Oryx And Crake Character Analysis Jima

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Rachel Beard Professor McClure-Wade English 2030 3 May 2017 Character Analysis: Jimmy/Snowman Jimmy, or Snowman as he called by the Crakers, is the protagonist of Margret Atwood’s Novel “Oryx and Crake”. The story is told in the point of view of Jimmy but is it not narrated by him. Jimmy is a very emotion driven type of person who wears his heart on his sleeve a lot of the time and his horrible childhood plays a big role in this. Jimmy is not the mathematical or logical type but rather has a love for art, literature, and words. He is one of the only people that exhibit human qualities throughout the story. His rough childhood has a major role to play in his need for emotional connection with others and he seems very lonely even when he is with his friend Crake. Jimmy’s Childhood was very rough and played a big role in his personality. He grew up with parents who did not have an emotional connection to each other. They were always fighting or pretending to get …show more content…

This is where Jimmy meets the woman that he has been hoping to see since his childhood: Oryx. Oryx was the girl that Jimmy saw in the child pornography that he and Crake used to watch after school. He fell instantly in love with her the first sight of her. Crake, who is also in love with Oryx, uses her against Jimmy to finalize his plan. Crake uses Oryx like a pawn against Jimmy by using his love for her, which leads me to believe that this was always Crakes plan. That he manipulated Jimmy and Oryx knowing full well that she was going to die and that Jimmy would have to be left with the Crakers because of his promise to Oryx. Because Jimmy was hardwired for acting upon emotion, he could never brake his promise to the woman he loved. Because Crake knew that Jimmy was so empathetic, he wanted him to be the one to look after his special project after his death, which were the

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