Analyse af Jack Alleys essay 'Junk'

The relationship between people is something that takes time to build, but an impression is something we can do at a glance. Between people, it is important to create a relationship that makes the values of your life easier, and one of them is how to learn to love. That's how we follow the young well-educated Jack Alley in his personal essay written by Jack Alley, which was written in 1971 but published in 1989. The text takes place in a constituted state called Maine, where the narrator moved to Maine, after finishing a college and graduated work in English. Jack has long hair and a long beard, so you can say a general hippie. The newly arrived Jack Alley could from the start feel the huge gap between him and the natives, especially one of those he negotiates with, gives him an impression of the city as a whole. Charlie is the first person wee here about, Charlie is a native and he is my neighbor. “He is a medium-sized bull of a man with a thick neck, thick arms and thick, graying hair cropped short and flat”. The way Charlie has been described testifies that he is a poor native, without education, which is also the contradictions between our two protagonists. The environment in the letter is built around this small state, where almost every person we hear about is indigenous. The negotiating between Charlie and Jack takes place by Jack buying a piece of Maine landscape and 29 junk cars. “Charlie is also the man who sold me my piece of Maine countryside and the 29 (I counted them dolefully) junk cars and trucks that were thrown in.” This quote tells us that Jack is a wealthy man since he can buy the countryside and 29 cars. There is also an element of distrust since we also hear that Jack counts them all. This also supports the claim of the rich educating man who moves into the poor native's house and therefore forces Charlie to live in a trailer. Jack exposes himself as being a greedy and a spender. “It appears that a lot of natives figure if you drive a small foreign car you are somehow unamerican. Or if you own down jackets and boots with Vibram soles, you´ve got more money than you need. Or if you have a long beard and long hair you´re a pinko”, here we see Jack claim the stereotypes the natives think about him, where he makes himself portrayed as the victim in the relationship between the wealthy author and the poor natives. We can also imagine the rivalry between the rich and the poor in this quote, where the poor on one hand see him as a snobbish and empty man, Jack sees himself as a man in style too, since it has been normality where he came from.