My Friend Luke
My Friend Luke
From this short story, My Friend Luke, the major theme of it is identity crisis. According to Erikson, an identity crisis is a time of intensive analysis and exploration of different ways of looking at oneself (“Psychology”, n.d). Luke was a kind and patient person off the bus. According to Sorrentino (n.d), states that “In order not to inconvenience anyone, he always walk sideways”. This tells us that Luke is an unique and also a kind person where in every behavior of him, his priority is the person around him. It can also be defined as spitted-personality. After reading the story, it can be seen that Luke was having an identity crisis. He acted differently on the bus and off the bus. He portrayed himself as a guy with multiple personalities for the changes of his behavior on and off the bus. Off the bus, he was a man who is shy, sweet, with soft voice and did not want to cause any inconveniences to the others. He would rather avoid others instead of saying excuse me when they were in his way. It can be seen that he did not have much friends as well. However when he was on the bus, that was a different version of him. He acted like a bully on the bus. For example, he liked to take up more seats than he supposed to have which is really rude because he is not the only passenger on the bu so he does not have the rights to take up so much seats when other people are just standing there. Besides, when he had to travel standing up, he liked to keep his jacket unbuttoned and adjusted his posture so that his lower edge of his jacket can hit the face or eyes of those who are sitting. He did a lot of terrible things in the bus which is unbearable. And this is why identity crisis is so obvious in this story as Luke was acting differently.
The second theme of the story is love towards family. From the story, it can be seen that Luke loved his son very much. He was willing to make sacrificing, for instance, unsubscribing his favorite two publications,
From this short story, My Friend Luke, the major theme of it is identity crisis. According to Erikson, an identity crisis is a time of intensive analysis and exploration of different ways of looking at oneself (“Psychology”, n.d). Luke was a kind and patient person off the bus. According to Sorrentino (n.d), states that “In order not to inconvenience anyone, he always walk sideways”. This tells us that Luke is an unique and also a kind person where in every behavior of him, his priority is the person around him. It can also be defined as spitted-personality. After reading the story, it can be seen that Luke was having an identity crisis. He acted differently on the bus and off the bus. He portrayed himself as a guy with multiple personalities for the changes of his behavior on and off the bus. Off the bus, he was a man who is shy, sweet, with soft voice and did not want to cause any inconveniences to the others. He would rather avoid others instead of saying excuse me when they were in his way. It can be seen that he did not have much friends as well. However when he was on the bus, that was a different version of him. He acted like a bully on the bus. For example, he liked to take up more seats than he supposed to have which is really rude because he is not the only passenger on the bu so he does not have the rights to take up so much seats when other people are just standing there. Besides, when he had to travel standing up, he liked to keep his jacket unbuttoned and adjusted his posture so that his lower edge of his jacket can hit the face or eyes of those who are sitting. He did a lot of terrible things in the bus which is unbearable. And this is why identity crisis is so obvious in this story as Luke was acting differently.
The second theme of the story is love towards family. From the story, it can be seen that Luke loved his son very much. He was willing to make sacrificing, for instance, unsubscribing his favorite two publications,