Joe Kavalier Character Traits
Contemporary Literature 2
March 6, 2013
Traits shared by many superheroes demonstrated by the two main characters Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay
This paper shows that the two main characters in the novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” named Joe and Sam demonstrate traits shared by most superheroes. The novel written by Michael Chabon and published in 2000 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 2001.
The novel is about the two cousins Joe and Sam who start writing comic books. Joe escapes from Prague and wants to earn enough money to save his family. The two of them have to go trough lots of troubles to get to their success. For example they have bosses who don’t want to pay them as much money as they deserve. Joe also keeps getting into fights with Germans. He wants to fight them and feels bad that he doesn’t do more to help his family and all the other Jews. While Joe meets a girl named Rosa …show more content…
Joe wears his costume only sometimes. He wears it when he performs at parties, for example Bar Mitzvahs, and shows his magic tricks.
Most superheroes have one arch-enemy. For Joe Carl Ebling from the Aryan-American League becomes the arch-enemy. The other arch-enemy is Germany but he never really gets in contact with a Nazi. The only time he kills one is when he is enlisted in the Navy. He joins the navy only to kill Nazis but this fails because he is being sent to a lonely island in the Antarctica. Later on Carl Ebling, known as the Saboteur, plans an attack on Joe while he performs as the Escapist.
Sam’s enemies at the beginning are Anapol and the other men from Empire Comics, because they don’t give him the money and the position he thinks he deserves. Later on his enemy is the police, because they find them with other gay men and want to arrest him. One of the policemen rapes him and that is one main reason why he stays in New York instead of going to Los Angles with Bacon and writing a
March 6, 2013
Traits shared by many superheroes demonstrated by the two main characters Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay
This paper shows that the two main characters in the novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” named Joe and Sam demonstrate traits shared by most superheroes. The novel written by Michael Chabon and published in 2000 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 2001.
The novel is about the two cousins Joe and Sam who start writing comic books. Joe escapes from Prague and wants to earn enough money to save his family. The two of them have to go trough lots of troubles to get to their success. For example they have bosses who don’t want to pay them as much money as they deserve. Joe also keeps getting into fights with Germans. He wants to fight them and feels bad that he doesn’t do more to help his family and all the other Jews. While Joe meets a girl named Rosa …show more content…
Joe wears his costume only sometimes. He wears it when he performs at parties, for example Bar Mitzvahs, and shows his magic tricks.
Most superheroes have one arch-enemy. For Joe Carl Ebling from the Aryan-American League becomes the arch-enemy. The other arch-enemy is Germany but he never really gets in contact with a Nazi. The only time he kills one is when he is enlisted in the Navy. He joins the navy only to kill Nazis but this fails because he is being sent to a lonely island in the Antarctica. Later on Carl Ebling, known as the Saboteur, plans an attack on Joe while he performs as the Escapist.
Sam’s enemies at the beginning are Anapol and the other men from Empire Comics, because they don’t give him the money and the position he thinks he deserves. Later on his enemy is the police, because they find them with other gay men and want to arrest him. One of the policemen rapes him and that is one main reason why he stays in New York instead of going to Los Angles with Bacon and writing a