Ha is a Dynamic Character
In Thanhha Lai’s novel Inside Out & Back Again, Ha is a dynamic character because of what her experience was running away from a war and starting all over in a new place. Ha’s a dynamic character because in the novel how she thinks about herself changes and she is leaving the past behind.
In the novel overtime Ha starts to think differently about herself because when she started school in the US she felt dumb (156-157). In Vietnam she didn’t care much about how she looked but when a kid in her school tells her that her face looks like a pancake she starts to cry and also believes him (196-197). When Ha was on the ship for days and her breath stunk but she didn’t care unlike when she was in Vietnam.
Ha is learning
to leave the past behind her because in the novel Ha says”I feel guilty, having not once thought of Father”(90). In the novel she puts a mouse-bitten doll and a limp fuzzy body of a chick in her Mother’s white handkerchief the drops it in the ocean (86). Ha is learning to cope with things because when Misssiss Wassington gave Ha three packages of dried papaya Ha frowns and throws them in the trash. Then the gong foes off she returns back to the kitchen and eats the papaya strips and likes them(232-234). Overall Ha changed over the time because of her experience of being in the middle of a war then running away the starting all over.
In The Big Field, author Mike Lupica explores the theme, "Success uses motivation as fuel." Lupica portrays this theme through the main character, Hutch. Throughout the entire book, Hutch, a young boy that has just recently joined a highly talented baseball team, displays moments that exemplify this main theme. Hutch and his team have a chance to play in the stadium of the Miami Marlins, a Major League Baseball team, as long as they can keep winning games and advancing through a challenging tournament; however, Hutch's favorite position on the field, shortstop, the position located between 2nd and 3rd base, has already been filled on the team. Unfortunately, Hutch gets a demotion from shortstop, to second base, the position located between 1st base and 2nd base. Although Hutch was disappointed and melancholy about the switch in position, he was even more upset about the downgrading of leadership, since the
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Julius Caesar is mentioned throughout the book, A Long Way Gone, many times. In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael would be reading Julius Caesar or a soldier would be reciting some of the speeches in the play. In Chapter 12 of A Long Way Gone, Ishmael is called over to talk with Lieutenant Jabati. Then, Lieutenant Jabati showed Ishmael the book he was reading, which was Julius Caesar, and asked Ishmael if he had ever heard of the book. Ishmael had read the book in school, and began to recite a speech from the book. After this happened, Lieutenant Jabati and Corporal Gadafi used emotional arguments to motivate the people in the village to stay there and support the military. Also, Lieutenant showed all the people in the village dead bodies to help
People have goals everyday, believe it or not some people think that dreams aren't worth it. I believe that it is worth it to dream because it gives a person a goal, it makes them feel good, and it makes them stronger. I know this from The Pearl, A Cubs video, the Susan Boyle video, and We Beat the streets.
...eaders by employing the constantly changing natural environment as a sophisticated stylistic device to construct close correlations between its changes and Hang, the protagonist. The various changes in nature parallels her emotional development and consequently reflects her journey throughout her life. Along with the cycle of the moon, Hang ultimately achieves capability to let go of the past, including her lonely childhood. Like the full moon, she matures after overcoming the difficulties and rejecting family ties that limited her. These parallels are utilised to serve Hang as a microscopic view of the entire Vietnamese generation. Eventually she develops the capacity to savour the beauty of life and conveys the underlying message that the hope, however many time it is crushed, must always be reinvented for life must go on, in Duong Thu Huong’s Paradise of the Blind.
Huong uses a circular writing style to portray the characterization of Hang. As the novel flows from Hang’s past memories to the present, her feelings are paralleled with the different events. This allows the reader to see Hang’s feelings towards her current situation. Because the reader is exposed to Hang’s feelings, her journey to find her self-purpose is
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The reader can learn that no matter how far you go or what you do to escape your problems, they will always come back and you will have to face it on your own in order to grow spiritually and mentally. Hagar finally reaches her independence when she accepts Marvin and takes the water into her hands. The tragedy is that when Hagar realizes her mistakes, it’s already too late.
The self-inflicted isolation that Hagar feels is a result of her stubbornness, pride, and blindness towards other views. Her past has shaped her to become the bitter, stolid, rigid old woman that she is in the novel, also greatly contributing to her mental isolation. This isolation is a result of the personal decisions and actions that she has made throughout the course of the novel. “Every last one of them has gone and left me. I never left them. It was the other way around, I swear it.” (Laurence, 1988, 164)
With age Hagar loses the ability to live on her own and take care of herself, becoming dependent on the help of the son she never loved, Marvin, and his wife...
...s woman, Hagar, who is determined to leave the world dependent on no one. Hagar does not want anyone to feel pity for her, mourn her or worry about her journey. Hagar accomplishes her goal, even though in the process she has to shatter her illusion and accept the harsh facts about life and reality. In the final scene, the reader obtains the message that Hagar has reached her independence when she holds the glass of water. As a result she can leave the world peacefully knowing that in the end she succeeded in freeing herself of any help. Hagar bravely survived her last moments with her heart and the reward of satisfaction. The reader, with the help of the author, can relate to Hagar's struggle through her journey, sympathizing with her, feeling her pain and keeping a part of her with them.
... was capable of relating to her. " I would have wished it. This knowing comes upon me so shatteringly, and with such a bitterness as I have never felt before. I must have always, always have wanted that- simply to rejoice. How is it I never could? I know, I know. How long have I known? Or have I always known, in some far crevice of my heart, some cave too deeply buried, too concealed?" ( p. 292 ). The audience is capable of relating to what Hagar has said because the feelings she has expressed in this quotation are feelings many individuals experience. Hagar's life story is proof that a life of strength and stubbornness was not a life that was fulfilling or satisfying. The tragedy being that an individual often only realizes his/ her mistakes when it is already too late.
In this story Sniff was a character who analyzed the situation and sees the change early and Scurry goes into action immediately. Whereas Haw experiences from the past and then adapt the present situation and Hem always wanted to stay in the familiar territory and he didn’t want to deal with the change and also not want to see it.
As Hagar faces implications of growing old, she starts on a tumultuous journey, not one of her own choice, but one of destiny. She goes through different stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance of the fact that death will come, invited or not.