On the story “so I ain’t no good girl” by Sharon Flake, the main character is a young black female that attends high school. She is one of the main protagonists of the story. This character is either hated or loved by certain audiences due to her actions or background information. I will discuss about this character later in the story and our thesis is “did the author, Sharon, explain the characteristics of the protagonist?”…
Leonardo’s Shadow takes place in the city of Milan that was a major city in the Renaissance in which the book’s time period is in (1497). In Milan, lives Leonardo da Vinci, who is a famous painting and is expected to paint the Last Supper for the duke (Ludovico Sforza) and church. The main character in the book is Giacomo, who is Leonardo’s servant. This book is about a boy named Giacomo who lost all of his memories and is the servant of Leonardo da Vinci.…
Set, in part, in the tiny town of Tularosa, New Mexico, Tularosa by Michael McGarrity is a story of muder, mystery, history, and culture. Kevin Kerney, an injured, ex-chief of detectives for the Santa Fe police department, must come out of retirement when his godson, Sammy Yazzi, a Navajo, Native American soldier, goes missing from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. As the story unfolds, Kerney must dig deep into stories from his own past, as well as stories of the native people of the region to find Sammy. What he discovers, though, besides Sammy 's body is a ring of smugglers and their operation to carry pieces of United States history out of the country to sell in the black market. Throughout his first novel, McGarrity, while telling…
He shows strong loyalty for his country. He hears the growing concern of a "monster" terrorizing the waters and destroying ships. He is asked to help. Conceived as a man who puts reason before his personal…
Midterm Report Imagine being in a situation where you are undecided but feel an intense pressure to come up a decision. Moreover, that decision is pertaining to family and the cultural values within. When being a Chicano you face obstacles like no other person because you live in the middle of two different cultures. Throughout the novel “Bless me, Ultima” the main focus is moral independence.…
George Milton, a character from the book “Of Mice of Men” who in my opinion is a hero archetype. The hero archetype is a character who battles evil and helps the nature of good. He fits this archetype well because throughout the whole book he helps Lennie and kinda tries to lead him to the right path. He watches over Lennie and tries to keep him out of trouble. I choose this character because he seemed nice and different than other characters.…
During the fire she was trapped in the building but was ultimately saved by Tasuku. Her rescue is what drove her to want Tasuku’s attention and before he left for America the two dated. Having found a solid relationship Mamimi abandoned Firestarter and instead invested herself in Tasuku, this made his departure even harder on her than Naota. It was Tasuku’s abandonment that drew Mamimi and Naota together as they both found comfort within each other. However to Mamimi Naota is nothing more than a placeholder for Tasuku, this is clearly seen by how Mamimi refers to Naota as “Takkun” Tasuku’s nickname.…
Flaws are common in the human race. Attempts to fix these flaws by both outside pressures and by internal forces provides the basis of many literary works. One of these stories, occurring when the central character was in the fifth grade, is entitled “Go Carolina” and chronicles David Sedaris’s attempts to thwart his speech therapy teacher as she endeavors to correct his lisp. The first person point of view in David Sedaris’s “Go Carolina” expresses the theme that pointing out a person 's problem may only cause furthered efforts to hide it through the plot, the thoughts of the central character, and the characterization of Miss Samson. Miss Samson is painted as an antagonist due to the first person point of view, which furthers the theme…
So may I ask u this is Sammy a heroic character in this story defending 3 women? Or was Sammy acting in selfishness so he could get one of the women to date him? Sammy worked at the A+P store under the management of Lingle. Was Sammy being heroic? I think yes because he defended the women when Lingle was criticizing.…
How can you find serenity in life? Searching for peace can be a difficult task when everything around you relates to violence. In Williams Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning”, Sartoris Snopes is constantly overwhelmed by fear, agony, and despair because of his father’s practices of violence not only against his family but also the law when burning the barns. Peace is essential for human development; it gives a sense of tranquility and seclusion from oppression. Throughout the story Sarty deals with his father’s brutality, ignorance, and misconception of power which makes him realize that his father is not someone he is proud of.…
Did you know, that most of stories will have a protagonist and an antagonist. Their purpose is to express the goals of the main characters in a particular story. Based on, in “Godfather Death” by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, and “A & P” by John Updike, both stories have protagonists and antagonists. In the case of Godfather Death, there were two main characters, the Doctor, and the Death both played big roles in the story as protagonists. The Doctor had to follow Death’s conditions.…
A Raisin in the Sun is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted March 11, 1959. The play is written about a family that is living in Chicago in the midst of predudism and are barely holding on. From start to finish we see the characters change not by choice but because they realized they had to. The genre of the play is definitely a tragedy that ends with a turn of events to create a happy ending. The tone of the play is not consistent for the most part.…
The ability to distinguish a good person from an evil person is usually a simple task. Although in most literary works, it can be more difficult to differentiate between the two. In society people are quick to draw a line between good and evil but as people grow and face new experiences that line can become blurred and morals and values begin to change. In the novel, Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov can be branded as a morally ambiguous character. Raskolnikov can be viewed as morally ambiguous because he is portrayed as if he has two different personalities.…
The True Villain: Lady Macbeth “I like villains because there is something so attractive about a committed person. They have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They are motivated." (Russell Crowe). From the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, the character Lady Macbeth can be directly related to the quote.…
Tartuffe is a great example of someone willing to do whatever it takes to get what they want. They are the people who are willing to completely destroy other people's lives so that they can be ahead. Tartuffe is an example of how such greed and ignorance was used against people listening to a sermon in a church. It could be said that Wall Street bankers are a near perfect example of someone possessing those characteristics today. There are many more ways that people have infiltrated our lives and manipulated the truth while we put our full trust into them.…