Bobby in Rush Review Essay

Pg 12- “In the back bedroom he could hear trains passing. Lying beside him sleeping brother, he’d listen to the broad, low sound: faint, then rising, faint again, then high, beckoning whistles, then gone. The sound of it brought goose bumps. Lost in longing, Louie imagined himself on a train, rolling into country he couldn’t see, growing smaller and more distant until he disappeared.”

Another symbol is Just Frank, who is an old guy that stayed at the corner in the apartments. He would tell Bobby that he needed to change if he wanted to become a man. One night Just Frank was killed while trying to help a girl from being dragged into an alley by an idiot. Frank trying to help the girl was being a man. Bobby wants to be a man like Just Frank. He wants to be someone’s hero and make a change. “I went to his funeral at Zion AME, then walked home and held Feather for the rest of the night, wondering if I would be a man, a good man” (Johnson 7). This quote from the novel shows that Bobby wants to be like Just Frank and be a man.

Jacob walked out of his final exams and hopped town, climbing on the first train he could. He quickly found out that it was no ordinary train. It belonged to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on

He is hiding the stress he is obtaining from all that has happened with the baby and Nia within the last few months. It is known that parents usually do not cry around their kids, because it would exert the stress and exasperation onto the kids and make them depressed as well. Because Bobby is doing this, he is starting to become a parent, letting his child come first in terms of emotional stability and physical stability, so that Feather will grow up to be a safe and happy woman. Becoming a parent is also becoming an adult, because you’re now taking care of another human, which means he is becoming a man, just as “Just Frank” kept asking. Bobby is truly becoming a parent, and living to the expectations that “Just Frank” wanted to set into

Bobby Trippe was very social and seemed to enjoy the life he led, as did Drew. It is this social man however; who is the victim of forced sodomy by local river people. However, it is because of this social nature that Bobby recoups to his former self after the conclusion of

Have you ever, when you were in chapter 13 of Things Not Seen, thought that Bobby would talk with someone who’s daughter was a drunk and invisible teenager? Well, it happens. In chapter 18 Bobby’s dad and Alicia's dad had a sneaking theory that Bobby might have turned imperceptible because of his electric blanket. To find out if Bobby turned imperceptible because of an electric blanket malfunctioning, Bobby stole a sheet of all the people who returned the same blanket that might have turned Bobby imperceptible and planned to call them. It didn’t go so well. The first thirteen people's phone numbers that Bobby called were no longer in service. Eight answering machines that Bobby didn’t leave a message on. Six husbands who didn't know that their wives had returned a blanket. Five wives who didn't know that their husbands had returned a blanket. Six old people who didn't,t remember about an electric blanket. Eight people who hang up because they think Bobby is trying to sell something. Six kid whose parents were not available. Last six people were pleasant and cooperative but had no idea about a strange blanket. That’s 58 people already. On the 59 call, though, Bobby gets fortuitous. Someone named Mr.Borden picked up the phone. Bobby asked this man if he returned or filed a complaint about the blanket he

weightlessness. This is why the train has wheels on the bottom of the track and the passengers of the train have some sort of restraining device to hold them into their seats.3 So, as the train goes down the hill it is actually falling, causing the velocity of the train to increase due to the

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“We have to get them out of there!” I heard voices yelling out in the distance, but was to lightheaded to know where they were coming from.

Bobby Anderson had very little in the way of wealth as a child. He had a supportive family and the love of Roxy Somerville, and it made him the richest of men. But then she was gone. Now, 6 years later, she’s back in his life, and he’ll stop at nothing to keep her.

Get out of the car and try to push it off the track, if you cannot push it off the track get help. If the train is approaching get out of your vehicle and move far away from it.

Secondly, the characters in the novel, Bobby and Dr. Barney, teach that it is vital to hold on to hope because everyone has a future, regardless of the present and their past. Bobby shows things can change for the better with his discovery of his true home. Bobby announces at Six North that “This kid literally gave me the shirt off his back, the blue one right here and he didn’t know me from the Adam, and there ain’t no questions, without him, I wouldn’t have gotten this home. This new home” (Vizzini 317). Bobby lived in his car last year until a tow truck took away everything he had. Consequently, he loses hope and wants to kill himself. At Six North, Craig helps Bobby with a job interview. Through Craig’s act of kindness, Bobby learns that his true home is Six North where he is and welcomed and appreciated for who he is. Furthermore, Dr. Barney tells Craig about his personal experience with depression. He eventually reveals to Craig the secret to depression:

As the train hit the brake run, the brakes tighten with impressive force and speed, bringing the train to a smooth stop. The combination of grace and power and its disorienting array of twists and turns is impressive.

An alarm goes off, there the train is shaking Christof looks out the window and sees the weather has gotten considerably worse that it had been when he got on. Train workers rush in and tell him and his fellow passengers that they are experiencing turbulence and to hold on.

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