Carelessly sending a text while driving, Tim Thomas causes a multi-car crash resulting in the death of 6 strangers and his fiance. Not being able to cope with the deaths he caused, he sets a goal to save the lives of 7 good people, donating his vital organs along the way. Tim begins with donating a lung lobe to his brother. He then poses as an agent of the IRS with a stolen identification. He uses this as an advantage to check the backgrounds of any candidates for his donations and interviews them to see if they are “good people”.
Of Mice and Men How do you think society handle people who are different? People differently when I moved to Connecticut. Everyone talked about me and did not like me because I’m from Texas. Everyone called me dumb because I did not have the same education as everyone else. People use to say “You’ll never be as smart as me because you are from a dumb state.”
In a lot of stories, the characters are what makes a “great story,” but most characters a very different from each other, just like in the three stories, The Sniper, The Most Dangerous Game and Harrison Bergeron. They all share the same trait. Even though the characters share the same trait, they differ in their own ways. A way the Characters all share a similar trait is that Rainsford, Harrison and The Sniper are all very “brave.” One way the Harrison is very brave is that he stood up against a government who kills and locks up people that are “over average” “(different or better than normal).”
Edward Cullen is my favorite character in Twilight. He is a gorgeous vampire that is the love interest. He is good-hearted despite the fact that he thinks he is a monster. In the book he falls in love with main character, Bella. She is, in fact, a human.
Authors often create characters which serve as foils to the main characters in order to show contrast. Choose one character and discuss the similarities and differences between them then explain the implications to these comparisons. Young, female socialites cannot become heroes. This was the mindset of many people in the 1950s. However, Flavia DeLuce becomes exactly that during her quest to find the murderer of Mr.Sanders along with unravelling the tangled past of her father.
Many stories have characters who fight against wrongs in society. Mary Maloney of “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl and Guy Montag of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury are both characters who are happy with their lives in the beginning of the two stories, but both change who they are later on as they fight against wrongs. While there are definite differences between the motivations of Mary and Guy, the similarities between the characters are noticeable. In both stories the characters Mary and Guy are introduced as being happy and satisfied with life, they both are faced with challenges and become murderers, but the difference between the characters is how they fight back against wrongs. Both Mary Maloney and Guy Montag are happy with their lives in the beginning of story.
He stays true to himself by saving the girl in the river from a snake. The author notes that Edward “risked his own life to do it” pg. 26 when speaking of Edward’s rescue of the girl. This exemplification shows an extreme act of courage. Edward also displays bravery when he steals the eye from the college students to return to the old lady. Even though the men said that they would “take one of his eyes as recompense” pg 83 if he failed to return the eye, Edward boldly carries out this task.
If you were the richest person in the world what would you accomplish with all the money you had? Andrew Carnegie, an American Captain of Industry By far off the greatest profitable businessman during his age, Carnegie left his mark on industry, and ordinarily greatly impacted the expansion of business enterprise in America. Essentially, Carnegie rose from poverty to become one of the most influential, industrial men in history by single-handedly building the American steel industry. Andrew Carnegie was famously known for being a hero because he would provide plenty to the poor.
Burton’s exaggerated characters emphasize the fact that people around them will not accept them whenever they are different from the rest of them. For example, in Edward Scissorhands, a person in the town, on TV, asks Edward if he is going to replace
It wasn’t until Burton showed Edward’s face that both Pam and the audience realized that the mysterious man with weapons for hands was, in fact, a scared boy and nothing more. There's an obvious pattern in his films. When he introduces a character he often uses backlighting and low key lighting so they seem scary when you first see them.
For example, Boo Radley is not accepted because he does not fit into the social normalization that he should.. This is obvious by the way Jem describes Boo when he says, “There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped and he drooled most of the time” (Lee 16). Jem describes Boo as if he is a monster simply because Jem and the other people are unable to accept the fact that Boo is different. In reality, Boo is a great person; all of these characteristics are made up.
What Edward realized does not matter. What matters is the fact that realizing who you are and what you want to do makes the pain of puberty go away. You suddenly feel like you fit in a section and humans always are looking for where they belong. Tim Burton has many ideas and only some can be captured through his
Tim Burton uses drastic makeup to make the characters stand out from the crowd, which makes them an outsider to everyone else. In Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton makes Edward, the protagonist, look very dark and mysterious. Kim, Edward’s love interest, has a negative initial reaction to Edward because of his appearance. His appearance makes him look as if he is a monster, but Kim later figures out that he is very sweet, loving, and nowhere near what she thought he was like. Edward was a prime example on how appearance has no effect on who someone is on the inside.
In the beginning of the book, Edward Cullen is a very restrained person that wants to get away form Bella Swan. A quote in the book that really inrigued me to my theme was, “Edward’s back stiffens and he turns slowly to glare at me.” This
in a single statement of his: “I don't want to be a monster” (ibid.). He has the physical ability to be as destructive as his literary ancestors but what enhances him in comparison to them and the other vampires in the Twilight universe is his choice not to be, even though it is the harder choice. This demystifies Edward to some extent; he is not governed by his thirst like older vampires – or Heathcliff for that matter – but can decide whether he wants to be a 'superhero' or 'monster'. The decision for vampires to be 'good' is portrayed as a great effort against their natural instincts, considering how often the Cullens are compared to animals and do so themselves.
