Jonathan is the main character of the book “The Fighting Ground” by Avi. To provide further information, Jonathan is a thirteen-year-old boy who wishes to fight in the American Revolution, like his father, brother, and cousin. He is brave, naive, a bit of a dimwit at times, and a convincing liar. He is also a bit of a pushover, and seems to be easily frightened. However, some of that has changed by the end of the book.
In The Scarlett and the Black, Colonel Kappler was in charge of occupying Rome during World War II. He was a very complicated character with two totally different sides to him. His words display this contrast between his need for control and intense love of his family. One of the Colonel's first statements was "My duty is to maintain order in the streets, discourage resistance, and round up escaped prisoners.". This was in response to Pope Pius XII's inquiry about the Nazis caring about safety.
With descriptions of their mundane school grounds, unsightly home lives, and the rough and tough appearance of the boys, Joshua Davis paints vivid portraits of the main characters of his novel. While thumbing through the novel, I could feel the fear associated with the constant threat of deportation, and the anxiety of wondering if their families were going to be there when they returned home. When it was revealed that the boys had succeeded in winning the competition, I felt a physical wave of happiness and relief wash over me. This kind imagery and ability to translate emotion is essential in telling a story such as this, because a person truly needs to be able to place themselves in the shoes of those boys to be able to fully appreciate
He is a scraggly little kid and is homeless. He runs everywhere and he is very cool. He can do many things and
Darrell Mercer is a small kid from Philadelphia who is moving to California and meets a bully named Troy Hobbs. Darrell is getting bullied a lot and gets tired of it. He also asks a girl to the dance named amber Lynn. And he also joins the wrestling team to get stronger and to get more confident.
Lieutenant John Dunbar from the book “Dances With Wolves” by Michael Blake is an American soldier who is eventually became a comanche who can be described as courageous and smart through the obstacles he has faced that gave him a purpose too his life. At first, Lieutenant Dunbar has two wives and a family at home that he left to fight in the civil war and be patriotic. However, over time Lieutenant Dunbar becomes Dances With Wolves and has outstanding qualities of curiousness, and is very witty the same and finds his true friends. First, Lieutenant Dunbar is characterized as intelligent and observant of his surroundings unlike most people. For instance, when he was staying at the abandoned Fort Sedgewick he first saw a wolf across from a
In the novel, “Crackback”, we follow Miles Manning throught not his 11th grade high school year but his 11th grade football season. Miles is a well rounded character that has some conflict with his father. In the book, Miles has to adapt to multiple changes to his football team roster due to a series of unfortunate injuries with not only players, but with his favorite coach. It also show that Miles is pressured into doing steroids even though he knows it's not god for his body. Mile’s is honest, calm, and very friendly.
Forrest must deal with everyone calling him an idiot, throughout the book people call Forrest an idiot and he hates it. Everywhere he goes, he must deal with it when he goes to space the newspapers read “Woman, Ape and Idiot in Next U.S space effort”, “Girl, Goon, and Gorilla to Lift Off Today”, and “Up They Go-But Who’s in Charge?” (Groom, 2014. Pg. 110).
An unreliable narrator is someone who we as the readers can’t fully trust, usually because of their personality, obvious bias, or in the case of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, a mental illness. Any reason that would cause us to question the validity of a narrator's opinion within the context of the story might be filed under unreliable. We take what these narrators tell us with a grain of salt because we know their view of the world is influenced by something else. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms defines unreliable narrator as “a narrator whose accounts of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted, so that it departs from the 'true' understanding of events shared between the reader and the implied author. The discrepancy between the unreliable narrator's view of events and the view that readers suspect to be more accurate creates a sense of irony”.
For every protagonist, there is an antagonist lurking around the corner. They are viewed as vicious, evil people or concepts going out of their way to sabotage the main character. This does not pertain to some antagonists, but in this case, the stereotype holds true. Montag does seem to star in the song I Am My Own Worst Enemy by Lit, but Captain Beatty’s wrongdoings overrule, showcasing him as the prominent bad guy. Captain Beatty is the main antagonist of Fahrenheit 451, because of his occupation, his chosen ignorance, and his representation of society.
Before considering leaderships between different leaders in Band of Brothers, it’s important to note that everybody has a different way of leading and is a good leader on their own. The three people that have shown the greatest leadership in the series, “Bands of Brothers,” are Lieutenant Winters, Lieutenant Speirs, and Sergeant Lipton. Some traits that they all have in common is that they are great leaders and are willing to sacrifice themselves to save others. Additionally, their braveness helped the struggling soldiers fight through the battle field. If the three brave soldiers were to be ranked based on their leadership, Lt. Winters would be ranked first, Sgt.
In the novel, Tomorrow When The War Began, by John Marsden is about eight teenagers who confronted a situation that is out of their security and are trying to save their families. Fi, Homer, and Ellie are few of the characters that showed courageousness in the novel; finding out their unknown courage, taking risks, and not giving up to everything that happens. It is some of John Marsden’s message about courage. The characters also demonstrate it while they were in conflict with the soldiers who invaded their town and imprison their families in the Showground. Courage is what Ellie has that she never thought she had.
Miles understands that the governess thinks of him as innocent and pure, so he plots with his sister to achieve their goal of ridding Bly of the governess. Mrs. Grose also aids the children in their scheme by believing the crazy things the governess is telling her, leading the governess to trust her. The governess is unable to deal with Miles being expelled from school because he presents himself as angelic. Because of this, “The governess betrays a notable lack of insight into the psychology of adolescent males when she tells herself further that Miles is "too fine and fair for the little horrid, unclean school-world" with its "stupid, sordid headmasters" and "vin- dictive" majority of common boys (182). The governess here reveals both the maternal protectiveness and sexual self- consciousness which will distinguish her throughout the tale” (Bontly 725).
By the end of the book Miles is searching for answers. Why did she leave? How could she just kiss him and then leave like that? Miles, in the end is truly, Looking For Alaska.
Stephanie Plum, Morelli, and Ranger are three main characters in the book, One for the Money, by Janet Evanovich. Stephanie is a young woman struggling to get by in the city of Trenton, New Jersey. After losing her job, she goes against her family’s request and gets the dangerous job of a bounty hunter. She gets assigned Joe Morelli, who was accused of murder and who happened to be a childhood enemy. Stephanie is very inexperienced and receives help from a professional bounty hunter, Ranger.
