Christy Brown can be described as an intelligent mind trapped inside an inferior body. The immense frustration that he is put through trying to perform the simplest tasks that we, as fully functional humans, take for granted would be enough to make most people give up, and live a life of watching television all day and being wheeled to their bedrooms. It was Christy’s various attributes, along with the assistance and encouragement received from …showed first 75 words of 596 total…

…showed last 75 words of 596 total…his gift for painting may have gone unnoticed. This brought him out into the limelight, which would have helped him to get his book published. Even though there were people in his life who wanted to assist him, Christy needed to help himself before others could help him. It was the qualities he possessed aided by the qualities of those around him that shaped Christy Brown into the person that he turned out to be.