Dna Character Analysis Essay Example

asks 'Look, haven't I looked after things before? * Then, there are suggestions from Lou that John Tate has power of some kind. John Tate asks 'Are you scared of anyone in this school? And Lou replies You? It's either that, or Lou could be saying this because he knows that's what John Tate wants to hear because John Tate is maybe someone who seeks respect and fear from others.

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When Lou says he's also scared of Richard, John Tate thinks "seriously? " and keeps on pressuring Lou to explain his fearing of Richard. This strengthens the idea that Johan Tate is in fact someone who wants everyone to fear him, and him only. * Danny appears to be different from the rest in that he shows concern for his future. He says 'l can't get mixed up in this. I'm goanna be a dentist. ' This line also foreshadows that whatever these guys are doing will lead to trouble, which could affect their future. * John Tate then bans the word 'dead'.

Quite strange behavior, to ban a word. This shows how much John Tate is troubled. * Page 15: Cathy, Brian and Richard enter. Cathy is 'grinning and Brian is crying. * John Tate is getting worked up on Richard having more "power" than him. "Do you have a side? If you do, you're not on my side. " Richard is not even aware of this "sides" business, but John Tate ignores that fact and this shows that he is under so much pressure that he does not even realism this. * Also, he says

to Richard, 'l thought we'd got over that silliness. This shows that these two have some sort of history, and 'silliness' could be a reference to what they look at now as petty conflict. But it being conflict nonetheless could mean that John Tate will be quicker to take their current situation more seriously than he would if this conversation was between him and someone who he has had no past conflict with. * Brian is crying and then says 'l think we should tell someone. ' This shows that he lacks confidence and that he is very fearful of what they are doing. Also, he is the only one who is unable to hide his fear, assuming that the others have some sort of fear as well. John Tate refers to Brian as a 'Crying piece of filth. ' You don't see the others talk to each other with such harsh engage, but because Brian is talked to like this could mean that Brian is weak and easy to insult. * 'John Tate begins to walk towards Brian' after Brian suggests they should tell someone, but then Mark, Jan, Lea and Phil enter the room, and John Tate stops and 'goes back to where he was. ' The walking towards Brian could mean John Tate was angry with what Brian had to say and so he was going to do something "bad" to Brian.

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But when the other four enter, he stops and changes his mind; this shows that he probably fears one of the four people that Just stepped in and is concerned that they

may not appreciate what he was about to do. 'Is there one thing I do not have to do? Again, he has the impression that they all think he is the leader and hand over all the responsibilities to him. * Pages 20-23 have Jan and Mark explaining what happened to Adam. They say things like 'he'll do whatever we tell him to,' and that they got him to walk over a grille.

This shows that they were pretty much bullying Adam and taking advantage of his desperation to be with them, for their amusement: 'and you should seen his face, I mean the fear, the, it was so, you had to laugh... ' * John Tate stops them and then establishes to Lea and Phil hat Adam is dead. He then says to Phil: 'Cathy says you're cleaver. So what do we do? All this time, like he too himself had, we had the impression that he is the leader of the group, but instantly, as soon as he lets Phil in on the news, he asks for help.

This questions whether John Tate really is the leader, or if it's actually Phil who's in charge. In addition, this increases the chances of Phil being the one out of the four people who made John Tate feel he shouldn't do what he was going to do to Brian. But then again, John Tate is probably aware that asking for Phial's help makes himself look weak" and so to protect his ego, he says 'Cathy says you're clever,' rather than Just telling him that he's clever and that his help is needed. * Phil responds

quickly and confidently with a plan.

The speed and confidence with which he comes up with the plan shows that he is very intelligent and is able to work things out with very little trouble. * Also, when explaining his plan, he orders individuals to do certain things and this extends the speculation that he may be the one in charge of the group. Page 26, once again, Lea and Phil are sitting in a field. * Lea implies that the group may turn against Phil. This is inferable because she says 'a chimp's Just find itself on the outside of a group,' and 'a chimp' could be an indirect metaphor for Phil because Phil also does not acquaint himself that much with the group.

And then she says the chimp will be 'hounded to death by the others' which could mean that everyone in the group will turn on Phil. * She then goes on to express how humans are not like chimpanzees and are instead more like bonbons and she explains why. Being able to naturally make such comparisons involving human beings while in the middle of a "normal" conversation shows that she is very philosophically intelligent. After seeing that Phil does not respond, she says you don't care, do you. How do you do it? You're amazing. ' This shows that everything she's been talking about was to get a reaction from Phil.

