Most experts believe that child's experiences in the family are important for his/her personality further development and becoming a personality. These include whether a child's basic needs are well met and how a child is brought up, which could leave an enduring mark on the child's personality. Does the culture and the society we are brought up in affect our personality?
An American anthropologist Margaret Mead has shown how social and cultural factors has an important influence indetermine personality development. Members of tTwo New Guinea tribes are of the same racial storerace and ethnic origin and live in the same area. However, one group is peaceful, friendly and cooperative and the other is group is, on the contrary, aggressively assertive, hostile and competitive. This is a perfect example of the role environment and family play in the development of a child.
“In this novel the theme of aAbout a Boy” by Nick Hornby raises the issue of growing up and formation of the person is very accurately expresseddeveloping as a personality. In the course of a narration it becomes clear, that among all present the characters mentioned in the book, MarkusMarcus, the a twelve years old boy, has matured before all. Marckus is a strange kid, who is suffering with events offrom growing up, he is searching for his own personality avenue. In the meanwhile and he is a victim of constantcontinuously bullyingied and mockinged at school and issuffers from struggling with his lack of parental guidance. His parents have divorced, and the boy’s world has crackedcollapsed with into two pieces: one half part of Marcus remaineding for all his in the past, his carefree troubleless childhood, for and the second halfanother part focusesing onf his emotionspresent which involves, taking care of his mother, and dealing with daily problems. In his new school. Even school teachers regard him as potty. After Fiona, mother of Marcus, broke up with her boyfriend, Roger, she is wrapped up in falls into a deep depression, which affects her son. And after that she becomes very soppy and dispirited. It seemesd that she had has gone round the bend. She is irresponsible and he has to assumes a the role of a the Head of the family. He tries to support and cheer her up and he is afraid to remind her of her suicide attempt.
Will Freeman is shown featured as Marcus’san antagonist. He is of Marcus, a grown up men behaving like a typical teenager.
Will is in his mid-thirties and enjoys a his London-based bachelor lifestyle, free of clutter and all the hassle in London. Despite his frequent dates and dalliances relationships with women, he is happy to remainily single and maintains that he would not be able to share his life with someone else. Will believes that he is saving himself an awful lot of troubles related to children and solid long-term relationships with one womean. Will lives off the royalties of for a Christmas song written by his father a decade ago and has a luxuriousy life. Essentially, Will is incredibly self-centered.
Will often strikes up a rapport with different women but he isn’t going to exchange the froth and frivolityies for something more solid, his meaningless flings are hleading nowhere. However everything changes when he meets Angie, a gorgeous woman with a vaguely husky voice. After meeting her Will is ready to reassess his affinity to with children but Angie isn’t looking for solid relationships. After an enjoyable pleasant relationship with her, Will comes up with the an idea of attending a single parents group meetings as a newfailsafe way to pick up women. For this purpose, he invents a two-year-old son called Ned and a disastrous past relationship which left him a single dad. And through one of single parents meetings Will comes to know Marcus, the oldest teenager in the world.
The title itself could be inspired by the Nirvana song, “About a Girl”. This assumed because the author often refer to the band in the book. ПРИТЯНУТО ЗА УШИ, Я БЫНЕ ОПЕРИРОВАЛА ТАКИМИ АРГУМЕНТАМИ ItLet us focus on the title of the novel. Common sense suggests that the title can sensitize a reader to a theme, even to a situation. The novel seems to beis about two boys. That is why for a long moment we cannot understand about whomwhich protagonist – Will or Marcus – the title isrefers to: the the12-year-old actual boy is Marcus whereas Will is inherently immature, and the 36-year-old boy-at-heart Will.
If we study the back cover of the book, we’ll see that Tthe synopsis on the back cover makes it sound like the book is all aboutfocuses on Will, but the book’s actually about both Will and Marcus. Each chapter alternates between their point-of-view (in third person)view points. This is also indicateds by the use of the indefinite article «a», which does not name allude to a specific character.
It is tThought provoking that when Will and Marcus first met first they misunderstood misunderstood each other. Marcus thought thought Will a childish boy-at-heart manto be frivolous to the core, whose only ambition was tried to be trendy and stylish. Meanwhile, Will found Marcus a very odd person as the wasn`t interested in modern music and modern life in whole. Please, look at the chart on which you can seefeatures the differences between them. There is not a single link between the two of them. It comes as no surprise that these differences trigger a conflict between these antagonistic characters.
However, what are the prospects of this relationship? Where would this involved relationship eventually bring the characters? If there a chance that they end up in their natural roles with Will maturing into a responsible adult and Marcus reviving his childhood experiences.
Я БЫЗАМЕНИЛА ФРАГМЕНТ, ВЫДЕЛЕННЫЙ ЖЕЛТЫМ НИЖЕ, ФРАГМЕНТОМ ВЫШЕ.
There flashed an in comprehension between them. We have learned that in the end of the book Will and Marcus get friend at last. But we haven`t read this book yet and as they didn`t like each other the question is looming - what have made them friends? We will learn it further chapter. Thank you!