Character Analysis

Christine:

   My mother left me for her boyfriend, and my dad left me for someone he met online, they both are so selfish, how could they leave their daughter out here all alone? I rarely see my mom, she says she will be back but it's been months and I've never seen her. Life is pretty hard for me , I have to be out on the road begging.

   One day I went to the nearby book store that's where I met Carson, he was sitting there , quietly I began to kick him for fun, then he started to kick me, it went on for a while and then I grabbed him by his hand and took him to my trailer. There was something about him, I showed him around my messed up neighbourhood. I know for a fact he found me creepy but he didn't run away, I still don't know why he came with me. As time went by I got to know him better and I began to like him.

   I didn't know what to do with my life, I mean I didn't go to school, I wore dirty clothes and I had no money.  I needed someone to listen, all this hurt in me is building up and I needed to let it out. I talked to Carson about my problems, but I found his world different from mine, he was rich and had a loving family. I was the complete opposite, but he still lend his ear and listened to what I had to say. I know he wonders what the scars on my hands are, but I never bothered to tell him and he never asked.

   I like sliding down the mud, jumping in the water and staring at the sky, I like to be free from this world. The reason I hate this world at times is because I feel rejected. No one has cared for me not even my parents so it's hard from me to except people, even Carson.

   My world has never been perfect until Carson became a part of it, he brought happiness with him into it. I don’t want to lose him but as times get tougher our different paths will separate us. I can't believe that I made it 17 years living most of it on my own. All I needed was love is that too much to ask?

   I thought running away would be an option because my trailer got taken away , but I felt bad for making Carson run away with me, he has a family. I insisted he called his parents , I honestly don't why I did that, but I'm guessing love had something to do with it. I learned to move on with life, Carson went back home and I found a job and reunited with my mom, though my mom hasn't changed I'm better off on my on, I still care about Carson even though things won't go back to the way they were. The love Carson and I had for each other made me look at the world in a less bitter way.

Quote:
1) "I was thinking tonight before I asleep that I might spare you a lot of grief if I just left. Disappeared."

This describes Christine because she always blames herself and thinks that if she wasn't in the way everything else will be better.

 2) "I am going for the steak, okay?"

That really describes Christine because she is so straight forward at times, and here when she said that at the restaurant she didn't care that Carson's mom was a vegetarian


 3) "You have it all, How can you screw it up, What is wrong with you"
Christine says that to Carson because she always has a thought that Carson has a perfect life, and she judged him before she got to know him. Christine judged Carson's parents because they were rich and found that, what she had thought was wrong.

Carson:

NOTHING EVER MAKES SENSE and I HATE THIS STUPID WORLD. I'm just a disappointment to my family, I mean I was fine before but I don't even know how I became so screwed up. I began to steal and resent the ones who loved me.  My parents were rich and my brother was perfect just like them.. I always wonder what ever happened to me.

I went to a school for messed up kids, well that's what I referred to it as. I didn't like it there much, but I preferred it there than home.  My school is filled with people that want to become a nuclear weapons inventor or drug dealer and then there is "me" I don’t really care about anything. 

I lived in a dorm with a guy who one day wanted to create nuclear weapons. I liked to joke around, once I heard that there was a virus on a rock and if the rock was broken it would kill the people , I would say" TEOTWAWKI" it stood for " The End Of the World As We Know it" Me and my roommate used to always say things like that when we heard bizarre things.

I met a girl named Christine and at first I found her weird, she had scars on her hands but I never bothered to ask.  I began to love her and that's when I realised the world wasn't that bad. She would make me do the craziest things with her, and I enjoyed time with her, because she made me smile.  But something always bothered her, and I always wanted to help out and she would reject my offers.

I realised how messed up Christine's life was and when her trailer got taken away all I could do was take her into my school. But my school was shut down because a insane guy was hiding drugs. So we had nowhere to go but run away felt bad for my mom, not telling her where I was, if I told my mom she wouldn’t except the idea of me living in the woods. I followed her because I trusted her completely.

My parents excepted into their house but it became awkward and we weren’t talking as much. I felt bad for my parents because they always tried to help me and I always seemed to turn out as a failure. I never understood why I had so much hatred towards this world. But with Christine she made me smile.

As time went by she reunited with her mother and I with my family, I got a job at my academy which recently opened up, I still miss my Christine but the memories we share makes me smile.

Quote:  

1) "Your saying she drove things into her arms to get people to pay attention to her?"
In this Carson gets defensive over Christine because Cromwell told him to becareful around her. But as usual Carson doesn't like it when anyone talked bad about Christine because he was protective of her

2)" Whenever anyone did to try to help, it only ended up making things worse, She was crying and i felt i was to blame."
Carson felt that it was fault for Christine losing her home. This shows how Carson can tend to blame himself for everything. 


3)"I was really glad there was no one in the room just then. My eyes began to burn. And i started to cry."
Carson has a sensitive side to all his anger, he cries when he hears from his parents. But he tries to stay strong by thinking of how much he hates this world, but all that breaks when he hears his mothers voice.




[The End Of the World As We Know It, Lesley Choyce. 2007.] 2010
Christine's Quote pgs. 70, 93, 156
Carson's Qoute pgs. 89, 132, 202