Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption follows the story of Louie Zamperini, a rebellious child who grew up to become one of the fastest runners of the 1930s. He competed as an Olympic track runner in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The future was looking bright for Zamperini before World War II began, which resulted in the Olympics being cancelled and Louie being drafted into the Army Air Forces as a bombardier. Midway through 1943, his B-24 crash landed in the Pacific Ocean. For weeks, Louie and two other men drifted westward across a seemingly endless ocean, accompanied by a pack of sharks and surviving on scraps of bird and fish meat and the occasional rainfall. Eventually, he arrived in Japanese…
My character in Hungry by H.A. Swain Thalia; also goes by the name of Apple, has grown throughout the novel because she has matured throughout the experiences she and Basil have gone through together.“You might be able to stop hunger and keep the world's population under your thumb, but you can’t control my emotions. Those are mine. They are part of me no matter what you say!”(page 123 H.A. Swain) Apple didn’t understand that her body...wasn’t hers, but her families to experiment on and review. She sees this after she returns home from a revolt meeting with Basil to be interrogated by her own mother, and be told that her feelings for him weren’t real. She is tired of her mother; the lead scientist of One world, telling her…
In the book The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, the narration is done by five of the main characters: Orleanna, Rachel, Leah, Adah, and Ruth May Price. When analyzing the narrative led by Leah Price, a 14-year old tomboy, the reader may notice her progression from a young girl who idolizes her father and loves him more than anyone else, into a rebellious young woman who despises her father. Some of Leah’s more prominent characteristics are her compassion and devotion. These characteristics are portrayed from the very beginning when Leah follows her father around even saying that, “I know he must find me tiresome, yet I still like spending time with my father very much more than I like doing anything else” (Kingsolver 36). In that context, Leah is still a young girl, who basically worships her father and does everything he does, loves everything he loves, but he does not give her anywhere near that much love in return. This is also evident on pages 41-42; she goes on about how awesome her father is and how admirable he is, almost justifying her idolizing him. Also, Leah states that “His devotion to its progress, like his devotion to the church, was the anchoring force in my life throughout this past summer” (64). These things are very important because it shows just how much Leah’s persona is affected by her father, also how influential he is on her beliefs (with emphasis on religion).…
December 7, 1941 the United States entered World war II due to the attack of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan. War entrance was not the only result of this vicious attack that devastated Americans. On February 19, 1942 two months after the U.S. declared war on the Axis powers, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order no. 9066. This order gave the United states the right to designate areas from which persons may be excluded. Therefore, this made it legal to detain Japanese Americans who lived in the United States and put them into internment camps. 120,000 ethnic Japanese were relocated to areas inland. The attack on Pearl Harbor left Americans with hysteria and fear, which triggered internment camps of Japanese Americans.…
What do people mean by the statement “seeing is believing”? What if you see so little but known so much more? Paul, Erik, Mom and Dad all are part of the same family, they eat the same food, live in the same house and share the same blood, but what they understand is all so different.…
As the events of the plot unfolded, the characters encountered people and experienced situations that changed them.…
Imagine if you were forbidden to marry the one you love and were declared to be your mother’s servant until the day she dies. Would you stick around to see the damage you can cause your loved ones or would you leave to lessen the pain for everyone? In the novel Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel we are shown different sides of every character, especially Tita. Tita has the option to be rescued by Doctor John Brown but she declines his offer to be a mistress who suffers pain from the deaths of everyone around her. Many think Tita is a victim that deserves pity for the life and rules she was given, but she also plays the rule of a villain, she decides to stay and ruin her relationship with her family members instead of moving on making her own life and family, which contributes to her own downfall.…
devastating situations, but are different because there is little hope left by the end of the book.…
They say, “You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.” Truth is,” You knew exactly what you had, you just never thought you’d lose it.” In James Hurst's story, “The Scarlet Ibis”, a young boy proudly commemorate his little brother, Doodle. With feared embarrassment, being ungrateful, he recalls Doodle’s accomplishments. The narrator was ungrateful about Doodle because of Doodle’s health conditions. He didn’t appreciate him till he was gone. Brother, the narrator, has multiple character traits including ungratefulness, dreadfulness, and years passed, he also showed his caring side.…
