lunatic. ________________________________________ [Fiona is crying] Fiona: I mean‚ he’s a special – very‚ very special boy and he’s got a special soul‚ and I’ve wounded it. Will: Oh‚ please‚ just shut up. You’re wounding my soul. ________________________________________ Christine: Oh‚ no... it’s just I thought you had hidden depths. Will: No‚ no‚ you’ve always had that wrong about me. I really am this shallow. ________________________________________ Fiona: He’s expressing himself! Will: No‚
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About a Boy: Characterization Will Freeman Will Freeman is one of the protagonists in the novel ’About a boy’ by Nick Hornby. Through the novel Will experiences a change from a carefree‚ selfish and superficial single guy to a sensitive‚ understanding and loving man in a relationship. In the beginning of the novel Will is 36 years old and lives alone in a luxury flat.He is a single‚ has no family left and doesn‘t have real friends. Besides that‚ Will is used to have only short term relationships
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ABOUT A BOY What happens when two completely different worlds are colliding and suddenly becomes a united world? “A man is an island‚ and I’m Ibiza”. Will’s motto is based on one premise: people should only care about themselves and no one should take responsibility for other people’s problems. I think that the reason why Will has taken such an attitude to life is that he has never faced any real problems during his life. The only person he has to think about is himself‚ and he has
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September 2012 Summer Reading Assignment: About a Boy Insensible Will‚ who lives comfortably off of the money from a popular Christmas song his father wrote‚ comes up with the idea to join a Single Parents Alone Together‚ (SPAT)‚ group in order to pick up single moms. What he chooses to overlook however‚ is the fact that he does not have any children. This sparks a chain of events beginning with him meeting Marcus‚ an awkward young teenage boy who is being raised by a depressed‚ single
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“Boys will be boys‚” a commonplace phrase that constitutes a diffusion of responsibility away from the male perpetrators of aggressive attitudes and behaviors‚ supports a dangerous rhetoric that a young male transitioning into adulthood will perform acts of aggression‚ display a detached and uncaring disposition‚ and develop attitudes of intense homophobia and sexism as part of a biological norm of that stage of adolescence‚ a stage of life comprising a larger and larger part of young man’s life
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Marcus Brewer is a 12-year-old boy who is unusual‚ but very considerate. He is a vegetarian‚ lives with his mother‚ Fiona in a flat‚ but they are not wealthy. Marcus is different‚ and is having a hard time both at home and school. Marcus seems to be sensitive‚ dejected and awkward. First‚ Marcus is sensitive because when Fiona tells Marcus that she loves him in front of kids at Marcus’s school‚ even though it is embarrassing for Marcus‚ he still tells her “I love you too” (10). Marcus also
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syringes the size of basketball jumps and confined to their beds with leather straps -- and you give them an open space where they can all go in any of thirteen directions at once. Is that asking for trouble or what?” Interspersed are salient comments about traveling on European trains. “There is no scope for privacy and of course there is nothing like being trapped in a train compartment on a long journey to bring all those unassuageable little frailties of the human body crowding to the front of your
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The Lost Boy This book tells the story of a young boy who has never had a family. His only possessions are the old‚ torn clothes he carries in a paper bag from foster home to the next. The only world he knows in adaption to survive is one of isolation and fear. Thankfully others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother‚ but his real hurt is just beginning -- he has no place to call home. Lost boy is a follow up to Dave Pelzer’s book “A Child Called It”. This Novel is an auto-biography
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When reading Superstitions About Rats by Lesley Emmanuel‚ the reader will notice a distinct focus on the portrayal of the female characters in the short story. The women in Lesley Emanuel’s Superstitions About Rats are portrayed in such a way that one cannot label or identify them without referring to their relationships with other characters or the settings that serve to characterise them. It is also quite obvious that each of these characters has an influence on the main character‚ Anniline‚ in
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Abdi Ethnic Studies 101 Scottsboro Boys Summary In the year 1931‚ all nine of the Scottsboro boys Haywood Patterson‚ Charles Weems‚ Clarence Norris‚ Andy Wright‚ Ozzie Powell‚ Olen Montgomery‚ Eugene Williams‚ Willie Roberson‚ and Roy Wright are arrested and tried on charges of assault from fighting white boys on a train. Along with accusations made by Victoria Price and Ruby Bates that the boys raped them. Their trial begins April 6‚ 1931. All of the boys except for Roy Wright are tired and convicted
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