Long Way Down Ending In the book Long Way Down, we follow the main character Will on his way to kill someone. At the beginning, Will was confident in his actions. His brother, Shawn, was murdered and in their community there are rules that must be followed. One of these rules is to get revenge. Due to Will’s older brother being murdered, Will believes that it is now his responsibility to kill whoever killed Shawn. Will does not know who killed his brother, but he thinks he knows who did, so he sets off to get his revenge. As the book goes on, the past starts making him question his actions, until finally the book ends in a way where the reader gets to interpret what happens next. I believe that Will ended up deciding to ditch the rules and …show more content…
At first, Will doesn’t listen to them, but with each person that gets on, we see Will breakdown and become filled with uncertainty. The author doesn’t show us what this leads to, but I think he ends up agreeing with and listening to them. The first person to join Will on the elevator ride is Buck. Will doesn’t recognize the man at first. Buck has to show him an old picture of himself for Will to recognize him. Will is in disbelief and confused. Buck was actually murdered and admitted he was dead. Will then thinks that either he is dead too, or Buck was here to take Will with him. Turns out, the gun Will took with him to get revenge used to belong to Buck. Buck gave it to Will’s older brother Shawn, and after Shawn died, Will took it for himself. Will tells Buck why he has the gun. Buck laughed at him and then, “‘But you ain’t got it in you, Will,’ he said, cocky. ‘Your brother did, but you— you don’t.’ (Reynolds 101).” Will is annoyed at this, as he’s confident in what he’s doing, “Maybe he didn’t hear me or didn’t take me seriously. Old people always do …show more content…
Will tries to tell him that he’s following them, but then he breaks again, “Confessed that I was scared, that I needed to know I was doing the right thing, (Reynolds 295).” We know for sure at this point that Will doesn’t even believe he should kill someone. Instead of getting an answer, Shawn starts crying. One of the rules is to never cry. If Shawn, the person who taught Will the rules, is now breaking the rules, how can Will even trust to follow them? They reach the lobby and everybody gets off besides Will. Shawn asks Will if he’s coming, and then the book ends. All of that has led me to believe that Will decided to break the rules. With each floor, Will’s confidence shook. He began to need reassurance, which he only got the opposite of. Therefore, I believe Will won’t get off the elevator. He’ll take the elevator back up to his floor, enter his apartment, and put the gun away. He’ll be there forever for his mom to make sure she hurts no more, and once he has a family of his own, instead of teaching them the rules, he’ll teach them love and strength. In conclusion, I think the book ends with Will ending his family’s cycle of violence and instead starts a new cycle of love and
Will is an innocent, level-headed child who's only goal in the beginning of the novel is to relish in childhood. Jim, on the other hand, is impulsive, reckless and usually thinks about himself before others. For instance, when the train came bearing the carnival, Jim stole off in the middle of the night to go investigate, leaving Will behind all alone. This shows that Jim thinks he is independent enough to venture off by himself. Jim is also inquisitive and in some cases, more mature than Will, who is content with staying
Lou and Uncle Phil begin verbal aggression, with Lou stating that Uncle Phil “is a better man than” he is because he ran away from his when Will was only a toddler (“Papa’s Got a Brand New Excuse.”). Uncle Phil used his fatherhood experience as a power to encourage Lou to inform Will himself that he has to leave, instead of being the messenger for Lou, to avoid further damage of whatever relationship that he has left with Will. He presents defensive communication by dismissing the suggestion (McCornack 213). Will eventually catches his father before he gets escape the room and confronts Lou himself. Lou did not end this interaction with an apology, but instead walked away. This part of the scene reinforces that “conflicts with loved ones are guaranteed to be intense and emotionally draining experience” (McCornack 256). In that moment, the situation was too uncomfortable for Lou, leading him to suddenly withdrawal from the scene ( McCornack 273). Closing the scene, Will “idealized [a] self representation of wanting to become ‘different’ father[s] as compared to” his own (Langa
But when Will interacts with the therapists, the good Will that others are obsessively trying to create is in reality still the bad Will, even though in the eyes of the alert audience the counselor is ethical and caring and trying to work with Will.
He constantly tries to defy the laws of nature. Will is not scared of anything and believes he is the greatest pilot and nothing could ever happen to him. He lacks a respect for the natural world. Will exclaims, “You know I was a bush pilot. The best. But the best have to crash. And I’ve crashed a plane, me. Three times. I need to explain this all to you. I was a young man when I crashed the first time. The world was wide open. I was scared of nothing” (Boyden, 1). Will also has complication with his inner violence. He tries to kill Marius out of fear and anger, which goes against his Native morals. Their families have hated each other for years and out of revenge he commits such an act he justifies by the violence Marius inflicts on his family. Will explains, “This wasn’t the best plan go do what I did to Marius. An act of revenge, an act of anger, and especially of fear. The cold fire of payback was the warmest that drove me to do it” (Boyden, 211). Fortunately, it is when Will runs away from Moosonee where he discovers that nature will get the better of him. During the time on the island, he becomes humble as he realizes he needs the help of others to survive. This contrasts his pride and allows Will to reconnect with the Native world once again. Evidence of this is when Will kills a moose and thanks the animal for its meat stating “meegwetch,” which can be translated to “thank you.” Animals in the Native world are highly respected and they play a significant role in the novel as they are reflected through human characters. The moose represents Will’s family and his dependency on them to survive. Will states, “Meegwetch for your life, I whispered. I am sorry for the bad kill. I was scared you’d run off and die alone far in the bush. Your death alone would be useless, and I, too, might end up starving this winter without you. Meegwatch” (Boyden, 306). Will is able to overcome his challenges of
Instead, he went to work construction with Chuckie, his unrelated brother. Will is a troubled orphan and is the product of his environment. He does janitorial work at MIT or works on construction sites to almost blend in with his surroundings. However, that is until his mentor discovered his genius-level intelligence for solving mathematical problems. I will analyze how Will is confused with his future and does not want to follow in his mentor’s footsteps and “sit in a room and do long division for the next fifty years.”
