Jimmy Santiago Bro Character Analysis

In “Shame: The emotions and morality of violence,” James Gilligan, a professor of Psychiatry at New York University, argues to make a point that shame can lead to violence in a certain amount of people. After working and interviewing with two convicts in a prison, he learns that there are three preconditions to be met before being considered violent. The first is to not show their feelings of being ashamed due to it threatening their masculinity. The second is that they can’t counteract shame with their social status, achievements, friends and family. The last is not to feel love, guilt, or fear. These preconditions make Gilligan more understanding of the inmates and their lives.

It can take one person to change the way you think about the way you think about yourself. The novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, is about a boy by the name of Paul Fisher. Paul cannot really stand up for himself, and is a bit reserved. All of the other characters in Tangerine, make choices that contribute to the growth of Paul as a character, whether being positive or negative. These choices made by Luis Cruz, Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, and Erik Fisher, all made Paul braver/stronger, and more able to speak his own mind.

In Holly Wren Spaulding’s essay, “In Defense of Darkness,” her main claim is that we have fallen away from darkness and immersed ourselves in a society of lightness. Furthermore, she claims this has lead humans to lose touch with basic human emotion as well as the sensual and spiritual experience true darkness has to offer. Spaulding makes this claim evident through exceptional use of personal testimony and copious appeals to value.

Jack Gantos is a middle aged man. He is one of those people that you would think of in vegas blowing all his money to try and win it all. For him there is always a light at the end of the tunnel, because he is full of hope. He never finished high school, left after his junior year. His grades are what you would call awful. Although his grades did not reflect it he is a brilliant human being, with a desire to be a writer. He loves trying new things. He often takes road trips and jumps from job to job with the changing of towns he lives in. he states the sudden moves are to find new and better things to write about. He has little to no money because he spends it on beer and weed. Likely to trust any man standing next to him he tries his luck in becoming a drug dealer but fails to do so and ends up living back with his dad in san juan.

In A Place to Stand, Jimmy Santiago Baca introduces the readers to his life, providing many details from his past that allow the readers to understand his present. Throughout the novel, Baca finds himself in the midst of violence where ultimately, these instances lead to a common theme of abuse. The physical and mental abuse that Baca endures throughout his childhood plays an important part in shaping Baca’s entire life. Furthermore, the abuse that Baca suffers inflicted by his father, his mother, and his ex-girlfriend, negatively affects his future life and point him towards crime and distrust in people around him.

The characteristic of slow work repeats in the two types of stories told by Fr. Boyle. The one that grabs the readers’ attention more describes the lives of people in detail and with resolution. Whether the youth he met ends up going to a jail or finds a job and a home in Homeboy Industries, we know to an extent what their stories are. We can understand and imagine the lives of the youth from childhood, the problems they faced, the way they went about handling them, and what Fr. Boyle thought and did during those times. The other type consists of brief mentions of the people Fr. Boyle ran into. He can only tell us what happened and what he hoped at the time, but we are left without fuller stories of the people. These unsatisfying accounts, however, are proof of the author’s intention for writing this book. We are not supposed to read about the lives and, really, the challenging situations of the youth and attempt to find solutions. Especially as a stereotypical student studying at Georgetown University, I tend to think I need to fix the problem and make the world a better place. But the purpose of the book is really to teach me to have compassion. So, the readers can notice from the two types of stories Fr. Boyle

When arriving at Florence State Prison Jimmy Santiago Baca’s life changed. Upon resaving a letter from a man named Harry he became interested on learning to read and write. Harry’s letter gave Jimmy some sense of belonging. He stated his feelings on the letter, “I was eager to communicate with someone to alleviate the boredom of the dungeon.” All it took was a paper with words to take someone away from that place they despised. Harry had sent Baca a dictionary so he could learn new words. To Jimmy this opened a new world to him. This gave him an opportunity on having control over something the prison couldn’t take from him.

Jimmy Cross is the First Lieutenant who carries “the responsibility for the lives of his men” (O’Brien 429). Cross let his imagined love get in the way of his responsibilities and one of his men was killed. Cross carries the weight of Lavender’s death and adds that to the weight of his renewed responsibility to his men (427-437).

