Charlie Oakley

Charlie deceives Will about his true identity and portrays himself as the character of Titus, a crazy man roaming the grain elevators of Thunder Bay. He never tells Will that he is his biological uncle, the brother of his mother, until it is later discovered nearing the end of the book. After Charlie’s lies are uncovered, it leads to another life long lie he has been keeping from his family. He was never killed, his best friend, Whalen was and he throw his lifeless body into the river. Charlie’s deceitfulness was to protect himself against the Butler and to cover up his deceitful lies from the past. Charlie not directly punished for his actions the day Whalen died, but his experiences working under the Butler actually shaped him to be a better person because it showed him the karma that come with deceitful decisions, especially regarding those that cared about him the most.

After Sam and Patrick leave for college, Charlie has a mental breakdown. During this mental breakdown we find out that his aunt who was his favorite person died in a car crash on his seventh birthday on the way to his celebration.1 He calls his sister and tells her that it’s his fault that she died.1 Alarmed by her brother’s state, his sister calls the police. Charlie starts to remember his past trauma and starts having flashbacks. He remembers his aunt saying, “Don’t wake up you sister” and “it’s our little secret.”1 Charlie is walking around the house non-stop until he has a flashback of his aunt crying and seeing her wrist cut. He sees a knife and steps closer to grab it. The police then enter the house and stop Charlie from hurting himself.

The movie tells the story of two hit men, a mob boss and his wife, and an aging boxer. The stories of these people are put together to create a bizarre yet funny movie.

Jackie plays a pivotal role in helping Thomas through this gruelling challenge by helping him understand that Charlie’s actions are not intentional and that he would always behave in ways that are considered abnormal. Jackie goes beyond providing simple moral support by taking care of Charlie and standing up against those who try to bully him. She

The Narrative or storyline is much the same as any other film noir movie. It has a ‘hard boiled' cop (Russell Crowe) who we grow attached to. The narrative of any film must have certain ‘key conventions' which are apparent for the audience to tell the genre of the film. The

Charlie and his wife lived in Paris during the twenties, and just as any other night they were out drinking and having fun. They get into a fight witch results in his wife, Helen, kissing another man. Charlie storms home, and an hour later when Helen has stumbled herself home, Charlie locks her out of their apartment and she dies soon after. Charlie has a breakdown and is institutionalized right before he looses all his money in the stock market crash of 1929. As the story opens three years later Charlie is back in Paris, sober, determined to get custody over his daughter, Honoria, who lives with Helens sister, Marion.

In the beginning of the film, you get a real eerie feeling about Uncle Charlie as if he is hiding a secret away from everyone. As the film progresses you feel this more and more until finally the inspectors come looking for uncle Charlie faking as people trying to interview the everyday American family. This is where the film starts to pick up as the investigators are looking for Uncle Charlie in connection with being the “merry widow murder” accused of strangling to death several rich widows. When Charlie confronts Uncle Charlie, trying to find out more information he simply denies her. Then a few days later the paper put out an arrest warrant for the murder and Uncle Charlie ripped it from the newspaper at home. After Charlie sees the newspaper is missing an article, she then begins to look in Uncle Charlies room and finds the ad in the paper that had been ripped out. At this point, she is convinced that Uncle Charlie is the murder. Uncle Charlie then confronts Charlie at a shadow filled bar and as he tries to convince Charlie yet again his anger for the world couldn’t be controlled and solidified Charlie’s thoughts of her uncle being the murder even further. She then has a battle within herself of telling Jack (The Cop) about her Uncle but doesn’t want to ruin

Charlie’s life was relatively easy until one night changed everything. While reading, Jasper Jones , the town outcast, finds Charlie and leads him to a discovery. Someone in town has been murdered. After Charlie reluctantly agrees to help hide the body so that the blame isn’t unfairly placed on Jasper, he realizes he is involved, and that if he and Jasper don’t find out who the murderer is quickly, they will both be going to jail.

