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James Robert Kennedy Radio Character Analysis
The dramatic uplifting inspiring movie “Radio” based on a true life story of a retarded African-American who spends most of his time pushing a shopping cart through town collecting old radios and items. Many people ignore him simply because the town had been racially divided they view him as a different person because he’s black, and think he’s not good enough. As he walks through the school around the fence he doesn't realize his life will change forever.
Radio whose actual name is James Robert Kennedy is a young African-American who was physically abused when football players locked him in a old room bloomed into a person who inspired not only the high school Hanna but the entire community with this generosity and loving self. Radio cared about the people who were around him even when they treated him poorly, he never seeked for revenge to those who harmed him,but nevertheless he was just fair with everyone and continued to be the good person he always had been throughout his journey. Radio demonstrated a variety of characteristics, he impacted many people with generosity. On Christmas many people showed how much they appreciated him and gave him gifts, Radio with his
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He had lots of responsibilities and never failed to not accomplish one. He was a respectful person and always agreed to what he was told to do, he never complained he just got things done. Radio went through a tough road when his mother passed away from a heart attack, his world crumbled apart from being the biggest colorful world to a dark room of tears. He felt lonely his father had passed away as well and he had nobody, where would he regain his strength is his everything that he had left had been taken away? How would he renew himself? Jones never left him, he understood how Radio felt but no words could take the pain

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