Andrea has graduated and wants to be a future journalist. She goes for an interview at Runway Magazine to be Miranda Priestley’s new assistant. Surprisingly she gets the job that "a million girls would kill for" but yet Andrea herself is not interested in fashion. Miranda Priestly is the big boss as she is the editor and chief of Runway Magazine. Miranda is known to be the hardest person to work for as she is not impressed very easily, she expects perfection, she is terribly mean to everyone and that works for Runway Magazine.
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” ~Plato. In The Chosen by Chaim Potok, every character fights their own battle, whether large or small. Few characters in this novel show compassion towards other ’s suffering with more difficult struggles.
In the novel A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines, Grant is a main character that has a lot of influence over the people in his community. Some might even consider him a hero. I believe that Grant is a hero because he helps Jefferson become a man, changes himself for the better, and wants to continue changing the community. Over the course of the novel, Grant helps Jefferson become the man that he needs to be in order to walk to his death with honor. When Grant first begrudgingly went to visit Jefferson in prison Jefferson was in a really low state.
The Cruelties of Silence Have you ever seen someone sitting alone in the school cafeteria during lunch, and wonder why that person was alone? Were they waiting for their friends? Were they new? Were they studying? None of these explanations were why Melinda, the main character of the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson was sitting alone during lunch.
“tell them im strong tell them im a man good by mr wigin. ”(Gaines, 234). In A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines, Jefferson was wrongly convicted of being a murderer and robbing a store and was sentenced to death. Jefferson's meaningful relationships with Grant and other characters help him to realize he is human and help him become one again. Grants meaningful relationships with Jefferson and others help him improve his mental state and change how he thinks.
It is estimated that 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel somehow managed to beat those odds. Sadly there was no one there to save Elie, the protagonist of Night, from the misery and distress that he would experience as he went through the Holocaust. He survived harsh beatings, sickness, hunger, thirst, dysentery, and all the other forms of death that plagued his environment. All this would not come without a toll on who Elie was as a character, causing him to undergo a dynamic change.
What begins the changes in Montag and what are the changes in him? In Ray Braudbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag undergoes major changes because of the influence of other intellects and events; in effect this caused him to ruminate about events that were considered “normal”. Montag’s occupation is firefighting, however he is not the traditional version of a fire fighter. Montag does not put out fire, but rather helps ignite them.
In the book “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, it’s about a little girl who is pressured by her mother to become something she doesn’t want to be. Jing- mei , the daughter, is forced to become a prodigy(child actress), by her mother, and she doesn’t want to be one. In the story, Jing- meis’ mother uses allusions such as Shirley Temple to push her into becoming a prodigy. Although at first Jing- mei is excited to become a prodigy, she later realizes its something she just doesn’t enjoy doing. Consequently, the uses of allusion in the story help Jing- mei discover to not be a prodigy and that what her mother wants for her is not always important.
The Radicalized Mind Joesph Strorm is a loyal brute, an extremist. He is an unwavering leader to Waknuk and the Repentances. He would sacrifice anything for his religion. Joseph is the kind of character that will do what he believes in with asking anyone one else. He is very cantankerous and hard to deal with and is a huge threat to David.
Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur made many discoveries that helped the world. His medical accomplishments include cures for rabies, anthrax, chicken cholera, and silkworm disease. He also contributed toward our first vaccines. His approach to scientific research and his methods are seen to have transformed science. His medical achievements make him an important part of the history of medicine (Discovery of Pasteurization, n.d.).
• MIND IS THE SOURCE OF WEALTH She strongly believes that mind is at the root of creation and maintenance of wealth. It is the competent thinkers who create wealth and promote human economic prosperity through innovation and the creation of new enterprises. In her book the passionate producers known as the “Prime movers” like Dagny Taggart, Hank Rearden reshape the marketplace with their innovation and creation of a new enterprise. In John Galt’s speech he says “the man who produces an idea in any field of rational endeavor the man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity.”
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close September 11, 2001 is remembered as one of the most tragic days in American history. Yet in the days after, people all united together to support each other. In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, Oskar, a nine year old boy, thinks of a solution that is a little unique through his imagination - a birdseed shirt for the people who leaped from the towers, falling to their deaths, to escape the incinerating heat of the flames. Throughout this novel, just like the example above, characters use their imaginations, art, and creativity to express their inner selves and heal their emotional wound from the world. Oskar tries to push aside any depression he feels so keenly throughout the
Today in recent news from our very own messenger we came to find that the once great city of thebes that was on its way to it's own demolish since it's king laius died and was replaced by a young man named Oedipus,has regained it's livelyness back but not in a good way. We have learned that the new king Oedipus was the son of Laius and Jocasta though he had no idea since he was sent to be killed he then became the son of polybus and his wife. The reason for him being sent off was because of an horrible oricle, that oricle has come true he came to the the place where three roads met and murdered his own father and his army. He then became king of thebes and married the lady Jocasta and bared children with neither one knowing that they where mother
To be trapped in one's own mind may be the worst prison imaginable. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", the narrator of the story is constantly at battle with many different forces, such as John, her husband, the yellow wallpaper that covers the walls of her room, and ultimately herself. Throughout the story the narrator further detaches herself from her life and becomes fixated on the yellow wallpaper that surrounds her in her temporary home, slowly driving her mad. The narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a major and dynamic character as she is the main character of the story, and throughout the story her personality and ways of thinking change drastically.
I have chosen topic 3. Compare and contrast Grace and Jo-Anne. In the short story “The Slip-over Sweater” by Jesse Stuart, the main character Shan is also the narrator. That means we see everything through his eyes, including the two most important girls in his life, Grace and Jo-Anne.