If Jasper Jones hadn’t shown me the cigarette burns on his shoulders just hours before, if I hadn’t touched their ugly pink pucker with my fingertips, I wouldn’t have suspected this man to be the monster he was’ (p. 160) Charlie’s mother, Ruth, cultivates her image as a good mother and citizen, member of the CWA and volunteer for all manner of civic events. She demands obedience and respect from Charlie and is capable of a quasi-hysterical response when she doesn’t receive it. Yet she is carrying on a clandestine affair with an unnamed man from the back seat of a car. Charlie’s disappearance compromises Ruth’s image: ‘I’d shattered the facade, I’d sullied the family name and her repute. Tongues were wagging. Aspersions were being cast like dandelion spores on hot gossipy winds. The CWA brigade and the badminton babblers were tutting like vultures. I was no longer a model child and she was no longer a model mother. And a snide, petty part of me was thrilled about it, almost proud’ (p. 198-199) When Charlie finds his mother in a compromising position with a man who is not his father it shifts the power balance between them (p. 244). At this moment, Ruth loses her moral authority over Charlie and in some ways Charlie ceases to be a ‘child’. He must assume responsibility for his own moral stance. Pete Wishart, Laura and Eliza’s father, is probably the most hypocritical character in the novel. Whenever Charlie mentions him, he almost invariably remarks that he is

Lastly, her family betrayed her by not listening to her side of the story after her sister told lies about her, and they betrayed her when they acted as if they did not care if she moved out of the house. In all of these actions, the family itself and certain members of the family are portrayed as uncaring, unsupportive, disrespectful, conniving, deceitful, and hateful to Sister. Through every action of the family, Sister is treated harshly, and she tries to not let this bother her. Yet, anger and bitterness build up inside of her until she cannot take it anymore. Consequently, it built up so much inside of her that it severely affected Sister so profoundly that she moved away from her home to get away from her family.

Eventually, Mary Elizabeth forgives him. It is about time for Sam, Patrick, and his sister to graduate and for his favorite teacher to leave. Charlie starts to wonder how he will cope with the loss of his friends yet again. Then, he learns of the hidden horrors of his childhood and becomes indisposed with the knowledge of his molestation. Charlie is sent to a hospital where he gets help in rediscovering who he is. Following his release, Charlie is much better at creating relationships and is more hopeful for the

From the beginning the story within the film is significantly clear, Uncle Charlie has a secret and he is being chased by some men but when is presented the idea that he could be the "Merry widow killer" there is no doubt as his behavior confirm it. Hitchcock's idea of the wrong man accused of a crime is not applied as Uncle Charlie is clearly guilty. On the contrary, he is the guilty man taken as an innocent, when the other killer dies and the authorities declare that the death man is the only guilty, there is nk chance that he could be arrested. Nevertheless, there is effectively the idea of wrongness inside the family politics, the isolation between the members of the family as no one finds out Uncle Charlie's secret; Emma Newton’s main

Charlie’s friends even take advantage of how nice he is. They always make him the root of their jokes. When Charlie asks a barber shop owner to move his illegally parked car, the owner laughs at him and just throws him the keys to the car and tells him to move it himself. The whole town takes advantage of Charlie though, not only his friends. In the supermarket a woman asks to cut in front of him inline and then ends up having a cart full of groceries. This is Charlies breaking point. He starts tensing up, you can tell something is happening. All of a sudden he starts talking in a different voice, and finds vagaclean in the woman’s cart that cut in front of him. So to take his anger out on her he gets on the store microphone and announces she has vagaclean in her cart. We learn this new personalities name when he is drowning a young girl in the water fountain who disobeyed him earlier. When the girl says she is going to tell her father on him, he announces that he is Hank. After this change in personality he starts going

As the film continues, Young Charlie knows the detective Jack Graham along with more knowledge about her uncle, the idealize figure of Uncle Charlie starts to fall in her niece's mind. Besides probably Young Charlie's romantic desires have changed toward the detective but she is unable to correspond the detective's love feelings because of her uncle. Finally as the truth is revealed, in the final scene there is a struggle that could be Young Charlie's mind fighting between staying the same or killing the ideal figure of her uncle and move on with her life, because both of them could not survive, one

Charlie Kelmeckis is described as a “wallflower.” He is socially awkward and likes to keep to himself. He also really enjoys reading and writing. Charlie cares deeply for others, but has a lot of guilt about past events. For example, Charlie believes that the death of his Aunt Helen is his fault, because she was killed in a car accident on an errand to get Charlie a birthday gift. Charlie has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety, and Depression. His mental instability was mostly caused by being sexually abused by his Aunt Helen before the age of seven. Charlie experiences flashbacks of his Aunt over the course of the movie, but all are portrayed in a positive light.