After the sinkhole, Lake Windsor Middle School students got the choice to either learn in the gym for the time being or transferred to Tangerine Middle School. His choice can be harmless or harmful. Paul, took the opportunity to switch. But, the only way he got on Tangerine’s soccer team is because Paul’s mother, Mrs. Fisher got rid of the IEP form from his Cume Folder. Paul befriended the Tangerine Middle school teammates by joining the Tangerine Soccer team. This shows about his character by the way he “ratted” the Tangerine soccer players and then went to their school to play on their team. The consequences of this choice are that if the Tangerine soccer players figure out that it was Paul who ratted out the soccer players from the carnival…
Doodle, a younger disabled brother in James Hurst’s “The Scarlet Ibis”, is uniquely symbolic to the beautiful red bird seen dying in his yard. The scarlet ibis, like Doodle, both are exotic in many wonderful ways. For one instance, the ibis is beautiful, while Doodle has a creative imagination. The ibis is a rare phenomenal bird, likewise, Doodle is an extraordinary boy. He is sensitive, like when he sees Old Woman Swamp. “His eyes were round with wonder as he gazed about him, and his little hands began to stroke the rubber grass. Then he began to cry. “It’s so pretty, so pretty, pretty, pretty.” (318). Despite the Ibis and Doodle’s magnificent traits, both ibis and Doodle suffer from a horrible storm. The ibis faced a storm that blew it all…
In the novel All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy illustrates the coming-of-age protagonist, John Grady Cole, who impulsively decides to travel to Mexico in search of an adventurous lifestyle. Although a teenager, John Grady Cole reveals rather matured behaviors towards his fellow companions, but he preserves the notion that he has control over everything. This very attitude backfires in severe consequences, in which John Grady Cole is essentially powerless. Subsequently, his ideals of cowboy life confronts the reality of adulthood because John Grady Cole loses his most prized attribute -- the child-like belief of…
The life lesson that should be taken from “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst is choices and actions affect everyone. When Doodle was born he had a very slight chance at living, most people thought he would forsure die. However Doodle did not die but what his brother did and said to him was just as horrible. One of the many ways Doodles brother hurt him was by changing his original name from William Armstrong to Doodle so others would not expect much of him. As a result of Doodle being too weak to walk it began to poke at doodles brothers pride.When doodles brothers pride became an issue he decided to teach doodle to walk. However, doodles brother did not do it for doodle he did it for him and his own pride. Doodle wanted to make his brother…
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing.” This quote by Pele, a soccer player regarded as one of the best of all time, describes the determination that it took for Adeline to succeed and overcome her childhood. In the memoir, Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, the author writes about the support from Ye Ye, Aunt Baba, and also rising above her abusive childhood.…
Duras redetermines the idea of the character in Savannah Bay. The three characters of Madeleine, Jeune Femme and Savannah cannot exist in their own rights. They all depend on each other’s action, memories, and admissions. Madeleine’s fragmented memories reflect her fragmented character. She is never a complete character, and the audience will never be granted a full picture of who she is. Jeune Femme is reliant on Madeleine for the representation of her mother, Savannah. Thus, it becomes unimportant to access the character of Jeune Femme, who, unlike Madeleine and Savannah, is not even accorded a name; she is merely a vessel present to retrieve information relating to the character of Savannah. Yet, Savannah is always absent. She is a character…
Lilo and Stitch is an animated film from the United States that tells the story of alien experiment to powerful for the planet Galitica. He is sent to a prison chamber but escapes and lands on one of the islands. Lilo is a little Hawaiian girl trying to find friends and gets into trouble all the time. The two are brought together by fate when Lilo adopts Stitch from a dog pound. Lilo comes from a broken family being watched over by her sister Nani, who struggles herself to try to take care of Lilo. Stitch was designed to be destructive, that is his only purpose, and causes trouble for the Hawaiian family that adopts him. But a turn of events triggers something in Stitch and he wants belong to a family, he has a desire to be loved.…
