droogs” know. He had many run in’s with the police even before he was