Eye Ball :: Literary Analysis, Spiegelman

What would you expect to be the mindset of a misfit tiddler who isnt re anyy that popular who is playing baseball with the new(prenominal) kids because he wants to fit in with them instead of being himself? There is such a boy in a first person short report that was written by a worldly-renowned author. In Eye Ball, Spiegelman uses characterization to pay back the theme of be yourself and dont enterprise to fit in with others at the expense of showing your unbowed self.Spiegelmans use of the atomic misfit boy as a round character reflects the theme because he realizes that he doesnt fit in so well with all the other boys. Being a kid with Amblyopia, or lazy heart, he already knew that he was at a disadvantage and he points break his condition when he is saying since Im or so blind in my left eye and when he said Amblyopia, a lazy eye, made my whole world 2D (130). He dormant tries to play baseball with the other boys, but he quickly finds emerge that he isnt that good at i t. Identification can be made with the out-of-place feeling that the minuscule boy most have felt. now he is most likely feeling down because he did peaked(predicate) when he was up at bat. Most out of place stack must escape into fantasy and/or develop a wondrous sense of humor to survive (130). The usual boy in fifties America, baseball was not optional and to be inept assured a place in the social hierarchy even lower than a girls (130). This shows that there was a current stereotype of how little boys should be and he tried to be stereotypical with all of the other little boys.Spiegelmans use of the little misfit boy as a dynamic character reflects the theme because he learns to be himself and not try to be something that he isnt. He realizes that he is out of place when the boys situated him and he was inevitably relegated to right field, far out of harms way (130). While in the outfield he thought that his boredom took out his anxiety that a ball might come (130). He al ready knew before he went with the boys, that playing baseball with them wasnt going to go smooth so he often kept some jolly book handy (130). While he is thinking, he finally realizes that his true comfort is in comics and not sports.