character analysis for shane batista(double dippin')

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Character Analysis for: shane batista.

Shane Batista... manipulative brother, foster kid from hell, newly free parolee to a career con artist... His rap sheet pretty much speaks for itself. From the start of the book to the end, Shane is clearly the poster child for the all American protagonist.
His struggle begins in the start after witnessing his schizophrenic mother getting killed by a cop, and being put into a group home at a very young age, where alot of traumatizing things happen to him. his need for attention follows him in his teen years, often daydreaming and getting flashbacks of when his mother used to breastfeed him (only beacause Marguerite Batista believed that food from grocery stores were tainting the kids with bad chemicals), and feelings of inadequacy start to surface when he is being constantly reminded of how his younger brother Tarriq is an angel, forcing Shane to believe that he was made to be a devil child...

Shane eventually grows up to be an enigmatic young man, and his demons follow him with consistency, and he eventually committing the unpardonable sin: having relations with his brother's woman, (who he had once dubbed "ugly", but somehow being seduced by her motherly qualities because she started lactating). he ends up killing himself in an attempt to free himself of his guilt for getting his brother hit by a car(Tarriq walks in on them and takes a walk to get it off his mind, and gets hit by a car because he's not looking where he's going).

shane wasn't really a bad seed but more of a victim of circumstance, not to mention also silently battling a mental illness, that steeled him with the impulse to commit such a tragic act in the end. all his life, Shane had been given (in a figurative sense) nothing but the bones, and it ended up eating him alive. he fathered a child with the woman his brother worked for, and was a pretty good dad until his baby mama's postpartum depression kicked in. overall, Shane Batista was a great character, filled with depth and life and a horrible past, but pretty much made the book that much more interesting.