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Gangyi Wu Mark Scamahorn Eng 110, process 15, 2012 Desperate to survival How gutter a big br other who loses his parents in a short period of time survive? How is it possible for him to allowance back care of his little brother at the same time? In A Heartbreaking be given of Staggering Genius, the author Dave Eggers describes a prospicient converse between him and his brother Toph. In fact, the dialogue is not adventure in the touchable world instead, it is a me and I dialogue. Dave talks about(predicate) his long day in the beginning of this dialogue, while Toph ext closing curtains the conversation to the banter of Daves inner universe.Actually Dave is analyzing his behavior with respect to Toph. From the dialogue, we can tell Dave is despairing and is eager to excite a normal life with Toph. Daves dialogue with Toph shows Dave is aggressive. Dave is assay to extend around the by and use moral authority to objurgate other for the purpose of building himself up. D ave is trying to run away from the past guilt. The guilty feelings make Dave stay away from the past. Toph says, Youre completely inactivate with guilt about relating all this in the first place, especially the halt earlier on. (115).The past was horrible for Dave. He suffered a lot, he disjointed his parents, and more importantly, his family. He is afraid to remember his family, because he is afraid that those direful memories will haunt after him. The guilt, as Toph describes, constrains him. Dave feels guilty for his parents death. The family area in his brain is a forbidden z peerless. He preserves this area guardedly in order to avoid the potential harm coming from the severe stories. Otherwise, these areas may drive him ballistic. As a result, Dave tries many ways to escape the guilt.At the very beginning of the conversation, Dave and Toph are talking about their long day. Dave argues that this is a much pedestrian day than most, because this is just a ape the design(1 15) Toph says youre. doing little tricks, out of frustration. (115). From this conversation, we can see that Dave is trying to make things look fake he does not want things to get a h anile of him, especially the guilty feelings. Instead of manipulating the experienced memories into skeleton and caricature he would rather treat them as his own real experience.He is numbing himself out. By discarding all the old things to jump out of the old memories, Dave also wants to have a brand tender life with Toph. Toph says, you can toss away all the old line ups and for all your bluster you end up maintaining most of their customs. (116). He is attempting to leave away from the rules in his old family he wants to dominate his own rule and create a new home rule. He blusters and struggles. He is desperate No matter how hard Dave tries, he fails, and all the failures gradually lead him to the edge of collapse.Dave becomes an aggressive man, because he is oer sensitive about the potential h arm may cash in ones chips to Toph. Toph recounts a scene between Dave and a friend, Marny. Dave is irritated about Tophs ignorances to call, after waiting for Toph to return home. Marny exhorts Dave not to be rasping but Dave wraths immediately, you think you have a say in something deal that, just because I am young. (116) Apparently he is harsh to Toph and at present he is mean to his best friend. Marny is showing him kindness whereas Dave attacks her simply because she doubts what he is doing.In this moment, Dave already becomes extremely sensitive. He regards himself as Tophs fetch, you would never nullify some forty-year-old mother, would you? (116) He is a forty-year-old mother who is old enough to have authority over Toph Dave believes he has the competence to take care of Toph, and at the mean time he is doing a good parenting job. Therefore, no one can challenge his authority. Consequently Dave overly defends the leadership that he has over the new family. No one ca n judge an old mother. He is as bossy as an old mother retention the decision making power in his mind.Dave describes his attitude to those potential enemies from Tophs words, Youll picture all manners of murders in my defense. Your visions will be shining and horrifically violent (117) Dave would a similar(p) to punish his enemies in his own mind with weapons ilk a baseball bat. Dave values Toph the most in his heart, and anyone who dares to harm Toph should pay a high price. Dave will punish them as fierce as he can. Paragraph indicates that Dave lacks the sense of safety. Inside his imagination, outsiders always want to compass out his familys scars and judge him and Toph.He desires to beat every enemy humble before they appear, so that no one could harm them. He tries to excoriate others by using his moral authority in order to suck in confidence about life. Toph says, You finally have the moral authority youve moldAnd now your moral authority is doubled, tripled. And y ou use it any way you submit to. (118) The moral authority is the weapon Dave uses to intimidate others. For him it is a shield that protects him from being humiliated, since he is morally superior to others. This is exactly what Toph infers about his authority, because it increases your leverage with other masses. (119) As a result, Dave can judge others without getting criticism back. In the incomplete family, Dave and Toph are weak. However with the moral authority, he can rule over others no one will have a archetype about his family, or Toph. He even judges his twenty-nine years old girl friend, youll make this poor woman feel like a leper you want her to fell like a pariah, like a lower form of life what your feel anyone tethered to any dependence is. (118) Leper and pariah are insulting words that a normal individual would not use to criticize a smoking woman.By looking rout on others and saying those insulting words, Dave is attempting to gain self-esteem. His behavi ors make himself look like a superior. Although the people are living better than Dave, he refuses to hold reality. What Dave wants is to create a favorable family environment for Toph, to give him new home. In this family he is a father, a mother, a big brother and an deprive without parents. Dave is attempting pull himself out of the old and painful memories. On the other hand, he is shouldering the responsibilities of Toph.He talks to the imaginary Toph to cure himself with an open heart surgery. Toph is an joke of real Toph in his heart. There two brothers are having a way session together indirectly. Dave loves Toph. He is playing his role as a protector. He wants to protect Toph from the people outside their house, to keep Toph from other peoples judgments. The only reason Dave becomes a desperate and pretended withstander is to become strong enough to stand up for Tophs protection. Work Cited Eggers, Dave. A heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, New York. Vintage Book s. 2000. 114-120. Print.