I'm not scared: Pino's characters
What is Pino’s intention here? Is he trying to make his son understand? Is he providing him with the guidance and support needed at this crucial part of the book?
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Through the conversation between Pino and Michele, it is clear to the reader that Pino is apparently portrayed as the powerful manipulator, an arrogant, obstinate and uncaring father. Through his actions of constantly berating Michele regardless of his son’s wellbeing ( Michele is half-sleep), we can feel that this is not the conversation between father and son but the police and a villain. This is indicative of how unaffectionate, selfish, and uncaring Pino is as a father, who hardly cares for his son’s feelings but only about if his plans go well. Further evidence of him being callous is elaborated through his threatening requests for Michele without any reasonable explanations. The author suggests that he does not at all care about the instinct curiosity of a nine-year-old boy who has just encountered a marked event in his life. This is shown in his over-expectation, his hardened feeling towards his son: “Forget him. He doesn’t exist anymore.” As a reader, we can see that it is just too much, like a detrimental block, a mentally agonizing pain for a gradually growing mindset of a little boy: “I felt as though I have been stabbed in the side”. Through his prurient, violent threatening to Michele: “thrashing of your life, shoot him in the head, swear on your father’s head”, it is obvious that Pino, from a seemingly nice and happy father at the start of the book, unveils his true characteristic of crude behaviour, deplorable manners and unfeeling emotion for his own son. Moreover, Pino is also clearly portrayed as a contemptuous father who defiantly refuses to comply to his own fault. Such evidence is displayed as he says: “There are things that seen wrong when you…The world is wrong, Michele.” This is one of the very rare part when the author shows us the
Please write a response that is min 20 words.
Through the conversation between Pino and Michele, it is clear to the reader that Pino is apparently portrayed as the powerful manipulator, an arrogant, obstinate and uncaring father. Through his actions of constantly berating Michele regardless of his son’s wellbeing ( Michele is half-sleep), we can feel that this is not the conversation between father and son but the police and a villain. This is indicative of how unaffectionate, selfish, and uncaring Pino is as a father, who hardly cares for his son’s feelings but only about if his plans go well. Further evidence of him being callous is elaborated through his threatening requests for Michele without any reasonable explanations. The author suggests that he does not at all care about the instinct curiosity of a nine-year-old boy who has just encountered a marked event in his life. This is shown in his over-expectation, his hardened feeling towards his son: “Forget him. He doesn’t exist anymore.” As a reader, we can see that it is just too much, like a detrimental block, a mentally agonizing pain for a gradually growing mindset of a little boy: “I felt as though I have been stabbed in the side”. Through his prurient, violent threatening to Michele: “thrashing of your life, shoot him in the head, swear on your father’s head”, it is obvious that Pino, from a seemingly nice and happy father at the start of the book, unveils his true characteristic of crude behaviour, deplorable manners and unfeeling emotion for his own son. Moreover, Pino is also clearly portrayed as a contemptuous father who defiantly refuses to comply to his own fault. Such evidence is displayed as he says: “There are things that seen wrong when you…The world is wrong, Michele.” This is one of the very rare part when the author shows us the