HALF MAN, HALF BULL. In the store we follow a guy named Minotaur. He is a half man, half bull. He is original from Greek mythology. In the story we get to know Minotaur as a different and very disliked person. The story’s author Peter Ho Davies is a child of a Welsh father and Malay-Chinese mother. He went to America and suddenly the American people found him a mystery. He looked Asian but he spoke with a British accent. Peter felt like he had two identities.
In the very first paragraph (1-9) we get introduced to a different and very interesting person. Minotaur! “My mother fell for a white bull. Not that he ever loved her back”. Minotaur’s mother was Chinese and fell in love with a white Welsh “bull”. He feels awful for his mother. He can’t figure out how embarrassing it is for his mother to have a cow …show more content…
Minotaur’s stepfather lost patience with him. He confines him in the basement in a labyrinth. “Not confined” He can come out whenever he wants. I am a man not a beast. Maybe you’ve forgotten the difference?” I do think his stepfather is some kind of a beast maybe not physical but mental. He has put down Minotaur in a basement but Minotaur is settled in a dilemma, either he can go left or right. But the choice is hard so he ends up starring in the deep darkness. He is home schooled and his mother is often visiting him, sometimes she even sneaks down in the night to cradle his head. This part shows us how love always wins. There are no limits on how much love a mother can give to his son even though he is different from other people and much disliked from his stepfather.
Minotaur sees his horns as a dilemma. He wants to rip them of and be normal. Be like the other kids. Minotaur has often migraines because he has been running into the dirty wall. His horns are stocked and even how hard he tries to get them off he slowly gives up and goes back to his room and starts to think that the horns will be there forever and that just how it
In the very first paragraph (1-9) we get introduced to a different and very interesting person. Minotaur! “My mother fell for a white bull. Not that he ever loved her back”. Minotaur’s mother was Chinese and fell in love with a white Welsh “bull”. He feels awful for his mother. He can’t figure out how embarrassing it is for his mother to have a cow …show more content…
Minotaur’s stepfather lost patience with him. He confines him in the basement in a labyrinth. “Not confined” He can come out whenever he wants. I am a man not a beast. Maybe you’ve forgotten the difference?” I do think his stepfather is some kind of a beast maybe not physical but mental. He has put down Minotaur in a basement but Minotaur is settled in a dilemma, either he can go left or right. But the choice is hard so he ends up starring in the deep darkness. He is home schooled and his mother is often visiting him, sometimes she even sneaks down in the night to cradle his head. This part shows us how love always wins. There are no limits on how much love a mother can give to his son even though he is different from other people and much disliked from his stepfather.
Minotaur sees his horns as a dilemma. He wants to rip them of and be normal. Be like the other kids. Minotaur has often migraines because he has been running into the dirty wall. His horns are stocked and even how hard he tries to get them off he slowly gives up and goes back to his room and starts to think that the horns will be there forever and that just how it