Billie Jo struggle with a lot of things but her biggest struggle is getting away from the dust. Billie Jo friend Livie Killian is leaving Oklahoma and going to California. Billie Jo says, “And I’m wondering what kind of friend I am, wanting my feet on that road to another place, instead of Livie’s” (9). Billie Jo is feeling guilty because she wishes it was her leaving instead of Livie. Billie Jo, runs away and gets on a train to leave the dust of Oklahoma behind.
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin (1884), narrated by the protagonist Huck, Mark Twain shows the moral development of Huck on his journey down the Mississippi river with Jim, a runaway slave on his pursuit to civilization as he escape, not only his father but from morality, racial injustice and the societal constraints in which he lives. In contrast, Nella Larsen Passing (1929) is cantered around the protagonist Irene and childhood friend Clare as she interrogates the racial identity in Harlem New York. Like Larsen who is of mixed race, she represents Irene as part of this ambiguous racial identity group, and question the concept of “passing” in a racialized society. Ironically, Irene herself could pass but she refuses to do so,
For me to be a good change agent, I would bring my talent of being understanding. I would be understanding of every situation, and allow my sensitivity to shine through. To be a change agent that will make a difference, I would bring my talent of being authentic, and going with how I feel. I would want to provide the best for everyone, and would love to change things for the
“Mr. Freeman is ugly. Big old grasshopper body, like a stilt- walking circus guy. Nose like a credit card sunk between his eyes. But he smiles at us as we file into class”(10).
Cathy Ames has been criticized because she is completely evil. It has expressed throughout the novel that Cathy is inhuman. She has no emotion, no feelings, and no good in her. Many state that she is a symbol for Satan or a witch, who is pawn of Satan. People go so far in declaring that she is one of these evil spirits because even from birth she was filled with extreme evil and darkness, lacking characteristic that make up a human.
Change is always inevitable. It will always happen whether people like it or not. However, many people are then faced with a momentous decision, should they accept, reject, or ignore change. Although rejecting and ignoring change might help in the short term, people should accept change because it brings them to happiness and a peace of mind, as demonstrated by Siddhartha’s journey to enlightenment in Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha. When Siddhartha accepted change, it allowed him to regain his happiness and restart his progress towards enlightenment.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, written by Katherine Boo, is about residents of Annawadi, a slum in Mumbai, India. These slums of Mumbai force kids to grow up faster than anywhere else on the planet. Forcing kids to work as soon as they can walk, and press them into tough situations. The book details the lives of the female slumlord, Asha, and her daughter Manju. Asha is part of the corrupt system of government, and wants her daughter to be just like her when she grows up.
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything” -George Bernard. Change will always be hard, but you need adjustment to happen for progress. Being able to accept development is hard but it is not impossible, accepting changes makes it easier to pursue through tasks. Change is a huge part of growing up.
In “The Sea of Monsters” the three main characters are Percy, Annabeth and Tyson. I believe that Percy is a Capricorn, Annabeth is a Scorpio and Tyson is a Sagittarius. Firstly I believe that Percy is a Capricorn because of he is Brave, Loyal, and Stubborn. He is Brave by accepting an adventure that saves the school, and his mother.
The internal conflict in this book is mainly that the main character, Cammie, lost her memory of that summer and really wants it back. When Cammie is first accepting her memory loss she says to her mom, “I’ll remember, Mom. I’ll get better and I’ll fight this and I’ll remember” (26) and when her mom says no to this, she says, “But I need to know” (27). This shows the internal conflict because she lost a summer’s worth of memories and she desperately wants to know what happened.
Through my contemporary years of being teenager, I struggled with change. More specifically, “change” as in observing it rather than adjusting to it. While change may be a cliché that many other applicants might have written about, it is not a topic, from my perspective at least, to dismiss so easily. Moreover, the challenge I dealt with is crucial to who I am mainly due to the fact that I continue this process to this day. The change I came to know never had a specific time frame; instead, it existed with me since my birth.
Andy Warhol once said, “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself”. Change is affected by time and by people in different ways. A negative change can ultimately have a positive outcome. Change is not always bad, but in order for it to be good you need to make it good. Change occurs all the time, and it happens to everyone at one point in his or her life.
Daisy Miller is a flamboyant, tease from Schenectady, NY. She is traveling all around Europe with her mother and brother, Randolph. Daisy comes from a wealthy family. She is vibrant, individualistic, and well meaning but Daisy is also superficial, ignorant, and conceited. She is also very manipulative when it comes to men.
Change hosts of multitude of amazing opportunities–an opportunity to learn and grow, an opportunity for new beginnings and finally an opportunity way to improve life. Change should be looked upon as an opportunity instead of a threat. I was one of those many individuals that created a barrier from change and chose to hide. My outlook on change was entirely altered upon my transfer to a new school. Change made me a better and happier human being.
We may see his choice to claim Liza as a moral win, but more importantly, we can see his choice as a self-serving act of image construction. The image that Ryder has created is the self-made man. He worked his way from the bottom to the top. The self-made man story paints him as the good guy, the hero, the role model. Ryder has taken on the responsibility of the good guy with vigor; lecturing his followers and presenting them with ways of living that include absorption of white culture.
