In stories there is always a character who is the hero of the adventure. They are strong‚ independent‚ and motivated. The hero Odysseus‚ from The Odyssey‚ is an epic hero‚ while Okonkwo‚ from Things Fall Apart‚ is a tragic hero. For Odysseus‚ his task is to sail back home after the Battle of Troy‚ while facing the fury of the gods. After many challenges with different powerful influences‚ Odysseus must use his master of schemes skills to find his way home. With the help of the god‚ Athena‚ and his
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In Marie de France’s Lanval‚ the main character is a man named Lanval who seems to be an all around honorable man. The story starts out with Lanval being part of King Arthur’s following. He is a prince from a far away kingdom‚ and so he is ostracized. Because of this‚ he tries his hardest to make friends with the knights- he is valiant‚ brave‚ generous‚ and everything a knight should be‚ but it is for this reason that they begin to dislike him (pg 1408‚ line 19). When Arthur “forgets” to give Lanval
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Allegiant is all about sacrificing for the safe of the other. The main character Beatrice "Tris" Prior‚ is like a prison in where she lived. She is very strong woman that can fight for the peace of her country ang for the safe of it. Tris want to escape from her city because she want to be free. So Tris lies her way out of jail‚ and she was approached by a group called the Allegiant‚ whose has goal to get out from thier city. This plan is looking better and better because Evelyn‚ Tobias’s mom‚ is
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is a deranged character throughout the play. Towards the end she gets even worse. It all starts out because she’s in love with John Proctor from whom she had an affair with. She does everything she does to try to get John to be with her. One night when Tituba and the other girls went out in the woods to dance around a fire Abby brought a chicken. She drank the chicken’s blood and sacrificed it into the fire in hope that Elizabeth proctor would die. When Betty wouldn’t wake up from her sleep while
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In the story Otomen the readers were introduced to a very interesting character named Asuka. This character is a very popular high school student who is very athletic‚ and smart. He was famous with the name "the men’s man " At first he acted very mature and manly in front of everyone around him. He joined every sports club in school and usually won many sports prizes‚ he got good grades‚ and always avoid sweets because he thought that eating sweets would make him look less manly but no one know another
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Character Analysis: ____chapter 3__________________ Your task is to choose a character from the novel and draw a picture of them in the first box. Surround your picture with quotes from the novel‚ as well as adjectives describing their appearance. Next‚ describe your character’s personality‚ family‚ and the conflicts he/she is facing in the story. You must have at least 5 points in each category and evidence from the novel. For example: Daniel is a ‘”free spirit” because in Chapter 3 he disguises
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historical views of gender in major empires. Despite the stigmas against them‚ eunuchs were made to fit by the very people who thought they were wrong. In the book Maurice by E. M. Forster‚ there happens a scene where a couple men bully a flamboyant character named Risely for his mannerism and they hurt him by calling him a eunuch. This is quickly followed by the line of someone coming to his rescue‚ saying‚ "You could call your cousin a shit if you liked‚ but not a eunuch." It is peculiar that the term
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A character study of Kissing Kate Barlow In the book Holes‚ by Louis Sachar‚ I chose the character Miss Katherine Barlow also known as Kissing Kate Barlow. Miss Katherine was first a schoolteacher‚ but then was the most feared outlaw. In the book you find out the story of how she became an outlaw from a schoolteacher. Miss Katherine Barlow was a sweet schoolteacher from the nineteenth century at Green Lake. She is also known for her beauty and her spiced peaches: “...full of knowledge
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bowl and is slowly dying‚ 90% of the population is farmers and all they can grow is corn. Copper who is the main character finds NASA’s secret home. He found this place with the help of his daughter Murph‚ they came by sand coordinates in Murph’s room during a dust storm. This is assumed to be left by Murph’s “ghost.” Murph’s ghost leaves secret messages for Murph by dropping books from her shelf. When Cooper finds this secret home for Nasa he figures out that Nasa has found a new planet via wormhole
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The character Spaz is a teenager that doesn’t knows a lot about himself. All he knows is he has to live by Billy Bizmo’s rules and stay alive. When Spaz was little‚ he was put in a unit home and then he had a sister name Bean. Spaz loved Bean like she was apart of him. Then he finds out that Bean has this disease called leukemia. She was always sick and even though he was scared and confused he always stays beside her. Spaz was the only one that could give her the medicine she needed by taking her
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