Little Bee Character Analysis
Athletes from underprivileged communities are more driven than their counterparts because they have less opportunities so they work harder to make the best of them. For example, Clint Dempsey, who grew up in a South Texas trailer park now plays on the U.S. national soccer team; Lebron James, who was raised by a teen mom and no father on the streets of Akron now is one of the best basketball players in the nation; and Michael Oher of The Blind Side, grew up moving between foster homes and now plays in the NFL. These athletes exemplify that true desperation and hard work can have a greater effect on the outcome of one’s life than just hope and wishing something would happen. Similarly, the characters in Little Bee feel driven by desperation and
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Little Bee and her sister, Kindness, show desperation when they “heard the thwack of machetes…[and] walked out of the cover of the jungle” (Cleave 105). The sisters are so desperate they trust a random white couple on the beach to save them. The desperation and hopelessness the sisters felt drove them to risk the relative safety of the forest and expose themselves on the wide open beach. Similarly, Yevette, an immigrant who is held at the detention center with Little Bee, is so desperate to get out of the detention center, she agrees to let the detention center employee “do what he want wid me” (71). Yevette is willing to do anything to get out of the detention center. She knows that the proper procedure will not release her with papers. Just hoping that she is released legally is not enough, she must make her own Also, when Sarah loses Charlie, “an aching panic took [her] over” (235). This shows the natural fight-or-flight response that comes with true panic and desperation. Every part of Sarah was dedicated to finding her son. The total panic that overtook Sarah flung her into action and led to her searching the beach. If Sarah had just waited and hoped for Charlie to return, she may never have found him. Desperation drives people to act quickly in times of crisis when hope does not
Little Bee and her sister, Kindness, show desperation when they “heard the thwack of machetes…[and] walked out of the cover of the jungle” (Cleave 105). The sisters are so desperate they trust a random white couple on the beach to save them. The desperation and hopelessness the sisters felt drove them to risk the relative safety of the forest and expose themselves on the wide open beach. Similarly, Yevette, an immigrant who is held at the detention center with Little Bee, is so desperate to get out of the detention center, she agrees to let the detention center employee “do what he want wid me” (71). Yevette is willing to do anything to get out of the detention center. She knows that the proper procedure will not release her with papers. Just hoping that she is released legally is not enough, she must make her own Also, when Sarah loses Charlie, “an aching panic took [her] over” (235). This shows the natural fight-or-flight response that comes with true panic and desperation. Every part of Sarah was dedicated to finding her son. The total panic that overtook Sarah flung her into action and led to her searching the beach. If Sarah had just waited and hoped for Charlie to return, she may never have found him. Desperation drives people to act quickly in times of crisis when hope does not