The Running Man Essay on Transformation and how we perceive everyone
The Running Man by Michael Gerard Bauer is a book all about transformation and how we perceive others by their appearance and how they act but on the inside it’s totally different, most characters in The Running Man are misjudged or perceived differently because of how they act, speak, and behave. I feel this is necessary to all people because in the real-world people miss treat a lot of people due to races, colour, heritage, how they act and this is sad. This then makes people not like they want to be and the world becomes boring. (for example, people thinking Muslims are bad because of one individual) but people like Nelson Mandela stood up and made people think about …show more content…
At the starting point of the novel, it shows Mrs Mossop doesn’t trust anyone without knowing gossip (thus the name Mrs Mossop). She helps Laura Davidson (Josephs Mother) with her son Joseph because his dad works in the mines and doesn’t see his family, this is also shown throughout the The Running Man because Mrs Mossop is shown as a sticky beak and a gossip. I believe she is judged because of her precautions and how she must know absolutely everything, it makes her a much-hated character but when her history is realised it shows how caring she is and that she doesn’t want people to be as mistreated as she was as a child in the …show more content…
Simon Jamieson lost his unborn daughters and his wife because a fire had struck their family home, destroying everything he had and loved. No one except Tom and Joseph know this and that is why in the last chapter, Joseph chases after the running man and gives him a poem of silkworms because the running man is just like a silkworm, metaphorically speaking, because at the start he was depicted as a monster or a creature of Joseph’s nightmares, but once the truth came out (of its shell) he seemed like a normal human being who is wearing all his emotions on his shoulders, and that is why he runs. And in the epilogue, it reads that he fly’s away with his loved ones in this arms. That is the last stage of the silkworm life
The Running Man by Michael Gerard Bauer is a book all about transformation and how we perceive others by their appearance and how they act but on the inside it’s totally different, most characters in The Running Man are misjudged or perceived differently because of how they act, speak, and behave. I feel this is necessary to all people because in the real-world people miss treat a lot of people due to races, colour, heritage, how they act and this is sad. This then makes people not like they want to be and the world becomes boring. (for example, people thinking Muslims are bad because of one individual) but people like Nelson Mandela stood up and made people think about …show more content…
At the starting point of the novel, it shows Mrs Mossop doesn’t trust anyone without knowing gossip (thus the name Mrs Mossop). She helps Laura Davidson (Josephs Mother) with her son Joseph because his dad works in the mines and doesn’t see his family, this is also shown throughout the The Running Man because Mrs Mossop is shown as a sticky beak and a gossip. I believe she is judged because of her precautions and how she must know absolutely everything, it makes her a much-hated character but when her history is realised it shows how caring she is and that she doesn’t want people to be as mistreated as she was as a child in the …show more content…
Simon Jamieson lost his unborn daughters and his wife because a fire had struck their family home, destroying everything he had and loved. No one except Tom and Joseph know this and that is why in the last chapter, Joseph chases after the running man and gives him a poem of silkworms because the running man is just like a silkworm, metaphorically speaking, because at the start he was depicted as a monster or a creature of Joseph’s nightmares, but once the truth came out (of its shell) he seemed like a normal human being who is wearing all his emotions on his shoulders, and that is why he runs. And in the epilogue, it reads that he fly’s away with his loved ones in this arms. That is the last stage of the silkworm life