As the end of high school draws near for me, I wonder how much have I learned the past few years? How much have I grown and have I evolved into a better person than I was before? Many adolescents and preteens go through a phase where they realize a truth in their life, and that becomes the catalysts of their growth into adulthood. Rule of The Bone by Russell Banks included a main character called Bone, he was a disturbed child named Chappie whose early life consisted with alot of alcoholic and child abuse. While in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, a boy named Arnold Spirit is grown into a neighborhood of heavy alcoholic abuse and hopelessness. Both were heavily influenced by their childhood, but as each boy …show more content…
begins to find themselves, their reactions to similar situations are severely different from one another.
Each boy gets nurtured and find outs what is it that they want in life eventually finding it one way or another.
Bone’s parents were mostly self serving and care nothing for their son, as a result they divorce and left Bone to contemplate about his life. As a result, he left his home at an early age as well as dropping out of school. His views became more selfish after that, usually stealing and dealing drugs to survive. He ends up with a biker named Bruce who bullies his and controls his everyday life. At first he seemed like a second abusive father, but in the end he sacrifices himself to try to save Bone from a fire. Bone starts to think that his parents were like Bruce and had alternative motives that he did not understand. Through the story, he meet with Buster and Froggy. These two people become the personification of Bone’s troubled past. Bone sympathizes with Froggy as she is abused by the pedofile Buster. Until finally, he takes Froggy, whose name actually is Rose , to her
…show more content…
biological mother to save her from a life of prostitution. Bone finally realizes maybe he should sympathize with his parents just like how he did with Rose. He wants to be more adult about his approaches on his problem which encourages him to actually talk to his parents about their problems. However, this results in his stepfather being arrogant and proud of his abuse and his mother choosing the stepfather over him. Bone finds out that his family has disowned him and the only person left for him to run to is his actual father in Jamaica. Complications happens resulting in Bone running away with his best friend I-Man and his dad out to kill I-Man. His father eventually succeeds and this has Bone resenting his actual father as well. Bone finally realizes that sometimes family is not the answer, it wasn’t his family to save him from hell but it was his friends. Bruce , Rose , and I-Man all were there for him and guided him when his parents refused to guide him. Arnold Spirit was a boy who was raised in similar circumstances, as his whole family were tired hopeless drunks. With no motivation to move further from his eventual fate of being drowned in alcohol, he realizes that he needs to deviate from the fate befalling his tribe. A teacher tells him that he has so much potential and that his tribe is only going to pull him back from the goal that he wants. He begins to become a rebel of that tribe by attending the most prestigious school around his encampment which is full of white people, who he sees are people with all of “hope”. As the first time he ever strayed away from the code of his people he feels like a betrayer. White people are generally looked down upon because they are reason they are in these encampments and his tribe people begin to see Arnold as a traitor for siding with the “white devils”. Native Americans and white people are generally very different from one another, as Natives are more poor and dumberer than whites. Being scared of being prosecuted and being exiled from the white people at school, Arnold puts up a front that is their definition of “normal”. Arnold’s whole experience in the new school, Reardan , allowed him to experience independance. He learns in Reardan that being poor and a minority dosen’t make your existance obsolete , as his dreams bared as much value as the kids there. However, his time at Reardan becomes severely affected by the death of his father’s friend, his grandmother, and then his own sister. All their deaths because of alcohol use. Arnold loss of his family hit him hard and affected his work performance at school and his social life. When he came back to camp, his native people no longer give him a hard time, as they know how it feels to lose someone. Independance and the strength to become a person of your own identity doesn't make you a traitor to your people. Arnold was the hope for the camp and the only person who would follow his dreams to break the cycle of dying from alcohol. Family was very important for Arnold however, he knew that he couldn’t follow their footsteps he needed his own path and because he did his family followed. The path to adulthood is not a straight one, as roads can diverge with every action and every aspect of how the person lives.
How they interpret the information given to them is mostly how they are influenced as they grown. Each character , Bone and Arnold, experience a lot of trauma and alcohol abuse in their early years of life. Similar experience in their youth, but different interpretations of the actions of their parents. Bone had a negative experience with his parents, thus making bone more morose and aggressive on how he reacted to things in the future. While Arnold, understood it wasn’t his parents that were at fault and it was just their customs, this caused him to take that experience as a how not to grow up . Bone didn’t really understand where he was going until his friends guided him along the path he took. Bruce was there to make sure that he didn’t end up like him as a violent and drunk drug addict. Rose was there for Bone to help through abuse when no one was there to help him go through the abuse. I-Man was the one to show Bone that he didn’t have to go through what he did alone. Each person tried their best to give Bone hope of surviving in a world without his family and they succeeded. Bone grew up into a more open person and even though his family detested him, he recognized that friends can help him instead. Arnold’s abuse wasn’t normal but it was like an overall trend in his tribe of people. His life was planned out for him to attend poor school and
not go to college to become a drunk. However, his teacher told him to strive for better and aim for the best and not succumb to the rules of the tribe. As Arnold pursued his goal for a better life, his tribe tried to bring him down so he wouldn’t change. This made Arnold skeptical about his decisions but he knew that it was best for him to change, even if it broke the customs of the tribe. Overtime, Arnold began to be the beacon of hope for the tribe as he was the person who want a better life and as a result his parents started to believe in him and slowly his best friend finally believed in him. Arnold grew into an individual who found his own way and because of that he gained support from his family. Each book is written by life experiences or a similar experience shared by the author with the main character. Russell Banks writes a tale with a dark undertone to show many of the people that not everyone had a chance in life to be a good person, and just because in the beginning they experience the worst doesn't mean they will grow up to be the worst. Bone was a character that really showed the dark side of growing up but it deter him from taking those experiences to create a better person of himself. Sherman Alexie had a more lighthearted tone to his work to apply himself to the reader so they can confirm and relate to his story. Arnold was mature for his age and as he progressed through school he mature even further than others. He understood that his dreams were not just a dream, they were relevant and even if his friends and family degraded him for it he still kept trying. Alexie is trying to say that you matter and even if other don’t think it and you don’t think it either, you eventually will and that will cause a chain reaction and cause others to believe in you. Each author has their way of saying that the coming of age is an important thing but some people have more rigorous experiences to achieve adulthood
The boys work together even though their opinions differ throughout the chapter. They work together to progress on ideas and ways to try and get off of the
Two young boys Andrej and Tomas are forced to live their life traveling from town to town scavenging for things to keep them alive whilst caring for their baby sister Wilma after soldiers tore them away from their family. Experiencing their family being ripped apart and loved ones murdered before their eyes the boys are left questioning what did they do to deserve this? The boys have learned to live
The main protagonist of the film, Scotty Smalls, is introduced as a straight-A, friendless young boy who has just moved into a new neighborhood in new state. While
...es your life and everyone around you. No matter what anyone says, you are a lot different after your life (or another’s) has been placed in the hands of others. The boys not only matured a lot, but leadership roles emerged. It became obvious that Gordie was a leader in the group less than halfway through. And as groups tend to do, they relied on his leadership more and more until the end. The group was faced with the additional challenge of dealing with difficult group members. But the group discovered the concept of synergy when they found if they stuck together and used teamwork, they are a lot stronger unified than individually.
