Usain Bolt : Short Story

As a young child, David had a loving family, his Mommy, his father and his two brothers. By the time he was seven, he was being starved and abused by his mother. In his life, David had to face many challenges. One of which is having to play his mother’s “games” that left him half dead. He would also get punished for being a “bad boy” when he never did anything. Later, he had enough courage to tell someone, his 4th grade teachers at Thomas Edison Elementary School.

David's instructor was intimidating, rude, and somewhat abusive, but despite these things he used her behavior as a motivator to succeed. David was not about to give up and he: "refused to stand convicted on the teacher's charge of laziness," and due to that, he studied for 4 or more hours every night because he was determined to stand out (Sedaris, 1999). David clearly had a reaction to his teacher’s approach, which created a sense of urgency and a need to excel. His choice to persevere, despite her attitude, caused him to work hard, and he was once again able to use humor to get through by adding jokes to his responses to her quizzes. This whole experience shaped him into a better person and made him

Although both the previous events did put David into an adverse position, the following experience changed David’s outlook on life for the better. Finally there was someone to tell David the true meaning of mankind, Uncle Axel. Uncle Axel tells him to be proud of his telepathic abilities, instead of praying to be what everyone else thinks is the true image. Uncle Axel also changes David's outlook on the true image of man, he explains to him how it's not one's physical features that define him, but what's in his mind.

David must pretend, not just for the remainder of the novel, but for the next forty years, to be ignorant of Frank’s crimes, and much of what is happening because his parents do not realise that he has

David after eating is shooed away, David’s grandfather Julian gives him a .22 target pistol and asks him to shoot the “goddamn coyotes”. This is Julian’s way of ensuring that David, a child, will not return for a while, so the adults can speak. David rides off the ranch on his horse Nutty. Shooting round after round not aiming at anything worthwhile until he shoots a magpie”. The shooting of the magpie represents that good people can do bad things “I realized these strange, unthought-of connections—sex and death, lust and violence, desire and degradation—are there, there, deep in even a good hearts chambers”. The emotions David experiences awakens him to a calmness he has been longing for. After “Marie’s illness, Uncle Frank’s sins, the tension between my mother and father” David “needed to kill something” to release his emotional frustration which manifested in anger. The shooting of the magpie is the symbolic for David’s change, maturing him within the night. David thinks now he has power, the power to kill, aiming at Frank he wonders if the gun had been loaded and what would happen. David is very naïve in this way, as he believes he can deal with the consequences when he clearly cannot. However, he is

David was known as the heroic underdog from when he was little to know a grown up adult he faced many difficult challenges growing up and managed to defeat his challenge. finishing high school and trying to make it big in the world spending most of his time working outside of school and spending time going to school David managed to pull through go to college attending University of Redlands and Yale University earning his degree in business and is working as a successful lawyer still achieving his goals till this

Following these attacks David’s delusions dissipated. It seemed as if the demons had been feed and were in a dormant state. He moved from the Bronx to a two-family home in Yonkers. Here though the delusions would grow stronger and more elaborate. The Cassara family, whom he was renting from, owned a German Sheppard who was noisy and howled frequently. He would become David’s unrelenting torment. Inside this family’s dog lived a demon that was ordering David to go hunting for blood. This would drive him to the edge becoming even suicidal at one point. No longer able to bear he left the Cassara’s and moved to an apartment home in Yonkers. Here a man by the name of Sam Carr owned a black Labrador that would also torment David.

At the age of 5 years old, not only did he began to take showers with his father, but when they went to the beach club, his mother bathed him in the shower in the presence of other naked women. By the age of 6 years old, David noticed the power men had over women, “when a male entered the women’s side of the bathhouse, all the women shrieked”. (Gale Biography). At the age of 7 and 8 years old, he experienced a series of head accidents. First, he was hit by a car and suffered head injuries. A few months later he ran into a wall and again suffered head injuries. Then he was hit in the head with a pipe and received a four inch gash in the forehead. Believing his natural mother died while giving birth to him was the source of intense guilt, and anger inside David. His size and appearance did not help matters. He was larger than most kids his age and not particularly attractive, which he was teased by his classmates. His parents were not social people, and David followed in that path, developing a reputation for being a loner. At the age of 14 years old David became very depressed after his adoptive mother Pearl, died from breast cancer. He viewed his mother’s death as a monster plot designed to destroy him. (Gale Biography). He began to fail in school and began an infatuation with petty larceny and pyromania. He sets fires,

David is a hero that lives in a world of super humans called Epics, that use their powers to harm and oppress rather than do the ideal, which would be to protect others with their abilities. At the beginning of his journey, David was 8 years of age and was happily living in Chicago with his father, the one person in his life that was constant. His call to adventure was when Steelheart attacked the bank on the same day he took over the city.

Towards the very end of the novel David is faced with even more conflicts to test his strength and character. For example,“ ‘The name!” shrieked the Crooked Man. “ The name, or I will leave you to the wolves.” ’ (Connolly 321).

David struggled for a long time with the trauma of his early childhood this made it hard for him to adjust to his new homes. He felt for a long time that the abuse he suffered was his fought and he was the cause of everything bad to happen to his family. He also longed for his family and battled with their not loving him. This lead David to begin having emotional out bust while in his secant foster home that only got worse after being sent to a therapist who used methods that where not helpful for a child David’s age and with his background. David

Psychology is the study of human and animal behavior. This study includes abnormal human behavior. You can't get very much more abnormal than David’s situation. This book demonstrates severe mental problems and the effects it brought about.

I take a deep breath, as I am waiting on the 4th lane of the track. The marshall yells his command,

Though David represents a seemingly common boy at the time, he has several qualities that make him stand out. However, these character traits are never simply told to us. Instead, the implied author uses David’s actions, decisions, and beliefs to

A recurring theme in the character of David Bell is his inflated opinion of himself. Chapter Two begins with David stating, “I was an extremely handsome young man” (DeLillo 2.11). David continues to describe his appearance in an almost scientific manner that would appear to be simply a factual statement. When David equates his relationship with his mirror as therapeutic, however, we see how much he stakes his opinion of himself on the way he looks. “I was blue-eyed David Bell. Obviously my life depended on this fact” (DeLillo 2.11).