Second, Gretchen portray this theme indirectly to the readers three different ways in the novel. Body II : For instance, Gretchen did not know the consequence of the Nut Goodie until Calvin was in jail, and she stop getting it from him: ‘ I'd decided to myself/ I was going home Monday and swallow the moth balls I'd hidden and when they found me in the morning I'd be dead … But when Sandy came up to me in the hall and give me a Nut Goodie and she said it was from Cal / I couldn't believe it, it was like a note from you coming out of the sky, telling me not to give up…’ ( West 222). Supporting paragraph II : When Cal wasn't in jail, and he use to give Gretchen the Nut Goodie everyday I feel her, and Cal didn't think much of the candy until Cal was lockup that she knew what the candy meant to her to Gretchen I feel that the Nut Goodie was like a sigh to Gretchen telling hearthstone hope was on the way until Cal went to jail. …show more content…
Body II : Furthermore, I feel Gretchen did not know the strong hold her father had on her until he was being in held in jail questioning: “ Gosh, Gretchen was so glad rose me I thought she was going to hug me, and I actually blinked when I saw her/ Wearing a light green sweater and plaid skirt, and with her hair cut short and all fixed up/… I hardly recognized her/ She looked kind of relaxed and happy, basically…” (West 221).
Supporting paragraph II : Before Gretchen dad was held in custody with the police Gretchen was introvert person because of the type of person her dad is, and her dad control every aspect of her life I do not feel Gretchen understand how much of her life was being held by her and and this paragraph show from another character's perspective of how Gretchen attitude, and her way of dress change after her dad did not have iron hand over her life
anymore. Body II: Of course, when Gretchen went Downtown Minneapolis: “ … She'd made up her mind/She started taking in everything around her like she felt safe/She pointed out things with some excitement.../ She stopped and looked at everything and picked up stuff like she never seen it before…” ( West 131-133). Supporting paragraph II: This quote describe how Gretchen felt without her strict orders that she follow daily. She also realized that disobeying her father’s orders is not always as bad as she think it is or that he tells her.
Connections Question- The author of Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns stated that she made Aunt Loma an unsympathetic character. Do you think she has been successful so far? Support your answer with examples from the text.
In Alice Walker’s, “Everyday Use” Dee is one of the daughters of Mama. Mama also has another daughter named Maggie, but she is portrayed not as smart as her sister Dee. When they were growing up Dee used to read to her sister and Mama. She used to read to them ever when they did not want her to. That showed how she was smarter than Maggie and after that Mama started treated them differently.
Abuse is a subject that should be considered important. There are about 960,000 abuse incidents reported annually. 85% of them are reported by women. The resting 15% are reported by men. In Fried Green Tomatoes, abuse is a recurring part of the book, Fannie Flagg does an admirable job in describing in detail the abuse incidents that happen throughout the book. Ruth is a character that receives abuse from her husband, she believes she deserves everything he does to her, even push her down the stairs. She finally takes the decision to escape from the abusive relationship she is in when her near death mother advices her to. Along the way characters develop some effects caused by abuse. People who suffer from abuse may develop fear, low self-esteem, or strength.
There is no doubt that Miss. Strangeworth is not an easy person to deal with, let alone live with, and although her character is fictional, there are many people with the same personality. We can tell quite easily that she is a very meticulous woman, with a lot of perfectionist tendencies, a few of which are to nitpick people’s lives and make sure that even the most minute detail is up to her standards. I know of someone with these attributes and as difficult as they are to deal with, with their list of requirements to be met and their eagle-eye for detail in even the smallest things, they mean the best, and are always trying to help, despite the possible repercussions.
In the short story The Devil and Tom Walker, written by Washington Irving, the protagonist Tom Walker, is characterized as being a negative man. This is demonstrated through Tom Walker being characterized as being meager, outspoken, fearless, greedy, stubborn, and unloving.
In the play, “Much Ado About Nothing”, love and romance play a major role throughout the play.It takes place in Messina. The play has a lot of characters that fall in love with each other. Besides romance and love there is a lot of jealousy in the play. Characters will have up and down moments throughout the book, but they will all get together at the end of the story. Many scenes in the play will be about characters making other characters fall in love by telling one another that one likes the other. The play is all about characters getting together and being happy.
