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Influence Of Identity In To Kill A Mockingbird

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50163 1016 English 1.6 18 May 2023 The Authors Influence on a Characters Identity In multiple books written by various different authors, usually the biggest part of a book is the characters, these characters all have their own identity, it is the author's job to form that identity and explain who and what influences the character(s) identity. Books like Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand or To Kill a Mockingbird by Piper Lee and, I Am Malala by Malala Yusufazi, all do an excellent job forming a character's identity by using the people and culture around them. For example in To Kill a Mockingbird the main character is a young girl named Scout. Scout lives in segregated Alabama in the 1930s. One of Scout's biggest influences is her father Atticus, …show more content…

In this book it talks about a Native American boy who is born with major health differences and the book is mainly about his life on the Reservation. Junior deals with many different hardships over the course of this book, he is bullied for his differences and he and his parents are not really involved with each other, he also grows up very poor. Junior acts a certain way in life, instead of seeing things positively he sees everything negatively. Junior looks upon his own culture at times \, for example when his sister dies, he is awaiting his father to come pick him up, and he worries about his father crashing his car and says, “Oh, man, wouldn't that just be perfect? Yep, how Indian would that be? Imagine the stories I could tell. "Yeah, when I was a kid, just after I learned that my big sister died, I also found out that my father died in a car wreck on the way to pick me up from school." (Alexie 203). He says how Indian would that be, talking about both his father and sister dying, he says this because Junior had lived in such pain his whole life and so much agony that it wouldn’t surprise him if both his sister and father died on the same day, he even jokes about it a bit. If Junior was not living his life on the reservation, and was instead living a nice comfortable life in someplace like in Bozeman, he …show more content…

In this book it talks about a Native American boy who is born with major health differences and the book is mainly about his life on the Reservation. Junior deals with many different hardships over the course of this book, he is bullied for his differences and he and his parents are not really involved with each other, he also grows up very poor. Junior acts a certain way in life, instead of seeing things positively he sees everything negatively. Junior looks upon his own culture at times \, for example when his sister dies, he is awaiting his father to come pick him up, and he worries about his father crashing his car and says, “Oh, man, wouldn't that just be perfect? Yep, how Indian would that be? Imagine the stories I could tell. "Yeah, when I was a kid, just after I learned that my big sister died, I also found out that my father died in a car wreck on the way to pick me up from school." (Alexie 203). He says how Indian would that be, talking about both his father and sister dying, he says this because Junior had lived in such pain his whole life and so much agony that it wouldn’t surprise him if both his sister and father died on the same day, he even jokes about it a bit. If Junior was not living his life on the reservation, and was instead living a nice comfortable life in someplace like in Bozeman, he

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