In this essay I shall analyse how Paddyôs relationship with his brother Sinbad develops in relation to the many outside influences and occurences which surround their lives. In particular Paddyôs relationship with his friends and his parents relationships with each other.
To begin with Paddy sees his brother more as a tool to impress his friends with and seemingly has no proper relationship with him at all. The way in which he impresses his friends is by various intriguing cruel experiments and methods of torture. I think that also, this is subconsciously a way of giving himself a feeling of superiority. Although it is not over his friends he feels that if he is superior to his brother then at least he has some sort of status within the group. The most interesting and possible most cruel method of inflicting pain on his unfortunate brother is when he pours lighter fluid into Sinbadôs mouth and sets it ablaze, this is not just an example of random opportunist violence, but one of pre-meditated hatred towards his brother.
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PADDY PEARSE
PADDY PEARSEAlso when Paddy says 'I gave him a dead legô the impression is given again that it is not opportunistic but that Paddy has purposfully gone out of his in order to bring harm to Sinbad because of something Sinbad had done earlier. Paddy also trys to hurt Sinbad emotionally by getting him into trouble with his parents; 'I loved getting him into troubleô.
However once his parents have an argument, although Paddy has not yet realised it yet, Sinbad and Paddy have something in common in the fact that they are both united by their dislike of their parents fighting and each make an effort to try to stop it. We can observe this when after the fight Da asks Sinbad how...