Jimmy is just your average incoming freshman that happens to carry a little extra weight. This Story is actually biased off a true story about a boy named Doug that went to Mason High School a few years ago. Jimmy gets teased for his weight by his class mates. Jimmy's goal in the beginning of the story is to lose 60 pounds. At first its a struggle with all the TV ads and his constant craving for a Big Mac from McDonald's. Jimmy eventually learns to control his cravings and begins to loose weight like no other. But there is just one problem; the kids at school are still making fun of him and it gets really out of hand.
At the beginning of the year Jimmy doesn't have very many friends. The only friends he has are from his youth group at church. He sits with them at lunch. As the year goes on and high school gets to his only friends the start to not like jimmy anymore. Jimmy's friend Whitney, starts getting into trouble and he thinks she is disgusting now. Now Jimmy is only left with Paul. Paul starts smoking and using drugs because his mom is drinking and his parents are fighting, but that doesn't make Jimmy think less of him.
Throughout the story Jimmy realizes that you should be excellent for yourself and not for anyone else. The kids at school still make fun of him for his weight even though he has lost so much weight from the beginning of the year but now he holds a lot of more confidence then at the beginning of the school year.
On page 59 Fahrenheit 451 Captin Beatty says to Montag, "School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling almost completely ignored"(59). The Author is trying to convey that if we don't do something about how they teach now the society could end up the the one in Fahrenheit 451.
On page 58 beatty says, "Classics cut into fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding u at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume. I exaggerate, of course"(58). The Author is trying to explain to the reader that the way we do things now are complelty diffrent then how we do things today and if we continue this what Beatty is telling Montag will become true.
So far in Fahrenheit 451 I like Clarisse's character because she is diffrent and unique. She asks a lot of questions to Montag. i also think it is interesting how Mildred attempted suicide and didn't remember and said she would never do such a thing. Also it is strange that everytime Montag sees Clarisse she says she is crazy, "'Im seventeen and i'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane'". I think she always says the becuase she may have a problem that is not adressed in the story.
Most books and stories have a set of characters. Each character has different personalities. They're also a protagonist and antagonist. Some characters can change throughout a story -- called a round or dynamic. Some stay the same and do not under go a change -- called a flat character. Bruno: Bruno is the main character who is 9 years old. At the beginning is stubborn because he didn't want to move but eventually warms up to his new home far from Berlin. He doesn't have the best relationship with his father because he is always working and they don't spend much time together. Ralph says to Bruno, "'You need to realize that you are at hom,' he said instead, disappointing Bruno. 'This is ti for the foreseeable future'"(48).
Ralph: Ralph is Gretel and Bruno's Father. They both call him Father. He is a commander in Germany and spends a lot of his time in his office or working at his job that neither of his children knew what his job is. Ralph explains to Bruno, "'This is my work, important work. Important to our country. Inportant to the fury. You'll understand that some day"(48). He seems to not care for his children that much since he doesn't talk to them very much because he is always busy working. Bruno talks to him very differently then how i would talk to my parents. He talks t him as if he were is boss or a teacher.
Maria: Maria is The housekeeper of their new home and the families old house in Berlin. She follows all the rules that she has as a house maid. She seems to keep her thoughts to herself and doesn't share her opinion because she thinks she would get fired. Maria is overpaid for her job as a maid. "She hesitated for a moment when she saw him lying there but then bowed her head a little and walked silently over toward the wordrobe"(56). This quote shows how Maria is very formal with the family even though she has spent a large portion of her life with them and sees them almost every day.
Throughout the story each character goes through some changes. Bruno sees the bad and good in the reality of the world. Ralph feels for is children and spends more time with them.
In chapter 4 Bruno and Gretel look out the window of there new house to find a large group of people working, "small boys and big boys, fathers and grandfathers. Perhaps a few uncles too" But they didn't know who the were or why they were there. "'Who are the?' asked Gretel, as opened mouthed as her brother often was these days. 'what sort of place is this?'". "he wanted had seen it first and could see it whenever he wanted because they were outside his bedroom window and not hers and therefore they belonged to him and he was the kind of everything and they surveyed and she was his lowly subject." This can explain hoe Bruno wants everything to go his way.
In chapter 5 Bruno get to go into his father's office even though nobody is ever allowed in there at all times and no expectations. Bruno tells his father that he wants to go back home and he doesn't like his new house because none of his friends life there. And that he wants to move back to Berlin. But his father explain to Bruno that the new house is their new home and they can't move back.
The Author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is John Boyne. He was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1971 and studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and creative writing at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, where he was awarded the Curtis Brown prize.
John's early writing consisted mostly of short stories and he published a number of them. His first story, The Entertainments Jar, was shortlisted for the Hennessy Literary Award in Ireland. He has published about 70 short stories. John's 2006 novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, was made into an award-winning Miramax film. The novel itself won 2 Irish Book Awards, the Bisto Book of the Year, and was shortlisted or won a host of international awards. Amongst other books, it spent more than 80 weeks at no.1 in Ireland, topped the New York Times Bestseller List, and was the bestselling book in Spain in both 2007 and 2008. Worldwide, it has sold more than 5 million copies.
His novels are published in 46 languages.
John's most recent novel for adults is This House is Haunted, and for young readers, Stay Where You Are then Leave, which will be published in the US in March 2014.
Here is a interview With John Boyne and the director of the movie, Mark Herman.
In this chapter Bruno and his family have moved into their new home. The new house was not as big as his old house, but still very large. "Everything seemed to be the exact opposite of their old home and he couldn't believe that they were really going to live there." His new house was still in Germany but they moved towns. Their family used to live in Berlin, Germany but they now live in another town in Germany. When they first got to the new house Bruno didn't like it because the house sat alone with no other houses around it, which means that he would have no friends to play with."'I Think this was a bad idea,' said Bruno a few hours after they arrived" In the new house Bruno's father had a office, just like his old one, that nobody was ever allowed in. Bruno never knew why he couldn't go into his father's office."There were even whole rooms - such as Father's office, which was Out Of Bounds At All Times And No Exceptions - that he had barely been inside."
I can relate to this because over the summer I moved houses, but we still stayed in the same town as our old house. We only moved because my parents felt as if our old house was beginning to be to small for our family and we should buy a larger one.
