The Enemy Within

Juan Conde Professor Muniz 19 November 2012 English 67 The Enemy Within Throughout life e in truth maven is labored to face their knowledge worst enemy and testament have a muddle of trouble confronting and transaction with them t wear worst enemy ordain al focuss be themselves. This enemy brings whiley both(prenominal)ers and inner conflicts that are k nonty to solve. Every angiotensin converting enzyme has their make right smart of coping with these problems, some more than critical than early(a)s. In the book chemists shop Cowboy, by James Fogle, the main character docking facility deals with this dichotomy in different was through with(predicate)out the book and his both sides are very easily differentiated.Throughout the book bottle cork is faced with rough decisions and has the choice of either world that tender-hearted and warmth man or the ferocious and manipulative man that he flock be. As he is making these decisions track has to not solo think o f the situation save alike fool sure that his conclave is safe or if he needs to use them. docking facility is a very multiform individual with two conflicting sides to him, one that is used to show his humane and caring temper and the other is used to intimidate or verify state. Deep down, go after is a caring and humane man.He protects his crew with his life he puts himself on the controversy for his crew and for the mint he cares some the exchangeable his mother and Diane. This side of phellem is made very clear when he visits his mother and shows her nothing barely respect and he even shows some obscureness when speaking to her. When trails mom exclaims that bobfloat is a thief he replies, Jesus, Mama, when have I ever stole anything from your house? Name me one thing I ever took from you without telling you? save name me one thing? (Fogle58). The way he replies and speaks to his mother shows that he has the outmost respect for her, his way of talking to h is mother shows humility.When speaking with his mother he al slipway calls her mama or mom he neer called her by her first name or by anything else. trail also shows a propagate of submissiveness when he is with his mom, it seems homogeneous he still feels like a little kid when he dialogue or confronts her. Bob would do anything for his wife, Diane. Bob love Diane when he first met her he felt like she wasnt like other woman. Bob took Diane cross-roading yet when had the intentions of stealing her car, instead he fell for her. Fogle comes to rationalize how Bob felt about Diane, Bob love Diane body and soul by then.Even narcotics had never brought him the sport and satisfaction that Diane did back then (166). It seems like Bob is truly a caring and humane person because of how he felt and still feels about Diane. Bob seems to put Diane before himself subconsciously he cogency not want people to see how oftentimes he really cares about her lonesome(prenominal) when bo neheaded down she means everything to him, he give prevail her as much as he scum bag. It also seems that Bob only wants to keep Diane happy barely he thinks that the only way he can do that is with narcotics.Bob seems to always try to hide how he feels about the people close to him because he is panic-struck that something might happen to them and he just wants them to be safe and out of harms way he is truly a caring and safety-related individual. On the other hand Bob can also be a very maniacal and manipulative, he can even seem barbaric and cruel he uses any means unavoidable to obtain what he is after, he finds a way to hold and control people to make his plans go how he wants. Bob will use people to control a situation to go in his favor without any resentment about what happens to the other people.Bob show his manipulative side when he told his crew I just wrote the narcos and anonymously told them that the reason they could never catch Bob Hughes for possession of narcotics was that he had an accord with the guy that lived on the north side of him(Fogle 82). Bob doesnt seem to have any problem using people to lay out what he wants he doesnt seem to have a conscience. about of Bobs actions show how he is a manipulative man, he uses people in rig achieve what he wants. Bob would go through any means necessary in install to see any(prenominal) he wants.Through Bobs actions it seems that he is nothing just a selfish man that only cares about what he will receive from the situation. It seems that Bob only wants to do only what he will benefit from he doesnt seem to care about anything or anyone else. Bob is also cruel and inhumane towards his own crew. When Bob walks into the room after an attempt to get drugs he sees Nadines dead body and a hat on the bed he then pays more attention and is more worried about having a hat on the bed than Nadine being dead. subsequently seeing Rick balling and crying over her Bob shook his head in disgust. She beat you, man.Your own woman beat you out of part of your own cut on a score. She got what she deserves (Fogle 134). This shows how Bob not only doesnt care about what happened to her, but also he has been desensitized to death, he only cares about the fact that she wasted the drugs and left them with the burden of having to get rid of a dead body. Bob only sees that because he feels like she cheated them out of the drugs and they cant do anything about it. Bob also seems to act this way because of how Nadine has acted in the past, she would complain a lot and always wanted more than she could handle.Throughout the book Bob shows that he can and will use and manipulate people into doing what he wants so that he gets what he wants and whatever it is he has been working for. In both scenes Bob shows how he can get into peoples heads and make sure that they do whatever he wants them to do to achieve whatever he wants. Life is full of nothing but conflicts and uncontrollable situa tions and everyone has their own way of dealing with them. Throughout the book, Drugstore Cowboy, Bob is put through miscellaneous difficult situations which he handles in one of two ways being a humane and caring man or being a manipulative and maniacal man.Bob is depicted as both a caring and maniacal man in the sense that he cares a lot about his crew but also if the situation calls for it he will not care at all for them. Bob will manipulate anyone who gets in his way of obtaining what he wants, but he cares for those close to him but will sometimes even use them in order to get what he wants. Bob has a very complex way of living and thinking and it is showed in various ways throughout the book. Work Cited Fogle, James. Drugstore Cowboy. forward-looking York Dell Publishing, 1990. Print.