Essays on Feeling Page 20

Reflection: Christopher’s autism makes it hard for him to understand the feeling of other people, he can’t empathize. He can’t understand metaphoras, sarcasm, or even love or anger. He shows a growing of independence throughout the whole novel. Especially, through the rebellion against his father by disobeying, his single trip to London or his investigations…

The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle Delaney Mossbacher, the protagonist of Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain, is the typical American family man. He is married to Kyra, “the undisputed volume leader at Mike Bender Realty, Inc. ” and he is the stepfather of Jordan. As Kyra has a fulltime job, Delaney takes care of Jordan…