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Was Jack Twist an Adopted Child?
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on November 04, 2007, 09:51:44 pm ---Perhaps Jack subconsiously identified with Ennis's consious sense of loss and alienation. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why the boys bonded so well ,
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I'm sure you're right on spot with the quoted part. Both had horrible fathers; no support, love or emphathy to be found there. Somehow they were both "lost" children and their upbringing was similar (as Annie stated at the beginning of the story) and similar awful.
But this is true independently from your adoption speculation. Therefore it neither supports nor questions your theory.
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: tampatalon on November 05, 2007, 02:38:08 am ---Sounds reasonable. Its most likely that Jack would have been born on the Twist Ranch if he was not adopted and fer sure OMT would not part with the bucks to have someone come way out to dick-clip Jack. Following that reasoning Jack might have been born in a "big city" like Riverton and where he was clipped prior to adoption. One line does come to my mind which leads me to believe he was adopted and thus OMT resentment of Jack. "He thought he was too goddam special to be buried in the family plot". Maybe it was not his real family plot.
TampaTalon ^">
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good point, there seems a bit of evidence that Jack may have been adopted. I'm now fairly sure that he was, and that explains a great deal about him in my mind.
I wonder what AP would have to say about this?
ifyoucantfixit:
I hate to make this a diasagreement, but....there is not one little word in there about
any adoption. If she wanted him adopted I would think she would have said so...He was a
child mistreated by his own biological father..There is no real reason for it to happen..It doesnt
need any reason, but the usual reason is because the parent was also mistreated, and therefor
acts out accordingly...I have personal experience in this regard...My own father was very mistreated
as a youngster. Then he proceeded to do the same..
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: ifyoucantfixit on November 07, 2007, 05:30:35 pm ---
I hate to make this a diasagreement, but....there is not one little word in there about
any adoption. If she wanted him adopted I would think she would have said so...He was a
child mistreated by his own biological father..There is no real reason for it to happen..It doesnt
need any reason, but the usual reason is because the parent was also mistreated, and therefor
acts out accordingly...I have personal experience in this regard...My own father was very mistreated
as a youngster. Then he proceeded to do the same..
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It is one of the horrible facts about abuse that it can be transferred from one generation to the next. I most definitely agree with you that AP said nothing directly or clearly about whether OMT and the Mrs. adopted Jack, that why its just a hunch on my part. But then there is quite a bit that is suggested or even subliminal at many different levels not only in "Brokeback Mountain" but also in her other stories. I've become a big AP fan, I love reading her terse no nonsense prose. I know that for me, the more often I read her short story, and see Ang Lee's movie, the more details I see.
RossInIllinois:
No Jack Twist was not adopted. I never heard this discussed on set at all. I thinl Annie would have elaborated the fact in the short.
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