Was This Real? Was He Seeing Things?

barn. Here, he comes to a realization while looking at the bird's feathers saying this, that the

As he lies down to sleep that night, he is overwhelmed by his new surroundings and thinks to himself that "between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night; here, I felt, what would be would be" as if he is completely surrendering himself to his new environment (8). But this feeling of helplessness doesn't last long and Jim quickly begins to embrace his new surroundings. His visit to his Grandmother's garden is a point in which we see Jim begin his transformation to his new self

In addition to Jim's superstitious nature, throughout the novel he also demonstrates gullibility. A good example of this

Thanks to his strong personality and nature, Jim develops into a wonderful man by the end of the novel, despite having gone through many difficult times. He used these tragedies to form himself into a strong person, instead of allowing it to break him down. When he was very young, he was orphaned, and sent to live in a new state, ‘I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father

Jim was also faced with loosing some people he was very close to cause of the Great Depression. His family friend died living in a terrible environment in the hoovervilles. Jim had to watch as loved ones around him died similar to many families that lived through the Great Depression. Unfortunately, Jim faced many hard times during this time in his life but in the end dealing with all the problems he faced made him stronger.

He tried to remain calm, but a panic was taking hold of Jim at his very core. Susan and her safety played on his mind, regardless of the danger he was currently facing. Jim shook his head back and forth as a means of clearing away the mental fog. He refused to remain trapped in an “inescapable” room of mirrors.

Susan's defense team hired a psychiatrist to conduct a psychiatric evaluation of her. She was diagnosed as having dependent personality disorder. He described her as a person who "feels she can't do anything on her own". "She constantly needs affection and becomes terrified that she'll be left alone" She was only depressed when she was alone. The psychiatrist studied her family history and concluded that based

Susan encountered a ton of hostile mobs, armed threats, and other things were thrown at her yet she kept doing what she was doing.

Jim seems braver, not as paralyzed as he showed to me before (Stevenson, 71-72). The forces in life may be affecting him, such as needs. Jim needs money. He has certainly changed, because he does not want to be poor for the rest of his life. Although I am not who Jim expects I am, I returned from my covert, only to scribe the information I have learned today. Jim has sought to gather up his confidence, in a tight bundle, and use it for the trip. He has left his mother, in hopes to find gold, as the rumor had said (Stevenson,

*For instance, He tried to convince Kevin that he could fight Mike even though in the end he wasn’t able to beat him. This shows that he had overestimated himself because towards the end we had found out that Kevin was actually correct. *In addition, Jim acted confident when people questioned him about the fight or if he was really going to fight Mike. This is significant because in the end, Jim, instead of winning, lost! *Finally, he was trying to show his ex-girlfriend that he could really take down Mike because he was jealous and wanted her back because the story states that; “ I had foolishly broken up with her ten months before.”. Jim may feel that way about Linda, (his ex), Linda probably doesn’t feel that way about him because in the story she states; “Kill him! Kill him!”. To summarize, Jim has a pretty big ego, and I believe that he had taken it for granted. Because soon enough, he’s going to lose

In “Something Wicked This Way Comes” Jim is faced with many forms of conflict both internal and external. One example of internal conflict is seen through “I’m a fool…why didn’t I leave it up?” (Bradbury pg. 146). It shows that Jim is regretting his decision to remove the lightning rod and further explains how he lacks self-control. We see Jim struggle with himself again through “He slapped another brass pole. This time his palm glued itself tight.” (Bradbury pg. 268). We see Jim again lack self control and do what he desired even if the outcome could be harmful to himself and others. Jim was contemplating whether or not to jump on and he ultimately lost self control and jumped on the carousel he didn’t care if he could get hurt or if Will

As he continued up the climb he saw a small bird, it was very colorful. It seemed to like his presence and flew around him. Jessie quickly became annoyed and suddenly swatted the bird. It fell lifelessly to the ground. This was something he had never done before, harm a peaceful creature, but he felt no sadness. He continued his climb. When he reached the top he looked out upon a beautiful sunrise and valley but he immediately started back for home. He had planning to do.

At the bird’s appearance and apparent vocal articulation, he is at first impressed, then saddened. He compares this evening visitor as only another friend which will soon depart, just as “other friends have flown before” (58). But the raven again echoes quite aptly his one-word vocabulary, thus leading the man on to think more deeply about the possibilities that exist at this juncture. Somewhere deep inside him, he has realized that it doesn’t matter what question he poses, the bird will respond the same.

Jim had become fed up with Irene’s obsession with the enormous radio. He did not understand why she listened to it so intently if all it did was bring her misery. Meanwhile, Irene constantly nagged at Jim for even an inch of reassurance that they had better lives than those on the radio. Jim fought himself to hold in all his built up anger and frustration towards his wife and replied "Of course we’re happy" (Cheever 823). Jim knew that they had just as many problems as the next family. He tried to discuss them with his wife, but as TaVeta Smith points out, she "doesn’t address Jim’s concerns at all" (59).

During the men’s hunting trips, Liz would find herself hardly sleeping due to her constant thinking of Jim.