Analysis Of We The Animals

Throughout the novel what stands out the most for me in “We The Animals” is that the narrator is gay and his family can’t face the face the fact that the good kid at of all turned that way. When the family read the narrator diary they saw a different perspective on the narrator. In my opinion, that 's an invasion of privacy and should of asked permission. The narrator wrote “ I had written fantasises about the men I met at the bus station, about what I wanted me”. How the narrator felt was his fears dimmed to black and his vision blurred. If somebody ever read my journal without my okay i will be furious and embarrassed because the person read my journal. I know how hard it for him when his family found out, he felt alone and panicked and

Manny said “You’re twisting up your panties”(108). He is basically telling the narrator he is not man enough. What really stood out to me when manny said”there something seriously wrong with you in the head. Let talk about that”, but they never got a chance to talk about it. In my opinion Manny knew his brother was gay but thought it was inappropriate to talk to him about it because it could a sensitive thing and manny has sense of respect towards him. Besides the narrator problems the problems was out of the ordinary for the family. The mother is mostly depressed most of the time because she had to raise the kids basically by herself. She had crazy and long shift at the graveyard sometimes does knew what day it is or the time because she is so exhausted. When the father is around his smacks the mom in the face when the kids are watching and that really could effect the kids because the kids find their parents as role models and they should set an example for the kids. The father would not be home sometimes questions if he cheats on his wife.Joel and manny are trouble makers and the narrator is the well mannered one but loves his

The father called the narrator mijo that saying that 's still his son ,but the son didn 't want nobody washing him. He said “I 'm an adult”, I got rights” Paps said “everybody got right. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got right. Yeah, you got right. what you don 't got is power”(120). The father is trying interpret that yeah everybody got right but i 'm the father and your my son there is always love there but you suppose to respect him. Still the narrator has hate towards the mother because she was the one reading the journal and saw he saw the the journal on her lap. The mother wanted son to pour all his hate on her if that 's what he wants because son wouldn 't speak to her. After the wash his father helped with, his older brothers were outside shoveling snow and he wanted to help them. He came out with snowsuit but was to weak to shovel the older brother gave him a plastic bucket with crystals so he can spread it around where there was done shoveling. That show a lot of respect from the older brothers to make their youngest brother involved in what they was doing and not make him feel left