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but their approach to that situation determines how it can all play out. For example, in The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, he was being raised by a heroine addict of a mother. After the mother was arrested, Mister took it upon himself to try and take care of both himself and Pete. Even though they were growing up in an area that was populated by drug dealers and their users, Mister wanted to make a better name for himself. He tried to help his mother by trying to convince her to stop,…

that proves that Lian Tanner focuses on revealing actions, inner thinking and dialogue to provide background information about the characters is (pg. 49) “ You should ask ‘im questions….The rat’s eyes gleamed Answers. No, Answers!” This shows that Mister Smoke is inconsiderate and bossy. The author does this by…

Celie, from The Color Purple comes from a poor family was auctioned off to Mister. He raped her on a daily basis. Throughout the story, Celie, grows and learns a new way of living. Celie starts writing to God about her atrocious life. Her faith in God helps her sustain Mister and the way he treats her. Mister terrified her when he said, “You better not never tell nobody but God. I’ll kill your mammy” (Purple). Shug Avery, Mister’s longtime…

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones and A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews are both novels focused on young girls going though traumatic situations. Matilda from Mister Pip is a young girl living on an island plaugued by a civil war. Matilda is a smart young woman whose imagination was stunted due to the conflict that surrounded her. These conflicts began a short list of trauma-induced mental illnesses which stunted her mental growth and changed her identity. Nomi from Miriam Toews book A Complicated…

simply choose to survive. Alice Walker uses this as a central theme in her book The Color Purple, and develops it through the main character, Celie. As a child, Celie was raped and abused by her stepfather, and was forced to marry a man she calls Mister, who turns out to be abusive. Her sister, Nettie, is the only source of happiness and love she has, but she quickly loses her when Nettie fights for her life and runs away from their abusive step-father. Throughout her life, Celie is faced with…

Garth Nix’s Mister Monday was not a good book in my opinion. The plot was pretty good at first but got boring, the characters were not as detailed as I would like them to be, but I did enjoy the setting, I wouldn’t recommend this book to people that have trouble following complicated plots. The plot had very little action and about 80% of it was planning the climax which I do not like at all, when the story just started I thought I was going to like it, it started off with Arthur Penhagligon…

“The Night Face Up” The third-person narrator had just been in a motorcycling accident and was rushed to the hospital thereafter to treat his injuries, but is kept in a ward with the other patients and develops a hospital phobia based on the description and interpretations of the smells and the treatment itself. He eventually dreams himself in a different time period of himself as part of the Motecas fighting against the Aztecs. It is implied where he may have died of a fever while being…

Robinson. Mister Ewell had held a constant grudge against Tom ever since the rape case, because he felt that although Tom was convicted, people were starting to look down on Mister Ewell himself. Thus, Mister Ewell vented his frustration on the people he held a grudge against. One of them especially, was Helen Robinson, widow of the late Tom Robinson. Just because she was related to Tom, Mister Ewell vented his anger on her by constantly harassing her and silently cursing at her. As Mister Link…

would have to be kept confidential from Mister Johnny, who was Celia’s husband. The reason for this is because Miss Celia wanted to impress her husband, by making him think she was the one making the fantastic meals, and doing a superb job at keeping house, when in reality, she was dreadful at both of those. So after a few months of employment, Mister Johnny eventually found out, but Miss Celia didn’t know. Now Minny needed to act like she was hiding from Mister Johnny, but not letting Miss…

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