Success can only be accomplished with practice, without practice nothing is accomplished. In the end there is either winning or losing, your preparation will determine the outcome. Princess Alyss Heart lives in Wonderland, but her evil aunt, Queen Redd, has made it very hard for anyone to live there. Her mother, Queen Genevieve, Redd’s sister, has loved Redd deep on the inside, but has not wanted to put her daughter at risk. So there was a separation between imaginations, there was good and bad. Redd had ruled Black Imagination, the bad of course, and Queen Genevieve ruled White Imagination, the good. What will happen if Alyss meets Redd?…
In Lilo and Stitch, the following quote was used,“‘Ohana’ means family. ‘Family’ means nobody gets left behind.” No one has the same past, which makes it hard and slightly impossible to understand where a person’s point of view is coming from, but it’s about the future and how we get involved trying to make it better. We can learn from our past to grow our communities in the spirit of a hopeful future by people sticking with each other, side by side, which educates the young victims for preparing for the future.…
Amy Tan portrays Lindo Jong, mother of Waverly Jong, as a brave, intelligent woman who uses her wit in order to get out of a restrained marriage. She shows an unwavering loyalty to her family as she sacrifices her, “life to keep [her] parents promise,” (42). Lindo deals with the harassment from her in-laws, as well as the childlike nature of her husband. She eventually receives abuse from her own daughter when she doesn’t fit the expectations of both Waverly and the society. Even through all these obstructions in her life, by being loyal, courageous, intelligent, and strong, she shows all the characteristics of the Chinese zodiac animal, the horse. In the Chinese culture, the horse symbolizes power and grace, as well as strength and freedom,…
In the literary classic To Kill a Mockingbird, moral development is very clearly seen in the character of Jem Finch. Over the course of the two-year narrative, his ideas of right and wrong change and grow drastically. He becomes unafraid of voicing his opinion and breaking social rules, exemplified through his bold opinions and hope regarding the Robinson case, as well as grows tremendously in his definition of bravery and how it should be expressed. As he matures, Jem Finch’s ideas about bravery and social rules grow and change as he encounters new experiences with the residents of Maycomb, experiences that shape his morality into that of a young adult.…
President John F. Kennedy once said that, “conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” This concept has been seen through centuries of civil rights movements and literature by renowned authors such as Franz Kafka and Henrik Ibsen. Franz Kafka’s short story, “The Metamorphosis,” illustrates the life of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, the breadwinner of his family who seems to face a transformation that affects his role in his house and society. This change into an unknown insect, both physical and mental, ultimately leads to his loss of humanistic characteristics and eventually death. In Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, a young woman named Nora surpasses the bounds of a housewife when attempting to save her husband’s life.…
The Joy Luck Club contains different stories about the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American daughters. The book opens after the death of Suyan Woo, the founding member of the Joy Luck Club. Suyan died before fulfilling her lifetime wish: to be reunited with her twin daughters who was lost in China. So, Jing-mei, Suyan’s daughter, is going to take a trip to China to see them in her mother honor.…
DNA is a similarity that all siblings share. Through their DNA siblings have physical similarities as well as mental similarities. Nonetheless, having the same DNA does not at all make you the same. This is displayed in the story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker. In this short story, Alice Walker tells about two sisters by the names of Maggie and Dee, who in some ways have similarities, but in other ways they have differences including: their motivations, personalities, and their point of view on preserving their heritage.…
Everyone was boarding the Orient Express. All of the characters are connected to each other in some way or another. There are many different characters. The main characters in the novel "Murder On The Orient Express" are Hercule Poirot, Mr. Ratchett, and The Armstrong family. Soon Hercule Poirot will become the detective on this murder investigation. Hercule Priort is a Belgian detective. A man named Ratchet, an American millionaire who fears for his life, is especially important because he was murdered on the Orient Express.There are many confusing clues, but he eventually discovers that all the passengers and a conductor are in some way connected to The Armstrong family.…