ich habe eine Charakterisierung geschrieben und würde mich sehr freuen, wenn jemand sie korrigieren könnte!!!! Vielen vielen Dank im Voraus!
In the short story '…', the boy fulfills the role of a main character, while his mother is a minor character. Besides, the story is told from the narrator's point of view.
In the following I am going to analyse the relationship between the two characters mentioned above.
First of all, we should draw our attention to the son: He is described as a young boy who is seven years old ( l.x). At first glance, the boy seems to be a fairly imaginative character who admires nature a bit exaggerated. Evidence can be found in line x, when he imagines lions being in the high grass or in line x, when he states that he feels like being in a submarine while the train just drives through the tunnel. However, his enthusiastic attitude seems not to be handeled very well by others such as his mother who even criticizes him for it. Being criticized is something the boy does not pay attention to, instead he keeps calm and presents himself as an easy-going character. One could also claim that he doesn't even listen to his mother's invitations because him being totally focused on unrealistic things and therefore, does not take her words seriously as well. Another option would be to label him as a forgetful character who generally rejects to remember things which do not appeal to him. This issue, at least, would clarify why he is such a problem child to teachers at school due to his lack of reading skills as well as motivation.
Comparing the boy to his mother, she is nothing but the completely opposite of him.
In contrast to him she gives herself known as a narrow-minded and arrogant character. In line x she blames her son for talking nothing but nonsense all the time and even tries to prevent him from letting his creativity run free, which can be seen, for example, in line x. Moreover, one can argue that both, mother and son, are characters who think much but on different levels: While the mother is a realistic thinker, her son, is the opposite; namely, a fanciful one.
Another striking character trait of the son is his determination to do whatever he wants to by not letting others controlling him such as his dominant mother does during the train ride. Even though he is forced to sit down quietly, he rejects and stands up in order to look out of the window.We may think that the boy is a very well-mannered and innocent character but others such as his mother and teachers possibly consider him to be a rude and lazy character. He does not care what others think about him and want from him as well, for instance, being more productive at school.
However, the main problem could probably be that nobody really tries to understand him, instead people just talk common about him. It could be that he just wants somebody being affectionate with him but principally, someone who would like to share his Feelings, too. Hence, he does not wants to trust anybody as well as reality itselfs what may bring him to a unrealistic world. His failures in school possibly could also come from his regular day-dreaming, as his mother claims in line x. Thus, that could mean he may not have bad reading skills instead just problems to generally focus on reading because him being most of time completely owerwhelmed by his fantasy-thinking.
We might draw the conclusion that the relationship between mother and son is unstable and can't be restored that easy as well. Helping the boy out of his problems would be to change him completely what I see as perfectly impossible, especially, when referring to his young age.