Inej Ghafa is my favorite character from Leigh Bardugo’s duology Six of Crows for a myriad of reasons. She was a sex slave turned assassin who not only managed to reconcile her job with her religion, which heavily emphasizes peace and kindness, but became the voice reason for the most notoriously unreasonable and overly violent gang boss in Ketterdam, Kaz Brekker. Inej toed the line between morality and survival, two things that were mutually exclusive in Ketterdam, and managed to stay true to herself and her religion despite the number of people she had murdered rather brutally for the sake of information and money. Bardugo also challenged gender-specific societal roles and stereotypes with Inej’s character. This nonconformity was also somewhat …show more content…
There, she was sold to Tante Heleen, the owner of a so-called pleasure house called the Menagerie. She spent two years there as a sex slave, but then she caught Kaz’s attention when he was talking to Heleen for information and Inej snuck up on him. He bought her contract from Heleen and turned Inej into a spy and assassin, putting her almost unnatural ability to be silent to good use for his gang, the Dregs. Once, Matthias commented that Inej “walked with soft feet like she’d drifted in from the next world and no one had the good sense to send her back” (Bardugo 113). Although this was directly after he called her and Kaz demons, in a way, he was right. Inej sort of had drifted in from another world – she had been raised in peaceful, quiet environment and then dropped head-first into a world full of violence and …show more content…
Although Kaz bought her “contract” from Heleen and taught her to kill, she never once begins to rely solely on him to help her out of any situation, unlike many female protagonists end up doing. She never idolizes him, never deludes herself into thinking that Kaz can single-handedly “save” her just because he gave her a way to get herself out of the Menagerie. She recognizes that he helped, yes, but she never claims to believe that he is some sort of angelic creature sent but her Saints to save her. Quite the opposite, actually – she regularly calls him out on his shit and gets angry at him countless times for being obnoxious and needlessly apathetic. I have seen too many strong female characters be “rescued” by a manipulative and often abusive male character and then become completely dependent on him for every little thing. Harley Quinn and the Joker, for example. Harley began as a self-sufficient woman, but her heavily abusive and unhealthy relationship with the Joker stripped her of her ability to think for herself. She practically became his pet – not that he treated her as well as a pet. He even had her wear a collar-like choker with her pet name for him on it. The Joker turned a respected, well-meaning woman into a killer with such a twisted view of the world that if he was not present she could barely function. Harley and Joker’s relationship is also highly sexual – the sex is really the only reason he keeps her around, and because
In the book Between Shades of Gray Ona is a character who is placed in the book to create emotion and a demonstration of motherly grace. One very important way they create These things with her in this book is by using her baby in the equation. As soon as her baby was born she had soviet soldiers stuff her and her baby into a cattle car full of people to take them to who knows where. On this trip in the cattle car no one expected the baby to live and right they were. Once the baby had died Ona was grieving over the child's death by “ Being very quite and not celebrating when they find out the germans were in lithuania!” (Sepetys 69). This adds great emotion and shows great motherly grace in the book by connecting with the people who are reading
In the Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett, Homer and Mother Maria both display straightforward, hardworking, and stubborn character traits. Firstly, Homer and Mother Maria both display a straightforward personality by being brutally honest about their opinions. For example, when Mother Maria asks Homer to build a chapel, Homer speaks his mind by telling her he does not want to build it. Mother Maria shows her straightforward behavior during Homer’s stay at the convent. One morning, when Homer sleeps in late, Mother to becomes extremely upset and is not afraid to show how she feels about him. Secondly, both Homer and Mother Maria display a hardworking spirit. Homer is a hardworking man because after finally agreeing to build the chapel,
However, instead of allowing the corruption and grief of losing a significant figure in her life completely consume her, Leah embraces a new culture and turns to another male figure, her husband Anatole, for guidance. With new surrounding influences, Leah encounters various forms of separation, whether it be from her birthplace, father, or husband, and accepts all the drawbacks and loses that come along with the isolation. At the same time, Leah also challenges herself to overcome the loss and succumb to the loneliness that could potentially bring her closer to a new aspect of life never explored before. Through it all, Leah turns her experiences with exile into bittersweet memories sprinkled across the time span of her life for each rift allowed her to obtain a sense of self identity during periods of time free of human contact or, in Leah’s case,
Traveling from her war-torn homeland in search of safety, and freedom, with only her mother’s comfort, such a long and anxious journey was a reality for young Ziba.
She lived in a sheltered world—a world she did not see. She saw what she could get out to see--almost what she could steal--even in her mind.
...ence is structured in an ordinary tone and word choice, the strength of the speaker (Nancy Lee) is shining through every word. Now after a quarrelsome beginning, Nancy Lee has transformed herself into a stronger being in the end.
