This boy's life- Citizenship in the school 4-6 by Nigel Tam https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso en-us 2016-02-02 00:13:19 UTC 2025-11-03 01:20:29 UTC hello@padlet.com Dwight krajko_pacsi https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/95220702 Dwight is Rosemary's husband. He was kind, polite, old fogey until he married Rosemary. Then he showed his real personality. He is alcoholic, often violent, rude and selfish. He wants to show that everything in his life is perfect: Chinook is the best place in the world, he is an excellent shooter and a great musician. He wants the perfect family, that's why he woos Rosemary. She is a very beautiful but poor woman. She needs a  man to depend on - a perfect housewife. However, her son, Jack is disobedient and a trouble maker. Dwight doesn't like Jack and wants to civilize him.  

 The only part of the story when Dwight feels something positive about Jack, is when Jack is going to have a boxing match at school with his enemy Arthur Gayle, organized by Mr. Mitchell, the gym teacher. Dwight is so excited, he trains Jack, giving him advice on how to fight. He feels proud that 'his son' will be fighting  the 'sissy of the school'.  

When Dwight sees that Jack has similar qualities to himself, he becomes more tolerant.   

Another example for this is when Jack nearly cuts off his finger. He spends a week in hospital and gets addicted to morphine. When he returns home, he misses the drug and starts to steal Dwight's whiskey and waters it down. After a short time, Dwight realizes what Jack is doing but doesn't want to punish him. When Jack talks back, he punish Jack and he fell off, landed on his finger.

]]> 2016-02-16 07:08:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/95220702 Toby Wolff krajko_pacsi https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/95234004 hi 
Toby Wolff is a young boy, living with his mum, after his father left them. They was moving from one city to another, to find the life what they were dreaming about. Finally Rosemary married to Dwight, and moved to Chinook with Jack. He decides he will change. He really wants to be  obedient, good student to make his mother proud, but it's hard for him. He always wants to look cool, so instead of learning he chooses hanging out with older boys, smoke, get drunk and make trouble.  

This behavior causes a conflict between him and his schoolmate Arthur Gayle. They always say rude things to each other, but one day, after school at the bus stop they have a fight. Mr. Mitchell, the gym teacher sees it. nstead of punishing them, he organizes a boxing fight for the boys. Jack enjoys the attention what he gets during the fight, but he doesn't want to hurt Arthur. He can feel the pain everytime he punches [Arthur]. Inside they  don't hate each other. They know they are similar.   

Jack gets very disappointed when he gets letters from schools he wants to get in, but all of the answers are refusing. Some days later  he gets a phone from Mr. Howard, who works for Hill School. He asks Jack for a meeting  after school. Jack says him, he enjoys his classes, and it is true, but Mr. Howard thinks it also means he is doing well at school. Mr. Howard talks a lot about Hill School, and what he felt when he learned there. He is looking at Jack with a bigger interest, when he talks about the prep schools where his father and brother studied. At the end of the interview Mr. Howard says he is not sure Hill School is the best choice for Jack, but he will give him a good report.  


Jack gets addicted to morphine when he nearly cut off his finger at school. First he wants it just for the pain in his finger, but after he needs it, because " for the peace it gave [him]".  He doesn't think and worry about anything when he gets it. Returning home he misses this feeling. He starts to steel Dwight's whiskey to get back the feeling. When it turns out Dwight gets angry and push him, and he fells off on his sore finger. Rosemary wants to rescue his son from Dwight's violence, so she  sends him to live with Chuck Bolger's family. Chuck's father is rigorous and Jack has to promise he will be on his best behavior and he really wants to be a good boy.]]> 2016-02-16 09:17:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/95234004 Rosemary Wolff krajko_pacsi https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/95235244 Rosemary Wolff was born into a rich family, as an only child. She had got everything what she needed. Her mother was her best friend, but his father (Daddy) was often too rigorous and punished her a lot. After she left Jack's father, she was trying hardly to ensure the best life for his son. She made new plans again and again about how to get rich. It is clear, she loves her son. Her circumstances are difficult, because she wants to be a good mother, but Jack is a trouble maker and liar, and she doesn't want to punish him.   

She always becomes disappointed when she sees that Jack is becoming a criminal. When Jack has a boxing match, she is sickened because of the idea that Jack is going to "participate in such a cutthroat event."  


