Throughout
his life, Chuck was misunderstood and teased for who was. Everyone saw him as
an idiot and even his friends teased him. He is an outcast among the outcasts
and troublemakers. Suddenly he met a man that an outcast too. The man believed
in him and helped him while everyone else told him to give up. When the man proved to want to help him,
Chuck began to trust him and open up to the man. From there Chuck got to know
the man behind the scars and lost his fear of him and that was where their
friendship started to form.
When Chuck asked McLeod to help him in the
first place, I think that he sensed that he wouldn’t tease him like everyone
else. I think that he saw that McLeod was just as alone as he was. They were
fellow outcasts of the town and Chuck sensed that McLeod might be the one
person that could understand him. It all started with him seeing the trophy in
McLeod’s house. When Chuck saw that trophy, he saw an opportunity. He saw a way
to get help from someone that knew what they were doing without everyone else
knowing. He knew that McLeod didn’t talk to anyone so there would be no way for
him to tell anyone just how stupid he was. He saw McLeod as someone to exploit
to his own gain but things didn’t go his way at first and that made him angry. He,
in a way, trusted McLeod to teach him enough for him to pass him exam but felt
let down when he kept telling him to dig holes and write an essay.
He
started to trust McLeod when he started to teach him. There was still fear but
he trusted him to help him with his goal. It was then that he saw that McLeod
was helping him all along by using the holes to help him with math problems. He
also used different, unique methods to teach him vocabulary and Latin. He
taught him Latin and poetry through things he knew that Chuck would get into to
or connect with. Chuck also started to trust McLeod more when he asked him to
tell his mother that he was having lessons with him. After that he trusted
McLeod not to hurt him. After he learned to trust him, he stopped fearing him.
Over
the course of their lessons, Chuck saw the man underneath the scars and lost
all of his fear of him. It started when he saw McLeod bring in his dog while he
was hurt from the porcupine. Chuck saw the sensitive side of him in that moment
and a layer of his fear melted away. The second moment was when he saw the
picture of McLeod with students of his in the picture he found in the poetry
book. He had a glimpse into McLeod’s past and that helped him to lose his fear
even more. The third thing was the acting out of Shakespeare plays. Chuck saw
the fun, creative side of McLeod in that moment. Chuck lost his fear as Mr. McLeod
became less of a mystery to him.
The
major moment where Chuck lost his fear of McLeod and trusted him more was when
he asked him about his past and what he did for a living. It started when Chuck
got up the courage to ask if McLeod wrote porn. From there he learned that
McLeod painted for a living and that he got his scars from a car wreck where a
kid died. From that, Chuck learns about the man behind the scars and loses his
fear of him. Despite what he learned, he still trusts McLeod and doesn’t ask
any further questions. They grew closer together the more that that knew about
each other and it led to a relationship of trust and friendship.
The
relationship between Chuck and McLeod certainly was a weird one. It started out
with them both mistrusting each other but also needing each other in their own
ways. McLeod needed Chuck because he needed to see if he could still teach a
good student. Chuck needed McLeod to teach him how to pass the exam. In the end
they each began to trust each other and became close friends. The more they
knew about each other, the closer they became. That is why it made sense that
as time went on; Chuck lost all of his fear of McLeod. He now only sees the man
behind the scars and has a connection with that man.
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