Inspired Eccentricity :: Literary Analysis, Bell Hooks

â€Å"Inspired Eccentricity† is an account of Bell Hooks about her grandparents, Daddy and Baba Gus. The two fundamental characters are depicted with numerous differences. They are inverse from numerous points of view: physical looks, characters, and even their impacts on Hooks. Their marriage is by all accounts a bizarre blend, however not very many individuals comprehend that Daddy and Baba Gus are diverse as well as integral one another. In the start of the paper, Daddy and Baba Gus are depicted oppositely in physical looks. Daddy Gus is a â€Å"short and dark†(421), while Baba Gus is tall and white, which is sufficient to help her â€Å"easily â€Å"passed† precluding all follows from securing blackness†(421). Their strolling styles are likewise unique. Daddy strolls â€Å"slow, just as conveying an extraordinary weight† (421), yet Baba moves â€Å"swiftly, as if there was never time to waste† (421). Daddy Gus is a man of quietness, he generally â€Å"sit tranquilly in his seat by the oven, as quiet and still as the Buddha sits† (421). Contradicting to Daddy Gus, Baba is portrayed as â€Å"talked endlessly† (421), and she typically lectures, hollers, and whines. They differentiate each other in pretty much everything, likewise in not dozing on a similar bed since Baba can not stand her husband’s terrible smell. Two individuals that appear to be made not to one another have been as one over seventy years, the greater part of human life. Someone ponders that their marriage started from affection or not, yet they conquered all the differences, make a major family, and furthermore have numerous grandkids. Notwithstanding Hooks, Daddy and Baba Gus are diverse in physical looks, however they likewise differentiate in their characters. Daddy Gus is a quiet and strict man. He has solid confidence in God and fills in as â€Å"right-hand men of God† (422). He is the individual whom individuals feel frustrated about on the grounds that he is constrained by his better half. Furthermore, despite the fact that he is thought not to be a â€Å"real man† (422) by his child, yet he generally will not retaliate. Individuals regard and â€Å"admired his calmness† (422), and Hooks is emphatically affected by her granddad who is â€Å"not going to let anyone guide him with his life† (422). In the other hand, Baba Gus is a blasphemer, and she generally reviles. She never goes to chapel, she likewise doesn't put stock in God, and individuals believe that she will be an awful model for kids.