Scarlett

took me some time to figure out how I fit into the history of slavery, or if I fit into it at all. As I began reading the assigned books and watching the assigned movies I still didn’t feel the connection, until we got to ‘Gone with the Wind’. This movie about the south in one of its darkest hours spoke to me, I had finally found someone to relate with. Scarlett O’Hara was that character, her authoritarian, overbearing, headstrong and audacious personality made me look at white women during the civil war and reconstruction in a new way. My interest with Scarlett is less about her story line and more about her personality, determination and where it comes from during a time period where women tended to not be as self successful or as persistent and how it reflects on my personal experience of a modern women . As a character we first…

a career propels individuals forward in life by giving them a reason to succeed. However, this love may cause some people to become so obsessed that they lose sight of what transpires as truly important to them in life. Different types of love, such as romantic, family, and career, blind people from seeing clearly in life, and being able to obtain their goals and true purpose. Love for significant others acts as one of the most powerful forces in the world - so powerful that it can defer people…

1. Summary: The film Gone with the Wind starts before the outbreak of the American Civil War, Scarlett lives at Tara with her parents and two sisters. She finds out Ashley, the man she loves, is engaged to Melanie. She decides to reveal her feeling to him in private, but he rejects her by pointing out their incompatibility. To her surprise, there is a third person present, Rhett Butler, who have heard all the conversation between them and her confession to him. Scarlett is irritated and starts…

Title If someone was ridiculed about a sin what would everyone’s reactions be? The Scarlett Letter” was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 1840’s. It was written in Salem and Concord Massachusetts. The setting of this story is in Boston in the middle 17th century. It is full of sin, lies, and suspense. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne uses the symbols of light and dark to depict good and evil among the characters Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. Hester Prynne is a…

In Touching Spirit Bear, I think Cole Matthews has character traits similar to those of a bear. One similar trait I noticed is how dangerous a bear and Cole can be. At first sight you would think that a bear is the most dangerous and violent creature to inhabit it a forest. It’s the same concept with Cole. People see him and are frightened because of his mean, gruff looking appearance. In Touching Spirit Bear, page 7, chapter 1, the narrator states, “Still, no one ratted on Cole Matthews…

Scarlett O’Hara Many scholars argue that Scarlett O’Hara, the main character of Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone with the Wind, is a true representation of a feminist character. At the beginning of the novel, Scarlett marries a man on a whim to make another man jealous. On their first night together as husband and wife, she refuses to share the same bed as him. J.M. Spanbauer explains that this is a feminist way of thinking. Spanbauer states, “throughout the novel, Scarlett contemptuously…

Guilt is a difficult emotion for anyone to bear. It creates a feeling of being ashamed and feeling like others have been let down. Making mistakes is part of being human, but in order to relieve oneself from the guilt, one must confess their sin and guilt to get a clear conscience. In the Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester was more able to deal with her sin than Dimmesdale because she confessed her sin publicly right away, she had Pearl to keep her sane, and she did not have to live…

5 years later...Cole still lives on the island. He’s there because the island is the only place where he can contain his anger. Peter lives in Minnesota with his parents. Peter sometimes come to visit Cole like once a month. They became more like best friends over time. Till this day Cole stills carves totems. Being on the island really helps Cole with his anger. Cole now knows how to handle with his anger. Cole have many different carved totems. Cole now have a carving of the spirit bear. Ever…

Cole Matthews is a young boy who lives in Minneapolis. He struggles with anger issues, when he would get upset he would express how he felt in violent ways. One day Cole decided to steal from a department store and told people at his school. A boy named Peter told the police what Cole did,in result Cole got in trouble yet again. Cole was extremely mad at peter because he told and therefore Cole decided to beat up peter,causing injuries that were severe. Cole did not want to go to jail,he had…

Priscilla Juarez 1/08/2015 Ms.Jenson Touching Spirit Bear In the beginning of the book Cole Matthews a fifteen year old from Minneapolis, Minnesota arrives in Southeast Alaska in handcuffs. Cole agrees to stay on a neglected island in Alaska all alone for a year to avoid jail time in Minneapolis. Accompanied by Two Native Americans from the Tlingit tribe; one named Garvey, a parole officer, and the other named Edwin, a quiet elder who helped arranged Cole’s banishment. Edwin was the one who…