Analysis : Olivia And Sebastian

From her help, Elena and Luis had a better self-control. At the end, they became a happy family.

Conflict was used effectively in the short story to reveal the theme of the story. The boy has an internal conflict about which parent to stay with, and because his father left, he seemed to have favored him. He wanted him back so badly that every night, he watches him on the six o’clock news while wearing his old jackets. He was blinded by his father’s sudden departure that he forgot about what is really important. Additionally, another development in the short story’s conflict has been used effectively to reveal the theme. When the boy went to Macdonald’s to see his father’s true colors, he thought: “I finished my drink quickly, thankful that he had to be back in the studio for the news.” By the time he saw his dad for the first time in a while, he knew he was not the man he thought he was. At that moment, he also realized that he lost sight of what he had all this time: His mother’s unconditional love. If it wasn’t for the characterization of

Parenting played a big role in shaping the two boys lives. Having a parental mentor is important because they assist and guide children to take the right decisions about their lives. The author had his two parents at the beginning of his life. Also, the author’s parents, especially his mother, tried to raise him in an effective way wanting him to know the right from wrong at an early age. “No mommy loves you, like I love you, she just wants you to do the right thing” (Moore 11). This quote was a live example of the author’s life with his parents. It reflected the different ways his parents used to teach him “the right thing.” Though his mother was upset from his action toward his sister, his father

Very early in the movie you notice a hostility in the family;however, you do not know quite what it is. This soon changes as we are introduced to the main

For example, Bailey, the father of the family, shows that he does not care too much about anything and he treats his mother with much disrespect,

temper problems. However, their family fits the ideal family image on the outside. They live

his fathers custody, and in the beginning of the story, he did not want to help his father

This affects his character in an extremely big way because his parents knew the whole time and never told him. Once he confronts them he gets the full truth and finally knows what happened to his

He was used to live in his brother’s shadow, but when the boat accident happened to them, he was the only one to survive. As he was always indentifying himself the less important one, he considered it was wrong that he was the one who would still have a life. As a result of nervous breakdown, he tried to kill himself with cutting his wrists in the bathroom, fortunately his father found out and save him. Then he went to the psychiatric for four months. When he comes back, there are still issues he needs to deal with.

how much of a man he was. After he hit his father, he felt a sense of pride as if he won a prize of some sort. The act was more selfish than selfless being that he was not thanked for it. After the incident, he looks at his sisters for validation for his actions but he has never seen the difference between them or separate the roles of them from their mother. His misogynistic views are passed down from his father and this is due to his immaturity and lack of exposure to the independent world.

This started a growing hatred inside Chris against his father. According to Chris’s sister Carine, Chris was not one to let feelings go, “‘If something bothered him, he wouldn’t come right out and say it. He’d keep it to himself, harboring his resentment, letting the bad feelings build and build’”(Krakauer 122). With all the hatred he had towards his father led him to isolate himself from his

Sure, sometimes he could be rude and upset, but deep down inside he was like their father.

betrayal, and violence. His father abandoned him seeking to find a life less confrontational to a

When he was four years old, by accident, he aimed a gun at his infant sister and resulted in him shooting her. For ten years, he and his mother have tried living with that incident, but Sebastian’s guilt exerts an everlasting effect on him. Simultaneously, his mother has tried her best to avoid talking about and makes herself hide that grief in her. Moreover, his father who wasn’t able to sink in the tragedy left Sebastian and his mother. Over the summer, he considers friends with Aneesa, a girl who he feels comfortable around, with whom he spends quality time with, which allowed Sebastian to forget the pain a bit. But even though all the distractions, he had with her, the ‘voice’ in his head never went away and has been mentally depriving him of his strength. Because of the voice in his head, Sebastian is faced with a complex decision that can forever reshape his life. Sebastian personally feels that since it was a gunshot which started all of this, then another shot can end the

feeling of being isolated where he lived in a world where everyone was like him.