I continued reading The Young Elites and it has been as suspenseful and exciting as the beginning. Adelina is being hunted now for her deadly powers because she is very powerful. Everyone wants a hand on her so they can kill her. Adelina has to practice her powers so that she is ready to fight at all times. Enzo helps her train, which helps Adelina learn her powers and become more powerful. Adelina learns that she is way more powerful than she could ever imagine and loves the feeling of power. Her enemies are also very powerful so she must train to be better than them. Adelina's training foreshadows us to think there could possibly be a fight. One thing that shows us a lot about Adelina and her personality is that she takes her scars from the
Ivy Rowe's Ideas of the Past in Fair and Tender Ladies. In Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies, Ivy Rowe has a constant. attachment to her past. This attachment is one of the main themes in the novel.
The novel The Young Elites, by Marie Lu, is a book about a a girl, Adelina Amutreou, taking on a life that includes bravery, hard work, courage, and eventually heroism. Adelina experiences a hard childhood. Most of Adelina’s family, including her sister, Violetta, and their mom, suffer from the deadly Blood Fever. It strikes across their nation leaving most of the people affected with markings all over their bodies, if not dead. Sadly, Adelina’s mom dies from the Blood Fever, but she and her sister survive. Adelina, unlike her sister, has markings all over her body which makes it hard to find a handsome man who wants her as a wife. Even her own father feels put off by her fever-marks and treats her poorly because of them. Adelina, although flawed, embodies a true hero because she tries to take down the Inquisition to help the other Elite,cares for and loves her sister, and risks her life trying to save others.
Although Patria is concerned with the regime she isn’t on board with the revolution yet, unlike her sisters Minerva and Mate. While on the church retreat Patria watches a boy get shot in the back by guards. She is so stricken by his death that she feels like she has lost another child, “My stillborn of thirteen years ago. My murdered son of a few hours ago.” (162). Patria is so devastated by the loss of her “son” that she decides for herself that it is time to take action. The unforeseen murder prompts Patria to begin another metamorphosis. Because Patria is so pious and protective over her family it is not expected of her to take part in such a risky movement, but it is those same characteristics that give her the courage to resist the regime. The concern for the well being of her family and the involvement of the church in the revolution bring Patria to form her new conclusion: “Amen to the revolution” (164). Patria wants a better life for her family and she now sees that the only way to achieve this is through the revolution; she must make a sudden change which is similar to the quick transition of a caterpillar to a butterfly. After some convincing, Patria is able to persuade her husband Pedrito to allow revolutionaries to meet in their backyard and eventually turn their home into a rebel control center. Patria evolves from an innocent bystander to a
In conclusion Mirabella was thought of as the weakest link in the pack. Mirabella had done nothing to make herself to look as if she belonged with the pack. Mirabella did learn one thing it was when your sisters are in trouble you do something to help. Mirabella just wasn’t as normal as the other wolves. Jeanette saw her opportunity to take all the attention off of herself and take her failure and make Mirabella her scapegoat. When Jeanette’s back was up against the wall she made Mirabella her
...She brings his blood back into the city, thereby polluting all who come into contact with her. Her danger to the public represents the vile contaminated woman and Agave and her sisters must be exiled in order to keep order within Thebes. Their exile keeps them passive, with the male dominated elite finally back in control.
Novels such as “The Age of Innocence”(The Editors of), which discusses a “ picture of upper-class New York society in the 1870s” (The Editors of), strongly relates to Wharton and her background. “The Age of Innocence” is considered Wharton’s “finest work” (The Age Of). The novel is based off Newland Archer and May Welland’s troubled marriage. At first, the married couple live in harmony and joy, however this dramatically changes throughout the book. Once Newland meets “May's cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska, on the run from an unhappy marriage” (The Age of Innocence), Newland immediately falls in love. Society plays a major key role in this book. Therefore, Ellen cannot divorce her husband or make a public announcement of her feelings for Newland. As Newland’s feelings grow deeper for Ellen he feels a strong need to run away with her and live their life together. However, Newland knew that severe consequences would be upheld against him if he were to run away with Ellen. Such as, being disowned from his family. However, he never cared much about the consequences and put Ellen as his main focus. May is a sharp woman and figured out their feelings toward each other and as a result, the day they planned to leave was the day May announced her pregnancy with Newland. The book ends with May and Newland carrying on their unhappy marriage and kids while Ellen and Newland’s relationship is forever
“Life is what you make out of it: one can go through it and let things pass them by, or a person can actually go out and get what he or she wants in that life.” These are common words repeatedly embedded into my head by my father, as maybe the same from one of your parent’s. In the Time of the Butterflies is a book about sisters that fight to take their god-given right of freedom in the Dominican Republic. To win this freedom, the Mirabal sisters had to give up their safety, give up their childhoods, and give up their lives. Julia Alvarez, the author of the book, takes the readers through these sisters journey’s of fighting against their dictator Trujillo, and the many hardships while under this political oppression. It is evident in the book that some sisters had to be the leaders of the group and some had to be the followers. The Mirabel sister that is believed to be the leader and the strong one is Minerva. Minerva, although strong-willed, is still not as strong of an individual as she would like to believe she is.
