Your Heart Is A Muscle The Size Of A Fist Analysis

Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist: Essay 1 In Sunil Yapa’s “Your Heart Is A Muscle The Size Of A Fist”, Chief Bishop is torn between his beliefs and his passion as the head of the Seattle Police Department. Bishop’s character is confused on what is the right thing to do, because of his personal beliefs and his moral duty to his city. In general, Chief Bishop is an overall good person. He genuinely cares for his city, the people in it, and will protect it at all cost. Chief Bishop’s personality reveals a sense of patriarchy, because while he was married to his wife he did take on the father role of his step-son Victor. That symbolizes patriarchy, because that wasn’t a role he signed up for nor had to do, but not once did he complain. He saw victor as his son regardless of race or biological genetics, not because he had to but because he wanted to. After his wife died, he took on the role of a single parent because that was his duty to himself that Victor would be taken

Chief Bishop has a conflict between what his beliefs are and authority. Bishop will do anything to protect himself and his job, because his job comes first. He uses his authority over the citizens when he feels he has no other choice and because he has the upper hand. For example, in chapter 8, when him and King were conversing and she explained there would be no violence, his response was “Don’t make me hurt you people. Don’t make me do it. This is my city” (63). This is a very contradicting situation because one should look at both sides of the conflict. Some events in the story that Bishop is in makes his character misunderstood. Looking in from a citizen’s perspective one would think of it as harassment because it’s our amendment right to be able to protest. For Bishop to threaten their safety for not doing anything. but he claims he cares for his city, but what about the people who live in