'Choice' - Character Study

‘Choice’ – Character Study (Internal)
Eric

Eric Matthews

Eric Matthews was born on October 20^th 1996 to a Samantha and Paul Matthews. As a baby Eric constantly needed fuss and attention and would constantly be the start of arguments for his parents.

 

Samantha always wanted a girl and has never let Eric live it down, she blames his fathers ‘Inferior’ genes and that she ‘should’ve married that Oakland lad from college’. Eric father Paul saw straight through her passive aggressive attitude for some time.  Eventually he spent more time at his local pub than with his wife, much to her detest.

 

During his early childhood Eric was in the forefront of this conflict constantly trying to impress his mother and ending up questioning her actions to her father. Paul loved Eric more than anything in the world, He knew he wasn’t perfect but he always blamed the war and his wife for his actions.

 

Eric was 13 years old when Paul first hit him. It was a drunken mistake he professed, however Samantha fault different. This event would shake the Matthews household for some time. Everything Eric believed started to get manipulated, Paul became more aggressive and he would always tell Eric it was his mother’s fault.

 

Eric began projecting his worries in the form on an imaginary friend who he never named. In psychology reports Eric said that the friend always shown him the answer and that he hasn’t been wrong since. His mother thought he was crazy and his father took no notice.

 

When Eric was 17 his parents were in the midst of a divorce, it was then that Paul Matthews struck Samantha and put her in the hospital. After doing so he ran away from the consequences leaving Eric with a choice of what to do and who to go to.

 

The film carries on from here.