Archetypes The Innocent Man

Archetypes have been in every book and story since the beginning of time. While reading "The Innocent Man" the author spent a good amount of time explaining that the innocent man, Ron Williams, was once a star baseball player in Oklahoma but he made many mistakes as well. Ron was a gifted athlete who always had dreams of making a major league baseball team. The problem Ron faced everyday was he suffered with an archetypal symbol such as light versus darkness. He had both light and darkness in him which fueled him and his dreams as well as hurt them. There is light in the people around him like his sisters who tried again and again to make him less of a jerk that pushed and pressured his parents into buying and doing whatever he wanted. His parents also show a dark archetypal symbol because they always gave him everything he wanted with no hesitation his entire life. With them doing what they thought was for the best, only made him a spoiled brat that thought he could get away with anything. Another light archetypal symbol is that Ron always had big dreams and desires of becoming a baseball player. And with everything that happened in his life he still managed to have hope that one day he would be a professional baseball player. But the dark archetypal symbol that lead him to doing drugs and chasing after women overcame that light that he had. Also in the story there is another archetypal character, the devil figure. Ron's aspiration to become famous and a professional baseball player brought him the misery he received. The devil figure brought him to being an alcoholic that could not make a baseball team and eventually even took him to jail. The devil figure was stronger then the little bit of light in him and ruined him. Ron having these archetypal symbols and characters brought him the situations he faced in his life and without the situations brought upon him, there would be no story.