Jumping Alternative Realities

When he was little his mom died, and his dad remarried to a woman named Thula. Thula did not like joe and she kicked him out when he was only ten years old. “She declared that she would not live under the same roof as joe, that Harry must choose between him and her. She said Joe would have to move out if she were to stay in a godforsaken place. Joe was only ten years old” (Brown 86,87). I never could understand how someone could kick a child out of the house and force them to live on their own when they are ten years old. As Joe grew up the more he needed his family, but his family was not there for him, at least not his biological family. When Joe made the rowing team that's the day that he got a new family, even if he did not know it at the time. So was Joyce, a beautiful girl who loved joe and they were going to get married and start a family of their own. “When joe stopped playing they talked about what it would be like when they were married and had a hoe and maybe kids” (Brown 102). Making the rowing team and meeting and falling in love with Joyce might have been the best thing that has ever happened to Joe. As soon as everything start going good for Joe, Thula gets an infection and dies. Not that it was a good thing that she died, it was very sad, but it brought Joe and his dad back together again. Harry wanted Joe to move back home with him and the kids. “I’m going to build a house where we can all live

It’s a unique story. The story is well-developed. It includes a lot of details which are all important for the end of the story. Despite one major plottwist, it is fairly predictable. It’s still a touching story.

Joe grows as a character throughout the book, his life began at a very young age when his mother Nellie died of throat cancer, this left Joe growing up without having a good mother figure in his life. Not only that, but Joe was also really sick at a young age by contracting scarlet fever. So he would be staying at his aunt Alma’s home, where he was raised as a young child. Later on when he turned five years old, he went to go back to living with Harry and his newly wedded wife Thula. “Harry Rantz packed his family into his Franklin touring car and headed northeast, to the mining camp where he had been working as a master mechanic for the past year.” (Brown 71). The longer Thula and Joe lived together, the bond between them

Yet, he comes to realize that these stories are what define the man he is today. These stories to him are the truth, his truth of his own past and a reminder to him that those things actually happened. His stories to him serves as a reminder of what he did and did not know, and what he became or what he did not

characters are in many ways divergent, and it is in fact these traits that reveal the most about

hard to say goodbye to Joe. He has never parted from Joe before and it

After reading Jackie and Me by Dan Gutman, I have learned that Joe Stoshack is a dynamic character. At the beginning of the book, Joe is misbehaving; eventually, Joe becomes thoughtful, and then very self controlled.. These character traits were observed through Joe’s actions, dialogue, relationships, choices, and problems.

All these characters had different personalities and each character was lovable in their own way.

The animation style though is nothing exceptional but it is simple and unadorned with crazy embellishments even though the worlds that are spawned are quite surreal and straight out of the weirdest reaches of the imagination – there are six armed pink beings that have sex with robots, a giant naked hobo covering the size of the United States floating in space, things straight out of drug-induced trips, robot wielding dogs trying to take over the planet; the initial sci-fi envisages the creation of multiple alternate universes inhabited by the most bizarre creatures, thus making the show open to

You can only see characters’ underlying essence when you strip away the busyness, and then some surprising connections

independence. Joe is extremely possessive and believes a man has control over his wife and

He describes how his mother would play the piano and sing. He says she only sang when she was at her busiest. Joe recalls the smell of the hamburgers that his father use to give him thirty cents for, so he could buy three. He remembered "the heat of the hamburgers against his chest..." He described the taste of his mothers bread and jam saying "nobody in the world had anything more delicious to eat..." Joe described the beauty of the first snow, how it was a "wonderful thing" and the awe and pride that he had for his home town when "Lincoln Beechy arrived in an airplane" In these quotes excessive description is seen. Here Joe is describing the happier times with in his life all while he is in agony. He "wanted to die" (14), however, couldn’t stop his mind from going back to the more joyous times in his

A sequence of events leads up to Joe becoming almost completely isolated from the outside world. During his time in the isolated continent, Joe becomes addicted to narcotics; he escapes his pain and anguish by succumbing to detached and paralyzed state of mind. Throughout his journey in this secluded continent, he is faced with his hatred of the Germans and his desire to enact vengeance upon them for all that he has lost. When he meets a German geologist exploring the frozen tundra, he inadvertently kills him. Joe experiences ironic feelings of remorse after so many years spent obsessing over the destruction of the Germans. There was no gratification or fulfillment, for Joe, in the German man’s death. Joe felt repulsed and an abhorrence in himself for his

The author writes the story in a very interesting way. The way that there are only a few descriptions scattered about and that it focuses on dialogue is what allows us to figure out what the characters are speaking about and to find the intentions behind their words. The subject of this short narrative stands out boldly. Though it was written in

The audience can relate to Joe and feel sympathy for him because he was a good man who did many great things for his family and in the end paid the ultimate price. Towards the end of the play, Joe's son Chris anguishes over the fatally flawed decision made by his father, thus eliciting the sympathy of the audience. However, this is not enough to detract from the audience relating to Joe as a