In Caminar Carlos,the main character is very risking-taking and very honest.Imagine that danger is going on in your village and nobody is man enough to step up and try to stop it but you are the only one that is and you have to risk your life to save your lovely village.

Words could possibly change individuals ‘s thoughts from hopelessness, brutality, to become a normal human being that used to be living inside a prison. Some convicts spend a certain amount of time serving a long or short sentence, some of the time they lose themselves in a world of brutality and turn out to become worse after coming to the prison. Jimmy Santiago Baca carried on with existing by hardship and an unavoidable pathway of loss. Children who are neglected at a young age are increasing the risk of emotional and behavioral problem. The absence of parenting, especially at a young age, disconnects the relationship between the child and the parent. Family is one of the main themes that the author Jimmy Santiago Baca, wants the reader

Writers are people of great influence; they write for many reasons including to inform, express an emotion, or even to persuade. With skill in rhetoric, writers may have the power to convince readers to succumb to their beliefs. In the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz displays this great influential power of a writer and compares it with the ideas of dictatorship. Díaz uses two types of dictators in the book: a Dominican dictator named Rafael Trujillo and the narrator of the story, Yunior. Both hold a similar dictatorial power over groups of people whether they are citizens of a country or readers of a novel; writers can dictate what they wish their readers to know, just as dictators of a country can divulge or withhold any information they wish their citizens to know. The character Yunior, a friend of the de León-Cabral family, narrates the stories of the family’s lives to give an account of the effects Trujillo and the curse of the fukú had on them. Through his account of their life stories, Yunior uses his writing to counter Trujillo’s power creating his own counterspell, or zafa, to reduce the negative effects of the fukú. Yunior serves as a dictator by writing the book as a zafa through withholding information from readers and degrading Trujillo in the story, all while displaying the problems of a dictatorial voice.

Slaughterhouse-Five book is antiwar novel, and it was written by Kurt Vonnegut. The whole story is based on a person Billy Pilgrim, and he is not stuck in time. Billy time traveling and relives various occasions throughout his life. Billy Pilgrim is the main character in this book. The narrator tells us that “Billy was born in 1922 in Ilium, New York, the only child of a barber there. He graduated from Ilium High School in the upper third of his class, and he attended night sessions at the Ilium School of Optometry for one semester before being drafted for military service in the Second World War” (Vonnegut 30). Then, after training he was sent to Germany during the war. Billy acknowledges diverse values and sees horrible and morbid occasions in a different contrast to others. Billy also experiences a lifestyle that is not visible to other people. Many readers would contend that Billy's encounters make him crazy; however, Billy's experiences with the Tralfamadorians (a group extra-terrestrial time travelers) enable him to keep his wisdom and remain an exceptionally clever, intelligent and happy man.

On one hand, the people who let their darkest emotions show have issues coping with them, and let them show on their face like art on a canvas. However, whether or not this coping arises from the mental strength of character, from experience, or simply from honesty, is the issue that is presented to me in my mind, and what I need to clarify on, in order to deal with it myself.

Jimmy Valentine has been a changed man, but no one will ever know if he will go back to robbing banks and breaking into safes. Jimmy Valentine used to be a bank robber. He was a mastermind at breaking into safes and could get into any kind of safe if he wanted to. Jimmy Valentine was put in jail because he was caught trying to rob a bank, but he has enough friends that he work’s with that he was able to get out of jail fast. There for Jimmy was only able to last In a jail cell for a couple days a week at the most.

The beauty of literature is that it has an ability to reach out to millions of people, and yet the story may impact each individual in a distinctive and powerful way. Some stories change the lives of the reader forever. Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis transformed Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s life and inspired him to write The Handsomest Drowned Man and A Man with Enormous Wings. Despite creating very different short stories, Kafka and Marquez’s writing share similarities that are intended to get the reader to think about their own emotions and internal struggles. All three stories revolve around a transformation, have absurd plots that translate into real life messages, and focus on human nature and emotions.