Marcus Visits Will example essay topic

Will Freeman Will Freeman, one of the main characters, is a 36-year-old man who lives in London. He isn't really grown-up yet as he doesn't take life very serious. He doesn't work and actually never had a job because he gets enough money because of a famous Christmas carol his father once wrote. Besides he is not the family type because he doesn't want to get married or even children. He wants to live his own life and doesn't want to think of other people's problems or be responsible for them. According to his expensive clothes and haircut Will cares very much for his appearance.

He thinks that his appearance impresses people especially women and makes him interesting for them. Will thinks about himself that he is very cool. This is proven for him by a questionnaire in a magazine, the result of which says that Will is even sub-zero. (click here for a short extract). He is also very proud of his way of life and of what he is doing like listening to HipHop music or not having to work for his money. In his opinion that is what women like. Characterisation of Marcus Marcus is a twelve-year-old boy.

He lives alone with his mother Fiona in London. They moved there from Cambridge some weeks ago. Marcus is very shy and he doesn't have any friends, because he's uncool, weird and out of touch. His mother tells him what he has so wear and which kind of music he should listen to, like Joni Mitchell and Bob Marley. She thinks that she knows what is good for her son and she doesn't allow him to make his own decisions.

Then he meets Will Freeman, a 36-years-old guy, who doesn't have a job, a family or a regular life. Fiona doesn't like him, because she is afraid of losing Marcus, but Marcus visits Will nevertheless. Will isn't happy to see him every day, but after some time he gets used to it. Marcus likes Will, because he shows him another way of life and Will helps him to be cool in school - he tells him about popular music and he buys him new shoes (Adidas trainers).

So Will is very important in his life, because he is the first person Marcus can talk with instead of his mother and he can ask him when he has a problem with school or with other pupils like Ellie, an older girl Marcus meets in school. She is famous for being in trouble and everybody is afraid of her. This is a really strange relationship, because they are very different. Will and Ellie show Marcus how to be cool and so he starts a new life.

Ellie McCrae Ellie McCrae is a 15-year-old girl. She hacks off her own hair, wears black lipstick and she's famous for being in trouble. She's a big fan Kurt Cobain and because of that she often wears T-Shirts showing his face. One day, while she is sitting in front of Mrs Morrison's office, she gets to know Marcus. Ellie tells him that Kurt Cobain is a football player and he believes her, though he gets to know the truth later on. Later Marcus and Ellie become good friends, but their relationship is a little bit like "pet and owner", because Marcus falls in love with her and she treats him only like a good friend.

Someone removes Marcus glasses and Ellie and Zoe, a good friend of hers, get them back for Marcus. Also Ellie defends him against other kids who bully him. She's a "criminal". On the day of Kurt Cobain's suicide, she throws one of her boots into a shop window because there's a photo of Kurt Cobain in it. That's why she and Marcus have to go to a police-station in Cambridge. Characterisation of Fiona, Marcus's mother Fiona is Marcus's mother and 38 years old.

She's a single mother and has to care for her son on her own. She works the whole day (she's a music therapist). After Fiona and her son have moved to London she becomes depressed. She has got only one friend there and feels lonely. Also she has lost being interested in any special things. She is different from other people because she lives like people did 20 years ago.

She's a hippie and doesn't want to accept the fashion or the music of the 90's. So she educates Marcus to like only her things and doesn't allowed him to listen to Nirvana or eat any meat. Even though she hasn't really wanted a kid she knows she has no other choice than caring for him. So she has to get along with many other things although she doesn't want to. She thinks her life has turned in a way which she has never want to go.

Because she's unlucky about herself she tries to commit suicide, but it doesn't work. But when she gets to know Rachel she starts to realize that life is something worth. Rachel Characterisation (well, not as such... ) Rachel is a single mother who meets Will New Years Eve at a party.

After first being a little cool that evening and showing him her shoulder she warms up as they meet each other for having dinner together. Rachel has made a lot of bad experiences with single men so she is afraid of getting to know him better. Rachel decides later on that Will as being a single father (that's what she thinks) is the best that could possibly happen to her. But Will is not a single father, he did not tell her so as well so he asks Marcus whether he could help him in this precarious situation. Marcus agrees so they go to visit Rachel and her son Ali at their house. Marcus gets into trouble with good old Ali who is guided by very defending feelings for his mom (he wants to have her completely for him alone and says she doesn't need other than him).

As a matter of fact these two now don't get on to well and Ali offers Marcus to kill him if he don't go and take his frickin' father along with him. Marcus spontaneously decides to go for a walk (he runs for it so to say) so Will (a little startled at first) goes after him and tries to talk him into coming back with him while Rachel tries to eliminate her son's feelings for protecting her chance to have the possibility to get to know other men at least later in her life. Rachel is afraid of relationships because of a) the trouble she's been forced to go through and b) her son's problems with her having a boyfriend.