On the reading, The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown brought great story of Joe Rantz and Roger Morris and crew mates who brought a gold medal from Olympics during the time of the great depression and war. After reading the chapter 1 & 2, I have learned a lot things about Joe from his background life which also relates me back to the attachment theory by John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth as I learned from last week lecture. In the theory of attachment, I found patterns of insecure avoidant in Joe’s life that impact him who he is today. Insecure avoidant took place childhood year, when Joe was four year old; he had a small glimpse of memories’ of his mother passing away during in lung cancer which alternately changes his life upside down and leaves
One of the things that makes the Lions of Little Rock such a revolutionary and fruitful novel for theme is how it plays with the ideas of freedom. The main character Marlee starts off the novel with a reluctant and cynical perception of community, but decides to make a change after meeting Liz. Liz provides to Marlee what not even she can, and that’s the receptive comfort of loving Marlee for who she is. Liz, at least to me, is one of the most cultured and thorough characters to be penned in a book because she invokes a sense of real happiness. One beautiful example that ties the two together is when they are separated.
Cleaning houses are a girl’s best friend. Or is it diamonds? In The Dirt Diary, by Anna Staniszewski, the main character, Rachel Lee, must clean houses with her mother in order to pay back the money that she stole until her mom finds out about her purchase. Rachel uses the money to buy a one way ticket to Florida, where her father ran off to, to bring him home.
Can mere mortals with hold magical abilities? In the Lake of The Woods, a mystery war novel written by Tim O’Brien, whose major theme is that not every problem has a solution, but may present a different outlook on the problem and aspects surrounding it. The main character, John Wade, uses magic to hide his manipulation and deception in order to put on a smiling face on a daily basis. As a result of wanting to carry on his deceit, he ventures into the political world, while putting his wife,Kathy Wade, through misery. Kathy hated the political life style and gatherings, in this degree she was secretly relieved when he was unable to become a U.S. Senator.
Have you ever gone through the desert with only a small gourd of water? Well, the Lost boys of Sudan went through South Sudan to get away from the war, and some other challenges. In the book a Walk to Water Salva and Nya have problems of getting water, but Salva is based on a real person who went through the challenges of losing his family and the brutal Sudanese war. These are some of the challenges he faced and how he solved them with what he had throughout his life. Through harsh challenges Salvas new foster family was always there for him to support and encourage him through tough times.
Then, the TV show Fresh Off the Boat came. I didn’t know what to expect in the beginning of watching this show, but this show showed me humor that allowed me to accept the stereotypes I face almost every day. This show is a recreated version of a book called Fresh Off the Boat written by a hip-hop loving chef, named Eddie Huang, on how he grew up as a Chinese kid in the 1990s. With the show he seems to act like an “OG” (Original Gangster) trying to live his life with the influence of many role models like, Notorious B.I.G, Tupac, Shaq and his video game Shaq Fu, and also many others.
Beneatha’s Choice In the year Lorraine Hansberry’s play, “A Raisin in the Sun”, was written women weren’t meant for anything more than taking care of home. Beneatha a main character in the play wants to be a doctor. Beneatha’s family wants her to get married.
Mark Smith the author of “The Road to Winter” exhibits that in times of affliction brings out the very finest and least in people. The content is centred around the main character Finn. He remained alive through a pernicious virus that wiped out his entire town and has had to adapt to a life by himself since he lost his family and friends. He learnt to kill animals, defend himself and a whole lot more. Out of the blue a mystery girl shows up with a secret that changed Finns terrene.
“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a story about a man, Sanger Rainsford, whose ideals and overall character change throughout the story, specifically about hunting, due to his encounter with General Zaroff. At the beginning of the story Rainsford is a stuck up man. He could not care less about any other living things other than humans. He believes all living wildlife are expendable and only there for his pleasure of hunting. During the story Rainsford has to make many quick and overall difficult decisions during his encounters with the ocean, General Zaroff, and the island wilderness to survive, that change how he thinks about animals.
According to Victor and Edith Turner, a liminoid pilgrimage is a “[rite] of transition marked by three phases: separation, limen or margin, and aggregation” (p. 2). In Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods, all of the characters go to the woods and take part in those same three phases outlined by the Turners. They learn lessons on their journey and come out as changed people that barely resemble the characters in the traditional stories. In this way, Into The Woods is the musical liminoid pilgrimage of classic storybook characters.
Mystic River is a modern orchestration of any Shakespearian drama, with all characters hiding ulterior motives and peculiar relationships to one another. Exploring the outlandish plots that ultimately leads to the characters of Jimmy Markum and Sean Devine facing their responsibility in the abduction of their childhood friend Dave Boyle, there is much reason to stop and consider the other characters involved in the complicated line of events throughout this movie. One great example of this is the character of Annabeth Markum, wife of Jimmy Markum, who is a very devoted housewife and mother in the Markum house, but beneath that surface, there is a woman who is extremely jealous of any other woman who comes in to contact with her husband. Annabeth not only considers Jimmy 's daughter from his previous marriage, Katie, a burden, but also a competitor for her husband 's affection, and encourages Jimmy to distance himself from her. Right before her daughter Nadine 's first communion, and co-incidentally before Katie 's disappearance, Annabeth lays down a sly remark about how Katie has made a habit of ruining special events for the family, and makes an attempt to portray Katie as unreliable much to her husband 's disdain.
Megan Tse Ms. Jassal ENG2DZ 11 December 2022 Self Growth in The Boat People and How to Pronounce Knife “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” (Rowling). In The Boat People by Sharon Bala, one of the main characters, Grace, struggles with her Japanese-Canadian identity and her mother’s sudden interest in internment. Similarly, the child in How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa encounters challenges due to her cultural identity and her immigrant family. While Grace and the child both endure the struggles that come with having immigrant parents and are given opportunities to change, only the child shows growth and acceptance with her father in comparison to Grace’s ignorant
Planning Page Template Prompt Question: Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator about the role adversity plays in shaping an individual’s identity. Identity: Tim O’Brien thought of himself as an indisputable hero, the Lone Ranger, he exuded confidence, courageous. Adversity: Tim had been drafted to fight in the Vietnam war, a war of which he didn’t endorse and thought was frivolous and brainless. Over the course of the the story Tim endures a difficult man vs self conflict, can’t decide whether he wants to be seen as a coward if he flees to Canada or see himself as a coward if he allows societal pressures to override his values and beliefs on the war.
In The Bass the River and Sheila Mant, W.D. Wetherell uses character development of Sheila and internal conflict of the narrator in order to show that the choices you make to please others are not as good as the choices you make to help yourself. In the beginning, the narrator explains character development to describe Sheila and why she is so desirable. The narrator likes Sheila so much because she is a little bit older than him and that makes it harder to be with her, which drives the narrator more and more. The narrator is describing Sheila, in the beginning of the story to show how interested he is with her.
Forgiveness is the action or process of forgiving or being forgiven. (Hawkins, 1994, P. 206) My personal understanding of the parable ‘The Prodigal Son” is that it portrays the importance of reasoning and forgiveness. The main characters in the parable are two sons and a betrayed father. The father remains constant throughout the parable, although he has being betrayed by his younger son.
