His best friend Carl came up with the idea to enroll in the Federal Armed Services. Since Johnnie and Carl were inseparable it was only natural for him to enroll. This action lets me know that Johnnie is an Extravert. He enjoys making decisions with others according to the myers-briggs type. In chapter 4 when Johnny goes to basic training new side of his personality…
He learns that it is better to forgive someone and become friends with them, than it is to hate them for the rest of your life. Johnny also learned that it is super important to have friends that you can count on. You need good friends that you can count on because if you are there when they need you, then they will be there for you when they need you, then they will be there when you need them. One other thing they can teach you is the good things and the bad things in…
Johnny Cade is no ordinary boy. At the start of the book, one can tell that Johnny is very timid to speak and stand up for himself. However, throughout the first few chapters of the novel, one can see that Johnny is gradually drifting away from his comfort zone. One can recall from chapter two, Pony, Dally, and Johnny, went to the Nightly Double to watch a movie.…
Despite being a woman in the 1930s, Curley’s wife possessed power over others on the ranch, primarily because her husband was the boss’s son. Although the men often thought that she was ineffectual, she ascertained to quickly prove them wrong. For example, when talking to Crooks she was very straightforward with her authority: “Well you keep your place then, ni**er. I could get you strung up on a tree so fast it ain’t even funny”(81). Even though she would not be the one to actually pursue that threat, she knew how to use her words to get somebody else to.…
“Maybe the two different worlds we live in aren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.” (Hinton 41) In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy is the main character. Even though Ponyboy shows many signs of a possibility of being a Soc, he is apart of the poorer class, the greasers.…
“Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.” (Warren Bennis). All around the world whether it was hundred years ago or current times our society consistently has individuals on the top of the hierarchy ladder. The job of having to guiding others in a pragmatic manner can be heavily weighted on one’s shoulders. Varying from deciding the fate of their society, to just advising an individual are examples of events branded in a leader’s daily routine.…
In A Raisin in the Sun, Walter’s family has the largest impact on the man he is at the end of the play. Although they don’t seem to connect much, Ruth has an impact on the man Walter becomes. Throughout the play it is clear that Ruth understands and respects Walters faults especially at this low point in his life. She allows him to feel more like a man by not arguing with him or raising her voice at him no matter how much he is upsetting her. This is clear when she finds out about the baby on the way.…
Proctors Perfect Personality What makes a character admirable? To answer this, we must first define admirability. To be admirable, you must possess traits and qualities that earn you respect and honor in the eyes of others. The Crucible has many admirable characters, but the most admirable would have to be John Proctor. John shows many flashes of honesty, bravery, and self respect.…
In high school, Susan had always been a slacker as a popular girl she never had many people depending on her as she depended on people. Until a group project, she had a project which would account for half of her grade in class and each student in the group had sections to finish, on their own. For the first time in her life others depended on her to finish her part of the project or she would be accountable for the other people’s poor grade in the class and she can not handle the pressure. Susan’s group project illustrates that many people depend on others in everyday life to do certain tasks small and big. This emphasizes the same feelings that Snowman has when he is depended on to help the Crakers.…
Brian and I also found a way to accept who we are and founded confidence in ourselves. At the end of the movie The Breakfast Club, it is noticeable the difference in how Brian was at the beginning when he was shy, and not confident of himself and at the end when he could accept who he was and be proud. For me it didn’t happen from one hour to another but with time, and a lot of pep-talks to myself, I could respect myself for who I am and not give to cents what others told me. This new founded confidence in myself not only help me become stronger mentally, but it also gave me a re-new determination to want to make me feel good on the outside as I was feeling in the inside. I begin to lose weight, and take time to myself.…
John Steinbeck was an author during the Great Depression. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck writes about two friends During the Great Depression, and their interactions with people on a ranch where they work, near Soledad, California. In his novel, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses the characters Candy, Curley’s wife, and Crooks to show that people will go to extreme measures to escape loneliness. First, Steinbeck uses Candy to show how people will go to extreme measures to escape loneliness. Candy is a very old man with one hand.…
Leonard, the main character in the movie Memento, finds himself in a situation no man wants to be in. His wife was murdered and because he witnessed his body goes into shock causing him to lose him memory which is his downfall throughout the movie. He keeps polaroids and tattoos of clues that will lead him to his wife’s murder so that he won’t forget them. Throughout the movie it shows Leonard waking up in a hotel room. The film genre that best fits this film is Detective but also mystery and thriller.…
To begin with Jean is shown being mistreated by society in many different ways throughout the story. As the story said, Jean Valjean is an ex-convict who was in originally for 19 years and then for life. He escaped to live with cosette and no one knew his identity. When Jean Valjean is in some bad times he realizes that his life was not very good. Jean says “This world which had always hated me/ Take and eye for an eye” (Kretzmer “Jean Valjean’s Soliloquy” 29-30).…
His personality stands out as the gentle one of the gang, but he “was a good fighter and could play it cool, but he was sensitive and that isn't a good way to be when you're a greaser” (88). Ponyboy knows that Johnny could fight if he needed but Johnny says “fighting’s no good. . . .” (148). He believes that fighting does not answer the problems the greasers and the Socs have. Before Johnny died he wrote a note in Gone With the Wind and left the book for Ponyboy.…
Atticus Finch is one of the most influential characters in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Atticus works as a lawyer and is the father of Jem, and Scout, the main character of the novel. According to the narrator, Atticus’s wife died when Jem and Scout were very young (Lee 7). Ever since her death, Atticus relies on Calpurnia, the Finch family’s black housekeeper and cook, to help him raise his children. Atticus Finch is well respected by most folks in Maycomb and is probably the only character in the whole novel who isn’t prejudice.…