In The Club, friendship and loyalty are forgotten. The characters in this play sneak around behind each other’s backs, trying to achieve one thing; they are trying to hold onto their position. They want to replace some members of the Club so that they can start a new and better club, without the interference of “busy-body’s”. Although Laurie shows loyalty to his team, and Ted shows loyalty to the club, Jock and Gerry are continually stabbing Laurie and Ted in the back. Gerry, the career administrator, seems to be on everybody’s side but he is actually the one who makes the bullets for all the other bunnies to fire. Ted, the Club president, means well but can’t help sticking his nose into other people’s business. Geoff is the new recruit and could not care less about the game of football. Laurie is the coach of the team and as they are not doing the best, he finds out that at the end of the play that he is going to be sacked. Danny is the captain and long-time club champion of the team. He too is about to get the axe after years of charitable service. And then there is Jock, who is an interfering ex-president. He is also the holder of the Club’s longest player record. “Ted’s going to have to resign soon. He’s got himself into real trouble. I can guarantee that he won’t be around in a month or two.” [Page 17] “We’re not going to renew Laurie’s contract at the end of the year.” “We’re going to try and not renew his contract at the end of the year.” [Page 18] The above quotes show Gerry Cooper, the clever manipulator that he is, in action. First, Gerry talks to Laurie and tells him that Ted will have to resign soon. Laurie is unaware of the fact as to why he will have to resign but he knows that Ted is about to go bankrupt. Gerry leaves Laurie, leaving him thinking that he is safe and that Ted will go. The second quote shows Ted and Gerry talking. Ted tells Gerry that he does not want Laurie’s contract renewed at the end of the year. Gerry agrees with Ted by saying that he will try not to renew it, only after he told Laurie that Ted was going to have to resign. By now, Gerry has convinced Laurie that Ted will be quitting the club.
With only four characters in the play, each of these individuals plays a vital role in each other’s lives. Gary and Dave are juxtaposing characters in the play, with Christine and Sue-Anne being the other two. Prior to their first meeting, Gary was hardworking and determined, a classic Aussie tradie striving to build a house on a block of land he inherited from his passing father in hopes of providing a future for his unborn baby. Dave however, is quite contrasting in comparison to Gary. Dave is known for being laidback and lazy, playing a passive role. Despite not revealing much about himself, Dave is socializes well with the rest of the characters with c...
The three main characters in the book come with very different personalities. Mike who is the leader of the crowd is very selfish and seems to get a kick out of bullying and terrorising others. He feels he is somehow superior to others. Mungrel is someone who sits in the back ground and watches everything going on under his nose; he doesn’t speak until words are put into his mouth. The main character comes across as a boy who is just desperate to fit in and have friends, only being eight years old it isn’t as easy as it looks.
...e has been brought up this way. When Gerry goes away on camp there is some initial conflict. He then begins to change his ways and makes friends with one of his African American teammates, Julies Campbell. Gerry changes his ways and starts to respect people for who they are “when I did know you I was only hating my brother” just like when Andy is bleeding out and he realises that he doesn't want to be in a gang anymore. Both Andy and Gerry’s original ways which were influenced by their surroundings where not right and they both realised this themselves.
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The main characters in this story are 6 friends from Cedarville Middle School, a crooked businessman, and a Doberman Pincher. Griffin Bing is, “The Man With The Plan,” and he organizes the missions this group of friends get involved in. Ben Slovak is Griffins best friend and he has a ferret that goes everywhere with him to help him with his narcolepsy or sleep disorder. Pitch Benson is an expert at mountain climbing and she helps them get into impossible places. Melissa Dukakis is a computer expert which comes in handy for eves dropping. Logan Kellerman is an actor and he is good at distracting people. Savannah Drysdale is an animal whisperer which has helped them get past guard dogs. S. Wendell Palomino or, “Swindle” is a crooked businessman who has caused these friends a lot of problems. Luthor is a huge temperamental Doberman who be...
... Their friendship was so secure and they were so pleased that they had learnt to overcome the racial issues and spent the time getting to know each other. They both still acted as if they were better than each other and they weren?t going to attempt to change this, even when they were playing football together. If something went wrong they would blame each other, or disagree, and always end up fighting and usually about different things, like who was better and right. By observing the friendship emerging between Gerry and Julius, other people began to realize that having friends of a different race was not wrong.
