Jason and The Gypsy Mentality
By the end of Black Swan Green , we see that Jason has transformed into a completely different person compared to how he was at the beginning of the book, when he was about a year younger. His transition into a braver and less self conscious teenager can be attributed to a variety of experiences he underwent, but the one that stood out the most to me was his interactions with the Gypsies. When Jason is among the gypsies, he sees their cool and calm mannerisms and realizes the absurdities of his own everyday challenges with bullying. As a result of this, Jason ends up adopting some of their mannerisms in order to defend himself against his bullies, which ultimately ends in Jason being freed from them and gaining more self confidence. When Jason first met the gypsies in the forest, he notes how the gypsy kids were “wilder and way harder” than the kids at his school, including Ross Wilcox. He then goes on to elaborate that things ...