Jack gets addicted to morphine in the hospital, and returned home he steals Dwight's whiskey. When it turns out Dwight pushes Jack, and he fell off on his finger, she has enough. It proves the last straw for her. She sends Jack to Seattle to live with the Bolger  family and find a job. She promises if he is successful, they both will move to Seattle and start a new life without Dwight. Rosemary also promises the family, Jack will be on his best behavior, however she can just hope it will be true. She trust Jack again, she shouldn't do it...

]]> 2016-02-16 09:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/95235244 krajko_pacsi https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/96629197 2016-02-23 07:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/96629197 krajko_pacsi https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/97680489 2016-02-27 05:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/97680489 Chapter 4 Overview  nigel_near_ccnt https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/97720640 - Arthur and Jack fallen to a sharp way of talking to each other. They have become a cruel in their treatment of one another. Arthur and Jack started to fight after school one day while they were at the bus stop.
- Mr Mitchell, he is a gym teacher, he turn attracted to attention. He ran across the street yelling and came between them and held them apart as they were slavering to get at each other.
- Organized school event in which enemies battle one another in a boxing ring. The grudge fights came last. Mr Mitchell announced them as such to raise the temperature in the gym, and to remind the fighters that they were honor-bound to try and kill each other. Most of these boys weren't real enemies. Maybe they'd ragged each other too hard, like Arthur and Jack.
- Arthur and Jack steered clear of each other when they could, gave each other evil looks when they couldn't. It could have been indecorous and unwise for a pair of grudge fighters to let themselves get friendly.
- Arthur and Jack were moving apart, and had been ever since they started hight school. Arthur was trying to be a citizen . He stayed out of trouble and earned high grades. He also played bass guitar with Deltones.
- Arthur and Jack hadn't had a real fight since that day on the road four years earlier, but they'd gone a few rounds in PE and jack''d seen Arthur spar with other boys.
- Dwight is excited for Jack to fight Arthur, a renowned sissy, and trains Jack for the smoker. When the fight actually happens, Jack can feels how hurt delivers when he hits Arthurs, when he punching arthur he connecting to Dwight. Dwight is proud of Jack. 
- Rosemary hardly talk to jack on the drive home, she really disappointed with jack that he participate with those event.
- Lastly Arthur won the smokers fight alounght the match is close]]> 2016-02-28 02:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/97720640 Chapter 5 overview  nigel_near_ccnt https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/97722174 - Jack had done well on the test he'd taken in Seattle. But no longer after his scores came in, he got rejected from all of the private schools he has applied to. Those rejections disappointed Jack but he had't really counted on these schools anyway, jack was counting in Deerfield.
- Mr Howard, is a alumnus of Hill school who lived in Seattle. He told Jack the school was 'interested' for his application, and had asked him to meet with Jack and have a talk. He picks Jack up from school in his Thunderbird, when Mr Howard asked Jack where they might go to talk, Jack suggested the Concrete drugstore.
- During the conversation with Jack, Mr. Howard assures Jack that he will recommend that Jack be accepted to Hill. Mr Howard asked Jack about Concrete High, Jack told him that he enjoyed his classes but he was felling a little restless lately. also Mr Howard asked Jack about the his father and his brother.
-After that Mr Howard does warn Jack that Hill school will be difficult, Jack assure Howard that he is ready for taking any challenge that Hill might given him.
- After the conversation, Mr Howard drove around Concrete for a while before taking Jack back to school. He was curious about the cement plant, and disappointed that Jack could tell him nothing about what went on inside it. He was quiet for a time. Then he said. "You should know that a boys' school can be a pretty rough-and-tumble place"
- At last, Mr Howard parked in front of the school, he took a business card from his wallet and told Jack to call him if he had any question. Howard advised Jack not to worry and said whatever happened would surely be for the best.]]> 2016-02-28 03:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/97722174 Other character's analysis krajko_pacsi https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/97723271
  • Mr. Howard is working for Hill School and he has an interview with Jack. He is driving a Thunderbirt. He looks like he still has the boy in him, without boyishness. "He bounced a little as he walked. His narrow face was lively, foxlike." He is wearing his suit and tie loosely. He is kind and helpful during the interview, and he really wants the best for Jack. 