“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.” Joey Costello, the main character's best friend, he is an example of bad sportsmanship. This is because Joey thinks that if he doesn’t make an amazing first impression on the Tangerine Middle School's soccer team, then he would just quit the team altogether. He decides that he shouldn’t play at all if he is teased. He could just keep played and show them how well he played soccer. He didn’t even try to become friend with Victor and his buddies, he, instead, just played once and quit soccer all together, at every school!!! He still can be a good friend, he is to Paul. In the novel, Tangerine, characters (like Joey) demonstrate both good and bad sportsmanship on and
Babbitt’s friendships appear to be false and only serve functional purposes. Members of the Booster’s club only make connections to better themselves politically or socially. Babbitt, like the others, makes these connections as soon as he can, without realizing how foolish his motivations seem. Once, he attempts to step above his class by inviting the reputable McKelveys to dinner. However, despite careful planning and good behavior, “for no good reason that was clear to Babbitt, heaviness was over [McKelveys] and they spoke laboriously and unwillingly”. After the party, the McKelveys make an empty promise to lunch with the Babbitts later, and never speak of them again. Babbitt is oblivious that the displeasure the McKelveys show is a result of his own underwhelming status. They regard him in the manner Babbitt regarded his less prosperous friend, Overbrook. When the Overbrooks invite the Babbitts over for dinner, Overbrook praises him much like how Babbitt praised McKelvey, down to the trite questions about travel and social life. In the end, Babbitt confesses to his wife, “‘[I] just made a bluff about having to lunch with him sometime’”, mirroring McKelvey’s promise to lunch with Babbitt, and reveals the foolishness of overstepping class boundaries to ascend to new social levels. Those who try to extend themselves further through connections only appear foolish to their colleagues, a truth many were unable to see. // The idea of overstepping one’s soci...
Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club brings forth many characteristics of new world and old world traditions into the reader’s sight. Old world traditions are the customs and beliefs practiced in one’s native country. The novel introduces the reader to the hardships that one encounters when the environment and the neighbors change. The American customs, or new world traditions, seem to prevail in the thoughts of the Chinese-American daughters; thus, encouraging the mothers to stress the old world traditions onto their children. The mothers also try to bring the best of both worlds to their children to make their children’s lives better. As the children mature, they realize the true worth of their Chinese heritage and try to retain to the Chinese characteristics that they have. In The Joy Luck Club, old world and new world traits are gained and lost by the characters in the novel to benefit themselves and make their strength of mind stronger.
The movie shows Bertier kicking Ray off the team because he was making the colored team members look bad, who was one of his close friends. Bertier’s action shows that he is not going to let anyone on the team treat a colored member badly or make them look foolish. Next, Bertier ditched his friends for the team after one of their games they won, for his friends treated him and his team members rude and differently. This shows how Gerry was very dedicated to his team, and he was willing to leave his friends to be with his team of color. This is how Gerry Bertier didn’t tolerate his team getting treated
This story talks about how Edward Perry and Alfonso led the gang, and why kids wanted to be a part of it. It also focuses on Bobby Gore and David
Gerry Conlon is a dynamic character. He goes from being a rude, careless rebel to being one who cares about how others see him, one who cares for others and one who fights for what he believes in and what is right. He goes from being one that people locked down upon to being one that people would follow and listen to. We also see clearly how he learns to show his family that he loves them. Obviously he loved them before as well, but he gets better at showing it.
The typical and traditional example of relationships between women and man in this play is portrayed through Chris and Gerry. The dynamics of their relationship infrequently changes with time. Although they are bound together by their son Michael, they don’t live together and aren’t married. Gerry visits are irregular and unexpected; usually whenever he takes it into his head. Nobody can predict when he’ll arrive again “We probably won’t see Mr. Evans for another year – until the humour suddenly takes him again.” His behavior, his irresponsible and unserious attitude towards her shows the lack of desire in earnest relationship. “… two dozen times I couldn’t get away. Something turned up and I couldn’t get away.” Along the time Chris realizes that he cannot change himself, he will walk out and break her heart again “You wouldn’t intend to but that’s what would happen because that’s your nature and you can’t help yourself.” Their relationships are fated to failure. Therefore when Gerry purposes to Chris during his another visit, she refuses to him. She understands that his words are vain and worthless but she still experiences feelings to him, which prevent her from breakdown of their relationship. “Oh, yes you have a handsome father, you are lucky boy and I am a very, very lucky woman.”
In the beginning of the movie, Gerry is against the fact that he will have to play football on the same team with black people. After getting to know his new teammates, Gerry’s mindset changes and he then believed that that all of his teammates should be treated equally. Shortly after this, the team has their first game. Gerry’s friends invite him to hang out. He tells them that he would rather be
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