How many people hide their true identity and when do they show their true selves?
As a person faces tough times, they express themselves differently than how they express normally and examples are shown in The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver , Mexican Whiteboy by Matt Pena, and The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson. Adversity tends to reveal a person’s true character like the emotions they keep hidden,the change to behavior and the acceptance of revelation.
People often express part of their personality and when adversity strikes their true character is revealed. In the book The Bean Trees, Taylor is on a journey to discover new things by traveling that is until a baby, later named Turtle, was handed to her. In chapter 5, Taylor is looking …show more content…
In Mexican Whiteboy, two teenage boys(Danny and Uno) that lack and long for their fathers would do almost anything to be with them and as their friendship develops they both make some sort of pact that they will both will somehow be with their fathers. In chapter 3, although Danny knows that he is shy, and doesn’t have that many, or any, friends he is at the park with his cousin Sofia and her friends. Danny hopes and thinks, “Wonders if any of them will be his friends this summer—though it’s pretty tough to make friends now that he doesn’t talk so much”(Peña ch.3).Danny admits that he is shy and that is hard for him to make new friends because that is the way he is but still he hopes that he will make some friends. Eventually along the journey for the search for their father and their love Danny finds out that his father is in jail, and Uno encourages Danny to go see him also as he would be there with him whenever he needed him. Danny thinks and then responds to Uno saying, “Over the last couple days he’s decided that maybe he’s okay without his dad. Maybe he can make it on his own. Even when bad things happen. But on the other hand, he’s still curious. He picks up a rock by one of his Vans and looks at Uno. ‘“I wanna go”’(Peña ch.30). As Danny is going through a tough time he finds himself confiding to those who are close to him,especially Uno, telling them
As a person faces tough times, they express themselves differently than how they express normally and examples are shown in The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver , Mexican Whiteboy by Matt Pena, and The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson. Adversity tends to reveal a person’s true character like the emotions they keep hidden,the change to behavior and the acceptance of revelation.
People often express part of their personality and when adversity strikes their true character is revealed. In the book The Bean Trees, Taylor is on a journey to discover new things by traveling that is until a baby, later named Turtle, was handed to her. In chapter 5, Taylor is looking …show more content…
In Mexican Whiteboy, two teenage boys(Danny and Uno) that lack and long for their fathers would do almost anything to be with them and as their friendship develops they both make some sort of pact that they will both will somehow be with their fathers. In chapter 3, although Danny knows that he is shy, and doesn’t have that many, or any, friends he is at the park with his cousin Sofia and her friends. Danny hopes and thinks, “Wonders if any of them will be his friends this summer—though it’s pretty tough to make friends now that he doesn’t talk so much”(Peña ch.3).Danny admits that he is shy and that is hard for him to make new friends because that is the way he is but still he hopes that he will make some friends. Eventually along the journey for the search for their father and their love Danny finds out that his father is in jail, and Uno encourages Danny to go see him also as he would be there with him whenever he needed him. Danny thinks and then responds to Uno saying, “Over the last couple days he’s decided that maybe he’s okay without his dad. Maybe he can make it on his own. Even when bad things happen. But on the other hand, he’s still curious. He picks up a rock by one of his Vans and looks at Uno. ‘“I wanna go”’(Peña ch.30). As Danny is going through a tough time he finds himself confiding to those who are close to him,especially Uno, telling them