Demons Vs. The World's Stupidity

Written by: Izzy Lewis

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Like Judd Mulvaney from We Were the Mulvaneys, Dean, from Supernatural, was lonely as a boy. However, the reasons behind the loneliness of each child were different. While Judd was a dreamer and observer, Dean was watching after his little brother Sam while their dad went out hunting. The boys' thoughts were still similar in many ways though. While most boys of their age are thinking about video games and what girl is cute, these two fine young men were contemplating the world around them. 

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Not only were the two boys both lonely, they both loved their father, looked up to their dads like only a devout son can do. "These two people so remarkable to me, my dad who was like nobody else's dad and my big brother...," I think this is a good quote to take from the excerpt of Oates's novel. While this quote delves into the inner workings of one Judd Mulvaney, a little of Dean is revealed too. Dean is so consumed by his family being safe that risks his very soul to have his little brother alive again. 

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Family seems very important to both of these characters, while one seems to miss his family and is doing everything in his power to keep his family around. The other talks about rebuilding things with their father and says, about his brother, " ...big brother who was-well, Mike Mulvanery...," which says to me that his brother is comparable by no other. 

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"It stayed with me for a long time, maybe forever. Not just that I would lose the people I loved, but they would lose me..." This is a very insightful quote for Judd, as a young man. And yet, it ties Dean in yet again because of how many people he loses in his travels: the friends that are lost, people leaving him, his family is almost all dead. While Dean would "have to pretend not to know what I knew..." as a hunter, he had to keep his life to himself and other hunters, to the world he was that sketchy guy with no ties and no job. To the world, Judd was the kid that didn't act like normal kids, he was the kid that thought too much. These men were the outcasts, but they were the only people to understand the true world. 

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