Pepe

Pepe

  • Submitted By: snuffy
  • Date Submitted: 06/21/2013 1:01 PM
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Throughout the classic short story by John Steinbeck “Flight” Pepe the main character encounters many events that shape him in to the character he becomes. He is described in way that gives you an innocent feeling towards his character. He changes a great deal throughout the story; whether through contact with people or the setting he becomes exposed to, or the way he was raised. He wants desperately to be a man, but his child like mind always gets the best of him. Pepe is forced to change at literally a moment’s time.
According to the description given by Steinbeck, Pepe is a tall smiling boy. He is gentle, affectionate, but very lazy. He has a tall head that’s pointy at the top; he had coarse black hair that grew like a thatch. His eyes smiled so to say under his straight banged hair. He had sharp Indian cheek bones, an eagle nose; his mouth was as sweet and shaped like a woman’s. His chin was fragile and chiseled. He was loose and gangly, all legs, feet, and wrists. He was thought of as brave by his mom (she never told him). He also had very white teeth and dark tanned skin. Based on all of this, (page 1), I gathered that he is a good kid, he doesn’t like to do much unless his mother orders him to do something. One of the few times he will do something without a problem is whenever his mother gives him a job to do that would make him seem like a man or something that he could act like a man while doing. This sets up the conflict in the story as well as the fact the he carries a knife around everywhere, also the fact that he tries to act like a man when it is not needed.
His actions when he is sent off to town by his mother are completely wrong. He is in a man’s situation and instead a reacting in a rational way he acts irrational and quickly. He throws a knife at a man that is calling him names and making fun of him. He acts like a “man” by not taking the man’s nonsense anymore. This is a complete mistake and a very childish decision. This brings out his...

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