Back to category: English Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Tar Baby Alfred Brooks During the book, Alfred Brooks, a seventeen-year-old adolescent and the protagonist of the novel, develops from an indecisive youth into a confident young man. The novel is really his coming of age story. In the first chapters, Alfred, who was orphaned at a young age, appears as a shy, restless youth who almost seems afraid of his own shadow. He swallows the insults hurled by Major and Hollis and avoids answering the questions posed by his uncle about his future. When he learns that James, his good friend, is going with Major and his gang to rob the home of the Epsteins, Alfred, feeling helpless, does not really try to stop any of them. After the robbery fiasco, Major confronts him and blames Alfred for not telling them about the Epsteins’ alarm. He then strikes Alfred, who does nothing to try and protect himself. Largely due to the misery that he feels over the loss of his friendship with James, who is in jail, Alfred decides that ... Posted by: Alexander Bartfield Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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