About A Boy Belonging

One reason that he finds his true self in this short story is that in the beginning, Will is confident. One example that he is confident is that he said “I’m really strong.” The text stated that he was comparing himself to Mike, and favored himself. Another example is that he said “That’s right.” in a menacing way. The short story

These being: family, schools, peer relationships, mass media, and work. Throughout the film, we see the growth of character in Will. He begins in the movie as the mishap trouble maker with a brilliant mind that’s being wasted because his inner demons are holding him hostage. Through the progression of his time in therapy, we can tell that will did not have the best home life. We discover that he was a victim of child abuse, both physical and mental. Because of this, he grows up believing that he is not worth much and will not amount to anything. Family is a big part of the way we grow up to perceive ourselves and present ourselves to others. Wills family did not show him that he was good enough so he believed he wasn’t and found solace in his school work. With the help of his peer relations and school, Will was “re-socialized” and succeeded beyond what he could have ever imagined. With the help of this therapist and time, Will resolved the resentment and attachment issues he has had since he was a child and begin to form new relationships while allowing others into his mind a bit more. This change in his life was all brought on by the professor teaching him. If he hadn’t intervened with the court and suggest that in place of jail time, Will could study under him and see a therapist, will would have never gotten better and advance much further in life. With the help of peer relations and school, will became a new and improved

His presenting self was the safeguard to his private self. Will was very much aware of his gift and his enormous potential but shunned it like some burden, or at least that's what he wanted others to believe. He often told Sean Maguire, his shrink with whom he had developed a bond, that his gift was something he didn't ask for, and he'd be perfectly fine working an honorable blue-collar job with his buddies. Despite his assertion regarding his gift as an aggravation Will's actions contradict, for he is asked why he just so happened to get a custodial job in the world's foremost institute for technology, M.I.T if he wanted nothing to do with his genius. Maguire sees behind Will's visage, he realizes Will is a wounded soul who really knows nothing about life for he hasn't experienced it, it is so much more that what he read in a book. It is hard to say what Will should have done for he had a difficult past one that most cannot relate too, or have any idea what it may be like to live it. However, If Will had been a little more open to the people who wanted to love him he would have been much happier. In his quest to never be hurt he was headed for a life where he would never be loved. His thoughts were becoming a self-fulfilling prophesy; where one's expectations of an event make that event more likely to occur (Adler, 65). Had Will been honest with himself and more willing

Will 's group of friends seem to pick on him and judge him, which questions if they are truly his friends or not and if he truly fits in with him.

The main focus is placed on Will, whom has a rare genius to put together abstract math problems and finds it hard to relate to world without getting arrested for doing something violent and rebellious. He grew up in South Boston and the hard streets have jaded him, while his intelligence further isolated him from people and made him hostile to other people. In the beginning of the film, Will is discovered by Lambeu (Stellan Skarsgard) a professor of mathematics, and his well-being becomes a serious issue and he is pursued. While placing a difficult math problem on the chalkboard

Overall, Will has had a troubling life, never feeling like he actually belonged. He was afraid to be smart and at the same time afraid to not be. The physical and mental abuse he suffered at the hands of those who are supposed to protect him, definitely scared him

In the beginning, the island has a happy, holiday feel, like a trip to the Bahamas. The boys explore the island feeling like adventurers and trailblazers instead of lost children. When scouting the island for the first time, Ralph, Simon, and Jack talked of making maps and a“kind of glamour was spread over them and the scene and they were conscious of the glamour and made happy by it” (Golding 25). But the island does not retain its pleasant and benign atmosphere for long- soon an aura of fear steals over the jungle. Hunting goes from an adrenaline fueled excursion to source a mild anxiety for all but Jack, and when he tells his hunters to follow him, they “spread out, nervously, in the forest” (Golding 133). The jungle has changed from a place full of fruit and joyous exploration, to one full of shadows and beasts. It is easier to revert back to savagery when lost within its trees. As early as the third chapter, Jack gets startled and “for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees” (Golding 49). When one is alone or afraid, the jungle starts to feel like a hunt-or-be-hunted scenario. Jack, the character perhaps most acclimated to the jungle through his long hunting trips, describes being afraid and feeling vulnerable in the jungle, as if something is always behind him. When everything has deteriorated into chaos, perhaps the most telling

