Just like Amrith, there are cases in which I feel helpless, almost useless. That feeling when all hope is loss and your thoughts take over making you just want to sleep and forget everything. In this case, when “[Amrith] felt [a] familiar inner blackness come in and sweep him out, like a current… he [felt] helpless against its power” (Selvadurai 32), I related it to when times I feel so counterproductive. For example, when I fail to accomplish a task while seeing others capable of doing the same thing, it makes me feel useless and that I do not have a place in the world. This links to the text since Amrith and I feel incompetent, being overpowered by our own thoughts, when in reality it’s only our minds strengthening the belief that we cannot become successful by our own means. …show more content…
The novel itself is about the journey of interpreted boy who causes disturbances to others surrounding him. It relates to Amrith’s “step-sister”, and how “[h]er midyear marks has been terrible, not to mention all the pranks she had pulled” (Selvadurai 47), mirroring the protagonist of the book, Reef executed pranks provoking individuals surrounding him to the point where he was sent to rehabilitation. The two characters are almost alike in terms of their actions, both having poor grades and fulfilling senseless pranks with no genuine purpose other than