John's Future Failure: The Pigman By Paul Zindel
John's Future Failure
Do you agree that you can tell if kids will be a successful contributing adults from when they are teenagers? Developmental Assets are good qualities a kid can posses to have a good successful future for himself. A search Institute have identified these assets to make a healthy developing life. In the novel The Pigman by Paul Zindel we notice that the protagonist John doesn't have many assets.Although some might say John will grow up to be a successful and contributing adult because he has Positive Peer Influence. John won't grow up to be a successful and contributing adult because positive Family Support, and Learning engagement.
To begin, John will not grow up to be a successful and contributing adult because he doesn't have the asset, Learning Engagement. This is meaning that John doesn't care for school and he also doesn't try he isn't engaging of what he should be learning. For example, when John's father was asking John about his missing work and John told us, “Bore wanted to know how I could be missing forty-two homework assignments in Problems …show more content…
This is when John's parents don't support him in what he wants in his future or in what he wants for himself. For example, John was having a conversation with his father and told him “I’m think of becoming an actor. Don't be such a jackass” (Zindel 65). This was when John was talking about what he wants in his future and his dad wasn't supporting it. Similarly, John's father didn't give him a positive supportive view instead he had said it was stupid. “even a dummy can learn how to do that” (Zindel 66). John's father just called his own son dumb. He doesn't believe in his son. His father doesn't support John in away way he thinks he is dumb, stupid, and has too big of an imagination. Finally, John isn't getting the support that he needs to become a successful
Do you agree that you can tell if kids will be a successful contributing adults from when they are teenagers? Developmental Assets are good qualities a kid can posses to have a good successful future for himself. A search Institute have identified these assets to make a healthy developing life. In the novel The Pigman by Paul Zindel we notice that the protagonist John doesn't have many assets.Although some might say John will grow up to be a successful and contributing adult because he has Positive Peer Influence. John won't grow up to be a successful and contributing adult because positive Family Support, and Learning engagement.
To begin, John will not grow up to be a successful and contributing adult because he doesn't have the asset, Learning Engagement. This is meaning that John doesn't care for school and he also doesn't try he isn't engaging of what he should be learning. For example, when John's father was asking John about his missing work and John told us, “Bore wanted to know how I could be missing forty-two homework assignments in Problems …show more content…
This is when John's parents don't support him in what he wants in his future or in what he wants for himself. For example, John was having a conversation with his father and told him “I’m think of becoming an actor. Don't be such a jackass” (Zindel 65). This was when John was talking about what he wants in his future and his dad wasn't supporting it. Similarly, John's father didn't give him a positive supportive view instead he had said it was stupid. “even a dummy can learn how to do that” (Zindel 66). John's father just called his own son dumb. He doesn't believe in his son. His father doesn't support John in away way he thinks he is dumb, stupid, and has too big of an imagination. Finally, John isn't getting the support that he needs to become a successful