The Girl Who Played with Fire

characters who engage in all forms of discrimination against all kinds of people. The movie uses irony as a focus method to promote human relationships during times of life and death. Character Reviews I. Officer John Ryan played by Matt Dillon would probably be considered a racist cop who takes advantage of his power to bully people of color. During the move Officer Ryan used a general description of a stolen vehicle to pull…

Wingfield is a single mother of her two children, Tom and Laura. They live in a small apartment and their father had left them several years ago. Laura has come to the age where her mother wants her to find a “gentleman caller” or in other words a man who she can have a future with. For Amanda, getting a gentleman caller was no struggle at all but in fact quite simple. But now that it’s time for her disabled daughter to start a life it doesn’t seem so easy. The theme of The Glass Menagerie…

was seen in various circumstances and in different ways. As one young girl, the antagonist, broke the mold, the Puritan community was thrown into turmoil. The events to follow the spark she lit would lead to the blinded killing of innocent people. The events in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible show firsthand the way the actions out of the ordinary can affect others and the future history of generations to come. How could a young girl, a respectable man, and a slave break out of the mold and show…

they live. One of them, a young, school girl named Clarisse, who interprets every detail that others seem to ignore. She questions Montag over his own happiness which makes him begin to rethink his life. The other, an old woman whose house and books he must burn further upsets this mindset when she ends her own life for her books. These encounters bring Montag to reconfigure his whole life. Each lesson Montag learns is what…

I had always played in middle school, but when I started high school, I quit basketball to row crew year-round. I loved crew, making new friends at a new school. Unfortunately, in my sophomore year, the team began to crumble as coaches were being replaced. Thus, I decided to join the basketball team for the winter season, taking a break from crew. I was anxious joining the basketball team. I had not played since eighth grade, and even then I was no star player. My fear was furthered when I saw…

The girl who was on fire” (Collins 70). The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is a 374-paged science fiction novel. The book, written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, takes place in the post-apocalyptic society of Panem, North America. At this time, Panem is divided into 12 Districts, with The Capitol having all political power. Every year, The Capitol runs a national event known as “The Hunger Games.” During the Games, two tributes from each district — one boy and one girl…

after school, playing with her brothers and my brothers. By next week my routine was the exact same thing from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed. On weekdays it was school, play, dinner, homework, bed in that order. On weekends we just played around. That was…

dream is referred to a person who has achieved their number one goal in life; Someone living life to the fullest and loving every minute of it. Many people believe that the American dream is a rag to riches story, which it can be, but in some cases it isn’t. A person needs to be a role model for others and not just someone that is famous and is a bad influence. To achieve the dream they have to work hard every single day. People don’t get blessed by being a couch potato who does nothing, but…

her mother and home. The daughter uses many ominous and violent words to describe an image of how her mother and home make her feel, illustrating a motif of fear. The girl stumbles through the story, recalling it in fragments portraying the way these recollections have haunted her through her childhood and adulthood. As the girl begins her story of her disturbing childhood, the reader recognizes that her mother has been watching her on multiple occurrences. Wherever the child goes, she…

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: Analyzing the Gender Role Surrounding Katniss Everdeen In most fictional writing, whether it be a novel or a film or any form of writing, a typical archetypal hero usually will abandon or be forced to leave his/her friends, family or simply loved ones because of some kind of tragic/significant event or occurrence. This will almost always lead him/her on a journey of sorts where he/she has the potential to deal with many tasks along the way, all the while…