Character Evaluation : Neil .

Neil was brought up in Liverpool. When Neil was 7 years of age, he was a very bright happy young child, with lots of imagination and a very creative mind. He was very energetic, and very loud, talkative and confident. He had a wide range of thought.
He seemed like your average child and seemed as if he was going places. He wanted to be an astronaut, or perhaps a coach driver.

I think Neil had a lot of potential to be really successful and happy in life.
At 14 years of age this enthusiasm seemed to drop a fair bit. He seemed quite down and a bit cheerless. He appeared smart for his age and had a very sweet personality, but a significant mount of downfall was obvious when Neil was again interviewed at 14.

At 21 years of age, he dropped out of university, living in a squat .he said “I feel like I have been kicking thin air my whole life”. He has been unemployed for 3 years. As the years go by, Neil seems to be going down a spiral, things just got more inferior as his life passed him by.
He was a person who thought a lot about life and had a different outlook on life. He preferred to be alone rather that have people around talking about useless information.

In a way, I do think its sad how Neil’s life had turned out. Somehow, I think he realised his life hadn’t been a success. Something that surprised me in what he said when he was 28 years of age was “I think everybody wants to be somebody”. I think Neil did want to be someone of importance, he said these on many occasions, though he never really achieved this goal. Later on in his life he became a preacher in small church. This though, I think is someone of importance. I also think that to many people he is someone of importance because he has taught all of us a lesson in life. If you make no action in your life and don’t try to fight for your dreams and put your thoughts into act you will just continue to go downhill and eventually have no one to help you stop rolling. I think he got caught up in the whole idea of being an individual, as he departed from his parents and his life. He prefers the Old Testament to the New Testament because God is unpredictable. I think he is trying to relate this to himself, as he wanted to be unpredictable.

He also said that people must see him differently to how he sees himself, which I think is very interesting, because we all saw him as a bright exciting child and full of ambition and hope for the future and he ended up becoming homeless and alone in the world. I think we have a lot of lessons to learn from Neil, but I do think he is actually a person of importance because of this. In my view, Neil is actually an amazing person and if he put his creative mind into the right state of mind, his life could have been very different.