Childhood is crucial to the lives of teenagers and young adults. The experiences, advice, influences that people receive during their formative years is what they carry with them through the rest of their lives. Any emotional turmoil during this period of growth can have serious implications on individuals as they grow older. The book, The Catcher in the Rye, and the movie, Good Will Hunting; tell about the lives of two emotionally troubled young men: Holden and Will. Both of them suffer from emotional blockades in life that are rooted in their childhoods. They both are afraid to connect with others, have little self-value, and little motivation. These complications that Holden and Will face as they mature and grow up affect them in similar ways. Through the encouragement of unexpected mentors Will Hunting and Holden Caulfield, both capable individuals, learn to dismiss the fear of attachment and overcome their disillusioned youths.
..., the character is saved from the mean streets of Boston to pursue this talent and live a life with some knowledge of living it and not just memorizing it. With intervention of Limbaeu, Will meets Sean Mcguire and the two are connected through the geography that they were both raised. Sean brilliantly leads the young genius through the different avenues of feeling, that he is so blind too and there is a break though for Will, in that he can start to live outside of the book and truly see the big picture of life. This ?big picture? is merely learning how to love. Though Sean is a master at learning from books, he has little understanding on how things work in actual experience. Sean teaches him to understand what is an ideal and what is experience and therefore gives him the proper balance to survive in a world that had treated Sean so badly. The end of the story ends with Chuckie, not showing up to pick him up for work, which meant that he, in a way sacrificed himself to let his friend escape South Boston, and Will takes off to California to reunite with Sklark, whom he had pushed away. Sean gets a letter from Will saying ?thank you? and the resolution of the story is complete.
Will is a young child who is ripped out of his home and put in the care of Mr. Tom. Just as Mr. Tom changed throughout the story, so does Will.
Will see’s Buck as a big brother to Shawn, which is also a reason why Will looks up to him. Additionally, the quote “‘right, right. You gon’ follow the rules, huh?’ ‘Yeah that's right,’ I said, opening my stance to let him know this wasn’t a game, that I was for real. Buck pressed his finger to my chest like he was pushing an elevator
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah tells the true story of a boy soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone. Ishmael is 12 years old, living in Mogbwemo when he decides to travel to Mattru Jong to perform in a talent show. While there, the rebels attack his town, and Junior (his brother) and him immediately race back home to their parents. Along the way, they change their minds because everyone is fleeing. So many are wounded and killed, that they assume their parents are no longer there.
(Erikson, 1980) Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development theory are in my opinion one of the best ways to look at Will Hunting’s changing personality and behaviour in the movie. Will’s avoidant and defensive personality is due to his abusive foster parents, he never received sympathy from his foster parents which made him accept the abuse as well as him becoming the abuser, as we see in the film when Will fights a former classmate that bullied him in kindergarten years ago. Another example of abuse is in the form of psychological abuse towards the marriage of Macguire and his deceased wife in which Will continually insults. Will seems to fluctuate stages throughout the movie, due to being an orphan and abuse from his foster parents he is fluctuating between the stages of basic trust vs. mistrust, and Initiative vs. guilt. Then when he meets Skylar (Minnie Driver) his development shifts to intimacy vs. isolation. (Erikson,
An individual is shaped and molded by how they are treated by those that surround them. Most people value the opinions of those they care about and want to act in accord. Consequently, the choices people make are greatly influenced by the people in their lives. Sometimes, someone will become close with people who are different from each other. Such is the case in Good Will Hunting. Will Hunting (Matt Damon) struggles between the people that created him and the people that discovered him.
question his anger grows, and finally, Will pops the cork and downs the whiskey from the bottle.
Thesis:- Food meant a lot for people, it gives us livelihood, and one cannot image his life without food. Hundred foot journey novel is based on the theme of food, in which author tells his journey from his grandfather’s restaurant (Mumbai) to Paris where he owns his Three Star restaurant via London And then Lumiere, a small town in France. Although “the hundred-foot journey “seems very short physically, it took so long to Hassan become the French chef.
Will Hunting epitomises a punk prodigy. The 20-year-old delinquent works as a janitor at MIT, solving impossible equations, meant for students, in his spare time. He is soon recruited by one of MIT’s professors and made to participate in a rehabilitation programme with the hope of being employed by the university. Rehabilitation is made challenging as Will is a troubled individual; having grown up in abusive environments and jumping from different foster homes.