It also Justifies the inference that she was saying Phil is the chimp who will be 'hounded' by the others, because, her frustration shows that she anticipated Phil to react in some way when he realized that she is

implying he's the chimp. * Lea threatens Phil that she will kill herself and also says 'l wonder what you would do if I killed myself. ' Phil being the psychological genius that he is, knows hat she won't or can't actually kill herself - he knows it's Just another attempt to get his attention, therefore he once again ignores it and does not respond to it. Page 32 Lea opens a container with her tapeworm in it and says she killed it. 'I killed him. I took him out of his cage, I put the point of a screwdriver on his head and I hit it with a hammer. Why do you think I did that? This suggests she is "crazy' or is internally troubled as it is very unusual to kill a tapeworm with a screwdriver. She also has an idea that she may be crazy as she says she doesn't know why she done that. And skiing Phil why she done that shows that she wants Phil to also get the idea that she is "crazy'. Lea claims there's a change in Catchy and Dandy's relationship: 'Remember last month, Dan threatened to kill Cathy? Well yesterday I saw him showing her his phone, like they were old friends. ' * Richard and Mark also have a change in relationship. Lea says Richard invited Mark to a party and asks Phil 'can you believe that? As if Richard and Mark don't usually get along. * Lea noticing and talking about the others shows that she is very observant. * Lea says 'They say John Taste's lost it though, won't come out of his

room. Bit odd.

Maybe that's what's making people happier. ' This suggests John Tate is a really weak character. He seemed to be a pretty dominant character at start but now he can't even keep himself well composed - all the stress of keeping Dam's death a secret has got to him. * 'Dam's parent's were on the tell last night. Another appeal. To the fat postman with the bad teeth. What have we done Phil? When Lea asks What have we done? There are clear signs of guilt within her, and saying We' shows that she's also saying Phil has made a mistake and should take some guilt. Danny and Lou tell Lea that a fat postman with bad teeth had been taken into custody. This postman is obviously innocent as there was never a point in the story where a postman actually did anything wrong. Lea shows signs of remorse by agonizing over the news; she doesn't explicitly tell everyone that she thinks this is wrong and unfair, however, her sudden panic shows that she feels this is wrong. * Page 36, Richard enters with Cathy into the room where Phil, Lea, Lou and Danny are in.

Richard tells them that they Just got back from the police station where it was full of reporters, and he says it was 'sit'. Whereas Cathy says, 'It was great. Shows that Cathy enjoys commotion. She also says that they were going to interview her but she didn't have time, but she's 'goanna go back and 'get on the tell. Again, shows she likes to be in the middle of trouble. * Also, when Phil asked

Cathy and her group to go and get a man to place his DNA all over Dam's Jumper, Phil did not ask to make sure it was the DNA of a fat postman with bad teeth.

However, Cathy thought for herself and says she took 'initiative' by getting the DNA of a fat postman with bad teeth. This shows that Cathy is actually quite intelligent, in devious ways. And, it again shows that she gets thrills room controversy because she probably knew that this would make things more serious, confusing and for her: "interesting". * Brian is found and is refusing to go to the police station. Phil tries to convince him. 'Phil lays a hand on his shoulder. That's the first time throughout the whole play where Phil makes physical contact with anyone; you'd think it was his way of showing that he feels sorry for Brian having to go through this, however, he says Yes, yes, shish, yes. Sorry. You have to go in. Or we'll take you up the grille. ' Phil uses 'shah' to force the idea into Brian that he doesn't eave a say in this, and he threatens Brian that this is his only option because if he doesn't do it, he'll face the same fate as Adam. This makes the physical contact seem more like a form of intimidation, rather than sympathy. * Richards response to this is 'Ere, Phil. And Dandy's is 'Is he serious? Both of their responses show traits of unexpectedness; Richard is almost as if he doesn't know what to say because he has never heard Phil say anything like that. And Danny, like

Richard, he too is confused because he has never seen Phil use such force on someone, and doesn't know whether Phil is Just putting on an act, or if he actually meaner it. This shows a change in Phial's way of working and communicating with the others in that before he seemed to be intelligent, rational and helpful, but now has almost a "cruel", forceful and resorting personality.