“ And another thing. We can’t have everybody talking at once. we’ll have to have “ hands up” like at school (pg. 33 Golding).” The boys were making rules to follow on the island while they were there, when the boys got to the island and all got together it felt like a good society but it sure didn’t stay that way. “There aren’t any grown-ups. We shall have to look after ourselves(pg. 33 Golding).” The boys were by themselves and had to do everything on their own. Now that they have made rules and everything, they have to follow

( The Island) Lincoln questions the food they eat, the cloth they wear and the overall ways of the society. Lincoln demonstrates his natural curiosity and that he is different from his brothers and sisters. Similarly, Equality has a knack

Will learns about death early on through dealing with the recent passing of his grandmother, encountering a life or death situation, and dealing with the passing of his grandfather. He learns about love and sexuality through developing feelings for a mill worker and trying to figure out how to explain his love for the mill worker, Lightfoot. Will learns about accepting others and diversity through his grandfather’s remarriage. The experiences that Will goes through in this novel teachers to not judge anyone based on what we hear, what we see, their social class, or where they come from. We must be open-minded people, embrace others from different backgrounds, and not care what others might have to say about

He wants to strive to do the right things in life, but is not necessarily sure how to; therefore, he is searching for the good will” (Wegner). In the movie, each character had a color that reoccurred through the movie. “Robin Williams’s character only wears neutral colors and I feel that it symbolizes peace. Matt Damon’s character Will has a color that keeps reoccurring throughout the movie and that is the color orange” (runge). “Orange symbolizes energy, vitality, cheer, excitement, adventure, warmth, and good health” (Morton). “There is symbolism when Skylar is boarding her plane and she wants to see Will but he does not show up. Then in the next scene, it shows Will sitting on a park bench outside the airport watching as her plane takes off. This symbolizes that they want to be together but they cannot be together” (runge). The next symbol “is the painting of a man rowing a boat amidst a storm in Sean’s office that Will comments on during their first meeting. The storm could represent the inner demons of both Sean and Will and the man rowing the boat amidst symbolizing their fear and feelings of being alone while amidst their separate turmoil” (Dakota). The second to last symbol “in the film is the car Will receives from his friend’s at the end of the film. He receives the car shortly after his breakthrough with Sean. The car symbolizes Will’s new freedom not only with his future but also with his new freedom from his

After a difficult start, Sean concludes that Will's defensiveness is the result of years of physical and emotional abuse, (as well as intense isolation), and that his hostile, sarcastic, and evasive behaviors are all defense mechanisms. The two work together to break through Will's considerable barriers, using a certain type of psychotherapy, and to get at the heart of the problem, dealing with Will's complex emotions. The two begin to relate to each other more, with Sean telling Will about his past and his happiness with his now

Although these two characters originate from two opposite sides of life, they also share certain common grounds. They both lack a well maintained social dynamics and as a result, feel distant from the people around them. They have both, by choice or environmental influence, developed an objective outlook on the world that usually depends on a gain-loss mental analysis. But unlike Will, Marcus is still in the process of forming his own unique identity which his mother is not very supportive of due to her “hipster” philosophies that she forcefully feds Marcus and her mental instability. Consequently, Marcus develops the desire to have a strong communication mainframe with someone else to help him form his identity.

He is a thirty-year-old bachelor that has no work experience and has no shame for it. Likewise, when Will is thinking about his frivolous life, he admits that he is not “particularly unhappy about it; there was less clutter this way” (Hornby 8). He believes that there are so many things to do that looking a job is pointless. However, when Suzie asks Will whether he ever thinks about getting a job, he tells her that he does, but he never gets to it. Will confesses that he gets up in the morning “with the intention of sorting out his career problem once and for all; as day wore on, however, his burning desire to seek a place for himself in the outside world somehow got extinguished” (54). This illustrates that Will is accustomed to the way his life has been, and he does not want to actually do anything to change it significantly. Furthermore, Will does not have anyone in his life; his parents are

One of the most meaningful aspects of the movie that contributes to its memorability and poignancy is the way in which the characters speak, particularly around different groups of people. For instance, Will is clearly well-read and has a near-photographic memory, so there he several sections of the film in which he rips apart his competition verbally, such as the famous "How do you like them apples?" scene, or his chilling response to "Why shouldn't I work