He traded in his textbooks for records. Hamper started to get this feeling that he was never meant to be a success. He was no longer the honor roll student that he once was. By his senior year, his devotion to school matters became a complete joke. .
Hampers mind was distorted with the feeling that he was never going to be anything but a Rivethead. As stated before, he was forced into a father figure role at a young age. He really believed that he would not grow up to be anything in life. I believe that his father filled his head with nonsense about him working in the factory and he, in turn, believed him. When he was forced to play the role of "daddy," I think he thought that he was truly going to follow in his father's footsteps. .
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Finally, the Rivethead uses alcohol to distort life. He uses alcohol to escape from reality numerous times in his life. Alcohol is his way of withdrawing from reality. This holds true not only to Ben Hamper but also to thousands of alcoholics who drink to get away from their problems. Alcohol might help for the time being but when you wake up the next morning, the problems are still going to be there. Hamper would never correct the problems. He would, like most alcoholics do, just buy more alcohol and save the problems for the next day and so on and so on.
The next defense that the Rivethead uses is denial. This defense is evident throughout the book. The Rivethead cannot accept his own talent. Hamper discovers that he can write poetry pretty well. He even composes his own collection of poems called "Intestines of a Balloon." He then goes on to say that "I was even beginning to think that I might defy my shop rat heritage after all." (Hamper, 18) At this point Hamper realizes that he has talent but then he decides to use his talent for the wrong reasons.
Ben Hamper realizes that his poetry is a great way of winning girls over. He says "I did discover that the poetry, as awkward and schmaltzy as it was, drew great favor from the girls of my sophomore class.
The face mask is twelve centimeters in length and attaches to the helmet cap in three places with rivets. The eyebrow pieces were riveted to the tang of the nose piece as well as to the cap on the outer edges. ... Evenly spaced around the flange of the boss are five ornamental rivet-heads. These rivets attach the boss to the shield board. ... The animal heads and foil are attached to the rim by clips and rivets. ...
"One black ox, with a white cravat on...fixed me so obstinately with his eyes, and moved his blunt head round in such an accusatory manner as I moved round, that I blubbered out to him, 'I couldn't help it, sir! ... In paragraph three, Pip states, "...I couldn't warm my feet, to which the damp cold seemed riveted, as the iron was riveted to the leg of the man I was running to meet." Dickens chose to repeat the word riveted in order to set up an analogy between Pip's cold feet and the prisoner's iron shackes. ...
In fact, archeological evidences has been found showing the use of natural resins by early man to fasten arrows and spear heads to shafts (3, 170). ... By replacing rivets with adhesives in structural components, it is also possible to eliminate the stress concentrations formed near rivet holes and therefor prevent unforeseeable stress cracks, which may lead to disastrous failures. ...
The novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is about a man's trip up the Congo River and his sightings of the different villages. The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is about a man trying to keep the white men from taking over his clan and destroying their cultures. The two books seem very...
As the links were hooked together in the garment, the link ends were riveted or welded together." (2) Double mail was made the same way. ... Some plates were made of overlapping scales made of iron or horn plates riveted into a cloth or leather garment. ... In order to have this helmet attach to the head, a leather harness was made. ... This by far was one of the best inventions of armor because it could be slipped over the head without having to adjust it (The Forge 1). ... It did little to no protection to the head. ...
Shafts of the bows were usually made of ash or birch, and the arrows head was made from iron. ... The mail shirt was made of solid metal rings, and was linked by rivets. ... The metal plates only protected the vital parts of the horse, like the head, and chest. ...
The head-and-shoulders sculpture, because he shows no lower torso, looks like he is sprouting from the ground. ... The old coal gasification plant with many of the pipes, valves, smoke stacks, rivets, and so on still out there on display for the public to walk around it and check it out from behind a fence. ...
It was too late the 46,000-ton liner struck the berg breaking iron rivet heads fastening the steel shell plates causing massive leakage. (Kamuda, Edward) Now that the ship was taking on water, the officers and crew ordered the passengers to put on their lifejackets and head up to the deck. ...