If not a change in his personality, it's that Phil is Just intelligent enough to able to convincingly act as someone he's not, in order to adapt to a * Cathy is violent; others know she's violent; she knows she's violent; and situation. She is probably proud to be violent: 'l used violence. I threatened to gouge one of his eyes out. Danny says 'She loves violence now. ' Implying there was a point in time where she wasn't violent. If so, one reason for her change could be because of peer pressure from the others doing Phial's dirty work. * Lea is about to suggest something to Phil, but Phil cuts her off with a harsh 'Shut up. This is the first time Phil does this throughout the whole play and it could lead to something bad happening between Lea and Phil. Also, it could be a sign that inside he feels like he's in a bad situation. Maybe Adam not being dead is troubling Phil and he couldn't help but vent out his frustration on Lea. Moreover, he's changing in that his level of digressiveness of Lea increases. Lea tries talking to Phil, but Phil as usual ignores her. However, this time he doesn't Just

ignore her, he then turns and talks to Jan, Mark and Lou.

Him doing this is more dismissive because it makes Lea feel left out and it hurts her more because usually when he ignores her, she doesn't feel like he hates her but Just acts like this with everyone; but when she sees he doesn't act like that with everyone and only ignores her, it makes her feel like he really does have something against her. He changing his attitude towards Lea again could be due to he sudden reappearance of Adam and the trouble it may cause, and the way he acts with Lea is the only way he can reveal the pressure he feels. * He and Lea also have a proper conversation this time.

This again shows another change in him. And, it again suggests that this whole business over Adam has gotten even more serious and that's why he no longer has the time to play "coy' with Lea. * Phil reveals that he's in charge. 'I'm in charge. ' * 'If he comes back, our lives are ruined. ' He reveals that Dam's reappearance has the potential to cause a lot of trouble, thus all his unconcealed frustration being turned into digressiveness of Lea. * Cathy being a victim of peer pressure, or a "puppet" of Phial's becomes even more evident when Phil tells her to 'Take Brian. And she Just accepts with 'Okay. ' Unlike the rest, she doesn't ask for any further details or try to reassure herself whether she should be doing this; she Just does whatever she's told by Phil. Or, this could mean that

Cathy has a lot of faith and respect in Phil and doesn't feel like she has to question his ideas. It also brings up the time where John Tate says it was Cathy who said Phil was clever, as f she goes around telling everyone how great Phil is. * Phil becomes more devious and "evil". He deceives poor Brian into thinking a matter of life and death is a "game".

He also tricks him into being a tool for an 'experiment', which was actually the exhibition of a murderous plan. At the beginning of the novel, his plans were to try and protect Jan and Mark from getting into trouble without having to get anyone in trouble. But now, he's resorted to murdering people Just to save himself - and the others. * 'Phil looks at Cathy. She nods. ' It's like Phil is entrusting this Job to her, and s so confident she'll do it that he doesn't even have to say a word for her to do it. This again further strengthens both ideas that she's Phial's puppet and is doing all his dirty work for him, or that she simply has the utmost faith in everything he chooses to do. * Lea is a nice person. She pleads Cathy not to do it. She does not want anyone else to have to suffer. * Despite all they've been through, once again, Lea and Phil are sitting in a field, and Phil is eating. He's eating Starboards and peculiarly offers one to Lea. She takes it and softly cries; probably because this is the first time Phil is offering her some of

his food.

And if the whole food offering complex wasn't strange enough, Phil then put his arm around her. The offering of food and romantic physical contact shows a huge change in Phial's behavior; it could be that he feels sorry for how he has treated Lea, and can maybe sense Lea will eventually not be able to take anymore of his disregard for her. * Lea spat out the sweet, stopped crying and stormed off. Phil also called for her as she left, showing that he actually does care for her... If his new attitude towards her was in response to a feeling of her just having enough, call him a psychic.

However, clearly his try was of no avail... In a more "twisted" perspective, it's possible that Lea is intelligent enough to think of Phil as being in a vulnerable state now, therefore leaving him would break him down and this could be in a way, getting revenge on him for the way he treated her. * 'A field. Richard sits with Phil. ' One week, he's become gay. No. This shows that he may be trying to reminisce the times he's spent with Lea and finds it most appropriate to sit there while he does it. Also, he is not eating food at this moment.