Essay # 4 High Fidelity ( Rob )

Salomon Sanchez

November 13, 2009

Composition # 4 Draft # 2

ROB
How big are the effects when you break up with someone else? Of course we have had dumpers through our life. Which are not a good experience unless you try to finished it in good terms right!; otherwise she is going to hate you forever for breaking up with her and for some reason you will doomed to be a loser toward the person affected. Rob is a guy who tells us about his top five dumpers and humiliations in High Fidelity. How his life became bored and miserable with each of his break ups. Rob shows in all these experiences that feels like a loser because women always left him for another guy.
Alison Ashworth was the first split up in Rob's life. Alison cheated on Rob because she didn't take the relationship so seriously. Rob and Alison wanted to try new experiences like the first kiss boyfriends and girlfriend everywhere, and it was the moment where they both thought about how he would feel to kiss like people in that way with mouths and tongues and all that. But was because maybe he wanted to try other things too like sex Friday nights at the cinema, company and conversation. So on page 7 Rob said "at the fourth night of their relationship, I turned up in the park and Alison was sitting on the bench with her arm around Kevin Bannister.” Obviously, they were kissing each other and cheating on Rob. He felt so bad and disappointed. When he saw that he did not know what to do and his face got red, suddenly forgot how to walk without being aware or every single part of his body. What to do and where to go, also on page 7 he said "I didn't want to fight; I didn't want to sit there with the two of them and I didn't want to go home either.” Actually, I think that is what I would have done if I were him. This experience left a trail on him. On page 9 she said "But there still seems to be an element of that evening in everything that has happened to me since; all my other romantic stories seem to be a scrambled version of that first one." This tells us an important moment In Rob's life as a big trail in his life.
Penny Hardwick the" NICE" girl and Rob’s second split up. Penny did not let him to touch her or do anything with her, so he decided to leave her. By the time he was growing up, his thoughts change to something little bit mature. He was looking for something more than hands contact; he was looking for "sex". On page 11 he implied how he got some of those ideas from other guys, he said "Are you getting any?; Does she let you have any?; how much does she let you have?; and so on. " This tells us that the most important objective to Rob was to get everything he could sexually. So when he realized he will not “get any”, he gave up. Days after that Rob knew that Penny went out with other guy called Chris Thomson , a boy who had had more girlfriends than all the rest of us put together. One day maybe three weeks after his last cling with Penny, Thompson came clamorous into the room. Rob also know it wasn't nothing to feel proud of because of the bad news, in page 14 Thompson said "Oi, Fleming, you spastic. Guess who I knobbed last night?." Rob felt stupid, and small, and much, much younger than this unpleasant, big-mouthed silly. Everyone knew that Thompson got whatever he wanted from whomever he saw and this time was Penny. I think that Rob did not felt humiliated because she left him for another guy. I think it was because someone else got her faster than him. Right after Penny left him he try to take revenge. On page 13 he said" I went out with a girl called Kim, who I knew for a fact had already been invaded, and who (I was correct in assuming) wouldn't object to being invaded again.” We can inferred that this girl called Kim have had sexual relations with other guys and she will permit Rob have sex with her easily. Finally his thoughts about this relationship was a little bit confused. On page 14 he explained it with these words. "I still couldn't understand what had happened. How had this transformation in Penny been effected? How had Penny gone from being a girl who wouldn’t do anything to a girl who would do everything there was to do? Maybe it was best not to think about it too hard' I didn't want to feel sorry for anybody else except me." Rob felt bad because he did not got any and Penny finally had sex with another guy because maybe she though the new guy will going to leave her if she doesn’t have sex with him.
Jackie Allen was the third break up and also a secret relationship. Jackie was his friend, Phil's, girlfriend. Strong reason to keep it in secret right! on page 16 Rob tells us a bit about Jackie's relationship. "We met in secret and phoned each other in secret and had sex in secret and said things like , what are we going to do?, in secret and talked about how nice it would be when we didn't have to do things in secret anymore. I never really thought about whether that was true or not." So one that Rob saw Phill and Jackie huddled together in a corner, Phill was pale and near to tears. At the next day Rob and Jackie didn't have to do things in secret anymore; and they lasted about three weeks making the third split up in Rob's life. He felt uncomfortable but at the same time free. After Jackie break up Phill to be with Rob he was thinking how to tell her get away from him because he didn't feel anything for her anymore. Later on when nobody likes each other, Jackie went back to Phill and things didn't go back to the way they had been. Finally in page 19 he finished the experience down saying "In a few short weeks, mock-marital status had ceased to be something to aspire to, and had become a cause for scorn. At seventeen, we were becoming as embittered and unromantic" because they bored from each other.
Maybe you are wondering how Rob's life improve with all these memories, well, me too. Rob seems to be a bit insecure but I don't think he is the sort of guy who doesn't know anything either. Definitely I think that Rob's life is interesting because is full of experiences that should happen me and I feel identity with some parts of his story. I learned from Rob that we have to make decisions whenever we think is right and never being insecure. That is what I think Nick Hornby wanted to learn from ourselves. Have sex is important but not the most when you hurt someone else because sex is just an issue.