By Erika Schoonderwoerd

IP Multimedia Presentation

PLOT SUMMARY

This is a tale of a struggle within oneself, based on the true story of Norman “Red” Ryan in the early 1930s.Kip, a bank robber, gets released from jail with the help of Father Butler and the support of Senator McLean. He gets a job at a hotel and tries to get his life going in the right direction again. Throughout the novel, Kip has many struggles with always being covered by the media, and not be able to get on the parole board as he hoped, but he also meets Julie, who becomes a love interest.y 1930s.

THESIS

Low self-esteem, caused by many

different aspects of one's life that affect their psychological

being, will ultimately result in violence, when the

negativity that they feel becomes too much for them to

handle.

As the people who were close to Kip start to become more distant from him, Kip's self-esteem tends to go with them...

...and his past returns, in all aspects of his life. These people include his mom, Julie and Father Butler.

“He felt her breathless eagerness to share his life. It awed him” (97)

“There seemed to be a little tug at his heart, a sudden distortion of his vision. Everything he had thought good had became ugly and ridiculous.” (145-146)

Through the media and his job at the hotel, Kip's social identity is formed, which results in a nervous, reputable, enviable Kip Caley.

“If only the don't make everybody of me. Please dear , give me a chance, and all I ask is that get a chance to know how i feel and that they don't keep away from me.” (23)

“'It was the job, a restaurant job, see? I wanted to get some place where nobody'd notice me. God knows how the thing would work out.'” (34)

The affect of everyone else in Kip's life impacts his view of himself, meaning that as those close to me him start to give up on him, Kip starts to give up on himself, destroying his self-esteem.

“The humiliation he had been seeking in a final destruction of his dignity had come.” (148)

“It would only be carrying on the work he had done among the men in prison. He suddenly longed to believe it was possible. Then he mocked himself, he tried to blot the wish out of his heart. It kept coming back brighter. It enlarged everything.” (43)

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