Billy the Giant

Moments in Billy's life change instantaneously, not giving Billy a clue to where he will end up next. In one moment, he is sitting in his home typing a letter to the local newspaper about his experience with the Tralfamadorians, and in the next he is a lost soldier of World War II running around behind German lines aimlessly without a coat or proper shoes. He then became a child being thrown into a pool by his father and afterwards a forty-one year old man visiting his mother in an old people's home. In the novel, changes in time are made through transitional statements such as, "Billy traveled in time, opened his eyes, found himself staring into the glass eyes of a jade green mechanical owl." p.56 In the movie there is no such thing and different moments in Billy's life happen instantaneously. Because scenes are continuous as times change, the movie better displays the author's attempt to capture in the notion of being "unstuck in time." On the other hand, the novel does help the audience follow these time changes better by setting it up for the next scene, offering a background of Billy's experiences before they begin through these transitional statements.

Billy Deel was three years older than Jeanette and was tall and skinny with blue eyes. He had a lopsided head and always moved around like he was itchy. He smoked cigarettes. Overall, he was a dirty, mischievous, boy with inappropriate behavior. He lived with his dad in a house made of tar paper ad corrugated tin, down the tracks from Jeanette’s house. It is unknown if his mom died or had ran off. He was known as “the devil with a crew cut” as he would skin cats and dogs. Billy was very poor and there was nearly nothing in his house beside mattresses. It was messy and dark inside his home and there weren't any furniture or tables.

His father 's expectations that his sons should participate in a rough activity like boxing is shown by the presence of Jackie at the training session, and his high expectations are shown in his dialogue. Billy’s father later recognises his son’s talent in ballet, and is ecstatic when Billy is allocated a spot in the Royal Ballet School. This euphoria is highlighted in the high key natural lighting that surrounds Jackie as he travels up the hill to express this new knowledge with his fellow peers. SUMMARY SENTENCE ABOUT BILLYS TRANSFORMATION IN HIS SOCIETY AND THE ACCEPTANCE THAT FOLLOWED.

So billy lived on the streets. He picked pockets to survive. After a few months Billy went to live with gratz. Billy is quiet cruel and wicked. He likes hurting people for fun.

Jack couldn’t wait until recess time, he had been looking forward to it all day. As soon as Jack got dismissed outside where it was cold and the sun was giving him a smile it was so bright. He dashed to the basketball court where he played every day. He was minding his own business until out of a sudden the school bully and his jerk squad starting hollering insults at him. Colby escorted over to jack and shoved him on the ground this was normal for jack he often got bullied by him. After the charge it drew a huge swarm of people, and the pressure shadowed over Jack. The crowd was chanting at the top of their lungs “Fight,” “Fight,” “Fight!”

The young student bangs around the kitchen in search of the month old box of Froot Loops he’s stretching out for all its worth. His hands furiously open the stark white linoleum cabinet to the left of the stove and rummages in it for a minute before finding the cardboard box. He sets it down on the cold slippery countertop before shuffling sleepily to the fridge. The cold air that blasts in his face is a sharp contrast from the muggy temperature of his studio apartment thanks to his broken air conditioning. Shaky hands grab the carton of milk and close the fridge door. He bangs around the kitchen once more to find a lone bowl and a spoon in a cabinet because all the other ones are sitting in the sink begging for someone to wash them. The creaking

“This scene not only expresses Billy’s rage, it visually represents his childhood. Billy is blocked by barriers of gender, class, and

So, a Kid named Chance said to himself why don’t kid’s love their parents, if they help them, give them a home, and feed them. Then he was thinking of why his dad got kicked out the military cause he was a coward. Then chance went to his school and his teacher was talking about terriost attack’s. Then a kid that graduated from his high school came to the high school and he feared him because he was a bully to him when, he first came to high school. But the kid/the bully was in the military and he came back with his uniform. So, Chance just looking at the window, and then looking at some birds picking some animals from the grass. So, one of chance had a flashback about the Kid/Bully, when he was starting high school the kid came to him with some friends and told him to the

