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Essay / Powder Assignment - 1172
Powder: Questions1 The initial source of Jeremy's rejection came from his parents who had banned him from home. He had to live in the basement, away from society. This hurt he received made him a more compassionate, caring and loving person. Although his early life was marked by persecution and sadness, he accepted it as a way of life. Banished from society, he only learned the meaning of compassion. He gained the knowledge of caring and love by experiencing the opposite of treatment. When he received this treatment, he hated it and wanted something different.2. Three personality traits of Jeremy or Powder were his extreme compassion, shyness, and caring. Jeremy expressed his compassion in the fullest form possible. He expressed his feelings for those who took extreme measures. Like the transition from the dying deer to the sheriff who shot it for sport. Since he was an albino genius, it would be easy to understand his difficulty adapting and making new friends that he can socialize with. He thus became a shy and rather reserved boy. A characteristic of Jeremy that set him apart from the rest of the society in which he lived. Although he was persecuted, beaten and ridiculed. He understood his characteristics and understood why boys hated him. It was fear!3. I respect Jeremy's kindness. Like Christ himself, he would not fight or use any form of violence to solve problems. Jeremy would speak his words of wisdom or use his divine powers of mental stability and strength to make a point. He would prove something, without hurting anyone. This characteristic made us create a field of empathy for the boy.4. Jeremy showed his love, compassion, and concern for other people and creatures a few times in the film. The most popular scene expressed caring for a creature. A helpless deer-shaped creature. A sheriff was with a bunch of kids, hunting when they shouldn't. The sheriff found and shot the deer. As the deer stood there, breathing its last breaths of life, Jeremy sprang into action. In order to express the anguish of death to the sheriff, he clung to the deer's neck and the sheriff's arm. Using his mental power forces, he fueled the sheriff's sense of death. Although Jeremy loved animals, he also expressed compassion and concern for the human population. Jeremy was once again made a fool of in stormy weather. A boy named Johnny pushed Jeremy into the mud while laughing Johnny