Ray As A Caregiver Archetype
“I have a car, a Custom 500 Ford four-door, plenty of legroom. He’d taken it to the car wash before he disappeared and left it gleaming in the sunshine on the driveway. How did he leave? Walk? Hitchhike? How do you leave a town with no train, no bus, no car? I also have a French horn I plan on learning how to play, an Akai stereo and my records, Tash’s stuff, and an official looking note saying the house is mine.
All my dad left with was his new suit, his dipping bird, and the bible he’d had since he was a kid. He laid out all the information in a note he left on the kitchen table. How to deal with the sale of the house, how to change the oil in the car, not to get a basement apartment if I could help it, and to list my number with my …show more content…
Ray leaves Nomi with the vital information because he knows in his heart that she will not stick around in East Village. Since he still believes in the Mennonite religion, he leaves words of Jesus for Nomi moreso for him than for her. He knows she will not care about that but it is in his character to leave a religious saying behind. Throughout the novel, the readers learn and infer that Nomi possesses qualities from a rebel and the innocent archetypes. Nomi is a rebellious teenager who does what she wants and does not care about what other people think. As a youth stranded in an isolated town, she experiments with drugs, alcohol and sexual relations. Even though she has an evident tough side, she also has a caring and a very kind side. When she was younger, Nomi was more in touch with the religion the town practised, she would pray and constantly ask if Tash was going to hell. Even though she out grew the religion, she is still a very nice teenage girl because she often helps children we they need it “Hey, I said, don’t cry. You’re gonna be okay. You had the wind knocked out of you, that’s all” (Toews 129). Nomi rushes over to a little boy who fell down and helped him get to school and comforted him. This demonstrates that although Nomi is a rebellious teenager she still cares for the people around her, especially
All my dad left with was his new suit, his dipping bird, and the bible he’d had since he was a kid. He laid out all the information in a note he left on the kitchen table. How to deal with the sale of the house, how to change the oil in the car, not to get a basement apartment if I could help it, and to list my number with my …show more content…
Ray leaves Nomi with the vital information because he knows in his heart that she will not stick around in East Village. Since he still believes in the Mennonite religion, he leaves words of Jesus for Nomi moreso for him than for her. He knows she will not care about that but it is in his character to leave a religious saying behind. Throughout the novel, the readers learn and infer that Nomi possesses qualities from a rebel and the innocent archetypes. Nomi is a rebellious teenager who does what she wants and does not care about what other people think. As a youth stranded in an isolated town, she experiments with drugs, alcohol and sexual relations. Even though she has an evident tough side, she also has a caring and a very kind side. When she was younger, Nomi was more in touch with the religion the town practised, she would pray and constantly ask if Tash was going to hell. Even though she out grew the religion, she is still a very nice teenage girl because she often helps children we they need it “Hey, I said, don’t cry. You’re gonna be okay. You had the wind knocked out of you, that’s all” (Toews 129). Nomi rushes over to a little boy who fell down and helped him get to school and comforted him. This demonstrates that although Nomi is a rebellious teenager she still cares for the people around her, especially