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How Does Jimmy Atwood Use Flashbacks In Langfur's Life?

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when someone who comes into power becomes corrupted by it, and leaves behind all the original principles they initially embraced (Foster 98). His destruction leads to mass suffrage and he knows the effect that his mind can have on anyone or anything, and uses it to his fullest advantage, and everyone else’s fullest downfall.
An evident tool in the communication of consciousness is the use of flashbacks with Jimmy/Snowman. They serve to show that Jimmy is having a “life review”, considering every single aspect of his life; past, present, future, as all the timelines merge together, ceasing to exist, as he is now aware of all the parts and pieces of his life, and the detailed relationships throughout. As he sits in a tree alone as Snowman, he can feel Oryx floating towards him, an impossible thing, but he becomes unsure of his memories and present reality (Atwood 113). Each person’s perception on things is different, and Langfur refers to someone’s body’s indicators of sensations as a “biological clock”, which is clearly …show more content…

Any individual coming into contact (and contrast) with another serves some form of vital importance and reflection onto themselves, whether they realize it yet or not. Jimmy experiences this throughout his life, starting from his flashbacks of his youth, with challenges arising between himself and his parental figures. There often times is a large misconception that the situation a person is born into is that in which they must continue to live for the rest of their lives. Jimmy has escaped that notion and says “I am not my childhood” (Atwood 68). Years of feeling unwanted by his fleeting mother and busy father could have paralyzed Jimmy, but he found life much more expanded than what he first encountered. To have control of yourself and to confidently know your energetic abilities is to be consciously

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