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.…
In the book, The First Part Last, Angela Johnson describes mostly in the book “Coming of age.” She uses many symbols that represent coming of age, and how Bobby went from being a child to a semi-man. He has matured majorly, but he is just not fully there yet with becoming a full man. Bobby overcomes constant obstacles while trying to conquer coming of age. He gives up playing basketball all the time, spending all day at the arcade with his friends, and being able to have fun, and live his life the way he wants to live it. Becoming a man Bobby is forced with constant obstacles, but he knows and is ready to face the reality with them.…
Have you ever been faced with adversity and believed that you could not overcome it? In Gwen Bristow’s Celia Garth, Luke Asnell never looks at any arduous situation pessimistically. During his service for the rebels in the revolutionary war he is faced with life or death situations every day, but always looks at the bright side. In addition, Luke never lets his feelings or what others say influence his actions; he does what he thinks is best. Throughout the famous novel, Luke stays optimistic even when he has no reason to and does not let feelings or words influence his actions keeping his mind focused on the war.…
Jackie Craig is a character who is really mischievous. He’s a man that is mostly unknown and judged because of keeping things to himself. People just don’t see the light in him.…
Annie John, Written by Jamaica Kincaid is a coming of age novel focusing on the interaction and relationships between an adolescent, her mother and reality. In the book Annie John, the main character Annie, goes through many experiences as she matures. We first learn about Annie when she is only 10 years old. Annie lives with her mother and father in a Caribbean Island called Antigua. The family spends their summer close by to a cemetery which later fascinates Annie. She is later intrigued by the thought of death and that children her age die as well. Annie starts to go funeral services which later starts to conflict with her daily routine. Annie first starts showing a change in her demeanor when she has to run an errand for her mother but…
While reading the novel, 'My Antonia', one can very quickly notice that author, Willa Cather has much admiration for the character, Antonia. Throughout 'My Antonia', readers can conclude that Antonia is a very optimistic and inteligent girl who grows into an independent young woman. Due to such characteristics, many people could very easily find themselves admiring Antonia.…
In an American childhood a young woman named Annie Dillard writes about her life growing up in Pittsburg. In the book Annie has many people who influence her throughout her life. One of her main influencers in her adolescent years was her mother (pam). Her mother was not the usual stereotypical woman; she possessed very unique qualities that distinguished her from the rest of the crowd. Everything that she did was not done in the usual way she had to put a twist on it. You had to always expect the unexpected when you were around her. Sometimes people got frustrated with her child like ways, but Dillard never seemed to.…
“I can not hear you!” This was a quote said by Gov.Danforth while he was questioning Mary Warren in Court. Mary was so quiet she wouldn't say anything aloud and she keep her head down. Mary warren is a shy 17 year old girl in the “Crucible.” Mary is an official of the court. Mary Warren is also a servant at the Proctor's house and turns her back on John and blames him for being a witch. Mary Warren and I have a few personality traits in common in that we are caring to our friends, shy individuals and aggressive to a fault.…
Leading a multitude of people to find the "truth" about a village's most respected townspeople is Abigail Williams. She was the finger that accused dozens of people, who in all likelihood were innocent of the crimes brought against them. Abigail was not the single candle that showed the judges of Salem the way but merely the candle that lit the others. Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" makes Abigail the conveyance of everything the Puritans would have thought as evil. She had committed sins that made any upright citizen flinch at the mere mention of them. All this appalling information about Abigail makes a person stop and wonder what her motive was. Was she merely being selfish or is there a deeper meaning hidden beneath all the layers she is covering her past with?…
In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams has a major effect on the Salem witch trials. She plays a major role in the development of the plot of the story and is the main antagonist as well. It is learned in Act I that she has had an affair with John Proctor and that she is accusing others, later including his wife, of witchcraft. Abigail is not only in love and had an affair with a man that is already married, she gets innocent people killed with her false accusations and runs away instead of dealing with the repercussions of her actions.…
In the novel Mary Barton, written by Elizabeth Gaskell, Gaskell criticizes the social hierarchy between the rich and the poor. She does this by illustrating the ignorance of the rich as well as their selfishness, for they are inside with plenty of space and plenty of food to eat but yet they still complain about the misery that is inflicted upon them by something such as a minor headache, and have no regard for the real misery and pain that is just outside of their front door.…
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…
Andrea, or what Miranda Priestly calls “Emily”, a girl in New York City trying to find her dream job. She is in a simple life living with her boyfriend and going nowhere fast. She had a dream of always getting into the editorial field but didn’t know how to achieve her life’s goal. Until one day she saw that a company was hiring an assistant to an editor of a large high end company named, “Runway”.…
In E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View, the protagonist, Lucy Honeychurch, is conflicted between her love for George Emerson, and the behaviors required of her by proper English society, like continuing with her engagement to Cecil Vyse, a London socialite. Her lies to everyone around her due to her passions absolutely consume her and she prepares to “flee” the country on an exotic vacation instead of dealing with her romantic feelings towards George. Cecil is a misogynistic man with outdated Victorian ideals that don’t mix well with Lucy’s liberal Edwardian ones; beyond this, his low opinion of Lucy’s acquaintances, due to their lower status in relation to him, coupled with his desire for Lucy to be “[used] as a peg for [his] silly notions of…