A Brief Moment In The Life Of Angus Bethune Analysis

ro's Journey Essay In the short story A Brief Moment In the Life of Angus Bethune by Chris Crutcher, the protagonist, Angus Bethune, lives in a house with his father, and his stepfather. As a wider than average teen with less than average parents, Angus often gets badgered by others for his weight or his family situation, and by himself for his newly found lack of dancing skills. He decides that even if he can’t dance he can’t just back down now. By going to the dance, and dancing with Melissa, Angus learns to be confident in himself.

Anguss’ Call to Adventure is his election as the Senior Winter Ball King. Angus is a large individual, he gets picked on for this a lot. So when he is elected, he knows it was someone's ultimate joke. He narrates, “I was elected Senior Winter Ball King, which means for one minute i’ll be featured gliding across the floor beneath the crimson and gold crepe paper streamers at Lake Michigan High School with Melissa

Rick is the Stereotypical high school jerk. Stuck-up, with a “better than you” attitude and a penchant to get drunk at the worst times. He says, “I put up a finger and wag it side to side in front of his nose. “You know the difference between you and me, Sanford?” He says, “there’s a lot of differences between us, lardo. you couldn’t count the differences between us.” “that’s probably true.” I say, closing my fist under his nose. but the one that matters right now is that i can make you ugly.” He stares at my fist. I say, “don’t even think about it. Next to dancing, that’s my strong suit.” Here we see that Angus has mastered both his anger and his confidence. In mastering his anger he can hold it back. In mastering his confidence, he can stand up for himself. He could have punched Rick in the face right from the get go, but he has control over his anger. He could have tried to slink away, avoiding the confrontation, but now he has more confidence in