Powder: Questions
1 Jeremy's original source of rejection came from his parents who banished him from his home.
He was to live in the basement, away from society. This hurting he received made him a more
compassionate, caring and loving person. Although his early stages of life were of persecution
and sadness he accepted as a way of life. Being banished from society, he solely learned the
meaning of compassion. He acquired the knowledge of caring and loving by experiencing the
direct opposite of treatment. When he received this treatment, he hated it, and wished for
something different.
2. Three personality traits of Jeremy or Powder were his extreme compassion, his shyness, and
his caring. Jeremy expressed compassion in the fullest possible form. He expressed feeling for
others that went to extreme measures. Such as the passing of death from the dying deer to the
sheriff who shot him for sport.
Since he was an albino genius, it would be simple to understand
his difficulty of fitting and acquiring new friends that he can socialize with. Thus he became a
shy boy that pretty much kept to himself. Jeremy's characteristic that distinguished him from the
rest of society in which he lived in. Although he was persecuted, beaten, and ridiculed at. He
understood his characteristics and understood why the boys hated him It was fear!
3. I respect Jeremy's caring. Like Christ himself, he wouldn't fight or use any sort of violence to
resolve problems. Jeremy would speak his words of wisdom, or use his divine powers of mental
stability and force to express a point. He would, without hurting anyone, prove a point. This
characteristic made us create a field of empathy for the boy.
4. Jeremy showed his love and compassion and caring for...