Mania is an excessive enthusiasm or desire, typically with a negative intention, and that is what Roger Chillingworth suffered from. Throughout the novel, he goes out of his way to make the life of Arthur Dimmesdale awful. He tortures Dimmesdale from the inside out, psychologically outsmarting him at every turn. Chillingworth claims that Hester is the reason he has acted so awfully, but it is not common for others to agree with him. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Chillingworth’s deep desire for revenge is understandable, as he was a decent person before he found out about the affair, but then turned into a maniac in his quest to exact revenge on Dimmesdale.
Throughout the book The Good Earth written by Pearl S. Buck, it shows the evolvement of the main character Wang Lung and how owning or not owning land in the 1920s is affected by peasants in China. It also shows the struggles of a peasant’s life, going through poverty and what happens when wealth enters their lives. Owning land as a peasant is an important aspect of their living style, simply because they live off of what they are able to grow that season. They depend on their land for resources to provide for themselves and family; and also selling crops or trading crops in order to make money. The peasants of China exemplify how important their crops and land are to them throughout the whole book by showing love and compassion for them; but,
The Glass Castle is a novel that follows the life of a dysfunctional family from the perspective of Jeannette Walls, the third child of the Walls family. Throughout the stories, the readers see all the hardships the children face, as their lunatic parents do what they think is right. After reading the book, it seems to agree the quote “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands” by Anne Frank.
In the story “Peaches”, Reginald McKnight introduces his main characters, one being Marcus. Marcus is a good guy, but he is described in many different ways, due to his bad temper and immaturity level. Throughout the work, author Reginald McKnight takes great care to illustrate situations and describe feelings and personalities that many men experience. This way, even though Marcus is having trouble controlling himself around other people and arrogant at times, he still tries to be a better person for Rita and for himself. He does this by going out of the country to experience other cultures and enhance his morals. Although Marcus is strong and eager, he is actually an easily irascible, impatient, immature, manipulative, unstable man whose inexperience does not prepare him for the frequent mishaps in his life.
Media makes celebrities seem as if they live life facing no problems or hardships. In reality, they do not live a perfect life, but that characteristic of celebrities' life tends to go unseen. In Charles Dickens’s, A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens develops Mr. Lorry into a character where business engulfes his life. Mr. Lorry continually tries to suppress his emotions using many different strategies. Even though business is always Mr. Lorry’s top priority, he always has a special place in his heart for the people he cares about, the Manette’s. Through the use of characterization and dialogue, Charles Dickens uses Mr. Lorry to promote how humanity overrides one’s business side no matter how hard they try to suppress it.
The first aspect of Willy's character that affected his failure was his pride. Willy's pride caused him to in many situations make very poor and unethical decisions, that affected both himself and his family. An example of this is through the conversation between Willy and Charley “CHARLEY: ‘You want a job?’ WILLY: ‘I got a job, I told you that. [After a slight pause] What the hell are you offering me a job for?’ CHARLEY: ‘Don’t get insulted.’ WILLY: Don’t insult me.”(DOAS: pg x) Willy does not take the offer which is an obvious example of a poor decision. He makes this decision because he sees this generous whole hearted gesture as a kind of pitiful handout that his pride restricts him from taking. By not taking this handout willy puts his self pride infront of
In contrast, syntax provides a new perspective to the narrator s behavior as sentence structure draws attention to her erratic behavior. By her last entry, the narrator s sentences have become short and simple. Paragraphs 227 through 238 contain few adjectives resulting in limited descriptions yet her short sentences emphasize her actions providing plenty of imagery. The syntax quickly pulls the reader through the end as the narrator reaches an end to her madness.
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“In moments of pain, we seek revenge”. This quote is something that does happen in certain events that humans go thru and it can influence a person to do things that they would never even think of doing. In certain cases regular people would actually kill someone because revenge seems to take over their mind. In the book A Necessary Evil, revenge is seen as a driving force in all the characters. Like the quote says, humans always feel the need for revenge when they are feeling pain. It is first seen in Michael Grey, when his wife is murdered and the man who killed her isn’t convicted, he feels an enormous sense for revenge. After hiring a hitman by the name Butch, Michael Grey regrets making his decision and decides to not pay butch the final