The Fifth Child

Protagonists: Harriet Lovatt- Wife of David Lovatt & mother to Luke, Helen, Jane, Paul, and Ben. Ben Lovatt- Fifth child of Harriet & David Lovatt and born with issues and different than the other children. Antagonists: David Lovatt- Husband of Harriet & father of Luke, Helen, Jane, Paul, and Ben. He dislikes Ben. Deborah Lovatt- David’s sister James Lovatt- David & Deborah Lovatt’s father. He pays for most finances for David and Harriet. Molly- David and Deborah Lovatt’s mother. Dorothy- Harriet, Sarah, & Angela’s mother and helps out Harriet with the children. Plot Summary: The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing is set in the late nineteen-sixty’s and early nineteen-seventy’s. The story is about the fifth child that Harriet and David Lovatt give…

The Fifth Child Notes Pages 1-10: ● Harriet and David met at an office party at which both of them were the odd ones out. They were seen in a different light than the rest, “conservative”, “old-fashioned”, “obsolescent”, “timid, hard to please”. (Pg 3) ● The office party was held because it was the end of the year. It was comprised of two hundred people crammed into a room each from one of three firms that all have to do with putting up buildings. ● Women were dressed extravagantly and…

Nature leaves me in complete and utter awe. The ability to frighten, calm and excite men and women at all levels amazes me. I think in every person, nature seems to have affected him or her in one way or another. Nature has allowed me to escape from the buzzing chaos of a large family lifestyle. I take my place as the fifth child of my parents. Being the fifth child also means I am the oldest girl and am in the very middle of nine kids. Business and echoing voices are constant at my house. I…

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do” (Voltaire). Dunstan Ramsay from Robertson Davies’s Fifth Business life revolves around his inner guilt by impacting his decisions, actions and his relations to others. Dunstan lives his whole with the guilt of the destruction of an innocent family. Ever since he decided to be smart and dodge the snowball that was meant for the back of his head but instead hitting an innocent pregnant lady Mrs.Dempster, he was linked to that family for life…

start realizing what the problems was. I found out my father had a learning disability and he dropped out at an early age. And t I think that my mother feel the same way about me. I use to wonder why she was always hard on me about school. So after my mother held me back when I got to the fourth grade I had the opportunity to skip the fifth grade, and when that chance came I took it because I always wanted to be in my right grade, but by skipping the fifth grade I missed out on a lot of things.…

The Case for Fifth Grade Band Beginning band is an amazing experience for all those involved in the process. From the students, new parents, and eager staff, the learning atmosphere of a beginning band classroom is one full of excitement. But the landscape of music education and education in general is a constantly shifting sea of sand. Band programs and their directors face interesting challenges within the 21st century. However there remain some constants. One universal challenge tackled…

Natural selection is the favouring of specific traits in an environment. Organisms able to adapt, or who are born with favoured traits, have a better chance of survival over others. In Robertson Davies’ Fifth Business, the main characters model the process of natural selection. When Dunstan Ramsay is reborn after the war, he is better suited to the environment of Deptford. Paul Dempster faces many challenges in Deptford. The reason he survives is because he moves into an environment that better…

An Outsider “I wish you could see all the pain and emotion that is built up inside me.” My school and social life was very different in elementary school than how it is now. Back to kindergarten all throughout elementary and a bit of 6th grade, I was in so much emotional pain. I wasn’t happy with my appearance or body, I would always put myself down, had zero confidence in myself and hated who I was. There was a point where I believed everyone who left me out, and made fun of me. I believed…

the playground with a kid I had never talked to before. All my life I had been very outdoorsy and absolutely loved playing outside. Being on the playground was where I was happiest. As I grew up and moved to two different schools from fourth to sixth grade, I had begun to lose my outgoing personality. I became shyer and was less likely to start new conversations with new people since I was out of my comfort zone. By sixth grade however, I had been at Shadow Hills Elementary for about a year…

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