Analysis character - Essay Example

Peer Pressure through Ages The passage tells us in a big way the heightened effect of peer pressure that has affected the humanity since ages. It seems that like a weak limbed youth, the narrator has surrendered to peer- pressure and does all the things that his group is doing. He does not wait to see whether his action is right or wrong. He wants to be a part of the select crowd and does everything that his mates are currently indulging in. This could be smoking, drinking, roaming around all night, using abusive words and lots more. Attraction towards Darker Elements of Life The narrator is naturally impressed towards the darker elements of life. He feels proud in calling himself bad and to appear as rude as possible. He thinks it to be cool to be associated with so called bad and dangerous people. He purposefully indulges in all the negativities of life not only because of so called peer pressure but also because he has a natural affinity for it. Recklessness The narrator basically indulges in reckless behavior without any thought towards the consequences. This reckless behavior gives him nothing but frustration and he seems forever waiting for something to happen and restless in his life. Immaturity The narrator has a high level of immaturity in his character. He never thinks before he leaps and thus finds himself in troubled water (literally). The narrator along with his friends confronts another individual on mistaken identity and suffers much loss (both economically and physically) in the encounter. The ending could have been worse had the crimes been committed, but luckily the other individual was a tougher person (to have sustained the blow) and he saved two crimes from happening (of murder and rape in that order). This would certainly have pushed all the three friends into a darker world of crime with all hopes of future dead. Lust Lust is present in all individuals and it is usually covered with a layer of civility. But, in the case of the narrator and his friends, the lust overtook all their self control and they were even ready to force themselves on an unwilling victim. The narrator was very near to committing the hideous crime of rape and only fate intervened to save him from this felony. Hence, this shows the debasement of narrator’s morals. Cowardice The narrator is basically a coward behind all the bravado that he presents to the world. He is afraid of stronger individuals and can only confront them in crowd. He is afraid of his parents, his mother’s censor, of police department, of corpse and of society at large. Hence, we find that the narrator is weak both in body and spirit and this weakness is typical of the pretentious youth. Hidden Consciousness However, some of the weakness present in the narrator also confirms that there is a consciousness (however dormant) lying inside him. The narrator is aware of his faults and knows how near he had come to losing his control (and his entire life along with it) in the darkness of the night. Hence, he rejoices when he comes to know that the person whom he had hit was alive, even though he was wrecking havoc with his mother’s precious car. Hope of Evolution into a New Being Eventually we see that the narrator along Read More