Crake And Jimmy Character Analysis

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There is many differences between Crake and Jimmy. The two are polar opposites. Crake is mature and intelligent for his age. Jimmy’s mother even preferred Crake above Jimmy’s other friends. She showed disappointment in Jimmy that he didn’t inherit her scientific genius and Crake has, but Jimmy never broached on the subject and didn’t seem to care. He, on the other hand, is like any other teenager. He’s average smart, although he shares a love for words. He shows more emotion and interest especially in women, whom he would chase and manipulate until the global plague. Crake was a prodigal polymath who was a little detached from human feeling. He never gave into anger and passion. He is driven more from reason than emotion. He was like a machine; he was cold and impassive, bound by logic only. Jimmy relates to us readers better because he’s seen as more human, when Crake is like a robot. However, Jimmy was intrigued by Crake’s nature. Opposites do attract, after all. They do share some similarities. …show more content…
There was two types of people, in Jimmy’s eyes: “words” and “numbers” people. He lives in a society where scientists and mathematicians are prized for their skills, while the writers and artists are pushed aside. Jimmy, being a “word person” in the novel, goes off to a poor and struggling college called Martha Graham Academy, which doesn’t have much of a future. The conditions there were second-rate and carried poor security. Jimmy’s talent of writing is only useful when it comes down to advertisement for the compounds. That is the only thing a word person is good for: using language in order to manipulate people into buying products that they do not need. When Jimmy finds a job, he uses women, not staying with any of them too long, and knows that life is started to spiral downward on

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