In both Jesus’ Son and At the Bottom of the River, the respective authors have a main character that is nameless throughout the whole book. The reader never learns why the characters remained unnamed throughout the book. The authors both focus on the changes of the two characters throughout the books. The way that the characters change in each story are both similar and different. The changes in Jesus’ Son is more of a getting over the addiction of drugs, while in At the Bottom of the River, the change is more of growing up and becoming more mature as an adult. The changes that the characters go through are major life changes. Both of the ways that the character’s change has to do with becoming more mature. In the book At the Bottom of the
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The girl is obsessed with her mother throughout the whole book. The girl’s obsession with her mother is almost unhealthy. “Immediately on wishing my mother dead and seeing the pain it caused her, I was sorry and cried so many tears that all earth around me was drenched,” (Kincaid 53). The girl doesn’t want to cause her mother any pain, just wishing pain on her mother makes the girl very upset. What the girl really wants from her mother is to be loved by her. The girl says “My mother and I now watched each other carefully, always making sure to shower the other with words and deeds of love and affection.” (Kincaid 54). The girl wants her mother to love her as much as she loves her mother. The girl knows that one day she will have to grow up and leave her mother but she doesn’t want to. The girl says, “All along our shadows had grown thick and thin, long and short, had fallen at every angle, as if they were controlled by the light of day. Suddenly my mother got up and blew out the candle and our shadows vanished.” (Kincaid 54). The girl is describing how she and her mother have been through so much together and how she has to grow up …show more content…
All the reader knows is that the main character’s nickname is Fuckhead. Fuckhead goes through a change as well. His change has to do with not using drugs anymore. Fuckhead must become more mature in order to stop using drugs. He has to learn that he will not get very far in life if he keeps using drugs every day of his life. Fuckhead has screwed up many times in his life because he was not a mature person. Fuckhead said, “Damn right throw him out of the car,” I said. “I’m not taking him anywhere now.” Fuckhead also said that “I’m glad that he’s dead,” I told Dundun. “He’s the one who started everybody calling me Fuckhead” (Johnson 41). Mclnnes had just been shot by Jack Hotel and the bullet had finally killed Mclnnes. Fuckhead didn’t care that Mclnnes was dead. The reason Fuckhead didn’t care that Mclnnes was dead, was because Mclnnes was the one who came up with Fuckhead’s nickname. This is a very immature reason to not care about someone else’s death. Fuckhead also didn’t have any respect for Mclnnes’s body. Fuckhead wanted to just throw him out of the car in the middle of nowhere so that nobody would get in trouble. This was a very immature way to handle a dead person body and for a selfish reason. Fuckhead was a drug addict and in order to make his life better, he would have to mature and stop using drugs. Fuckhead had made many mistakes in his life because of drugs. In the chapter Emergency, Fuckhead found
The girl is obsessed with her mother throughout the whole book. The girl’s obsession with her mother is almost unhealthy. “Immediately on wishing my mother dead and seeing the pain it caused her, I was sorry and cried so many tears that all earth around me was drenched,” (Kincaid 53). The girl doesn’t want to cause her mother any pain, just wishing pain on her mother makes the girl very upset. What the girl really wants from her mother is to be loved by her. The girl says “My mother and I now watched each other carefully, always making sure to shower the other with words and deeds of love and affection.” (Kincaid 54). The girl wants her mother to love her as much as she loves her mother. The girl knows that one day she will have to grow up and leave her mother but she doesn’t want to. The girl says, “All along our shadows had grown thick and thin, long and short, had fallen at every angle, as if they were controlled by the light of day. Suddenly my mother got up and blew out the candle and our shadows vanished.” (Kincaid 54). The girl is describing how she and her mother have been through so much together and how she has to grow up …show more content…
All the reader knows is that the main character’s nickname is Fuckhead. Fuckhead goes through a change as well. His change has to do with not using drugs anymore. Fuckhead must become more mature in order to stop using drugs. He has to learn that he will not get very far in life if he keeps using drugs every day of his life. Fuckhead has screwed up many times in his life because he was not a mature person. Fuckhead said, “Damn right throw him out of the car,” I said. “I’m not taking him anywhere now.” Fuckhead also said that “I’m glad that he’s dead,” I told Dundun. “He’s the one who started everybody calling me Fuckhead” (Johnson 41). Mclnnes had just been shot by Jack Hotel and the bullet had finally killed Mclnnes. Fuckhead didn’t care that Mclnnes was dead. The reason Fuckhead didn’t care that Mclnnes was dead, was because Mclnnes was the one who came up with Fuckhead’s nickname. This is a very immature reason to not care about someone else’s death. Fuckhead also didn’t have any respect for Mclnnes’s body. Fuckhead wanted to just throw him out of the car in the middle of nowhere so that nobody would get in trouble. This was a very immature way to handle a dead person body and for a selfish reason. Fuckhead was a drug addict and in order to make his life better, he would have to mature and stop using drugs. Fuckhead had made many mistakes in his life because of drugs. In the chapter Emergency, Fuckhead found