Don T Call Me Ishmael Character Analysis

In the novel ‘Don’t call me Ishmael’ written by Michael Gerad Bauer, we meet a fourteen year old boy called Ishmael Lesuer. Ishmael Lesuer is the only recorded case of ‘Ishmael Lesuer syndrome, it is capable of turning a normal person into a walking disaster are registering at nine point nine on the imbecile scale. Through out the novel Ishmael and his friends let fear stand in the way of their many capability. One of Ishmael’s biggest fear is going the debating team and talking in front of a large group of people. James’s the captain and best friend to Ishmael does not let fear stand in the way of his life, he put into the side and moves on, but when James’s tumor comes back a little bit of fear comes out and show us that he is afraid of his tumor. The debating teams fear is going into the finals with out their captain and best speaker James.

Ishmael, the main character in the novel is held back by fear plenty of times. When Ishmael is first told by James that he signed him up for the …show more content…
James refuses to be frightened by school bullies such as Barry Bagsley, this becomes obvious when he stands up to Barry in class. ‘Jab!.. and perhaps I should be afraid of you because if it’s trues they say a little knowledge is dangerous’p.73 Towards the end of the novel James has to go and is not there for the final debate witch put pressure on thew whole team. ‘With out James were dead’ p.183. James has no fear from when his brain tumour was removed because he saw there was noting to be a fried of. James was going for a walk one day and he walked past his neighbours house when he heard growing and next minute ‘He was in mid-air and about to it me when he was tied up’ p.76. At the end of the year accenberle Ishmael throned Barry and was going to say what Barry was really like but Ishmael thought Mr and Mss Bagleys does not need the