Even though Michele is innocent and immature he still displays some admirably mature qualities. Niccolo Ammaniti‚ in the novel ‘I’m Not Scared’ depicts Michele as innocent. This is a significant factor of the choices Michele makes. Innocence is an important theme throughout the novel and is portrayed by many characters. Michele’s immaturity is an obstacle he defeats to display admirable qualities of loyalty and courage. Michele’s naivety originates from his juvenile youth. He is inexperienced with
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able to make the right‚ moral decision. Michele and Skull are two very different characters with different stances on their morals and what they consider to be crossing the line. This line‚ is quite clear for Michele unlike Skull where there is a large “grey area” on what is morally right or wrong. Michele’s morals are also strikingly different to those of his father Pino’s who in trying to do the right thing by his family‚ does something morally Michele is a clear example of a character who shows
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Theme of Cruelty Throughout the novel‚ I’m Not Scared the hero‚ Michele‚ realises that the adult world is not as innocent and caring as he originally thought. Niccolo Ammaniti’s novel takes the reader on a journey through an innocent and too trusting world seen through the eyes of a nine year old boy‚ Michele. It is set in Southern Italy in the hot summer of 1978. Michele finds a dirty‚ incoherent boy‚ Fillipo‚ chained in a hole hidden outside his village‚ but is too scared to speak of it. He
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Does Michele learn that adults are not to be trusted or relied upon? At the beginning of this novel the reader is introduced to an innocent and seemingly normal child. The story really starts when Michele discovers a boy in a whole. Michele doesn’t find anyone to help this helpless boy but rather keeps it a secret; something that he has found to keep for himself. This boy in the whole eventually tells a story to Michele (not in words) that people around him are not what they seem. People who he thinks
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was woke up by Chance Kindle. Chance told Angela that the neyibors Michele Fox and Rebecca Woodall were yelling about the dog. Angela was told by Chance that Rebecca pointed a gun at him and his friends. Angela then came outside and was yelling towards Michele and Rebecca when the deputy arrived. I spoke to Chance who made the following statement. Chance was outside in the front yard‚ when the dog got loose and ran towards Michele and Rebecca’s properties and came right back. Chance heard about 3
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I’m not scared ( How does Ammaniti convey the courage of Michele?) Ammaniti Niccolo is an author who wrote an extraordinary book called "I’m not scared‚" this book Is based in the year 1976 about a boy named Michele from Aqua Traverse Luciginano (Southern Italy) who goes on the greatest and biggest adventure of his life to face evil‚ where we get to experience Ammaniti experiment with the playful and volatile world of childhood and give us an insight on what it would be like to be in Michelles shoes
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especially Michele. Michele says “I’m not scared of anything”. When in fact he is scared of many things. Most of which are imaginary such as ogres‚ monster‚ witches and so on. When he finds Filippo in the hole and who put him there‚ Michele’s fear gain a more realistic basis. However‚ even though Michele know he has a right to be afraid‚ he is compelled by his sense of moral obligation. After seeing Filippo’s mother plead of television he knew he must go back to see Filippo. Michele looks upon his
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forced to complete a forfeit‚ Michele does it instead. Michele completes forfeit. Most of the main characters are talked about. Papa brings them a present of a model Gondola; Acqua Traverse is revealed. CHAPTER 2: There is a talk with Michele and Maria at the start. Michele finds Fillipo‚ there is a lot of description of Michele finding him. Michele at this point is horrified‚ he tries to talk to him but gets even more scared. Michele has a second talk with Maria‚ Michele says he is going to run away
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two we know it is complicated to work out which one is worse as they both make the story dark and dense. The reality in the story is created by the people who Michele love and respect‚ he has no control and no idea what is going to happen‚ that is one of the reasons why the reality is more horrible than the imagination made up by Michele himself. Pino‚ Michele’s father‚ has always been the perfect model of a real man who always teaches his children the right things‚ ‘Papa had a nice smile…Neither
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against all odds. We learn of the climate and poverty that makes the inhabitants of Acqua Traverse victims of circumstance‚ and ultimately drives them to persecute other people in the continuous pursuit of money and exceptional livelihoods. Clearly‚ Michele is not the only victim in Ammaniti’s text‚ but it is through his endless determination to restore justice that ultimately demonstrates his morality‚ and separates him from everyone else in the story. Set in "that damned summer of 1978" in a small
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