Both Valerie and Josie create a public persona that allow them to fit into a clique at school, and feed their desire to be loved. These groups give the girls a superficial sense of love that has the possibility to satisfy their desire for love. For Josie, she desires to be loved by the masses. Her public persona is that of the perfect girl which allows her to befriend the group highest in the social order. Subsequently, Josie gains the love and admiration of those below her who want to be like her. Additionally, Josie’s public persona gets her love from Matt. Nevertheless, Josie does not feel loved because she knows that her friends do not love her, rather they love the fake persona she creates. Like Josie, Valerie desires to be loved. In order
In order to be a hero, one must be courageous. Some people that are heroes are Susan B. Anthony and Harriet Tubman.
When Marie tries to ask the protagonist to take a walk, this action shows that she is trying to achieve Pauline’s dream by getting her outside of the house. Therefore, she could finally feel the true meaning of freedom. Nevertheless, Pauline’s mother’s response demonstrates that she wants her daughter’s safety more than anything. The mother tries to keep Pauline away from the danger, so the protagonist can at last have a healthier life. However, Agathe’s reply shows that her mother is willing to sacrifice Pauline’s dream to keep her secure. Therefore, the author uses contrasting characters to mention that safety is more valuable. Furthermore, the protagonist starts to describe Tante Marie and reveals that she always has her hair “around her shoulder” (85). When Pauline describes Marie, Pauline shows how her Tante is open-minded. In fact, Marie helps Pauline to let go of her limitations and to get a taste of her dream. Therefore, Marie always wants Pauline to go outside and play hockey or even to take a walk. These actions that Pauline’s Tante takes show how she is determinate to make Pauline’s dream come true. Thus, the author
Jeanne and Elie have many similarities and differences. Not only did they both go through the same thing, but they also went through some very different experiences. Jeanna and Elie were around the same age and their emotions were somewhat different because of the different experiences.
...approval by their family and the people around are considered as the most common trend between teenagers around the world and are used throughout the novel. Josephine was first introduced to the reading knowing that she was unsure of her identity and how she was searching for acceptance from her grandmother due to her illegitimacy. Marchetta created Josephine’s characteristic as one that the readers can truly understand and allow them to be able to feel a connection and a relation between the characters in the novel and themselves; it can make them realize that this is a social issues that each generation of teenagers face on a daily basis. The characters in the novel accompanied by the themes such as stereotypes and social statuses supported the author’s idea of creating a novel in which comment on the social issues and reflect reality within the novel.
Her father works out of town and does not seem to be involved in his daughters lives as much. Her older sister, who works at the school, is nothing but plain Jane. Connie’s mother, who did nothing nag at her, to Connie, her mother’s words were nothing but jealousy from the beauty she had once had. The only thing Connie seems to enjoy is going out with her best friend to the mall, at times even sneaking into a drive-in restaurant across the road. Connie has two sides to herself, a version her family sees and a version everyone else sees.
Marcus’ actions continually demonstrate how confident he is. Whether he is next door or across the country, Marcus always has his eyes set out for Rita because he sees her as _______. While, he claims “I have had relationships with Black women and Hispanic women, and Asian women” (75), thinking his experiences with other women instantly make him capable of understanding Rita. Because of ______, Marcus thinks such an understanding of Rita would be ________. He is so eager to be with her that he fails to see her as an individual. To Marcus, past experiences are enough to sustain a healthy relationship. According to Marcus, he had “been through this before” (75) and told Rita she could tell him anything, thinking it had to do with a cultural gap. In fact, Marcus said to Rita, “You can tell me. I think I’d understand” (75). [What is he referring to here?] His confidence paired with his need for Rita’s recognition and approval makes it appear that his confidenc...
She is constantly used as weapon between her divorced parents to hurt each other. She is a victim of peer pressure and is afraid to stand up for herself. The snobby and self- centered girl is also seemingly insecure. Claire says, “I don't know, I don't... you don't understand, you don't. You're not friends with the same kind of people that Andy and I are friends with! You know, you just don't understand the pressure that they can put on you!” Claire believes that the only way she will be liked is if she is the artificial, “It Girl,” who has rich parents, is the prom queen, popular, and has a pretty
Continuing, Laura betrayals love in her life, by rejecting all men who intend to reach for her heart. “B...
