1. By Erika Schoonderwoerd IP Multimedia Presentation
2. PLOT SUMMARY This is a tale of a struggle within oneself,
based on the true story of Norman Red Ryan in the early 1930s. Kip,
a bank robber, gets released from jail with the help of Father
Butler and the support of Senator McLean. He gets a job at a hotel
and tries to get his life going in the right direction again.
Throughout the novel, Kip has many struggles with always being
covered by the media, and not be able to get on the parole board as
he hoped, but he also meets Julie, who becomes a love interest. y
1930s.
3. T H E S I S Low self-esteem, caused by many different
aspects of one's life that affect their psychological being, will
ultimately result in violence, when the negativity that they feel
becomes too much for them to handle.
4. One's self-esteem can be built upon knowing that there will
always be people, or a person, supporting you through it all.
Therefore, when these people start giving up, it is common for
one's self-esteem to slowly disappear as well.
5. He felt her breathless eagerness to share his life. It awed
him (97)
6. There seemed to be a little tug at his heart, a sudden
distortion of his vision. Everything he had thought good had became
ugly and ridiculous. (145-146)
7. One often finds self-esteem in popularity, but when the
media starts to exploit a person, defining their social identity,
that person's self-esteem tends to be compromised when they are
unable to have a noticeable impact on their social identity, and in
some cases, their self identity as well.
8. If only the don't make everybody of me. Please dear , give
me a chance, and all I ask is that get a chance to know how i feel
and that they don't keep away from me. (23)
9. 'It was the job, a restaurant job, see? I wanted to get some
place where nobody'd notice me. God knows how the thing would work
out.' (34)
10. When someone feels completely alone, they resort to the
time in their life that they believe was the easiest to live,
generally where they held the least amount of responsibility,
whether this be a turn for the better or the worse.
11. The humiliation he had been seeking in a final destruction
of his dignity had come. (148)
12. It would only be carrying on the work he had done among the
men in prison. He suddenly longed to believe it was possible. Then
he mocked himself, he tried to blot the wish out of his heart. It
kept coming back brighter. It enlarged everything. (43)
13. Runaway Train- Soul Asylum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRtvqT_wMeY Call you up in the
middle of the night Like a firefly without a light Runaway train,
never goin' back Wrong-way on a one-way track Seems like I should
get getting somewhere Somehow I'm neither here or there C
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