The Basketball Symbolizes Childhood In The Great Gatsby

Another symbol for The First Part Last is the red balloon that Nia gives Bobby on his birthday which symbolizes coming of age because the balloon symbolizes the fact that

In this novel will bobby become a man and or come of age? Bobby will become a man due to how he starts to act with feather like how instead of sending her into adoption he kept her as his baby . Also in the novel we see how bobby comes of adve as in the quote " you wanna go on a walk bobby,sure i grab feather get her ready and mary takes her from me" and she sees that he is now mature and she takes feather so paul and bobby can go on a walk. Finally another example of bobby growing up and or being a man is that he moved to heaven and or ohio to raise his baby in a better place. So these are some examples to show how bobby has become of age and this clearly shows that he is a man.

Bobby, a young troubled man, Was raised by his father, a professional con artist after the death of his mother. From a very young age Bobby was exposed to the criminal acts of his father and was taught to lead the same path. When he turns seventeen years old, Bobby meets and falls in love with a girl called Gwen. She gives him a sense of identity and belonging he missed his entire life. During the same time he learns

This is one of the reasons I think Bobby has come of age. In the nextparagraph i'm going to tell another reason how Bobby has come of age.""The second reason to how Bobby has come of age is he is losing his old identity andgaining a new one as he is coming of age. In the book "The First Part Last" he spray paints awall. This wall symbolizes all his positive memories from being a kid all the way to when Featherwas born. Then Johnson goes on to say, "Finally it's just me and that thing in the baby carrierwho doesn't have a face" (pg.60). In this chapter he wants to find the baby's face but he can't. Ina few chapters after that Angela says "I climb the stairs and think about holding her, or maybeI'm really thinking about just holding on to her"(pg.75). He realized Feather is the missing piece inhis life and he wants to keep it that way and not lose her. He needs to lose his old partying anddoing whatever he wants identity and get a new mature and father like identity in order to dothat.This has to do with Angela Johnson's discussion regarding coming of age because he has tochange so much to be mature it's like he's gaining a new identity and growing up.This is anotherreason I think Bobby has come of age.

Many of the symbols in the novel remind Robert of his troubled past. Some of the symbols in the book appeal to both the reader and Robert, exacerbating his struggles. After finishing his training, Robert boards a ship headed for the war zone. When tasked horse injured onboard the ship, he is clearly troubled; as he is unsuccessful in killing the horse the first time, “[a] chair [falls] over in his mind” (Findley 60). The horse is a symbol of Rowena, an innocent person who dies because of her disability. During training, he feels socially obliged to go to a brothel with his peers, and experiences shame associated with the death of Rowena. Instead of watching over her, Robert was “[m]aking love to his pillows” (Findley 16). As a result, he is very insecure about his sexuality and his private life in general. The scene where he is sitting in the bathtub after Rowena’s death is symbolic of Robert giving up his childhood, concomitant with his innocence. The tub represents the womb; his mother tells him a story of his childhood one last time before he joins the army, becoming an adult in some sense. Through symbolism, one can make the connection between Robert’s troubled past, the cruel world he lives in, and his experiences in the war.

One symbol of Bobby's coming of age is how he matures by handling Feather, before and after she was born. Before Feather was born Bobby had to give up his independence, even if he was reluctant about it. He gave up the arcade and fun times he would have had with his friends. An example of this was when Bobby said "I lay my basketball down and it rolled out the door"(Johnson 23). Right before Nia had the baby, Bobby showed that he was maturing by

The red balloon symbolizes Nia's innocence in this novel. The balloon symbolizes Nias innocence because she gives it to him at the time that bobby is told he is having a child. In this chapter bobby is that he is having a child and when he is told he is given a red balloon. This is important to the book because we never really are told what the balloon stood for.

