Bone Identity

Thus, with the pain of adding the art to his arm, Chappie ceases identifying as he once was and takes on the name Bone. Just as he changed his tattoo design to meet certain standards and expectations for himself, the alteration of his identity cannot be without a set of goals for himself to meet. The practicality of it all aside, Bone established immediately that his new identity was designed to be tough and strong, as he planned to show off his new tattoo and make the design apparent by “making a power salute (Banks 106),” but also that he was carrying certain ideas with him, like associating his new ink with the prominent Civil Rights figure Malcom X. However, the strongest take away from Bone’s new tattoo is two things: first, he does not …show more content…
Not only that, but his previous and evolving identities will be paramount to the understanding of Bone’s story. And no aspect of his previous identity is more important for understand his adopted identities than the introduction of the story of Peter and Wendy.
A comparison to Peter and Wendy must carry some weight because the parallels between it and Bone’s story begin even before the aforementioned passage in the tattoo parlor. For the beginning quarter of his narrative, while he’s still Chappie, his story is very much that of a lost boy. Lost boys, according to the Peter and Wendy and many of its variations, are children that fall out of their mother’s carriages when they are very young and lose their homes. The symbolism there is clear, as Chappie is a young teenager who becomes figuratively lost, by turning to drugs to find a sense of himself and ultimately stealing from his mother to pay for his weed addiction. He falls out of his carriage by falling out of his mother’s favor after his fight with his stepfather, and instead of running away to Neverland, he runs away to the Video Dent to live with Russ. While Peter came