The Joads sacrificing and persevering more than the rest of the migrants, the Joads have gone further than most migrants. Ma Joad is an important aspect of the whole Joad family. Showing grit and leadership, Ma Joad doesn’t give up when the family is in harsh times, pushing the Joads to their full potential. Her grit shows by the time Granma Joad passes. Obtaining her leadership, Ma Joad sticks up to the officer as he denounces her family as “Okies”.…
First, throughout the whole story Zaroff can be characterized as confident. The first reason he can be called confident is that he gives his prey a three-hour head start. Zaroff says, “I give him a three hours’ start. ”(Connell 50). This shows that Zaroff is confident because he is sure that if he lets the get a three-hour head start that he can still catch them and find them.…
Often, authors use literature as a way to explain a concept or subject that one may not have witnessed themselves. In the novel, "Under The Persimmon Tree", Suzanne Fisher Staples writes a historical fiction story about two main characters, Najmah and Nusrat. During the novel, Staples gives countless examples of what life would feel like to be under the control of the Taliban, an Islamic terrorist group. Najmah is a young girl who lives in the Kunduz Province, Northern Afghanistan. Najmah faces several conflicts right from the beginning of the book.…
Life As An All-Star Yogi Berra was one of the best baseball Hall of Fame catchers of all time. I am going to tell you how great of a husband, father, and baseball player he really was during his 90 years of living in St. Louis Missouri with his wife, Carmen Berra and their three children, Dale, Tim, and Larry. Yogi Berra was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1925. One of the quotes that he came up with was, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” The sayings and quotes that Yogi Berra came up with are known as “Yogi-isms.”…
“Black women, therefore, were in a double hand. They could expect neither gender solidarity from white women nor racial solidarity from black men…” In this quote, Tyson explains Janie’s struggles as an African-American woman in that place and during that time. All troubles aside, Janie felt natural and free with Tea Cake. He may have been crazy but she felt a sense of safety around him.…
Atticus is a lawyer who helps a colored man in a case his name is Tom Robinson he knows that he should at least try to help. In the story, Lee shows readers how Atticus thinks about other people and that he stands up for what he believes when she wrote, “‘Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win’” (Lee 101). The quote tells us that Atticus is not going to give up the fight and that he is going to take every chance he can to win the battles he wants and to stand for what he believes. Harper Lee wrote this to show that Atticus even though his and Tom Robinson's differences he would still try to win a battle even though he knows that he still might lose but it's always worth a try.…
Boxer is a loyal,strong horse who doesn’t question the leaders or government. He doesn’t complain, is constantly working, and is an optimist. “He had been a hard worker even in Jones’s time, but now he seemed more like three horses than one” (pg.29). On the other hand, Benjamin is a cynic,pessimistic donkey. He watches what is happening, but doesn’t get caught up in it.…
Alongside with courage, Melba demonstrates that she is determined. "I don't know if I should go back. But grandma is right, if I don't go back, they will think they have won," (Beals 42). Here she demonstrates that she is determined and wants to prove that she is not a quitter and will not make the people against integration happy. Melba knows that if she give those people against integration that happiness, they will think that they will always be in charge and her people will have to obey them.…
“For you a thousand times over” says Amir, to the son of his former servant, after he has redeemed himself for all of his actions. Amir is a man who finds courage through correcting his wrong doings by making new valuable decisions. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, expresses how lies can change someone’s life and how one man finds redemption through doing good. Upon doing good there are also many other ways that redemption must be found, through long apologies, taking on great responsibilities, and finding ways to become closer to God. Amir has found redemption through doing what is beneficial to others in his life.…
Throughout Indian Killer, John is searching for the "right" white man to kill. As narrated in the third chapter " John knew he could kill a white man, but he was not sure which white man was responsible for everything that had gone wrong... Which white man had done the most harm to the world?" (27).…
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life,” was once stated by a man who refused to mold himself into something the government and “white man” wanted him to be, Muhammad Ali. This hero, who was born as Cassuis Clay on January 17, 1942 was a professional boxer and activist. Ali contributed to the desegregation of blacks and Muslim followers through his strength and courage. He believed that Muslims should be accepted and given the same respect as other religions. Muhammad Ali was determined to prove to the whole world that blacks are bigger than what the “white man” says.…
Link Character Type: Round Link is a character in the book Warriors Don’t Cry. He only was introduced at the end of the book, but we can see the amount of layers in him already. In Chapter 15, on pg. 177, Melba thinks about how, “Each time I passed Link in the hallway, he winked at me. It was the one kind gesture in a morning filled with hellish activity. In the days that followed, every time I saw Link, he acknowledged me in some way.”…
They're the best of the best, exemplifying all the courage and nobility and genius and hard work and modesty and ambition and humility and grace that can be displayed in modern American sports. They're the ones we really want to be like when the going gets tough, they're the ones we want to show our sons and daughters and say, "See? See?" They all had flaws, we know -- they were, despite some signs to the contrary, human. And they're Page 2's greatest sports heroes of all time.…
One day I was eating dinner with my mom at her work, and a group of two walked in. They did not look special or important they looked like normal people, but sooner or later people started to get up out of there seats and asking for the women's autograph and taking pictures with her. Soon i noticed that she was someone i’ve seen before but could not figure it out. As me and my mom were leaving and the couple was gone it finally hit me that it was the actor who plays wonder woman. I was so shocked because she did not look like anyone who was important or famous.…
Sayings, are sets of words that have powerful meaning and they either tell an advice or a meaningful story. Sayings are spread all around the world and each culture has their own sayings, however, there are some sayings that are found the same in many different cultures. An, interesting saying that I found in my culture goes like that “الوقت كالسيف ان ام تقطعه قطعك” ,and that mean that time is like a sword, if you don’t cross it, it will cross you. Moreover, this saying has been passed for generation, which made it have a vague history. What I mean about unclear history of the saying is that people in my culture don’t know for sure who said it or in what situation it was said.…