Hiding near the lake, the narrator is consternated and his true self – the good side of his character – is stimulated: "He is more shaken by guilt than by fear that Bobby's friends will hurt him. He is, in fact, later overjoyed to hear the sound of Bobby's voice" (Vannatta 1636). He, as well as readers, finds that even though he call himself "bad", deeply within his heart, he has many good personalities (traits?), such as sympathy for other people (is sympathy a personality?). After he encounters the corpse of the motorcyclist and experiences what Bobby's friends do with his mother's car, the narrator further more distinguishes the difference between one's appearance and one's inner self: a truly bad character does not have a "label" on his face. At the end of the story, "when the young woman says that the three [teenagers] look like ‘pretty bad characters', the narrator's reaction is hardly one of pride: ‘I thought I was going to cry'" (Vannatta 1638). Finally, the narrator completes this significant step towards maturity. He does not try to act like a bad character any more because he is not born to be bad. All he wants is to go home and start his new life.

To begin with, Bobby was taking care of Feather he was trying to be mature, the male had many chances to play games or be a child again. “I lay my basketball down and it rolls into mary’s room” (23) this line shows Bobby's first real sign of gaining maturity, the basketball symbolizes Bobby’s childhood and it rolling away shows bobby losing a piece of his childhood. He doesn’t chase the

People in America love to have a great deal of money. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby always wants to have money, and he finally gets it. Gatsby has parties to try to get Daisy to come to his house. Gatsby tell Nick to tell Daisy to come to Nick’s house without her husband. Gatsby finallys shows his big house off to Daisy and thinks he will win her love back again just because he has money. Gatsby’s plan do not work out. Fitzgerald uses symbols in The Great Gatsby to show how things are going wrong in America.

Secondly, the characters in the novel, Bobby and Dr. Barney, teach that it is vital to hold on to hope because everyone has a future, regardless of the present and their past. Bobby shows things can change for the better with his discovery of his true home. Bobby announces at Six North that “This kid literally gave me the shirt off his back, the blue one right here and he didn’t know me from the Adam, and there ain’t no questions, without him, I wouldn’t have gotten this home. This new home” (Vizzini 317). Bobby lived in his car last year until a tow truck took away everything he had. Consequently, he loses hope and wants to kill himself. At Six North, Craig helps Bobby with a job interview. Through Craig’s act of kindness, Bobby learns that his true home is Six North where he is and welcomed and appreciated for who he is. Furthermore, Dr. Barney tells Craig about his personal experience with depression. He eventually reveals to Craig the secret to depression:

P. 32 - Similar to above, I'm not sure we need this scene with Bobby, it doesn't add anything to our plot.

Bobby waits for his wife, Chevy to come home, but once she does she would be busy working on the textbooks which she would bring in to study for her classes the next day. His daughter, Lynn would also be busy studying; so the narrator would have to sleep alone. His job is to pour concrete at a construction but since he is aging, the bosses would soon have to get rid of him so a younger person can do the work even though he does a good job. Chevy wanted to go back to school so that she can better herself so that she can make something of herself. They were in a relationship for as long a high school but times have changed from them. Even with his daughter, getting older, Bobby still wants to go back to those days where they would walk together

The book The Great Gatsby is written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it’s a narrative told from the perspective of Nick Carraway. He tells the story of the tragic life of Jay Gatsby and talks about the society of the wealthy people with high social status. He talks about the conflict between the two huge power Tom and Gatsby, due to their similarity in their money and social status, while they compete for dominance and masculinity by fighting over Daisy. Through Nick’s narration and his close relationship with Gatsby, the readers realize that the motive behind everything that Gatsby does is to win back Daisy’s heart to repeat the past, the first time when he fell in love with Daisy.

"First Part Last"? Or First Part First? Bobby wishes that he didn't have to leave his childhood behind yet is forced to at the realization that Nia, his girl friend, is pregnant. So in the book, did Bobby grow up or not and why? I believe he did due to these three symbols: Tagging the wall, Basketball, and the Skiing Trophy.