Of the ten stories read over the past few months, one character has stuck out in my mind. The character that is most prominent to me is Mr. Johnson in One Ordinary Day with Peanuts. Mr. Johnson is my favorite character because of his mysterious, interesting, and thought-provoking way of life. The story begins with Mr. Johnson’s day going very well; he displays many random acts of kindness, and everything seems to be happening in his favor. One example of his kindness was when he helped a woman who was moving by watching her child while she worked with the movers. Mr. Johnson’s actions throughout the story made me question if his motives were spurious, and his ever-changing personality made me wonder if he was anything close to ordinary.
I found Mr. Johnson very thought provoking because of how he spent the day acting so kind to everyone, but when he offered to switch personalities the next day with his wife, he immediately became irate, snapping answers
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regarding dinner at his wife. This was seen when he asked what was for dinner, and his wife said veal cutlets, he then snapped back “Had that for lunch.” When Mr. Johnson told his wife that he had veal cutlets for lunch he was lying, what he really did was pay for a homeless man to have the veal cutlets for lunch. I thought that the dissent would have sparked a more in-depth discussion. I also found Mr. Johnson thought-provoking in the beginning of the story through his opaque actions. For example, when he compensated the man and woman for making them late for work. At the end of the story Mr.
Johnson was speaking to his wife at dinner—they were having veal cutlets! —and she began telling him about her awful day. Mrs. Johnson was rude and negative towards everyone and tried to create many altercations throughout the day. Mr. Johnson then proceeded to tell her that they could switch places the next day. This section of the story made Mr. Johnson very interesting, in my opinion, because he treated how each of their days went similar to a game and traded how they would act the following day like you would trade cards in go-fish.
When the story ended I was left with several questions regarding Mr. Johnson’s personality, however, that is the aspect that makes him my favorite character. Mr. Johnson’s fluid personality between kind and cruel made him mysterious and interesting while his actions throughout the story made his character thought-provoking. Mr. Johnson’s overall personality and effect on the story make him my favorite character out of the ten
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n the college essay, “ Chunky Peanut Butter” Jam Gregory describes himself as “ the chunky peanut butter”. Meaning that he feels that he is like the heart of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. His article was certainly the most compelling out of the other two. A few reasons are, he uses good word choices and figurative language, shows he does different activities, and how he likes to help people.
Have you ever wondered who invented Peanut Butter? Did you know that the same man made “more than 450 products ranging from margarine to library paste that could be made from the peanut, the sweet potato, and various other cultivated plants”. That man, also known as the “Peanut Man”, is George Washington Carver. There are three commonly asked questions about Carver including: “What was his personal life like?” “What did he actually do?” and “What did he like to do when he wasn’t working?” Basically, Carver was an African-American slave born at the end of the Civil War that was able to overcome many obstacles and become a famous scientist and inventor.
Tom is a very ambitious person when it comes to his work. He is caught up in getting a promotion from work by doing a project. Tom just focuses on the “big picture,” which is his future, rather than the “small picture,” which is what his wife is doing. This trait changes at the end when he decides to go to the movies with his wife. When the paper flew out the window for the second time, he realized that he can do the paper over again but he can never take back that one specific night he could have spent with his wife.
You can see that he's strong but he's also frightened. As you move your eyes towards what's behind him you notice that his hand is crippled and was probably burned. Your eyes meet his and they're a piercing blue. You are so struck by his looks you can't wait to go talk to him and find out about his personality traits. Johnny Tremain's personality was very fascinating, and it was most intriguing to read about how he changed from a bossy, impatient boy, into a thoughtful, patient gentleman.
Kotz discusses how Johnson's memories of the depravation of his poverty-stricken farm life with his father in the western hill country of Texas and the impoverished Mexican Americans in his home region influenced his later decisions. Kotz reveals how a feeling of inadequacy gripped LBJ's psyche. This feeling of inadequacy sometimes drove Johnson into periods of dark depression. Yet it also encouraged him to ignore the intellectual shackles of southern traditions of racial prejudice a...
