III Mrs. Goins October 15 2010 Diversity How can two fictional characters a century apart influence people today? In The Scarlet Letter‚ written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the reader goes back into Boston Massachusetts around the late 1840’s and experiences the Puritan life. In Chocolat‚ written by Joanne Harris‚ you are placed in the middle of France around the 1960’s during lent. Both of these stories have similar women characters in them. In the communities that they live in‚ the town’s people
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Montana 1948 essay Statement: “Each character in Montana 1948 is a victim of power” (how does the use and abuse of power shape the lives of each character). All the main characters in Montana 1948‚ to some extent‚ were victims of power. Marie‚ David and Gail are genuine victims of power. Julian‚ Frank and Wes are victims of their own inability to wield power and use it correctly. Many lives were destroyed by the events in the summer of Montana 1948. Marie would be a victim of power because she
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Middlesex: Assimilation Throughout Generations In Jeffrey Eugenides‚ Middlesex‚ the protagonist and narrator‚ Cal‚ takes the reader through the generations of his family’s rich immigrant tale. Cal’s grandparents‚ Lefty and Desdemona‚ are Greek refugees who came to America during the Turkish invasion. Cal tells his family’s story through three generations‚ tracking the evolution of a mutant gene that ended up in his being a hermaphrodite. Aside from Cal’s search for true self‚ Eugenides creates
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Their Eyes Were Watching God Growth and development are affected by many outside influences such as heredity and environment. Heredity influences are beyond one’s control‚ but environmental ones seem to have the greatest impact on a person’s development. Throughout our lives the people we come in contact with will‚ in one way or another‚ influence who we become. In Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ by Zora Neale Hurston Janie develops as a woman through her three marriages. In the course of
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My piano teacher once told me to first accept myself for who I am in order for others to accept me. If I did not first accept myself‚ why should others accept me? In Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Janie strives to find happiness by living her life the way others want her to live it‚ but she misses the most important factor‚ so she is never truly happy. Janie feels empty‚ and constantly strives to find a way to fill that void. Towards the end of the novel‚ however‚ Janie realizes the key
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Stanley’s journey at Camp Green Lake from being looked down upon to a true‚respected friend. Imagine yourself in a new camp‚ where everybody looks down upon you. That is how Stanley felt in Camp Green Lake‚ where other campers disrespected him. At the beginning of the novel‚ Stanley was not accepted by his peers in the camp‚ but because of his loyalty to his friends‚ he is part of X-Ray’s group by the end of the novel. The start of a journey for Stanley‚ wasn’t amazing because he felt like‚ he
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the course and explore the relationship between environments and the formation of plot and character. Geographical location is a very important factor in the actions and outcomes of many texts‚ the development of friendships‚ education and the life outlook of each of the characters depend greatly on the geographical location that you have come accustomed to and it is from this that the plot and characters develop. None more prominent or contrasting then in the two novels I have studied in this course
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youngest of the family‚ between the ages of ten and thirteen. At first‚ we think that Vardaman’s character is illiterate just because of his age‚ however‚ throughout the novel we learn that it is just the way he is. His character reveals that his idiotic thoughts aren’t so idiotic to himself. He is confused about many things but also has quite an imagination. William Faulkner used Vardaman’s character to write with diction that is almost impossible to read. Faulkner made him speak as a child‚ because
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Character Diary – Hamlet Act 1 Day 1 - I was once again reminded of my mothers’ marriage to my uncle‚ Claudius. To this day I still feel disgusted and outraged that either of them would think it is morally okay to do such a thing. My father had only past away under a month before my mother had married my father’s brother. I think it’s terribly disrespectful and ignorant towards my father. He would have given the world and more. He loved her more then anything‚ and I don’t understand how she
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the wife of her dead husband’s brother‚ King Claudius. Gertrude and Ambiguity Gertrude is most definitely a central figure in the play – Hamlet spends a whole lot of time dwelling on her incestuous marriage to Claudius – but her character is also pretty ambiguous. Was she having an affair with Claudius before the death of Old Hamlet? Does Gertrude know that Claudius killed her former husband? Why does she drink the poisoned wine her husband has prepared for her son? Does she know it’s poisoned
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