How Is Jerry Alike

Friends are needed in a person’s life for emotional stability whom without would lead to a life of loneliness and solitude. In the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the characters Crooks, Candy and Curly’s wife exhibit a form of loneliness. They are driven to George and Lennie’s friendship because they lack support and that emotional stability in their own lives."A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't matter no difference who the guy is, longs he with you. I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an he gets sick" (Steinbeck, 13). Throughout his novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows that victims of isolation crave to fulfill a companionship to fill in that void of loneliness.

Initially, our first thoughts of Jerry at the beginning of the story, is that he acts immature and is burdened within a circle of maternal protection. During the opening of the story, the author conveys Jerry’s relative childishness by labeling him as “the boy”. The author also uses the mother to demonstrate his youth and how he is trapped in a circle of maternal protection which leads us to think that he is lonely due to that reason. In this part, “His mother walks in front of him, carrying a bright white strap in one hand” tells us that because the mother was walking in front of him, it gives us the impression that the mother still thinks of him as a boy that needs to be protected from any potential harm. We see more of Jerry’s immaturity and how the burden of protection leads his actions as we go through the story. During the part where Jerry sees the group of boys acting free-spirited, we see that he is overcome with desire to be with them, probably because he feels that because he is always in the circle of protection making him feel lonely and isolated from everyone. At first, he is added into the group and begins to have fun jumping from the cliff into the water with the other boys. Later on however, he starts to act immature when he realizes he could not do the same thing the other boys were doing. That was, underwater for a long time and going through the dark tunnel and he becomes scared. In this passage,“... In a panic of failure, he yelled up, in English, “Look at me! Look!” and he began splashing and kicking the water like a

Jerry: Selfish to Selfless We can learn a lot from how Jerry set aside the signed glove for his family. Jerry from "President Cleveland, Where Are You?" by Robert Cornier is an important character who shows selfless in the face of his own desires after being stingy with his money even though it was his dad’s birthday. Through his actions he demonstrates the story’s theme of putting family or group goals before your own. Jerry displays selfishness in the beginning of “President Cleveland, Where Are You?”

Jerry is haunted by his unimportance. He is unable to regain his composure after he overplays his rebellious actions. Defying the Vigils and Trinity takes its toll. Although

The characterization of Jerry illustrates the stages of maturing and becoming independent. In the beginning of the story, Jerry is depicted as young and immature. The immaturity of Jerry is shown when he is trying to capture the older boys’ attention. In order to capture their attention, “he began splashing and kicking in the water like a foolish dog.” This action conveys that Jerry is still immature, and wants to join the older kids. After seeing the boys pass through the tunnel, Jerry also wants to pass through in order to be a part of their group. In order

     There is only one thing in life that is really needed and that is friends. Without friends, people would suffer from loneliness and solitude. Loneliness leads to low self-estee. In the novel, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, the characters, Crooks, Candy, and Curly’s wife all show some form of loneliness. They are curious of George and Lennie’s friendship because they do not have that support in their life. Through his novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck demonstrates that many times, a victim of loneliness will have a never-ending search to fulfill a friendship.

If the relationship between Jerry and his father was more open where they could talk about anything, he might’ve not had to deal with his side of things alone. But instead, he goes it alone, without any help from his dad, his close friends, or even the teachers. In the beginning of chapter 37 on page 247, The Goober explains how he didn’t want to go to school and see Jerry being taunted and teased, so he stayed home for a couple days. When he came late to the raffle fight, he thought about how “the school reminded him of his own betrayals and defections.” Even the teachers don’t help him in the matter, they go along with the students. This is apparent in

This is important because Jerry is dejected after losing to Janza in the boxing match. Sometimes, disturbing the universe is not the right idea as you could feel broken and feel a big burden on

In the film, Jerry has no control of himself, his thoughts or anything going around in his life. He harbors negative thoughts. Moreover, when he goes to his friend at the garage who vouched for Grimsrud, he is unable to get access to the duo and thus totally lost control of the situation even though he had changed his mind. Epicureanism is also evident in the scene where Jerry shows frustration when removing ice from the vehicle. He was frustrated because he could not be like his father in law and upon realizing that he has been outwitted by the father in law decide to channel his frustrations on the windscreen.

Jerry does not want to become a school bully like the vigils are. Jerry also does not want his dad to get involved with the vigils. Jerry realizes that his father has a very sad and boring life. Jerry does not want to become just like his father. Jerry wants to have a fun and exciting life.

Jerry Starts as a new kid at this Cathlic boys school called Trinity high. He has just recently lost his mother to illness and lives with his dad in a apartment. Jerry is a quiet kid throughout the story. When Jerry really starts to change is when Archie decides to make him a mark for the Vigils (secret society) assignment. Archie through minipulation is changeing Jerry little by little. A true turning point is when Archie gets Emile Janza, the school bully, to beat jerry up with the help of some middle schoolers. This ultimatly

He has been through alot in his life like his mother died of cancer which has him isolated. He is always engaged in a battle with himself and with the outside world. He looks up to his father who is a pharmacist thinks his father has a dull and boring life but admires him. A strength jerry has is he does not complain about the crap he has gone through in his life and at school and it pays off at the end, his biggest weakness is he can’t win the battle with himself and the outside world.

Jerry is able to grow up by exploring through the tunnel because for him it’s a rite of passage. His mother’s leniency will giving him independence, which allows him to go and achieve his goal of travelling into the tunnel. Before, he can even journey through the tunnel he prompt himself, since he is not used to the salt water and staying under for a period of time, so he holds on the a heavy rock that sinks him and he times himself. What makes this more difficult is that he is under a certain time frame, for summer is almost over and he just discovered the bay. Jerry constantly gets nosebleeds, and very unsteady that he has to stop, but he is very persistent. After veering through the tunnel he has gained his independence, he no longer has

Sometimes risks are worth taking. Whether it is to feel proud, impress someone, or maybe become a better person, or gain something. This is what Jerry does. In “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing, Jerry takes a dangerous risk by going through this tunnel underwater near the bay. He sees some boys going through it and decides he wants to try it as well.

Jerry tries to act older so that he can fit in with the boys. When