Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Drinking and Gambling Make Men Out of Boys (FUP Quotes)

5 Pull quotes from the novella FUP by Jim Dodge

The focus of these quotes how I feel FUP, sums up what it is to be a man by the main character of 100 year old Grandpa Jake and his Grandson Tiny:

First quote defines the coloful language and character of who, Grandpa Jake, sees himself fit to take care of the young orphaned grandchild Tiny.



Grandpa Jake and Fup’s taste in movies. The writer, Jim Dodge, illustrates these passage on the dark humor to Jake’s taste towards storytelling.



The old school idea men and their feelings how an older generation like Grandpa Jake sees them as something that you develop over time and don’t show too much of emotion.

Again, the writer Jim Dodge’s colorful description of a hard earned and working man like Grandpa Jake from what he looks to us as the reads and what he sees as himself.


Over all story is one of questions the story ask of the reader is how the views of death. Grandpa Jake feels as he becomes older sense of spiritual connection to death, example of his dead friend Johnny Seven Moons being reincarnated as the wild boar Lockjaw, while Tiny, as the young man,views death in a matter of fact. The example of his mother’s death drowning in the lake.


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