Jean Valjean is transformed many times throughout the story; he is reincarnated when being forced to face bad situations that occur and turn his life around. Despite his struggles‚ Valjean finds love and hope in a little girl named Cosette. Valjean changes himself so that he can provide a good life for Cosette. Cosette and Valjean learn to live together and support each other through their struggles despite the pain the Thenardiers have brought them. Although Jean Valjean and Cosette are regenerated
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Do people really change based on their past? I believe they do. Chinua Achebe‚ wrote the novel‚ Things Fall Apart. The main character‚ Okonkwo‚ has a hard childhood. Later in his life he becomes very wealthy and has a big family. Okonkwo makes some big mistakes‚ but we can believe he learns from them. In the end of the book‚ Okonkwo kills himself after he kills a Christian missionaries. We can think Okonkwo does learn from his mistakes because now he cares about his family more‚ he thinks about his
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Divergent is about a girl who goes on a journey to find her strengths and weaknesses by doing what she believes in and what she enjoys doing. Tris changes a lot in her physical appearance as well as in the way she thinks after changing factions. Despite being a petite person‚ Tris manages to become mentally strong by the end of the book and think for herself. Since Tris was born and raised in the abnegation faction‚ she had to act like an Abnegation. The definition of Abnegation is “renunciation
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Charley has experiences that change him into a man. When Charley hears about a “shooting war‚” he gets caught up in all the hype and hurriedly leaves his hometown of Winona‚ Minnesota to join the First Minnesota Volunteers at Fort Snelling. He is only fifteen‚ and should not join the army until he turns eighteen‚ but he lies about his age and gets in. One would expect that
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Tituba : Caretaker and survivor “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change”-Albert Einstein. The book The Crucible by Arthur Miller touches base with the idea of change‚ by showing it throughout the characters. The book The Crucible is based off of Salem‚ Massachusetts in 1692. The book was written when McCarthyism was happening so Arthur Miller wrote the book to show the comparison between the salem witch trials and McCarthyism are one of the same. The character Tituba from Arthur
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Out of all the characters in The Crucible‚ none of them show quite as much development as Reverend John Hale. His character at the beginning of the play and his character at the end are almost completely different people. This change in character is caused by the trials that take place within the town and how Hale perceives them‚ and affects how the reader views his unique character. At the beginning of the play‚ the story introduces the young‚ naive John Hale. Parris has called for him to check
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People of higher power are calling on activists‚ and new laws are being made every day supporting this. Everywhere you go it’s all about energy effiency and new products being made that don’t give off CO2 emissions. It makes you wonder... does climate change really matter? Global warming is the increase of the earths average surface temperature caused by burning fossil fuels and releasing greenhouse gasses. Pretend the atmosphere is a decent blanket‚ not to thick not to thin‚ just good enough
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Conflict leads to change: Conflict is a capacious beast. A beast with unknown and dangerous qualities. It is unexpected and devastating‚ like a fire ripping through homes in a bushfire taking everything with it. Conflict messes with peoples minds and the way they act‚ making them treat others differently and making there life a train wreck. Conflict happens when people have different qualities and opinions. “10% of conflict are due to differences in opinion‚ 90% are due to the wrong tone
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Conrad’s main protagonist emerges‚ Charles Marlow. Marlow is in essence a normal man from England‚ but as the story progresses he becomes anything but normal. Throughout the book the reader can see Marlow’s "change‚" as caused by his exposure to the harsh and primal world that is the Congo. This change is minimally on a physical level and mostly on physiological and intellectual levels. Conrad emerges from the jungle a changed man‚ with new
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Positive Change Change is a process that can be seen differently by many people- some loving it‚ and others loathing. More often than not‚ change is a good thing for people to experience‚ for it can possibly make them better people. Many characters in Great Expectations have to experience and deal with change as well‚ such as Pip. Independence is a change most people have to experience in their lives‚ and helps shape them into more mature‚ better people. Pip has to be independent for the majority
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