Paranoid Park
- Written by: Blake Nelson -
Snapshot
Max Fonias
Stressed| |Depressed
Max is emotional, mad, and scared. Max’s external conflicts are his parents are divorcing. Max’s internal conflicts are he has to live with the guilt of killing someone. Max’s last internal conflict is that he doesn’t know who to tell about his problems.
Quotes:
✔ “We watched him try to reach around and unhook himself, all the while skipping sideways, like a crab, trying to keep his feet under him. Then he got turned around. He got twisted into an awkward position under the train. You could see him start to panic and try to tear himself loose. But he couldn’t. The train had him, and it was too powerful. He got folded up. It was like a rag doll getting folded up and stuffed inside a narrow container. The security guard got rolled up and kind of… crushed… and ground into a ball” (Nelson 22).
✔ “He was here investigating a murder that occurred downtown” (Nelson 108).
✔ "But it looked like his coat got caught on something under one of the moving cars. It sort of lifted him up and dragged him sideways" (Nelson 22).
✔ "The first couple days were pure hell. The next couple totally sucked. Things got a little better after a week. And at ten days, well, the worst of it seemed to be over, the crisis had passed. I might walk around like a haunted zombie for the rest of my life, but at least I would have a life" (Nelson 86).