Poems Essay, Research Paper

When I sit down to analyze this story there are a lot of ways someone could look at it. For instance, as a mother or a teenage boy I would look at it in a different way then I do as a female teenager.

When I read this story, the beginning of it caught my eye when Peter?s parents were so strict toward him about the seeds, his bedtime, and watching too much TV. I think that Peter wants to rebel against his parents because they don?t treat him like a teenager should be treated with some boundaries but also giving him respect and trusting him to make decisions. Therefore, Peter feels that if he can?t do much when his parents are home, he will do the things that he wants to do when they aren?t there. I feel that if his parents trusted him more, he would obey them and follow their rules.

Peter is sitting in his living room, (where he really doesn?t move from other than the kitchen) and he starts to think of the day at school when his teacher started calling the three Peters: Peter one, Peter two, and Peter the Great. He was known as Peter the second. He thought to himself that the teacher must have named the smallest boy Peter the Great to give him confidence, some attention, and just to kid around. I think that when he started to reminisce about the time when he stood up for Peter the Great he thought that Peter the Great looked up to him and thought of himself as being superior like an older brother because his parents were unreliable.

In the story Peter the second is the main character who is thirteen. Like most teens, he was watching TV, and started imagining things that had to do with his quiet neighbors fighting and the husband threatening his wife with a gun. When he imagined this happening he didn?t imagine himself helping the lady. Instead he acted kind of helpless and like he wasn?t home. I think that these thoughts proved to himself that he had a fear of standing up against older and bigger people. I also think he had a fear of the dark and he conquered it by eating his orange in the darkness of his kitchen.

In Peter?s imagination he doesn?t react; but in real life, he would react and call the police for help.

The boy doesn?t tell his parents about his thoughts because he fears they would yell at him. I feel that if his parents communicated with him better, he would not be so frightened. Also if he knew that his parents would be more worried about him than him staying up too late, he would be able to communicate better.

After reading this story I think that it is mainly made up of all the fears that this boy has bottled up inside because his communication between his parents isn?t that great, he doesn?t tell them. I think what really happened was that the boy had a big imagination, he probably was a little afraid to be home alone and it shook him up a little. He had a lot of violence in his head from the TV, and he probably ate something earlier that night that made him think up weird thoughts.