During an argument with her father, Sara Smolinsky said, “My will is as strong as yours. I 'm going to live my own life. Nobody can stop me. I 'm not from the old country, I 'm American.” This is a quote from page 138 in the novel, Bread Givers.
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” (“inspirational quotes”) In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief Hans’ caring actions overcome the pernicious influence caused by the Nazi’s. He influences people to follow him because of his simple acts of kindness.
The main character was an outcast for the majority of the novel, but after her friends discovered the truth behind her past they accept her. Laurie Halse Anderson illustrates her presentation of friendship by using imagery and characterization to show that friends go through alot but always end up together. The author conveys the idea of friendship, by showing that friends
Florian is one of the four main characters in "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys. He is a young Prussian art restorer who is fleeing from the Soviet Union during World War II. Throughout the novel he experiences both internal and external conflicts. These experiences teach Florian that he has to learn to trust and rely on the other characters. These experiences lead Florian to change from being a solitary, independent person, to learn to trust and rely on others.
The undeniable influence of friendship Roughly 46% of Americans claim to have at least one true friend. In the novel, The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, Turner and Elwood were more than just friends. They were best friends, roommates, and brothers. The torture they endured at Nickel Acadamy, a reform school in Florida, was traumatic and heartless.
Imagine having to leave your first love when you just started dating. In the book, No Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt two boys run and run from home. They try their best to make money in the best way they can. Janey influences Josh because she is Josh’s first lover. On the bottom of page 209 and the top of 210, Janey said, “Yes,” she said, “I've been your girl ever since that afternoon you told me that I don't need to wear earrings like Emily.”
In The Outsiders, Darry Curtis plays a large role in influencing the gang and shaping their actions and attitudes. Darry is the oldest member of the gang and serves as a leader and protector, both to his brothers and to the other members of the gang. He finished high school with great grades and a football scholarship, but Darry decided to stay and help his brothers Ponyboy and Sodapop Curtis. He is also one of the most influential members of the gang. Darry demonstrates this by providing responsibility and maturity, teaching the gang how to be strong and be their own man, and he guides the gang to brotherhood and loyalty
“It’s amazing. Life changes very quickly in a positive way, if you let.” (Lindsey Vonn) The quote shows how Stanley let Zero guide a change in him. Through the influence of Zero’s friendship, Stanley changes from poor and unloyal to being wealthy and loyal.
Have you ever had one of those friends that you feel like you’re always in competition with? In the book, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the main characters, Gene and Phineas, or Finny, appear to be best friends. However, in Gene’s mind, they are always in competition with each other. Rather than friends, they are foes. Gene is a very complicated character in the sense that he has a lot of feelings and most of them are all at once.
Who knew something as simple as a mouse in a novel could lead readers to gathering the author's main purpose of the entire work? Mice in "Of Mice and Men" allow readers to futher understand characters' struggles in achieving their own American Dream. In John Steinbeck's, "Of Mice and Men," companions, Lennie and George, attempt to move closer to their American Dream as they work from farm to farm in order to one day own land for themselves. However, Lennie, the troublemaker, continues to force them to run away from each farm because of his accidental violent actions towards other individuals on the farms. By the end of the novel, George and Lennie's hope of owning their own land becomes unachievable because of Lennie's mistakes and the chaotic situations that he has caused.
A Separate Peace displays how fear and greed challenge, and ultimately destroy, the trust in the friendship between the ever-obedient Gene, and the resistant and curious Finny. “For all the camaraderie between them, these boys are still driven by pious old healthy competition, which at times can end up being, well, less than healthy” (Shmoop.com). This quote demonstrates how friendship is a confederacy of admiration, respect, jealousy and displeasure. It also shows how a friendship will always lead to some deliberation on subjects, potentially altering the very basis of a person’s mental model toward a shared goal. This shared goal, determined by divergent conclusions, will bring conflict, and ultimately, a mutual understanding.
Mary Stuard once said, "To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness." This quote portrays the importance of companionship by implying that feeling loved by those we love brings us closer to true happiness. The quote demonstrates that although we may like many people in the end, there are only a few that we will love, and to be loved by those we love moves us toward happiness. When a person does not have loved ones, it leads to a feeling of loneliness and a need to fill that hole which may lead to detrimental actions. Knowing a loved individual's cares can elevate someone from the most abysmal pits to the highest mountains.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton is about a young boy and his crew's life in Oklahoma as they battle crime, gang fights, poverty, and trauma. Johnny Cade is a traumatized and nervous young man who becomes more brave before his tragic death. In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton it states “I looked quickly at Johnny,an idea dawning on me. I remembered that it was a blue mustang that had pulled up aside the vacant lot and that Johnnys face had been cut up by someone wearing rings.
Theme: Friendship “In M. Waldman I found a true friend. His gentleness was never tinged by dogmatism, and his instructions were given with an air of frankness and good nature that banished every idea of pedantry. In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.” (pg.75) Victor has been exposed to a new way of thinking that doesn’t contain natural philosophy, and moreover, he has been exposed to a new environment where he must start fresh in a friendless community.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a novel written by Mark Twain, includes a boy named Tom Sawyer who can be described as clever and kind-hearted. One characteristic that Tom demonstrates through his actions is his cleverness explained by the quote “ … and by that form was the only vacant place on the girl’s side of the schoolhouse…I STOPPED TO TALK TO HUCKLEBERRY FINN”(p.48). When Tom confesses, he is thinking one step ahead of the teacher because the only reason he wanted to get in trouble was so that he can sit with the girl he likes, Becky Thatcher. He outsmarted the teacher because he was able to make the teacher think that sitting with the girls was something he would despise when in reality, it is exactly what he wanted. Because Tom is kind-hearted,
