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A 3 page essay that offers a characterization of Jack from Tobias Wolff's memoir This Boy's Life. The autobiographical memoir of Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life, begins by picturing himself and his mother on the road to Utah in 1955 to make their fortune by mining uranium. While they are in Utah, Tobias changes his name to "Jack," after the author Jack London and also to distance himself from his father, who abandoned Jack and his mother shortly after Jack's birth. This is the first of many attempts by Jack to reinvent himself, to find some middle ground between the person whom the world considered him to be and the person that he felt he was on the inside. Examining Jack's character and perspective throughout this narrative shows Jack's struggle in defending his inner sense of self from the onslaughts provided by a dysfunctional family life. No additional sources cited.
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by mining uranium. While they are in Utah, Tobias changes his name to "Jack," after the author Jack London and also to distance himself from his father, who abandoned Jack
and his mother shortly after Jacks birth. This is the first of many attempts by Jack to reinvent himself, to find some middle ground between the person whom the world
considered him to be and the person that he felt he was on the inside. Examining Jacks character and perspective throughout this narrative shows Jacks struggle in defending his inner
sense of self from the onslaughts provided by a dysfunctional family life. Jacks mother Rosemary is a kind-hearted, but ineffectual mother who aligns herself with a series of men
who abuse Jack. When Rosemarys second husband, Roy, also leaves them, she moves with Jack to Seattle, meets Dwight and follows this new man to Chinook, where Dwight reveals himself
to both cruel and petty. He is constantly berating and criticizing Jack and teaches him to use aggression by teaching Jack to fight. Jack longs to escape Chinook and
Dwight and the only place he take refuse in own vivid imagination, where he find it is possible to imagine himself as someone other than the worthless, no-account that Dwight
portrays him as being. Jacks childhood environment is riddled with dysfunctional elements, everything from domestic violence to alcohol abuse to emotional neglect. Rather than accept the labels that this
environment subscribes to him, Jack pays little attention to who others believe him to be and imagines himself as he wants to be. Due to this psychic defense mechanism, Jack
is able to resist may of the negatives effects of his environment, but he hurts himself by always befriending troublemakers who manage to lead Jack into delinquent behavior. Nevertheless,
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