As Ishmael’s life as a boy soldier slowly came to an end, these changes were the hardest to accept. He was given all knew clothes, lots of help, and was practically given his life back. A normal person would be happy to accept that, but Ishmael wasn’t exactly a normal person. His life was dedicated to being a boy soldier, and through that he develops a very violent mindset. When he is taken away from this atmosphere, he resorts to violence and has extreme drug withdrawal. ALong with that, he had severe migraines and wanted to be fighting for his country. Many other soldiers looked up to him for his dedication and contribution. Even though all they wanted to do was help him, he just wanted to fight.
Similarly, in 'Buffy the Vampire slayer' (the movie), the anti-hero also transitions to a romantic hero. In this case, the hero is Buffy herself. A stereotypical teenage American bimbo who later on admits, "I didn't even think about anything", Buffy is tracked down my Merrick and told she is "the one"- the next slayer, chosen to battle the head vampire, Lothos. Like Anderson from The Matrix, Buffy is bewildered and does not fully comprehend how important she is. She sarcastically jokes "Let me get this straight-
The Chosen by Chaim Potok is a phenomenal novel about two Jewish boys who live in two very discrepant worlds because of the impressions of their fathers.The Hasidic Rabbi, Reb Saunders wants his son, Danny Saunders, to perdure the family legacy and become a Rabbi. Mr. Malter, Reuven’s father, is an Orthodox Jew who is easy going about what he wants his son to do. Throughout the book, both Reuven and Danny face problems and sufferings that helped them both to become stronger and get through the hard times they faced.
She begins talking about her childhood and who raised her until she was three years old. The woman who raised her was Thrupkaew’s “auntie”, a distant relative of the family. The speaker remembers “the thick, straight hair, and how it would come around [her] like a curtain when she bent to pick [her] up” (Thrupkaew). She remembers her soft Thai accent, the way she would cling to her auntie even if she just needed to go to the bathroom. But she also remembers that her auntie would be “beaten and slapped by another member of my family. [She] remembers screaming hysterically and wanting it to stop, as [she] did every single time it happened, for things as minor as…being a little late” (Thrupkaew). She couldn’t bear to see her beloved family member in so much pain, so she fought with the only tool she had: her voice. Instead of ceasing, her auntie was just beaten behind closed doors. It’s so heart-breaking for experiencing this as a little girl, her innocence stolen at such a young age. For those who have close family, how would it make you feel if someone you loved was beaten right in front of you? By sharing her story, Thrupkaew uses emotion to convey her feelings about human
The narrator continues with describing his resentment towards his home life, 'Coming home was not easy anymore. It was never a cinch, but it had become a torture (2).'; This excerpt provides the reader with an understanding of the sorrow that the protagonist feels at the beginning of the novel and throughout the first half. Further narration includes the protagonists feelings of distance from the land and blame that he places upon himself, 'But the distance I felt came not from country or people; it came from within me (2).'; Thus, as the reader, we understand that the narrator has removed himself from the land and his culture.
First of all, the book follows the themes of isolation, innocence, and corrupted maturity through the setting. In
The setting of the novel is located in Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, under the harsh Taliban rule. The Taliban governs most of the country and impose stringent restrictions on the Afghan people, especially women (P.7 “She wasn't really meant to be outside at all. The Taliban had ordered all girls and women in Afghanistan to stay inside their homes. They even forbade girls to get to school.”) The location of the novel influences the emotions and moods of the characters to be depressed and stressed because the location is set in a violent situation where houses continually being bombed and land mines are anchored everywhere in the city (P.16 “There were bombed-out buildings all over Kabul. Neighbourhoods had turned from homes and businesses into bricks and dust. Kabul had once been beautiful.”) Parvana and her family lives in a one-room house after moving for safety several times which cause everything to be congested in one place. This is difficult for anyone in Parvana's family to be alone which triggers tension amongst one another. The setting of the story is set in a nation under a turmoil of war and chaos which portrays the main character, Parvana, to be depressed and deeply emotional.
Like most people in her social sphere, the woman takes for granted the civility and restraints that have kept her, prior to her attack, comfortably exempt from the personal chaos that violence unleashes. All of...
Although her love interest, the Joker, believes that life is a joke and should be viewed as such, Harleen Quinzel’s life is anything but funny. She was first created as a simple character by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm and was meant to be a one time appearance as the Joker’s sidekick in the episode “Joker’s Favor” in Batman: The Animated Series. Fans quickly fell in love with her playfully charming characteristics so she was soon developed into a deeply complex character with a past and a storyline. Unfortunately, her lovable persona serves mainly as a cover up for the true trauma beneath her surface. In reality, abusive and damaged relationships have deeply scarred her.