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Brinker can be described as a character who shows off the best in other people, especially toward Finny. They are both alike. Brinker is top of his class. He's one of the leaders of his class, particularly with his academics and well-dressed appearance. Brinker maintains the more serious side of things. He creates order for the boys at Devon. He's more conservative and unemotional. (Finny is just the opposite of Brinker.)
ReplyDeleteBrinker represents the responsibility of becoming adults. He convinces Gene to join the army, and Gene accepts.
Brinker's purpose is to balance out Finny. They are both complete opposites in everything they do, yet are alike in so many ways. Both of their presences create a peace at Devon. Finny is spontaneous and "a go with the flow" kind of guy. They are both charismatic.
I think Brinker's main purpose here is to have people strive to be better. Brinker is a very good student with good grades, the teachers like him, he is very mature, and people are comfortable around him. Alot of the kids in younger grades look up to him and how successful he is and even kids in his own grade look up to him. The want to strive to be as good as he is, as successful as he is, and so forth. Brinker also faces the facts and deals with life. He knows once they graduate they can enlist, or be drafted. He encourages people to enlist and convinces Gene to enlist.
ReplyDeleteI thought about this question a lot while reading the book. Brinker seemed like the antagonist. While Gene and Finny were trying to forget about the incident, Brinker kept bringing it up and later putting everyone into that awkward situation which led to Finny storming off and breaking his leg again. He was ridiculing Leper for being different which made me think he hated those who didn't follow him. In the end of the book it seems like the antagonist side of Brinker subsides and everyone is emotionless about enlisting.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking at Gene as the protagonist, since he is the narrator.
At first, Brinker is sort of the "ideal student". He's involved in a lot of things, a leader, and someone to look up to. However, overall I'm going to agree with James on this one.
ReplyDeleteBrinker defintiely wouldn't allow things he didn't know the whole story to to rest. And really, I think this was intentional on Knowles part. I think he wanted someone picking at what really happened in certain situations. Particularly in the case of the tree incident. Although Gene tries to tell Phineas the truth at one point, he later tries to change the story. He doesn't want people to know what really happened. I think Brinker was put into the story to be the one who wanted the truth no matter what he did to get it. Yes, he was obnoxious about some of the ways he did things, but he was sure good at finding the facts.
In my opinion, Brinker's purpose in the story was to show some sense of responsibility. By convincing Gene to enlist in the army, that started to show him that he needs to leave everything that was involved with childhood behind and move forward with his life. Also, at the end of the book, you can see him develop his full maturity.
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