Hoang 2 Hoang 3 Lauren Hoang Mr. Hudson English I-C 19 March‚ 2014 Villain Today; Hero Tomorrow In Shakespeare’s _The Tempest_‚ the enigmatic antihero Prospero walks a fine line between sympathetic and dislikeable. An antihero is a central character in a story‚ movie‚ or drama that lacks conventional heroic attributes. Prospero possesses qualities normally not ascribed to the conventional good-guy‚ such as hypocrisy and selfishness‚ but also displays more human and identifiable traits like protectiveness
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The average nine year old has a panic attack when they lose sight of their family at the grocery store; now imagine being a nine year old lost in the isolation that is the mountains of Maine. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King is told in a third person omniscient point of view mostly following the main protagonist‚ Trisha McFarland. Trisha is a nine year old girl growing up in a broken home surrounded by a pugnacious teenage brother and a short tempered mother. Let’s not forget to mention
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As in any novel‚ the characters of A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt are portrayed by the author as positive‚ neutral‚ or negative characters. In this particular book‚ the characters are excellent subjects to utilize the positive/negative analysis on because the characters in this book are scattered about the positive and negative spectrum. Some of the main characters are portrayed as purely negative; others are represented by the author as genuinely good people or as neutral individuals. However
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Neil Gadingan Mr. Bambrick English Period 1 Speak In the novel Speak‚ by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ Melinda Sordino is the protagonist who was raped and traumatized in a summer party. She was unable to speak as she became emotionally distressed. She struggled in school as she was not focused and her relationship with other people changed negatively ."When people don’t express themselves‚ they die one piece at a time." p122. The essence of the story is about secrets and what it can do to a
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Conrad Jarrett the protagonist in the movie Ordinary People is the son of Calvin and Beth Jarrett. A lack of communication and denial between the members of the family is seen after the death of the oldest son Buck. Conrad struggled to cope after the death of his brother and attempted to commit suicide but failed‚ forcing him to be hospitalized. After he was released from the hospital Conrad was trying to get his life back to normal‚ but he was very depressed and felt he had very little purpose in
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Ophelia: Character analysis Ophelia‚ a young beautiful woman‚ is known to be the young daughter of Polonius‚ sister to Laertes‚ and Love interest to Hamlet. In the play‚ Ophelia is stuck between her obedience to her father and her love for Hamlet‚ which seems to possess some tragic consequences. Ophelia is the archetypal obedient daughter‚ a role required to be played by all young women in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. When her father orders her to
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The character of Curley’s wife in John Steinbeck’s classic novel Of Mice and Men seems insignificant and one-dimensional. Curley’s wife is considered nameless and flirtatious. Curley’s wife has yet to establish an identity for herself. The "context" of her life has left her deprived of many of the established means necessary for the development of an identity. It is undiluted that Steinbeck omits both a name and a definite identity in his creation of Curley’s wife in order to accurately portray her
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Analyzing a Literary Character in a Short Story Using Systemic Grammar This paper will apply the features of systemic grammar in analyzing a major character in a short story‚ that is‚ Ernest Hemingway’s A Clean Well-lighted Place. This story tells about an old man whom the details of his life are revealed through the conversation of the young waiter and the old waiter. The old waiter understands as much as the young waiter despises the old man’s staying in the café all night. As the young waiter
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What makes a dynamic character? A dynamic character is s character that changes throughout a novel because of a life event the character faces. A great example of this is Sophia Calderwel from Sophia’s War by Avi. This is a story about 3 years of a girls life from 1776 when the revolutionary war was still going on. After her brothers death she feels as if she has to avenge his death‚ so decides to become a spy. In this book Sophia is a dynamic character because she went from being a scared stubborn
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Based on the novel that I have read entitled ‘Around The World In 80 Days’ written by Jules Vurne‚ the character that I disliked the most is Detective Fix. He was the detective that despatched from England in search of the bank robber. I disliked him the most because he was a greedy person. He made decision without thinking and investigating what the truth was about. Fix was driven by the prize money that was promised if he managed to capture the criminal. Unfortunately‚ Phileass Fogg’s gentleman
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