Cal and Aron are Cathy's twin sons. In their relationship they too have many conflicts, Aron, the "good" son, studies religion and Cal, the "evil" son, gambles and visits whore houses. Aron tries to convert Cal, but Cal refuses to convert a...
Development: The narrative follows part of these students' lives during a year at college, they are in each other's lives whether they know it or not. There are parallels drawn between them as the narrative progresses: Peace V War, Aggression V Pacifism, sides are taken and the racial lines are clear- stick to your own group like glue. How they fit in with the rest of the college population, Malik does this better than Remy and Kristen- he heads straight for the black population.
Film Thrasher compares and contrasts the difficulty of two men, and one young boy. Boyhood
Some Boys is told in alternating voices, the voices of Grace and Ian. They are both forced to spend some time coming in to the empty school to clean out lockers as punishment for various bad behavior.
The mother realizes then that the young boys, the future "Generals" who will soon live as men do "playing war", are far from innocent. Her rite of passage is a complete and sad transition from the mother of a child that she has some control over to the parent of an independent man, who will make his own choices and fight his own battles.
Slowly, they become increasingly fearful. Then a boy named Jack rebels and forms his own tribe with a few boys such as Roger and Bill. Many things, such as their environment, personalities and their own minds, contribute to their change. Eventually, many of the boys revert to their inherently evil nature and become savage and only two boys remain civilized. The boys deal with many trials, including each other, and true colors show.
...to the fact that sex is brought up at such a young age and they do not know how to deal with their sexual needs and wants. For instance, Bone had sexualized dreams of where she was able to rebel against Glen. She said, “I loved these fantasies, even though I was sure they were a terrible thing. They had to be, they were self-centered and they made me have shuddering organisms. In then, I was very special.” (113) Along with the dreams, Bone and her younger sister Reese performed in sexual acts together, calling them “private games”. However, Bone lost a part of her childhood when she was raped at the age of 12. She did not have a normal life and was forced to perform sexual acts with Glen. This was another influence that changed who she was as a whole. She did not get to be a carefree child. Bone had to grow up when she realized she was not protected in her family.
E-Bone is about action he does not like to sit around and wait for problems to come to him he likes to go to it. In the scene where all four of the characters have a meeting deciding on how to deal with benny, E-bone suggests that they should go to benny directly and kill him. Now of course going that way can result in a suicide mission but men don’t question things, men are supposed to be about action. E-bone is demonstrates the male characteristics of defying authority. What makes a man is what he is willing to do to get things done and E-bone is the one to do what is necessary because he is thirsty for
Boyhood is a cinematic time lapse over the span of 12 years documenting a boy named Mason, from the years 6 to 18 going through the struggles and triumphs of childhood and adulthood. The purpose of the movie is to illustrate how Mason travels through young adulthood and his experiences to show how it shapes him as a person. The independent movie gained much praise from audiences and critics alike. It cannot be argued, however, that it is like no other coming of age movie.
I have chosen to review the film Boyhood written by Richard Linklater that took twelve years to film. In the movie Boyhood, it illustrates the life of a boy named Mason Jr. through the many stages of his childhood to adolescence to becoming an adult. The movie follows Mason Jr.’s life through his years of kindergarten, middle school, high school, and to college. Through these milestones in his life encounters society with socialization, culture and norms that are exhibited through his family, friends, and others. With factors of social classes, and gender that influence Mason Jr. as he grows and fits into the society that is formed. From the events and milestones in Boyhood, it is able to show human behaviour in society from our
About a boy is a novel which follows the lives of two people: Marcus and Will. Marcus is a strange kid who struggles with growing up, he is in need for acceptance outside of his own family, he is searching for his own identity, he is a victim of constant bullying and is suffering with his lack of parental care. Will is the complete opposite to Marcus. He is a 36 year old who is in his own extended childhood, he is searching for his identity not wanting to lose his youth, he ‘prides himself on his cool’ and simply can’t find a way to grow up. It is when these two opposing characters meet that they soon act as catalysts for each other. From their dependence on others they find independence for themselves within one another.