Everybody has a need for a good friend. A good friend is often a kind of a mentor where you can get inspiration to life. When one's friend dies, it is often here where you realize how good your friend has been for you. Exactly this issue deals Adam Marek’s short story “shouting at Cars” with.
Briefly explained “Shouting at Cars” is about an unnamed child narrator who is good friends with a troll. The narrator become friends with the troll after the tradition of bringing the troll a packed hamper with good stuff every single Christmas Eve. The friendship between these two offers a lot of instructional experiences. The troll teaches the young narrator everything, and first, after the troll’s dead the narrator realizes that the troll has been
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All this is not fair because the creature has an ability to influence the narrator and the family in a good way in spite of the fact that he does not speak and is “different”. The troll is portrayed in a physical way that depicts that he is ill and suggests the dead is near. It can be seen in the sen-tences 42-43 “The troll did not look good. His enormous eyes were bloodshot. The underside of his nose was crusted with snot He sniffed and dabbed there with what looked like a bedsheet.” The word bedsheet indicates that the creature must be white in the head without facial fea-tures. In the end of the “Shouting at Cars”, it turns out that the creature was sick and did …show more content…
We do not know a name so the gender of the protagonist is unknown. The protagonist’s gender can interpret as a girl. For example, sentences 65-67: “All the way home, I rubbed my frozen fingers together and breathed on them, worrying about whether the troll would be able to open the marmalade, the smallest of the jam jars, in this miserable weather”. These sentences seem girlish because the thoughts are concerning emotional subjects. He/her is a very thoughtful person because he/her worries for the troll’s health. Therefore the child is very sad after the troll’s death because he/her has lost a friend/mentor. The narrator’s family is feeling relieved whereby the narrator is angry with his family: “What made me most angry was how everyone else in the house seemed so much more relaxed after the troll died. So light and warm and happy, once they were freed from their obligation” (102-103). In these sentences is the meaning that the delivery of the hamper should not be an obligation and a source of stress, but something you do from the inclination to do something for
A red balloon floats from the boy’s grasp, as tears run down his face, all of the boys around him hit him and pull at his things. All except one, who stands in the back, Jon Huntman, He doesn’t understand why his childish need for torture and fun have subsided, he just felt pity for the boy. Years then past, his feelings of love and regret grew stronger each year. He no longer wanted pain for others, he had a good job and a wife, and he felt bad for past deeds and wanted to correct his wrongdoings. One day in his late 30’s he went to the boy’s house whom he had stood and watch get bullied, and hung a red balloon on his door. Growing mentally and becoming a better person is the best thing about growing up, as Jon did.
The first protagonist the audience is introduced to is Amberle. Her story is surprisingly similar to the traditional hero’s journey despite being a heroine. A heroine’s journey traditionally has her becoming very masculine. Amberle does not, however. She is a competent fighter - part of her princess background
Kinsey Millhone's [a female character in the book F Is for Fugitive] persona is gendered substantially as masculine. A woman who has few friends and lives for her work, she is self-consciously, almost parodically male-defined, as, for example, when she describes her tendency to amuse herself with the abridged California Penal code and textbooks on auto theft rather than engaging in the teatime gossip of a Miss Marple. (Delamater and Prigozy 73)
Theme: Situations and surroundings can shatter the innocence of friendship, but more the identity of the individuals.
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