The boys stood gasping, their eyes on the tall facade that loomed. Where they slept; where they ate. Where they lived -their laughter soaked into the floorboards, echos of jokes and taunts and teasing. Ghosts of them; wrestling in the dorms, sprinting through the halls, bounding up the steps. The imprint of their existence and the existence of generations of boys before them, separated by the times but all essentially the same. Tenants of the fifties still nicked each other's books on the way to classes, boys from the sixties still hurriedly snuffed out their cigarettes when they heard the dean coming, and boys from the seventies still climbed out their windows at night when they needed to escape. All of this encased in cold unyielding stone

Faint music played into the ears of the teen from a pair of dangling earphones as he made his way to the fridge and pulled a pack of bacon from it's contents, placing it onto the island counter with a slap. Thin fingers plucked at the wrapper until eventually peeling it open and retrieving a slice from the rest only to waft it beneath his nose. Jackie stood leaning onto the counter with his elbows as he nibbled at the raw meat. The sound of movement coming from the rather large apartment's hall signaled his mother, and her boyfriend, Mark, finally waking up and scurrying to get ready for the morning task of dropping him off. Their tardiness was no surprise to him, but it gave him time earlier this morning to finish packing and get ready without

The house was peaceful, not a sound to be heard except for the light hum of the heater in the corner of the dark room. Dylan layed in bed unaware of the jeering sound that was about to overcome the silence. The alarm clock next to his bed reared to life causing a fervorous feeling to set in the pit of his stomach. Rolling over he slammed his hand on the alarm making the room silent once again. Dylan pushed the covers off his body and let out a long clamour as his feet hit the cold wooden floor. After the two week break, he would finally be going back to school.

Billy hears footsteps coming from behind him and turns around and sees Melda and two heavy set men. “I told you to stay in your own room Billy, and I specifically said do not leave,” Billy replied, “I heard them scream, Miss. I was worried. I’ll just go back to bed now.” Billy starts to walk towards his room and starts to run. He runs into his room and closes the door and locks it as the two large men run after him. Billy quickly throws his laptop into his hand bag and climbs through the fire escape. As Billy is crawling like a spider down the ladder into the dark, wet sky to run from the two men, he hears the men knock down the door and yell for him. Billy goes quicker and quicker, but soon the men start after him. Billy jumps of the ladder and runs for his car with the men still after him, and the men just jump down to run after Billy to stop him before he can leave.

The boy is Harry lee and was just a regular school boy until now. Harry was bullied his whole life by a kid named Jamie. Jamie was a jock who thought he was the top dog and always picked on Harry in particular until lately. Harry was at school when he saw a kid being bullied just before he went into the hall and after seeing this he realized enough is enough.

Billy Hope is the undefeated light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world. He is happily married to his wife and has a young daughter, Leila. When approached by a formal rival in what leads to a heated dispute, his wife is shot and killed. As Billy's life slowly begins to fall apart, he finds himself in a never ending downward spiral. This spiral results in him being banned from the professional boxing scene for a year, the loss of his house and almost all of his possessions and the loss of his daughter to social services. In effort to gain control over his life again and seek custody of his daughter, Billy seeks out the help of a trainer named Tick Wills. After getting a job at Tick's gym, Billy finds himself starting from the bottom. He begins training to fight to win back his title and win back his life. In the movie Southpaw, social class comes to play in an enormous way. Billy fights his way to the top of his social class both physically and socially. However, when he loses all of his materialistic possessions along with his family, he finds himself at the bottom. His car, his house, and even his career has been taken away from him. Billy Hope was a man who worked for what he wanted. He had power, property and prestige and when he lost all it all due to his wife dying.

Even at the age of five, he was such a self-directing child. Unless he wanted to do something of his own, he would not do anything if even his friends or parents asks him to do. He was a very thoughtful and quite child. He was fond of asking questions like ‘ who was the first man on earth?’ Or ‘ how far is it far from the ground to the clouds?’. He had no interest in sports and his parents were so discouraged about it. He was always alone and he always used to isolate himself from people.