Inspired Eccentricity :: Literary Analysis, Bell Hooks

Inspired Eccentricity is a story of Bell Hooks about her grandparents, pa and Baba Gus. The two master(prenominal) characters are set forth with many an early(a)(prenominal) contrasts. They are opposite in many ways physical looks, characters, and even their effects on Hooks. Their marriage seems to be a strange combination, and very few people render that Daddy and Baba Gus are not only different but alike complementary each other. In the beginning of the essay, Daddy and Baba Gus are descri crawl in oppositely in physical looks. Daddy Gus is a short and glum(421), while Baba Gus is tall and white, which is enough to help her easily passed denying all traces of black(421). Their walking styles are also different. Daddy walks slow, as though carrying a great weight (421), but Baba moves swiftly, as though there was never time to waste (421). Daddy Gus is a man of silence, he incessantly sit stabilizely in his chair by the stove, as calm and still as the Buddha sits (421). Opposing to Daddy Gus, Baba is described as talked endlessly (421), and she usually preaches, yells, and fusses. They contrast each other in almost either thing, also in not sleeping on the same bed because Baba can not stand her husbands nasty smell. devil people that seem to be made not to each other have been together more than seventy years, most of human manner. individual wonders that their marriage began from love or not, but they overcame all the contrasts, create a big family, and also have many grandchildren. In addition to Hooks, Daddy and Baba Gus are not only different in physical looks, but they also contrast in their characters. Daddy Gus is a calm and spectral man. He has strong belief in God and serves as rightfield men of God (422). He is the person whom people feel olive-drab for because he is controlled by his wife. And although he is thought not to be a real man (422) by his son, but he always refuses to disturb back. People respect and admi red his calmness (422), and Hooks is strongly effectuate by her grandfather who is not gonna let anybody tell him what to do with his life (422). In the other hand, Baba Gus is a blasphemer, and she usually curses. She never goes to church, she also does not believe in God, and people think that she will be a bad example for children.