From the role of the wily seductress, to the submissive housewife, to the raging warrior, women were a focal point of Ancient Greek works. Although they are often looked over and considered, the roles they played in their culture were undeniably important. Women may have been thought to have far less worth than a man, however, their undeniable power and influence in Greek society cannot be overlooked. The substantial position they held is verified in numerous texts of the era, including the works of Homer, Virgil, and Ovid.
An example of rising action is on page 102, when it says, “The message is, ‘Domovoi needs you.’” Juliet, Butler’s sister, who is almost as trained in martial arts as he is, knows that Butler would only reveal his name if he lay dying at Artemis’ side, or if it no longer mattered. Juliet, who is on the other side of the world, wants to get to her brother as soon a possible, as any loving, caring sibling would.
Beatrice is, without a doubt, one of the strongest female characters that Shakespeare ever came up with in his time of writing. Shakespeare shows, through Beatrice, how every woman should act in an era where only the men were even able to have control. In this era, or the renaissance time, no woman had free will; they were always told what they could and could not do, as well as, who they were to marry. In the play “Much Ado About Nothing” Beatrice has many qualities but the ones that stand out the most in the play are: her independence, her feistiness, and of course her openness to defy male subjection.
When we first begin Othello, we see the start of what we believe to be a beautiful marriage between Othello and Desdemona. However, at the end, we are faced with the tragic murder of Desdemona by her dear Othello, bringing this marriage to a gruesome end. We’re left with a sense of horror, sorrow, and bewilderment. How could this have happened? Why did Othello, how did Othello, go from a doting husband to a furious killer? The obvious answer is that Iago deceived him into thinking that Desdemona had been unfaithful to him. However, multiple factors contributed to this tragedy. One could say that Emelia is the pivotal point in the tragedy of Othello. It was due, in part, to her actions and motivations, as well as the jealousy that she caused in Iago, that Desdemona died.
The definition of Renaissance women is fundamentally important in William Shakespeare's play Othello. One of the major causes of Othello's tragedy is his belief that Desdemona is not chaste. According to the men of the Renaissance, chastity, silence, and obedience are three attributes that define Renaissance women. Although Othello takes place during the Renaissance, the women in the play, Bianca, Desdemona and Emilia, defy traditional norms by lacking at least one of the major attributes defining women; Bianca's lack of chastity is clearly displayed when she unlawfully sleeps with Cassio; Desdemona's lack of silence is clearly displayed when she constantly urges Othello to give Cassio's position back. However, in the last two acts, Emilia displays the strongest challenge to the definition of Renaissance women as silent, chaste, and obedient, mainly to defend Desdemona.
Adelina Amouteru, survivor of the blood fever, murderer of her father, ex-member of the Dagger Society, and ex-lover of a dead prince. For a girl who feeds off pain and fear, she has caused a lot for herself. From the death of her beloved prince, Enzo, the betrayal of her friends, Adelina is an outcast among the outcast, only that she is wanted dead by both sides. Unwilling to lay low, Adelina is ready to strike back, hurting all who ever dared to touch her, and cause misery for the rest.
Because this is a novel excerpt, I was in trouble figuring out what was happening in some moments. The beginning fascinated me when I found the hero is a killer. He was thrown a big trouble of this targeted girl. The previous failure task strengthened the trouble. I really wanted to know why he decided to help the girl, because the end of the mission scene is just he wanted to have a mix of business and pleasure. It is interesting that Alistair is a gambler and killer at the same time. He also gets drunk always, which doesn’t seem to be a quality killer should have. This could have very good explanations and development in the plot. I like it when the last mission is to kill his father. It was a little surprise.