Lyndon Johnson is an intimate, complex and ambitious portrait of a President. He came to office with strong ambitions to emphasize equality for all, to generate hopes for the Great Society, and to reshape his America, but ultimately he withdrew from the political arena where he fought so hard. Johnson’s legacy started with a tragedy and ended with a tragedy: the story began with the cold bullet that went through his predecessor’s head, which enveloped the country with anger, chaos, and mourning, and ended with the deaths of fifty-eight thousand Americans, which threw the nation into tumult.
Jeff Kinney effectively uses a variety of literary elements to explore the ideas of bullying and self-exploration, throughout Greg’s struggles in the novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Kinney successfully highlights the effects of these themes through issues such as popularity, to significantly showcase the importance of friendship over being
I can't really explain why I liked this character so much. I don't EVER want to be like him or do the things he did. There was just something attractive about all his negative personality traits. Before he really starts getting into torturing the cop, he casually turns on the radio as if he needed some music to accompany the grizzly acts he was about to commit.
...cally sums up Johnson and his presidency given the circumstances in which he could have been a hero to millions of African American’s and a pioneer to whites everywhere he chose a path in which looking back on shows all these characteristics that Johnson showed during the many different circumstances that arose during his presidency.
You must always take bias and point of view into account when reading a book, and Goodwin and Unger’s account of Lyndon B. Johnson’s life have both. However, as long as you understand this, you will be able to create your own opinion of Johnson. This opinion is bound to never be complete, for making an opinion about a man as complicated and nuanced as Johnson will never be possible. But, as long as you learn the facts and read the history, you will be able to decide what to think of this larger-than-life man.
The Peanuts Movie can pave the way for a new genre of kids movies. Directed by Steve Martino, who is best known for Horton Hears a Who!, adapts the timeless classic written by Charles M. Schulz to a new generation. This kid friendly rated G movie movie centers around the already complicated life of Charlie Brown (Noah Schnapp) who can't seem to catch a break until a little red-head girl (Hadley Belle Miller) moves to town. Charlie Brown soon develops a crush on her and will try to beat the odds to have something good go his way for once. In the meantime his pal Snoopy (Bill Melendez) is off dreaming about being a flying ace in World War 1.
According to the author every person has good and bad inside of him. There is a continuous battle between the two forces, when the bad force won Dr. Jekyll committed suicide which is a lesson for us to keep the good force always on the outside and inside of us to live in harmony and peacefully.
After Winston got down safely everyone calmed down and went home. This is when you had left it was almost the beginning of december and thing weren’t going well because as soon as we finish Jerry and his boys came over and destroyed our decoration. I wasn’t going to give up so me and Jerry made a new deal, If i lose I would have to be Jerry slave and losers will be left alone and If I win Jerry would have to leave all the loser alone. All the loser didn’t want me to make the deal because then It would take my freedom away but I didn’t care and agreed it. Everyone was upset and wanted to give up but then Mr.Winecki said to me and Winston “I’ll make you a deal”, “you guys don’t give up and I won’t give up either” after haerd the Winston shook Mr.Winecki”s good hand and said “deal”. The next afternoon I went to Mr.Sankey who said he would help decorate, It turned out that our damage decorations wasn’t that bad, that night I meet my dad , he then give me the letter that was from you but I have one question to ask why didn’t you just tell me why you took my money and left instead of making me wait for my dad to give me the letter which i didn’t know he was coming. After we sorted thing out my dad went to your house and i went
Mr. Johnson calls each family forward to begin eating their seafood. Once everyone is done eating their seafood, Mr. Johnson starts picking teams for there annual kickball tournament. Mr. Johnson picks Don Adams. Don is mad because he is not very athletic and wants this tradition to be ended. His wife
...Jonson is an icon in theatrical history and literature (Ben Jonson), and he is also known as a master of comedies. With his mixture of personal prestige, the extraordinary number of his friends and enemies, and maybe the fact that we know little about him, Ben Johnson is considered by many to be one of the most eccentric playwrights ever.