When Best Team Man: Character Analysis Of Mr. Black
3: Character’s Personality:
Mr. Black has a very bad personality. He is always angry and aggravated. His kids are scared of him. When Blacky doesn’t go fishing with him and goes to Dumby’s funeral, Blacky says, ‘he’s going to spificate me.’ When he comes back and the days after, Blacky avoids his dad as much as he can. This shows Mr. Black could be violent and aggressive, especially after he drinks a lot of beer. He is only happy and relaxed when he is fishing. But even then he takes a lot of risks, including his children. He only cares for himself. When Best Team Man and Blacky went fishing with Mr. Black, both the boys were extremely sick and there was a big storm coming. But Mr. Black didn’t care about either of those. He just wanted to catch as much fish as he could, even if it meant putting his kids at risk. This shows a very selfish personality and a person …show more content…
Black’s personality stays the same. He is the same drunken violent non social dad throughout the entire book. At the start of the novel, Mr. Black and Blacky go fishing, and after a lot of problems, Mr. Black calls Blacky, ‘A gutless wonder.’ This puts a lot of pressure on Blacky to impress his dad to show that he is not a gutless wonder and that he is a strong man that he can be proud of. I think this gets to Blacky a little bit. Especially when he tries to impress Cathy on the beach and fails, he thinks to himself, ‘The old man is right, I am gutless.’
There is one point, at the Grand Final celebrations, where he shook Blacky’s hand, ‘You done real well, it was a gutsy effort.’ But that was nothing. I think because everyone was proud of Blacky’s efforts, Mr. Black acted as if he cared, but he didn’t even see what happened. As the family starts to slowly turn on him, he doesn’t see it coming and he continues to act the same way.
6: Different Relationships developed throughout the
Mr. Black has a very bad personality. He is always angry and aggravated. His kids are scared of him. When Blacky doesn’t go fishing with him and goes to Dumby’s funeral, Blacky says, ‘he’s going to spificate me.’ When he comes back and the days after, Blacky avoids his dad as much as he can. This shows Mr. Black could be violent and aggressive, especially after he drinks a lot of beer. He is only happy and relaxed when he is fishing. But even then he takes a lot of risks, including his children. He only cares for himself. When Best Team Man and Blacky went fishing with Mr. Black, both the boys were extremely sick and there was a big storm coming. But Mr. Black didn’t care about either of those. He just wanted to catch as much fish as he could, even if it meant putting his kids at risk. This shows a very selfish personality and a person …show more content…
Black’s personality stays the same. He is the same drunken violent non social dad throughout the entire book. At the start of the novel, Mr. Black and Blacky go fishing, and after a lot of problems, Mr. Black calls Blacky, ‘A gutless wonder.’ This puts a lot of pressure on Blacky to impress his dad to show that he is not a gutless wonder and that he is a strong man that he can be proud of. I think this gets to Blacky a little bit. Especially when he tries to impress Cathy on the beach and fails, he thinks to himself, ‘The old man is right, I am gutless.’
There is one point, at the Grand Final celebrations, where he shook Blacky’s hand, ‘You done real well, it was a gutsy effort.’ But that was nothing. I think because everyone was proud of Blacky’s efforts, Mr. Black acted as if he cared, but he didn’t even see what happened. As the family starts to slowly turn on him, he doesn’t see it coming and he continues to act the same way.
6: Different Relationships developed throughout the