#10

Daniel Cuevas-

I light a cigarette and think about the tram driver. He could be a screenwriter. Or better yet an actor. I would bet on it, and his desperation to make it has probably been building for years. Maybe his wife or girlfriend recently left him. Maybe he's drinking too much and can't stop. Each day his disillusionment grows, each day he finds less reason to care. Eventually his frustration turns to anger, the anger to rage, and when he loses his job, a shitty job he never even liked, something inside finally snaps. I can understand that. I can even sympathize. (Brown, 52)

In this scene the author James Brown has some alone time with himself and thinks about the tram driver. Earlier in the day, while Brown was in a Hollywood skyscraper, the tram driver had began to shoot at windows of that very building. Furthermore, Brown makes his own assumptions as to why the tram driver would do what he did, and as you know or may not know, we as humans usually relate our lives to our thoughts and writing. Our thoughts and actions(writing) are influenced by our experiences. Moreover, our life corresponds to our thoughts and writing; this shows to us that Browns assumptions of the Trams drivers life are personal and relate to his own life. In addition, Brown even said that he can sympathize with the tram driver. This not normal for a healthy mentally stable human being. Therefore, Browns thoughts show to the reader that he is not in the right state of mind or was not in the right state of mind. Sympathizing with a person that does bad things is not normal. Thus, I predict that later on in Browns life/story, he will do something foolish, something harmful that will get him in big trouble.