Thus I Refute Beelzy Manipulation

Manipulation is often what one resorts to when it is difficult to understand the actions and reasoning of others. This is clearly evident in the short story “Thus I Refute Beelzy” by John Collier. The short story portrays a father named, Big Simon or Mr Carter, trying to manipulate his son, Small Simon, into believing that Mr. Beelzy is not real. In the short story, John Collier, emphasizes on the difficulty of understanding Big Simon through Small Simon when Big Simon asks of the difference between a pretend and a real thing. Small Simon is having a difficult time in understanding his father that Mr Beelzy is not real thus creating a bad relationship with each other as they cannot understand each other. John Collier demonstrates that Big Simon is a convincing character as he is convincing with his consistency of actions, is clearly motivating in what he does, and is lifelike as he tries to manipulate Small Simon. In “Thus I Refute Beelzy,” Big Simon is a convincing character with his consistency of actions when he tries to manipulate Small Simon. Big Simon does this when he tries to tell

Big Simon is clearly motivating when he tells Small Simon that it is not too late to reason with him: “ And because you do, it is not too late to reason with you. There is no harm in fantasy, old chap. There is no harm in a bit of make-believe. Only you have to know the difference between day dreams and real things, or your brain will never grow. It will never be the brain of a Big Simon. So come on. Let us Hear about this Mr. Beelzy of yours. Come on. What is he like?” (Collier 304). It is almost as if Collier creates this tone of excitement for Big Simon when he says “it is not too late to reason with you”, because of this tone, it creates a spark of motivation in to trying to convince that Mr.Beelzy is not real to Small Simon for the rest of the