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Jimmy In Oryx And Crake

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In the book Oryx and Crake , Jimmy is estranged from his father and step-mother , who he fells no connection and is abandoned by his mother, an event that defines and haunts him. Jimmy wears his heart on his sleeves and is very much at mercy of his feelings . Jim as a child would often drive his mother to tears an effort to get some type of reaction out of her . i infer that Jimmy is extremely needy for emotional attention was unable to be met in a society where people’s emotion were often not shown. besides his mother tears, the only other emotion displayed that are made by his parents is when they are fighting. When Jimmy mother’s leave, he has no one to connect with it is at this time that he connects with an odd person

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