Date: December 10,2012
WORLITE; Ms. Gomez TGE1

DRAFT: Literary Analysis Paper
Joseph Ruben’s “The Good Son”: A ‘Good’ Son Has Many Faces.

Thesis Statement: The imagery in Joseph Ruben’s movie “The Good Son” divulges the antagonist’s psychopathic behavior on strangely fascination with death.
Seeing a young boy’s view of showing life and growing up— then everything changes. In a quiet town...In a comfortable home...In a perfect family and townspeople...Evil can be as close as someone you love, like your own son. How would that emotional ending be when Henry had the nerve on killing his own mother and her picking on saving his real son or Mark? (More on knowing his psychotic attitude) because in any attempt of Mark telling Susan that his son, Henry was psychotic and “A good son has many faces.”, Truly a mother will still believe his true son. It takes lots of courage and fear on taking the challenge—It takes death or life in some way a kid could do that the imagery in Joseph Ruben’s movie “The Good Son” shows us the controversial thriller a movie it is. You would clearly see the fathom henry is, he’s clever, smart enough to do such things, psychotic, and a foul speaker
Henry Evans’ starting description of their family was very unified and happy until further was very remorse, ugly, foul, and wearisome. We can clearly see this by the psychotic changes of Henry Evans through townsmen and hideously, family. Susan, Henry’s mom blames herself on the death of Richard, the youngest son of Henry and always felt remorse and holding back to the past, in such Susan looked for the remembrance of his son, Richard.. “The Good Son” uses a rubber ducky to describe the younger brother of Henry who died. This symbolism is very much intended to be used for water, so as a clue to what happened to Richard as to the toy he was with the night he drowned into the bathtub. “You really thought I was going to jump, huh? I guess you don't know me very well, Mom.” This is a great quotation from Henry saying that Evil has many faces. This is said on the last lines of the movie. In 1993, the was a tie-in-novel that was written by Todd Strasser which has differences from the movie itself, The novel elaborates on the movie, detailing how Henry was born a sociopath (an Axis II personality disorder), rather than being some personification of evil. In the novel, Henry's mother Susan eventually discovers that Henry is unable to understand emotions like love and sorrow, and that deriving pleasure from selfish actions and the irritation of others is one of the only things he truly feels.
If Henry has other attitudes to be revealed, these are sorrow. There are attitudes that weren’t shown in the movie but in the novel itself. Joseph Ruben’s emphasis on Henry Evans’ traits make it apparent that the viewers would really feel how psychotic and arrogant Henry is, and it is clear that Joseph Ruben meant us to feel this way. Because of Joseph Ruben’s innovative use of literary elements like flashback, stream of consciousness and the main point of view, he produces a great psychotic and chaotic film that would really scare the viewers of “The Good Son”.