Lame title for the question up for
discussion that I'll be presenting to you. Nevertheless I'd like to
ask depending upon some of you may be in the novel; thoughts on our
main villain? For me, he seemed rather uninteresting as the main
villain (if you're still leafing through the pages and haven't
finished the book yet, this will spoil you). He presents a
interesting quote for us, the audience in Chapter 25. I would
quote it here, but that would be
the entire chapter since it is only two pages. To summarize, he
thinks about puppets, that “everyone is controlled by something
(LYGA, 250).” I had to take a few minutes to step back and think
about this, and put some deep thought. I imagined, however him –
the Impressionist, a no-face, copy cat controlled by his impulses, a
puppet whose only purpose is to pursue and obsess and kill. He has no
other purpose other then that. Only to dirty his hands for his idol,
Billy. No one really thinks that deeply about things, most of the
time anyway. That we're all but puppets in this stage filled with
both comedy and tragedy, controlled by something, whether it be ones
own impulses or another person.
I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
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3 comments:
I agree with your belief that the Impressionist was a weak antagonist, He didn't feel like he was serving much of an impact-full purpose throughout the story. If anything the Impressionist felt like the devil on Jasper's shoulder pushing him closer to his "dark" side and slightly nudging things in the shadows to push things along. Also with the part involving being controlled by others or being puppets, it seemed like he was looking for an excuse for his actions; trying to say that he was the one controlling Jasper and pushing him to become his father, as well as Billy controlling the Impressionist, influencing his actions. All-in-all he was a weak character that didn't lend much to the story, the Impressionist was like a small cog in a much larger machine at work.
To be honest I did not like the impressionist at all. He was a very week villain to me, I felt that he couldn’t think on his own and only wanted to be a copy cat. I thought it was weird and strange how someone would want to copy every move of a previous well-known serial killer. The comment that the impressionist made was really bizarre to me, the fact that he said that people were puppets and were controlled by others, did not make sense to me. It makes be believe that Billy Dent was his puppet master and the impressionist was only following Billy's orders.
I didn't really like our main antagonist from the beginning mainly because it was quite obvious who it was. I say this because Jazz gave us little clues on what his father taught him to do, and what his father would do, such as hide in plain site. I knew who the was since the impressionist's persona made an appearance yet again at town during the ceremony. He visited his victims ceremony, he said he was staying for a short time on business but ended up staying longer, and he had an odd obsession with Jazz. I would have much more liked him if he was harder to figure out and if he was an actual character, and not just a mirrored image of Billy Dent.
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