Bears To Dance To Mr Levine Character Analysis

In the novel Tunes for Bears to Dance to Mr. Levine presents Henry a small figure. The small figure resembles Henry quite a lot. Mr. Levine gives Henry this figure, so that Henry will remember Mr. Levine once Henry moves back to his old town. This figure gives the reader an insight of what Henry looks like, because Henry describes the figure. He said this figure is three inches tall, sturdy, strong, smiling and he also says he’ll keep this figure forever. The figure resembles Henry, but in many ways the figure is what Henry desires to be instead. Henry is always very kind to Mr. Levine, so Mr. Levine sees the good in Henry. Being strong means that Henry isn’t sad and instead he is mentally strong, even though truly he isn’t. To be Sturdy would mean Henry is physically strong even though he’s just a child and therefore we can infer he isn’t too strong. Henry desires to be strong and sturdy for his family and to be strong and sturdy against Mr. Hairston. Continuously in the novel we find that Henry is attempting to be Strong, but in the inside he isn’t as strong. Henry really …show more content…
Henry often wanted to be happier, therefore he wanted to smile. He faced lots of stress and sadness from Mr. Hairston. Mr. Hairston often had loads of power against Henry, because of this when Mr. Hairston wanted something, he could take advantage of Henry to make what he wanted happen. He wanted Henry to destroy Mr. Levine’s village or Mr. Hairston would give Henry extreme consequences. If Henry did the bad deed he would receive rewards. This caused Henry immense stress to make a decision. He could either do the bad deed and make his friend Mr. Levine very sad, or Henry could destroy Mr. Levine’s village and receive awards from Mr. Hairston. On top of this difficult decision, Henry often was sad and he truly missed his brother. Even though he missed his brother he tried to stay strong, but I can infer this just caused built up sadness to