In this chapter, Jeanne Wakatsuki, reminisces about the time before the internment camps. She talks about the wharf and multiple boats, such as The Nereid, and The Waka. They were her father’s boats, and The Nereid was used as a fishing boat, that was also worth $25,000. Her father didn’t like working for others though, he wanted to be fishing for himself.…
In The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, Charlotte, the main character, is a thirteen-year- old girl who had to travel across the Atlantic to America as the only passenger on a ship. On her sea voyage, her courage was shown by the way she handled the many challenges and dangers that she encountered. For example, when she wanted to join the ship’s crew, she met resistance from the crew members, who finally decided that she must prove herself worthy before they would take her. The crew proposed, “Let her [Charlotte] climb the royal yard [highest sail on the mainmast of the ship]. If she does it, and comes down whole, and still willing to serve,…
Facing adversity is hard, but you can get through it. Two girls had one of the hardest adversities to overcome and they did it. While both Bethany Hamilton and Aimee Mullin have adapted to their disabilities, they are different in the ways they approach them.…
Everyone loves a hero! A hero is someone who displays undeniable courage, never ending strength and demonstrates nobility. Louie, the main character in Unbroken, a novel written by Laura Hillenbrand, exhibits heroism. He does this by helping his friends in time of need, overcoming difficult obstacles and extending forgiveness under strenuous circumstances.…
These two characters in the novels Night by author Elie Wiesel and Sold by the author Patricia Mccormick were the strongest by far.Elie and Lakshmi had a certain characteristic that the others did not have.they did not fear and lose hope so easily like the others. In Sold Lakshmi is a very determined character “I will do whatever it takes to get…
In the book Speak written by Laurie Halse Anderson, Psychological forces such as depression, anxiety, trauma and fear can control people's emotions and actions, rather than themselves controlling their emotions and actions. In the book Speak, Melinda faces a major trauma causing her emotions to control her life instead of her controlling her own life such as depression controls her emotions, fear controls her actions and anxiety controls her social life.…
I genuinely did not expect to learn this much from the book Unbroken. The story of Louie Zamperini was unexpectedly much more understandable and relatable than I first imagined. Seeing the main character was a former war hero, I found it surprising I was able to connect to him as I happen to be fourteen. In my opinion, readers can easily compare similar situations in their life, regardless of their age. A point often overlooked, Louie is a true survivor. He was stranded forty-seven days on a crammed raft, as well as beaten without remorse at a prison camp for two years. Louie was stripped of his friends as he watched them either be transferred or slowly die. He witnessed many accounts of sexual abuse to innocent and helpless animals, as well…
A moral woman is someone who displays good character. They exemplify characteristics of goodness. They do not always do what is easy, but what is right, even if that means going against the standards of their community. St. Kateri Tekakwitha is an example of a moral woman for many reasons. She was recognized as the first Native American Saint. She is a moral woman for what she did in her life. She converted to Catholicism at age nineteen. Her choose to convert took a lot of courage because she knew her family and neighbors would not be found of her decision.…
Character and Nature - The Waknuk People & the abnormalities that occurred (farm and animal produce) (Page 6 to 7, 16, 34 to 35, 39 and 41).…
How would you like to have been hypnotized and suddenly start remembering and imagining abnormal incidents and secrets in your mind without having a clue what they’re about? Well, that situation became real to Kira Landon one random night. She started having memories of being carried away from a war zone by her mother after her friends had hypnotized her at a slumber party and soon after, Kira’s mother disappears. She soon learned that there are memories locked in her mind that place her and her mother in grave danger, but those memories are also the only thing that might save them. Margaret Peterson Maddix tells the story of how she reveals the confusing memories her friends uncover.…
I, Mattie Curtis, have already done the “unacceptable”. By hitting Rufus atop the head in order to yield his disgusting hands from touching me, I have disobeyed my master. This is not accepted in any form during this day and age. I am a Negro and Master Hawkins is obviously a white male, making him superior to me. I have set myself up for no good, having made such a rash and stupid decision. It is simply that the thought of Rufus and I together makes me utterly sick. I could never imagine being acquaintances with him, much less having a child with him! The good Lord wouldn’t want me to lose something as precious as my virginity to a man whom I am not married to. The Lord, my body, and my family are the only things I still have to myself in…
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE "Character Commentary The character of Mama Elena presented in the novel Like Water for Chocolate, was not developed to its fullest potential. Mama Elena, while a central character, is surprisingly shallow. Because of the one-dimensional quality of the character Esquivel has created, Mama Elena is at times little more than a foil to Tita, playing the evil stepmother to Tita's Cinderella. Mama Elena is portrayed as an authoritarian, cold, harsh woman throughout the text. There is never any show of compassion on her part, and her ruthless treatment of Tita is difficult to understand and hard to accept at times. There is no motherly compassion demonstrated throughout the text whatsoever. She scolds Tita for embroidery mistakes, and seemingly takes equisite pleasure in ruining the stitches and forcing Tita to resew them. She is determined to break Tita's spirit and enforce the tradition of spinsterhood for the youngest daughter of the family. Mama Elena demands complete submission. This coldness and utter lack of humanity and empathy is illustrated when Mama Elena disowns first Gertrudis and then Tita. Towards Rosaura she is impartial, and even then she does not show signs of affection. Her fierce, barbaric nature is enough to intimidate a commanding officer of a revolutionary army and stave off their raids. She suspects Tita, her loving, doting daughter of trying to poison her. This shows Mama Elena's coldness and lack of affection for Tita. She is bitter, suspicious, incapable of loving and of being loved. Her suspicion shows she has given Tita reason for hatred and shows that she too realizes this. In the author's attempt to portray Mama Elena as the antagonist in her tale, she has created a one-dimensional character that is so inhuman as to become caricatured at times. When Esquivel does venture to develop Mama Elena's past and reveal her capacity for love and reasons for her bitterness, it is too late. Background of this nature usually…
Leadership: Kacey exhibits a decisiveness to promoting teamwork with her peers as she collaborates in training and volunteering to help her peers with their assigned tasks as needed. She consistently shows an awareness of the strategic goals of the section.…
Roberta (Bobbie) being the eldest of the lot is often found to exhibit caring and protective traits in the story. There is an instance in the story where she stays alone with Jim when he lies in the tunnel unconscious (Pg.129) and another where she saves her brother Peter when he is caught by the bargee (Pg. 88). Through these instances, the author is trying to subtly tell us how essential it is in a sibling relationship to safeguard the interests of one another.…
Krakauer wrote that Chris McCandless was, "green, and he overestimated his resilience, but was sufficiently skilled to last for sixteen weeks on a little more than his wits and ten pounds of rice"(Krakauer 182). In this quote it seems that Krakauer thought that McCandless was well equipped with his skills, so that made moderately prepared to survive in any situation. I feel that McCandless was rather prepared, yet again he never could have been fully prepared for the unexpected. My opinion is that McCandless was vaguely aware of the struggles that he would encounter in the Alaskan wilderness such as his epiphany that "happiness is only real when shared" was realized when his body was dying of starvation. I believed that he found what he was…