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Chappie finds his Identity
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Chappie Finds His Identity While Looking For Love in All the Wrong Places in Russell Banks’ “Rule of the Bone” In his novel, Rule of the Bone, Russell Banks' main character is a 14-year-old- teenager who loves to smoke pot and has little are no love in his life. The boy’s name is Chappie but this is just his name; it does little in revealing his true identity. Having been forced to leave his home, Chappie sets out on a journey that will eventually give him a sense of identity for his life. During this journey, Chappie will look for love in drugs, some dysfunctional friends, through an act of mercy, and by moving to a new world. In the first pages of his novel, Banks introduces us to Chappie who is heavy into smoking weed and is desperate to find a way to support his habit. Chappie tells us: “Anyhow my life got interesting you might say the summer I turned 14 and was heavy into weed but I didn't have any money to buy it with so I started looking around the house all the time for things I could sell but there wasn't much” (1). Chappie further describes his dependence on the drug when he says: “It had been a couple of days since I'd been high and whenever I went that long I'd get jumpy and restless and kind of irritated at the world, feeling like everything and everyone was out to get me and I was no good and a failure at life which was basically true. A little smoke though and all that irritation and nervousness and my wicked low self-esteem immediately went away. They say weed makes you paranoid but for me it was the opposite” (4). Early in the book banks gives us the reason for Chappie’s desire to get lost in this drug. He lives in a family of dysfunctional alcoholics and his stepfather sexually abuses him.
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