Right now, think. Think about how the relationships in your life are. Relationships between friends, parents, siblings, your boyfriend/girlfriend, co-workers are all important. Are they good, or are they bad? In the novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford the relationships differ very much. Because of Pearl Harbor just taking place, most Americans are scared of the Japanese currently living in the city. When Keiko and Henry become friends, Henry knows his parents will disapprove of her because her race. He did not know to what extreme his father would go to. Henry's character changes dramatically from the relationships he forms with his father, mother, and Keiko.…
Be that as it may, the movie figured out how to show realistic relatable points of interest to the book when they were attempting to cross the bridge the man trusting the kid with weapon and winds up getting shot or when the kids was seen carrying weapons bigger than themselves.…
Appearance is everything, the way someone looks, talks, and acts all make up who they are as a person. When someone does something the way they are seen often affects the outcome and consequences of their actions. This is seen very often in both Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin. The main characters in both of these novels do awful things but their physical appearance, mindset, and whether they are a good or a bad person affects the way they are treated. The way society sees a person's overall appearance too often changes the way their actions are seen and dealt with and how they are treated as well.…
Fitzgerald expresses that a person should forget about all of the miserable parts in life and focus on the new as “In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat”(Fitzgerald 272). F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts a character Dick Diver who looks forward to the future by making the most of each situation. His character realizes that utilizing and making the most of each given moment to make life count most will result in never regretting decisions in their later age. His characters exhibits that going beyond what he believes is his comfort zone is a key element of developing both mentally and physically. In Tender in the Night, F.Scott Fitzgerald creates a fictional character Dick Diver who exhibits all good aspects of the human race as seen by his physical appearance and his mental stability despite being in World War 1. Throughout the novel Dick Diver is illustrated by all of the humans perfect characteristics which are the ability to dream…
In Candelo, Georgia Blain suggests that deception is not just lies and that the consequences of which affects a lot more people than intended. There are many lies in this novel that deeply affect all characters. However, it is the misguiding acts of keeping secrets and not telling the truth that ultimately destroy the relationships between all characters. An example of this is Simon; even though he was an honest man, he could not bear to tell the truth in fear of his family hating him. Instead of telling the truth, Simon “[stood] by the door to [Ursula’s] room, watching [Vi and Ursula]” then “turned and walked away.” The consequences of this act of silence caused Mitchell to be persecuted and charged for the death of Evie which led him to (a possible) suicide. Not only did it cause Mitchell grief, but it also allowed Simon to “[turn] and [walk] away” from the rest of his problems and build up a wall between him and the other characters. Even in the present day “…His attempts to be heard are floundering; half-finished sentences fall at his feet.” Blain explores the idea that being honest with each other is a lot better than not saying anything at all. Ursula was also a deceiver, not just a liar; this much is obvious in her relationship with Marco. Even though, “[Marco] was good to [her]…there was…a lack of spark” between them. Ursula could not bring herself to “tell [him] that [she was] not attracted to [him]” sexually which provoked him to “[hate her] for what [she] had done to him”. She mislead him by not telling him the truth when he would ask her “Why don’t you ever want to have sex?” This also led to Marco “[lying] to himself.” Because “He had refused to see how things were.” The deception of Ursula caused a chain reaction of “betrayals that linked [Louise, Anton, Marco and Ursula] together, and all the justifications [they] invented to prop them up.” When Ursula secretly began seeing Anton “[she] never thought about how [the deception] would affect [Louise].”…
Lena Lingard intrigues me. She’s gentle even though she’s lived on the farm her entire life and she manages to make the littlest things exciting with her charisma. In ways, her adventurousness and excitement make her similar to Tony. However, they differ in that Ántonia possesses a quiet beauty and inner strength that contrasts with Lena’s liveliness. It’s strange-- I dream the same dream “a great many times, and it [is] always the same. I [am] in a harvest-field full of shocks, and I [am] lying against one of them. Lena Lingard [comes] across the stubble barefoot, in a short skirt, with a curved reaping-hook in her hand, and she [is] flushed like the dawn, with a kind of luminous rosiness all about her. She [sits] down beside me, [turns] to me with a soft sigh and said, ‘Now they are all gone, and I can kiss you as much as I like.’ I...wish I could have this flattering dream about Ántonia, but I never [do].” (109) I love Ántonia and her steady independence but I cannot see her in my dreams in…