Jennie Finch

Fences is a play about how African Americans survives in sheds and difficulties they face to find work. Troy Maxson, the protagonist of the play is the son of an unsatisfied sharecropper whose cruelty takes his wife’s and Troy away from him. Troy is taken to prison after he is involved in various crimes like killing and robbing others. During his stay in prison he learns to play baseball and loves it. As time passes he outshines in baseball. After he is out from prison’s discrimination in the…

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch risks and sacrifices his family’s safety and dignity to uphold justice for an African American man in 1930s Alabama. Finch takes the burden of defending a falsely accused man when no one else would dare, yet he compromises his standing in the community for his own moral convictions, solidifying his integrity and revealing the key purpose of the novel. The meaning of the work, is epitomized by Atticus Finch’s sacrifice in the face prejudices,…

The character of Stanley Kowalski was first introduced as archetypal southern male of the 1940’s. Once his sister-in-law arrives at his doorstep, his flaws start coming out. His dominance is tested in what begins to bring out the flaws of the patriarch in society. What is not known is what the author’s motives for him are. Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire leaves many readers with an ambivalence toward its main antagonist. There is no debate, though, that he is a just a normal…

“We don’t grow when things are easy; we grow when we face challenges.” - Anonymous Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, even though written in the 1960s still strikes out with one of its themes, character development. Life hasn’t changed for five decades later as we still witness social injustice around the world, we still witness racism and inequality, we still fight for the good to succeed and for the humanity. Children are like mockingbirds - born innocent, born free, born clean and…

Growing Up Scout, an immature six-year-old. Jem, a childish ten-year-old. They learn many valuable lessons in this book and mature while doing so. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird shows how the kids, especially Jem, grow and mature during the course of the whole novel by their childishness in the beginning, then seeing them grow over the three years in which this novel takes place, which leads to Jem protecting his sister in the fight and Scout learning that Boo isn’t as scary as he seemed.…

As people grow in life they mature and change. The main character matures as the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, continues. Scout is childish and disrespectful at the beginning of the novel. think that Scout because she doesn't fight much and finally saw Boo radley. Their for Scout involved more than Jem because threw out this events. The first reason why scout involved more is that when she doesn't fight people that much and instead she just ignores them just like when she…

In writing, it is important to be able to see a situation from different character’s perspectives. This is critical in shaping a reader’s opinion of the characters and the situations they experience. Many authors write from one point of view, allowing them to use this to his or her advantage. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the author writes from the perspective of Scout, a young girl. This unconventional point of view enables the reader to form unique opinions about the characters and the situations…

C’mon Heck! Heck, what in the world are you going to do? Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness. Boo killed Bob. He killed ‘em. No, Boo was just helping those kids. How did he know this was going on? Was he watching Jem and Scout? Maybe Boo needs to be in jail. He does have a reputation. No Heck. What are you thinkin’? He saved Jem and Scout. You should be thanking him. Oh, what am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? Heck Tate, this is your job. You are the sheriff of the town. It is your job to arrest…

Atticus Finch is the knight in shining armor that dwells in Maycomb County. He is the quintessential hero in a “modern” story, defending those who are mocked while being mocked himself and still keeping his head high. His characterization allows the readers to discover that courage isn’t status, it’s doing something one believes is right, though it’s challenging. Through Harper Lee’s portrayal of Atticus when he is in the father, citizen, and lawyer role, this theme is conveyed. A father is an…

The tone of the story Snow by Ann Beattie was very miscellaneous. Why I find this story miscellaneous is because there were different perspective put in each paragraph which not only made it complex but a little jumbled. The story talks about a house in which they lived in and tells us how big of an impact it was on their lives. We start off the story at house where they just start re decorating and tells us about how people would visit them and try and tell them about their memories while…