Regina George is a junior in high school who is described as teen royalty. As the leader of her clique referred to as “The Plastics”, she rules the school with her best friends Gretchen Weiners and Karen Smith loyally at her side. The three girls feed off of tearing the other girls in the school down and diminishing them by writing awful rumors and secrets in the “Burn Book”. With her tall and skinny physique, bright blonde hair and good-looks, she uses her sex appeal and superiority to manipulate and victimize the people around her including her family. Regina easily controls her family members. Her mother worships the ground Regina walks on and desperately looks to her for acceptance. Her ability to make other girls at school feel inferior fuels her power, as queen bee Regina is seen as the “it” girl. Everyone wants to look like her, dress like her, and be just like her. She uses her sex appeal to get any guy she wants and dangles them around everyone else to make them jealous.
Caroline is an interesting character because of an illness that she has had since birth. Her identity has been influenced by her kidney disease as she hasn’t known anything else. It has made her a strong, fearless, yet vulnerable person that has stopped caring about life. Carolines societal impact has also been influenced due to her inability to go to school after her illness worsened. This essay will discuss how Caroline’s societal impact and identity are affected by her disease, social media, as well as, how they were changed by her relationship with Anthony.
Tracy’s identity development is heavily influenced by her new friendship with Evie from that moment on. Evie is so popular, but she makes very poor choices and Tracy follows her lead because she wants to seem just as “cool” as her new companion. This is a type of peer pressure that affects many teenagers daily.... ... middle of paper ... ...
His sister, Olivia, has a hard time too because she wants to have a “normal’ teenager school year without having to deal with people gossiping about her brother's condition. Olivia and her mom are arguing about why olivia didn't invite her parents to see the play at school. Olivia is annoyed and doesn't want to feel ashamed for having a uniquely built brother in her school life because she knows if she had invited them to the play they would have brought august and started conflicts. August overhears them and feels that it's his fault his family goes through what they did and tells them he knows what's going on and it's his fault for being “ugly”. He even says in the book “you're both lying to my face like i'm a idiot… you (Olivia) don't want your brand- new fancy high school friends to knows your brother is a freak…”, This quote is showing how his mom tries to deny what he heard but he knows what he heard. Olivia also feels awful about what she said about her little brother but she had to tell her mother how she felt. August can see from that argument between his family that his mother keeps things from him and he doesn't appreciate that also he finds out that Olivia goes through a lot having an intimidating looking brother and having to be
R2:1 ev EX This shows that Olivia(Via) doesnt complain that August is the center of attention.R2:2 EV Olivia(Via)doesnt tell parents about school work for example homework or school projects.R2:2 ev EX This tells us that Olivia(Via) can be selfless and invisible.R2:3 EVOlivia(Via) mom and dad don’t worry as much as they do about August to via for example when via stayed home because she felt sick her mum stayed with her and took care of her but then August did not feel good and she became August mom.R2:3 ev EX This explains ’s that Olivia(Via) does not complain about August being the center of attention.R2 These our my pieces of evidence for my reason Olivia(Via) doesn't complain when august is the center of
Projective identification was evident with Chloe in which I was a representation of her internal parents. I felt repulsed by Chloe and in a sense she was unlovable to me. Interestingly, Chloe felt unlovable by her own parents who were taking drugs whilst she was in-uterus, and also by her stepdad who had only kidnapped Chloe’s little brother and not her. In Chloe’s eyes, she wasn’t worth being kidnapped.
“And yet she had loved him – sometimes. Often, she had not” (par 15). This “sometimes” love is confusing at best. In a loving relationship, you love the other person even when times are tough. So, the love Louise had for her husband seems to never have existed. “What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!” (par 15). Here self-assertion, the expression of oneself, overshadows any emotion she ever felt towards her husband. The sensation of who she was, who she is, and who she can be is the even stronger than the “unsolved mystery” of love (par