Malachi Constant/Unk raped a young woman and murdered his best friend.
Why does the reader feel sympathy for him instead of anger?
In 'The Sirens of Titan' there are many places where the reader would
feel anger towards Malachi Constant/Unk if it is read out of context.
However there are also many occasions where the reader feels sympathy
and forgives Malachi/Unk. This is helped by Winston Niles Rumfoord who
knows everything and Winston's wife, Beatrice, who is another main
character.
Malachi Constant was born rich and had everything he wanted but the
reader finds out after few chapters that he had not had a happy family
life. His mother was a whore and he only ever met his father once in
his life.
"You said you had a very unhappy childhood and made everyone listen to
how unhappy it was."
In this quote the language is simple and repetitive. This is perhaps
to show the annoyance this character has for Constant. It also makes
the reader feel less sympathetic here though because he was moaning
and complaining which is not a good attribute in people. This might be
so that later on the reader can see how they judged him unfairly so
that when there is less proof of something bad happening to him they
are more easily forgiving of him.
This brings out the readers sympathy because the reader realises this
is what leads to his financial ruin and bankruptcy because he gets
drunk and depressed and gives away all his oil wells. However if we
had not read this part then the reader would feel angry at wasting
what he had.
"Every courageous thing he [Constant] had done had been motivated by
spitefulness and goads from childhood"
In this quote there are lots of strong negatives that suggest a very
powerful outside force. All the words here are emotive and indicate
another source had dominance over Constant's life.
We, the readers, are told he tries to hard to be sophisticated and
fashionable and this makes the reader sympathetic because the reader
pities him and relates to him for trying so hard to 'fit in' with
others.
"Everything Rumfoord did he did with style, making all mankind look
good.
Everything Constant did he did in style - aggressively, loudly,
childishly, wastefully"
This is a direct comparison with Rumfoord and shows how young, eager
and naïve Constant is in contrast to Rumfoord who is much older and
knows everything. The adverbs are all negative showing how Rumfoord is
a good person but Constant takes everything for granted.
The story follows Constant and then Unk throughout the book giving
only important facts such as what they look like and character points
staying in school, and even though he found a wonderful woman named Sheila who he,
when describing his father. At the beginning of the story he spoke as a child
his real father. A while after he ran away he traveling down a road when he saw
than enough time to think about his life. He always used to ask his mother "
late father. He was also not ready to face the fact that his Uncle marries his mother
with his mother. In "The Man Who Was Almost A Man", we see a male
Much is unknown about the Zodiac killer, but given what is known about serial killers in general, this man was probably born between 1938 and 1943. That would make his age between 25 and 30 years old at the time of his first murder in Vallejo, California, in 1968. Also, that age estimate works with witness statements and it's supported by Zodiac's references to his victims in younger terms in his letters of 1969. Zodiac wasn't an attractive character from what we know. He may have had to wear glasses throughout his youth and his facial features weren't all that pleasing. So overall he may have been unpopular as a young boy and spent a good deal of time alone. It seems as though rejection is a big issue for Zodiac. No one knows anything about the Zodiac's parents but it wouldn't be ridiculous to say that there was domestic violence, broken relationships with parents or guardians, and maybe even a physical or sexual abuse in the household. Considering the adult outcome, Zodiac would have turned out to be an angry, withdrawn, loner, whose adolescence just could have been filled with fantasies and irrationality.
It was not until a plague infected his city that he summoned a seer, only to find out that he was the cause of it by his relations with his wife/mother. He then questioned his father, who adopted him, and discovered the truth about how he was abandoned as a baby by his natural parents after a seer had foretold that he would kill his own father.
meeting her. He did not want to deal with the reality that confronted him upon
...why he never found them. He will not allow himself to because by this point he had given up on school and eventually he gave up on the whole world. Tragically though, he gives it all up before he truly has a chance to get it started.
money and a life full of luxuries. He fell deeply in love with the young
without her. "He was his wife's man and not his own." When he became aware of
then, As a result, He gave up on his father and began to live his life completely separated from
mother had to go out and leave him with a friend or relative. In fact,