Booker Dialectical Journal

to balk Tom by inquiring him to answer a series of questions to why he was so eager to help

Throughout the novel Tom is shown as someone very arrogant and abrupt in the way he talks to people and feels he has the authority to question others in an interrogatory manner. In his first meeting with Nick he

Tom never does anything without doing it to the fullest, good or bad. Tom has an overall extremely short temper, assertive,confident and aggressive nature. Tom’s wild, emotional, and uncaring attitude end up getting three people killed. Tom in the end is ultimately concerned with himself and his lavished ,intense, and high paced

5. When Nick The way that Nick describes Tom expresses his dislike for him. He sees him as too arrogant and cruel. In chapter one, its is said that “there were men at New Haven that hated his guts.” (page 7).

Tom is often inarticulate in expressing is emotions, which works to his advantage as sensitivity was, and is, often considered an effeminate quality. On one occasion, Tom seems as though he has a moment of sentiment, he is taken “from the edge of the theoretical abyss” (121) and doesn’t continue the point he had been trying to make, as he can’t seem to find the right words. During the fight with Gatsby, however, Tom relies on insult and humiliation as his main argumentative technique. He uses insulting Gatsby in order to draw attention away from himself. For example, he claims that Gatsby turns his “house into a pigsty in order to have any friends” (130), which doesn’t have anything to do with Daisy or the affair, but is just a stab at Gatsby. He also refers to Gatsby as a “common swindler who’d have to steal the ring he put on her finger” (133). Tom exposes the fact that Gatsby would not be able to provide for Daisy, disproving Gatsby’s masculinity while assuring his own, and the fact that he is able to provide for Daisy. Not only is language, but also the way that Tom speaks is a way in which he upholds his masculinity. Rather than asking questions, he always “demanded” (121) them, so rather than asking, he is declaring that he requires an answer. Asking implies that he needs assistance, and to him, self-sufficiency is a masculine quality because it means being able to support yourself. Almost every description of the way Tom speaks is that he speaks forcefully or unpleasantly. He often “snapped” and “exploded” (131) in conversation, which suggests an interruption of conversation, which is in an effort to assert

Taking Tom’s hand in his, Booker brought it to his lips and lovingly sucked the salty fluid from each finger. “Mmm,” he murmured, “Tommy flavor.”

“You’re hurt,” Tom stated, his laconic responses beginning to grate on Booker’s nerves. “He hurt you.”

“Yesss,” Booker hissed as Tom lifted and lowered his body onto his cock. “Fuck, you look so hot right now.”

With a weary grunt, Booker shifted the bag of groceries in his arms and kicked his apartment door closed with his foot. He had planned to be home early so he take Tom out to dinner as a birthday surprise, but as usual, work had ruined his plans. When he had rung Tom and explained that he would be home late, he had expected him to react moodily, but instead, he had received a sympathetic response. It was a sign that their relationship was now on stable footing. Tom was more open about his feelings, and they argued less about the trivialities of everyday life; they were moving forward.

Eleven weeks later - Monday June 8th, 1992 (5.36 p.m.) Doctor Daquan Li pushed his notes to one side and gave Dennis a piercing stare. “Tom tells me you’ve recently taken the next step towards achieving a full sexual relationship. Is that right?” Even though Booker had attended over a

Turning a corner, Tom slowed his pace as he approached his apartment building. Although he longed for the comfort of his home, the thought of facing Booker filled him with dread, the psychological burden weighing him down. Consequently, he purposely dragged his feet, delaying the confrontation and the inevitable argument. He’d reacted badly to the news of Booker's tape, and his guilt hung like a noose around his neck, waiting for the moment his mind yanked at the metaphorical rope, and the painful castigation crushed his airway. But while his remorse was real, his jealousy was a far bigger beast, a raging fire-breathing monster that easily dominated all other emotion. It was a deep-seated sensation that encompassed feelings of fear, rage, and

“What do you mean, they were gone?” Booker could tell his Master was grower more and more agitated by his answers. “Truly, sir. What’n nobody there.” “Both of them – Mingo and Ruby?” “As God is my witness, sir. They were gone.” Jared shook his head in disbelief unable to comprehend what Booker was telling him. “Booker are you sure? Maybe they were out in the field.” “No, sir. It didn’t look that way to me.” “Did you look in the barn?” “I ain’t had no rights to look in the barn, sir, because “Booker, how do you know what it said? The last time we talked, you couldn’t read. Or have you been lying to me, all this time?”

Tom would beat her awful a considerable measure. At the point when Tom educated her regarding his meeting with

In Part II he displays this by getting into a fight with Blue Elk when Blue Elk orders Tom to tell the bear to go away. Tom often submits to violence without thinking or saying anything. The book illustrates this by saying “Without a word, he came at Blue Elk, kicking, clawing trying to knock him down…” Similar action is taken in his fight against Luther Spotted Dog. Tom ripped Luther to the floor and bloodied his nose. Tom is no stranger to violence and won’t back down from a fight. He continues this path of violence into Part III. Tom has no regard for the size or strength advantage either. Especially when he lunges at Red and Tom gets his eye blackened by Red’s fist. When Tom is strong enough however, he knocks Red down twice and leaves to take control of his life. The damage has already been done and Tom would continue to struggle with this anger. He starts his transition into Devil Tom the ride after he successfully confronted Red. His transition begins with a quote on page 121 “He wasn’t riding a bronc. He was riding a hate.” He killed that horse because he followed Red’s advice by taking his anger out on the horse. Tom’s anger is rooted from people always trying to control his life and taking advantage of him. Tom has a right to be angry but it is his acts of violence that stand out. Tom reacts in violence because he believes it is the only way he can be

Brenda, Interesting choice I would not have caught the connection if it wasn’t for your post. Tom has very bad self-regulation which causes him to continue the behavior that he displays, and jerry also has bad self-regulation. Self-regulation is important for self-control of both characters in this show, but both characters lack it, which makes the behavior ongoing and never ending. Reactive agression is also displayed by Tom because he cannot control the frustration that Jerry causes him to have. The hostile act that he displays is due to Jerry provoking him and since he has bad self-regulation he has no other option than to fight back. Jerry uses positive reinforcement to get Tom to continue fighting back with him. The reinforcements are