Arnold Spirit Character Analysis

As a young child growing up in the late 90s/early 00s, Hey Arnold helped me become a more culturally and socially accepting individual through the consistent exposure of different ethnicities and family structures. For example, Arnold’s grandparents housed two immigrants Mr. Hyunh from Vietnam and Oskar Kokoshka from Czechoslovakia. These two men from two entirely different cultural backgrounds were able to share a home, as well as guide Arnold through several issues he faced growing up. Arnold showed a full capacity of love and acceptance for these men’s diverse race and backgrounds. Another example of the ethnic diversity in Hey Arnold is Arnold’s friends. His best friend Gerald, a young sporty African American boy, Phoebe a young Japanese-American girl, and his Jewish friend Harold are prime examples of the cultural and racial diversity the show displayed. None of these characters were treated poorly or persecuted based on race or culture. In the episode “Harold’s Bar Mitzvah”, Harold is forced to abandon his friends’

As if Arnold is trying to fit in with the teenagers. Connie grows weary of the boy and believes he is in his 30’s. This is another signal that Arnold is hiding the evil behind his fake persona. His hair looks to be a wig, and when he placed his sunglasses onto his head he was very careful not to disturb his costume. Arnold is literally a devil in disguise.

Arnold Friend is an ironic name for this character because he isn’t Connie’s friend, she doesn’t even know him. And if you say the name out loud, it sounds like “are no friend” He proves that he can’t be a friend in the first place, he left his so-called friend in the car and talked to him like he meant nothing to him.

Independence was the ideal way he began to find his identity and strength. Within the first few weeks of being at a new school, Arnold had threw a punch on his own. Back on the rez, his old best

Barba Daley, a child psychologist, said “the way kids dress when they go to school is just beyond me. They come into my office barely clothed!” Connie was always looking in the mirror at herself and wanting to make sure her appearance was perfect. Arnold Friend, on the other hand, has “shaggy black hair” and he “wore sunglasses.” The author describes him as having a long nose and pale skin.

It can be hypothesized that out of students placed into a school away from home are more likely to experience mental, physical, and social issues when compared to those of in-state students. This is likely attributed to a wide array of factors including regional/cultural differences, social pressures put on incoming students, and the impact of being a first year student with new responsibilities. The research conducted should show that students who are out-of-state experience some significant strain on mental, social, and physical health. Such results would most likely come in the form of stress, anxiety, loneliness, depression, suicidal thought, isolation from others, self-harm, development of eating disorders and

“Nothing about Arnold Friend is genuine, except his violent intentions and his skill at psychological and physical intimidation. By the story’s end, Connie understands that she is not the confident flirt she thought, but a powerless pawn in the hands of a dangerous individual.” (Cormier)

109), because he's an "absolute stranger" to Reardan, and also, Penelope's dad is racist. Still, they become close friends and start dating. He also makes friends with Roger (surprisingly), since Roger is a friend of Penelope. When Junior made the basketball team, they become closer. Roger even gave Junior a ride home after a basketball game. Arnold also becomes a friend of a geek, Gordy. They were both "outcasts", and they understood how it felt to not fit in. After making all these friends, he feels that he is starting to fit in with the white people.

Arnold’s forced to conform to societal normalities throughout the text. One example occurs in chapter 17 when Arnold attempts to conceal his poverty and hide his embarrassment to feel as though he has a sense of belonging to his social group. Society forces Arnold to comply with socially ‘acceptable’ customs; in Arnold’s new friendship group they unconsciously influence him to make ‘normal’ choices . For example, Reardon’s school mascot is a bright red Indian with feathers and war paint. Arnold finds this ‘inspiring’ and it shows how the Reardon community refuses to acknowledge their promotion of a racist and stereotypical mascot without regard for its disrespectful nature. This forces Arnold to conform with the rest of society, he knows

The physical traits of Arnold Friend that the narrator describes are additional clues that Arnold is not who he claims to be. The three physical traits are: his eyelashes look painted, it looks like he is wearing a wig, and he put something in his shoes to make himself taller: “she saw how thick the lashes were, thick and black as if painted with a black tarlike material” (Oates, 1966), “He placed his sunglasses on top of his head, carefully, as if he were indeed wearing a wig, and

Arnold's approach to bodybuilding was more mental than physical. For him, it was, and still is, all or nothing. While competing, he did not go through the motions; he worked out to be

Arnold believes that since he is Indian and not white, he will not be successful until he realizes that he was going to fight to preserve the chance of an Native American become triumphant in a world full of whites. Junior first talks about how his mother and father could have become successful if only they were white. “Seriously, I know my mother and father had their dreams when they were kids. They dreamed about being something other than poor, but they never got the chance to be anything because nobody paid attention to their dreams. Given the chance, my mother would have gone to college.”

“This is a man of bottomless ambition” said George Butler, a very decorated film biographer. Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the hardest working American icons I have ever read about. Arnold overcame adversity in many ways to become one of the most know people in America and all over the world. He started with nothing except his mother as his only positive motivation in his early years. Arnold wasn’t going to stop until he was the best at everything he wanted to be. Acting was his big ticket to fame. What really help him though in his other aspects of life was his bodybuilding. “For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer” these are words Arnold said himself and lived by. He was going to be the best he could be if it killed him trying.

Arnold's approach to bodybuilding was more mental than physical. For him, it was (and still is) all or nothing. While competing, he didn't go through the motions; he worked out to be larger than life.

students’ sense of belonging and equitable treatment at school, or to potential adjustment problems it may