Composition # 4Draft #3

Sabina Yesmin

Composition # 4

Draft # 3

Rob

High Fidelity is a book written by Nick Hornby. We have been reading it throughout our semester. It is very interesting to learn about the main character. In this book the main character name is Rob. While we were reading we saw he was confused about his life. From the beginning to until now his relationship with his parents, friends and his girlfriends wasn’t clear that what kind of relationship he wants from them in his life.

Rob’s relationship with other people is weak because he never had so much communication with the people he knew. First of all, Rob’s relationship with his parents is distant. He didn’t have so much contact with his parents after he moved away to London. We could see that when he came to meet his parents at their home, they were different than before. He used to see them drink homemade wine, now they were testing official wines. They never went to parties, but he saw them at the neighbor house. After he moved they changed a lot, and he didn’t expect to see that. From this we can infer that he didn’t have so much communication with his parents. Secondly, he had bad relationships with women. Form his teenager years to adulthood he didn’t have one girlfriend for longtime. His first girlfriend broke up with him in six hours. After that he broke up with so many girls. Girls were always breaking up with Rob because he was insecure and immature. They did not like him because they want him to be more like a boyfriend, which is something he wasn’t. That also impacted his relationship badly. Thirdly, Rob relationship with his friends. In the book we saw that he had some friends in the past but he didn’t hang out with them for a long time. Barry and Dick were the men who were working with him. They seemed liked his friends, but in the past his relationship with his friend was not so friendly. In this time also with Barry and Dick sometimes he shared his feelings to them sometimes he didn‘t. While we were reading, we saw when he had problem with one of his girl friends, Laura, and he didn’t have anybody to share his birthday. He was feeling lonely, then he remembered his old friends, otherwise he never contracted with them. So Rob relationship with people always was weak and not so close.

Rob’s personality is different than other people in the book. All the characters in the book were strong because they never hesitated, or felt frustrated like Rob when they had to make decision. Firstly, he was living with frustration because he felt insecure. He broke up with Charlie because he was intimidated by other men. After he broke up with his fourth girlfriend. He was depressed and frustrated then he quitted his study. When he saw one of his ex-girlfriend was in rich position and she was with her rich friends he felt envious. Also he felt frustrated about quitted his school. After that he implies that if he could finished his study he could have good job and he could be happy like them. We can say that he wasn’t secure in his personal life. Secondly, Rob’s honesty in his life. We saw when women tried to sell the records to him a cheap priced, but he didn’t accept it. He knew the record collection wasn’t that cheap, so he didn’t accept her offer because he wanted to pay right amount for that record. So we can say he is an honest person we saw one time while we were reading. On the other hand he felt insecure in the bed when he had intimated situation. While he had intimate situation with Mari he felt insecure. Also with all other girlfriends he was insecure and he was talking himself why he was not successful in his life. He didn’t have self-confidence about his own ability. He was thinking about was he going to make them happy or not? After he had close relationship with Marie he felt he wasn’t that bad the way he thought. So his personality was totally immature and different than other people.

Rob’s love situation was awful. First of all, with his first love he was humiliated. Alison was his first girlfriend. At that time he was immature and he wasn’t sure what to do with her. Alison felt that Rob wasn’t her type and then she made the relationship with Kevin Bannister. When he felt that she was avoiding him he felt miserable. They were only twelve or thirteen years old. They were both totally innocent. Their relationship was only for six hours and they don’t know why they broke up. Secondly, Charlie was his fourth girlfriend. When he met her he thought she was the one he was looking for. They both liked each other. He was young enough to spend the night with Charlie. They were dating for two years. After that Charlie found more interesting man than Rob and he was intimidated by that man. He was feeling insecure about his love. Charlie went for Marco, that’s how they broke up. Rob liked to be awful in his relationship. Thirdly, his relationship with Laura I think was important. He was saying that she is not important but it’s not true. In this age broke up was hard to accept for Rob because he felt inferior about his personal ability. They used to love each other. Laura felt bored in their relationship. She felt that Rob changed. He did not love her anymore like before and he was always busy playing his records. After that she broke up with him and moved to another man, named is Ian. In the end Laura rejected to stay with Rob. Rob is really confused person in his life. We never saw him in the book that he was so patient about his love. So he was being obtuse about his love and which was made his life awful.

Rob’s relationship with people and his personality also his love life wasn’t really cooperatives. We saw him as bewildered person. In our life we shouldn’t act like Rob because he wasn’t sure what does he wanted from his life. We should be self-confident and be sure how we are doing and what kind of planning do we have for the future. In this book the author Nick Hornby try to tell us that men always try to have the power even though when they don’t have to. He showed in the book how the man feels when they pretend to act like he is not showing the power dominate women which is he wants’ to. The author believes that men shouldn’t be like chauvinists. I think he believe that men or women no one should have that attitude in their life.