From Moron to Moran
David Mitchell has brought us an amazing novel, Black Swan Green, providing us with interesting growth of Jason. The growth of Taylor and Dean Moran friendship is the one of the most profound that came from this novel. Jason initially proves to be a poor friend to Dean; at the start of the novel, Jason is deeply concerned with fitting in and avoiding the ridicule of his peers, especially the school bullies. He is desperate to avoid being labeled as “unpopular” or “gay” or “weird” by his classmates, especially by Ross Wilcox and Gary Drake. To maintain his fragile social standing, Jason usually distances himself from Dean, even though Dean has always been so kind to him. At the beginning of the story, he doesn’t even refer to him as Dean but Moron, “Or if I called Moron “Dean” in front of everyone, it’d damage my own standing. So you’ve got to watch out.” (Mitchell 6). In the early portion of his novel, he values hi...