  • Arthur Gayle is a schoolmate of Jack. He always stay out of trouble and gets high grades. He is playing bass guitar in a good school band. He has a girlfriend, but he is not in love. He never looks at her or talk to her.
    • ]]>     2016-02-28 03:58:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/97723271     Chapter 6 Overview  nigel_near_ccnt https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/97730944 - Jack was running a board through the table saw at school and joking around with the boy next in line. Then he felt a sharp pinch and looked down . The ring finger on his left hand was spouting blood. He had cut off the last join. After that Horserace Greeley took Jack to the doctor. Jack thought that the accident had been his fault, and that it work be unfair of him to get the boy in trouble. He'd been a fool, he'd cut off part of his own finger. 
    - Jack's mother gave the doctor permission to take him to the Hospital in Mount Vernon for surgery. Jack was supposed to stay in the hospital for three days, but the doctor was worried about infection and it was almost a week before Jack get home.
    -  The doctor gave Jack some tables when he left the hospital, but they had no effect. When Jack returns home, he craves the numbness he felt while taking the morphine and steals some of Dwight's alcohol to ease the aching in his finger,he thinks alcohol might make him feel better, after he try the old crew he felt choke so he replenished the bottle with water and put it back.
    - A few night later Dwight asked Jack if he been into his Whiskey, It was watery, he said. Dwight seemed more curious than anything else. When Jack talks back to him, Dwight pushes him. Dwight didn't push all that hard, but Jack lost his balance, he stumbled backward, tripping on his own feet, landing on his injured finger.
    - Jack left, after all the years of thinking about leaving, he actually did it. Rosemary talked to Chuck Bolger's parents and they agreed to let Jack live with them in Van Horn for the net few months, until the end of the school year,and promises that once she finds a job in Seattle, they will leave Chinook and start a home of their own.
    - When they about to leave, Dwight came outside in and watch us. Jack knows he wanted to make it up with him. Dwight already had a bad reputation in the camp, and to have one of his family leave his house like this would disagree him. Dwight knows Jack would tell people he had bullied him in his invalid condition.
    - As Jack is leaving the house to go to the Bolgers, Dwight extends his hand and wishes Jack good luck. He hopeless to stop Jack, Jack shook it and wished him good luck too. But Jack didn't mean it any more than he did. ]]>     2016-02-28 08:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/97730944     THEME krajko_pacsi https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/97733460 BOXING FIGHT
    This event raise different types of emotion in the characters. 

    • Jack enjoy the attention what he gets during the fight however he doesn't want to hurt Arthur. He knows inside they are really similar. Both of them were not born in Chinook and they can feel  they are outsiders. They  don't belong anywhere so they act like the others to get fake friends and don't be alone. Actually they know each other "knowing him as I did, I saw all the respectability as a performance, and a strained performance at that." Jack feels uncomfortable about it "I could not accept that he knew I was not the person I tried so hard to seem"  

    • Rosemary feels disappointed about her son's fight. She was always living with violent  men ( Daddy, Roy, Dwight) and she doesn't want to see Jack becoming the similar. When Jack tries to explain what happened "She refused to understand that [he]'d really had to fight, that there was no choice."  

    • Dwight gets excited when he hears about the boxing match, and tries to  train Jack for the fight. When he thinks after the match that Jack has won "[Jack] could see him smiling down at [him] with recognition, and pleasure, and something like love."  


    ESCAPING  

    •  Jack doesn't like Chinook, he can't find himself there. He hates Dwight and can't stand living with him. When he gets refusal after refusal from the prep schools, he feels disappointed. He thinks he will never leave Dwight. Finally Mr. Howard from Hill School asks Jack for a meeting. Jack  becomes very excited, he can see the chance of escape. He  is thinking a lot about the meeting, preparing himself to show his best. Mr. Howard seems to believe him what gives hope Jack for leaving.  

    • When Dwight pushes Jack and he fell off on his injured finger, Rosemary gets angry. She wants to protect her son of Dwight's violence, so she sends him to live with the Bolger family. Jack promises "[he] would help out in [Mr. Bolger's] store, and go to church with the rest of his family. [Jack] would accept his authority. [He] would neither smoke nor drink nor swear. [He] gave [his] word on all counts."  
    ]]>     2016-02-28 09:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/97733460     Sittings  nigel_near_ccnt https://padlet.com/nigel_near_ccnt/aw8ssd5i6fso/wish/97807085 Chapter 4:                                          Chapter 6:
    - Bus stop, Arthur and Jack fight    - School
    - Gym                                                  - Home 
    - Home                                               - Hospital 
                                                                - Van Horn 
    Chapter 5:
    - Seattle
    - Deerfield 
    - Hill School
    - Concrete drugstore 

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