The Doll House Character Analysis

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People find being accepted to be very hard. There are many situations where students and staff are criticize in school. In the story The Doll House, presents a young school girl around the age of 12, unaware of the cruel rules of society, where further in the story she finds herself in a hole when she has the option of joining the other girls in leaving others out or making everyone equal. Kezia Burnell, the main character of the story represents the meaning of acceptance, disobedience and forgiveness. There are many reasons why Kezia is the way she is, for starters she reveals her unprejudiced mind. In the story she is given a doll house which she explains every detail of it from the chimneys to the porch size. It is given that it is very …show more content…

She begins to show her classmates one by one and by the end of the week the doll house is the most popular topic since everyone was given the chance to see it. Kezia is the only character in the story who has any mercy for the Kelvey sisters. She does not realized why everyone discriminates them as human beings. She brushes off what they say about them as she invites them over: "It doesn't matter. You can come and see our doll's house all the same. Come on. Nobody's looking." As she speaks with the Kelvey sisters. Even after she was forbidden to even interact with them she still decided to risk her freedom for them to see her doll house. She did not understand why she was not allowed to invite them over after her mother said no. Kezia breaks the rules behind societies back. Being surrounded by people trying to influence your opinion on others could be irritating. According to the story, everyone in the community seemed to know better than to talk to someone that was not on their social level. Kezia first disobeyed her friends by instead of laughing at the Kelvey sisters, she welcomed them into her home. …show more content…

She knew she was still at a very young age to understand all the commotion on wealthy vs. poor, or the difference in people’s skin tone, or even on why people couldn’t be accepted as their own person, not just on what their parents do. She forgiving of her friends teasing, her mothers and aunt remark on them just let it slide. She forgave the townspeople saying cruel things like “the school the Brunell children went to was not at all the kind of place their parents would have chosen if there had been any choice. But there was none. It was the only school for miles.” Letting all the students and staff know it was not reach able to separate the kids. One symbolic item that stuck out was the lamp, as she gave it power to reveal equality. "The lamp's best of all," cried Kezia.” And not only the wealthiest girl found it fond of, but also the two Kelveys sister were inspired by the light instead of the doll house itself. "I see the little lamp," she said, softly. Then both were silent once more. All in all, Kezia in short period of time, showed growth in the story. She is given reasons to not accept others but she finds it in her heart that there is no reason too, that everyone deserves equality. You can see her action come naturally when she is given a task and she tries to do the right thing, even when her close friends and relatives tell her otherwise. By the end the story she ends up forgiving the sisters, her mom,