Chapter Summary And Character Analysis: Divided

In the first point of this journal I will be evaluating the character David Thorpe in the book Quarantine: The Loners by Lex Thomas. The first thing you should know about David is that he is the protagonist of the story, along with his brother Will and more. David’s brother’s name is Will Thorpe and he protects him at all costs, which I will get into. David’s biggest enemy is probably Sam Howard who is the one his ex cheated on him with. David is also the leader of the group called The Loners. The reason he is the leader of a group called The Loners is because everyone else has formed into different types of “gangs” and or “groups”. Some examples of the group names are Nerds, Geeks, Freaks, Varsity, Pretty Ones, S****, and then there are those who aren’t in a group like David called “Loners”. A very big and noticeable character trait that

In New Jersey, there are a set of teaching standards that all teachers must follow in their classrooms. Standard 2ii5 states, the teacher understands that learners bring assets [and liabilities] for learning based on their individual experiences, abilities, talents, prior learning, as well as language, culture, family, and community values. On the other hand, standard 3ii2 says, the teacher values the role of learners in promoting each other’s learning and recognizes the importance of peer relationships in establishing a climate of learning. In this paper, I will be talking about standards 2ii5 and 3ii2 and how they relate to the novel The Pact. The Pact talks about three young doctors and their journeys in getting there. All three of the

Everything David did that was courageous. Most importantly, he survived the Nazi’s horrible control, showing his mother had influenced him. Even though David had a difficult childhood, David’s mother helped him a great

David's instructor was intimidating, rude, and somewhat abusive, but despite these things he used her behavior as a motivator to succeed. David was not about to give up and he: "refused to stand convicted on the teacher's charge of laziness," and due to that, he studied for 4 or more hours every night because he was determined to stand out (Sedaris, 1999). David clearly had a reaction to his teacher’s approach, which created a sense of urgency and a need to excel. His choice to persevere, despite her attitude, caused him to work hard, and he was once again able to use humor to get through by adding jokes to his responses to her quizzes. This whole experience shaped him into a better person and made him

You can see is threw many symbols the author chosses to include. A symbol could be school. To many students school is dredded adn usually something they do not spacificlly look forward too. But for David un the early days of his abuse, school is a sanctuary for him. He kind of relys on it for safty because it is not safe at home , as well as food when he is beign starved. Yet after a while it starts resembaling his home life after his fellow classments beat him up as well and his teachers neglect to do anything after noticeing the abuse. Another symblol that may have shwoed how cirten situations acn effect a changeracter is the drift wood. In the memoir's epilogue, David watches a piece of driftwood being pulled in and out by the ocean waves. Like the drift wood it shows how his childhood was mainly spent figting agenst forces that kept pulling and holding him back, yet it fought or pushed through till it finally got to the

Throughout the Chrysalids we see David's heroic attributes. By taking risks to save others and never thinking about how a decision may affect him. In the first few chapters we see David's first act of heroism by the way he protects the less fortunate Sophie from the demanding Alan. David takes the risk of seeing Sophie on a daily basis but making sure to never tell a soul of her minute deviation. When

Being the archetypal youth, David performs justice to his role as an archetype. While living with his uncle, David kept getting the idea that his uncle was trying to take his inheritance away from him. David’s uncle, Ebenezer Balfour, starts to prove David’s suspicion, when he sends David to the side of the house. Due to the lightning, David discovers that there are hardly any steps and he could have fallen and died. Uncle Ebenezer brushes the idea off of David’s mind, but continues to try to kill David in order to obtain the inheritance. As a second attempt, Uncle Ebenezer takes David along to see Hoseason at the Queen’s Ferry. Hoseason, partnered up with Ebenezer, takes David on the ship to “look around”. As soon as David gets on the ship, he is knocked unconscious and taken away. David realizes his uncle’s truth when he is taken away, “Help! Help! Murder! -and my uncle turned round where he was sitting and showed me a face full of cruelty and terror” (Stevenson 36). Being the archetypal youth, David has already gone through external enemies such as Ebenezer and Hoseason. Ebenezer tried to kill David by tricking him into climbing a dangerous stairway. When that fails, Ebenezer gets his nephew kidnapped and tries to arrange for David’s death through a group of seamen. It is David’s first battle against his uncle as he finds out what his uncle really is and what his uncle wants. Throughout his journey, David meets Alan who becomes his best friend and together, they fight the men on the ship. David explains the outcome of the fight as,

The first characteristic is how he presents moral issues of right vs. wrong through several characters throughout the story. One example of how this is demonstrated is when James’ mother Rachel wants to marry a black man named Peter. In this scenario, Rachel and the Ku Klux Klan have different ideas of right vs. wrong because they were an interracial couple. However, after she is pregnant with James, she runs away to New York with Peter and is disowned by her family. Ruchel Dwajra Zylska is dead to her family and is mourned the way Jews mourn: They said Kaddish and sat shiva. She also converts her religion to Christianity. We also see differences in moral values when James’ mother tells her story of when she was little and still living with her father. She states how her father, as a very religious man, made his kids know the Old Testament, although they did not share the same passion for Judaism. She also elaborates on her father’s emphasis on her brother Sam. Moreover, their father worked him the hardest. He would read Hebrew for hours and be expected to open the store at 7. He was expected to saw lumber, cut ice, stack the meats out, stock the shelves, and feed the cow in the backyard all before school. Rachel says this this treatment caused

What are their outstanding qualities? Does the author give any indication as to how or why the character developed these qualities?

Infinite in Between is a book about five unique teenagers and their struggles of being confined in jail. Also known as high school. During this section of the novel, all the character are sophomores in high school. Whitney, Zoe, Gregor, Jake, and Mia, all go through many of the typical problems such as, figuring out their love life, finding out their identity, and deciding who their true friends are. Two characters in the book are going through some more atypical problems.

David has an actionable goal to be on the football team. He’s more serious about life. However, one doesn’t really feel they get to know David very well. He’s not a character that stands out. His inner conflict has to do with feeling guilty about Bentley. It’s unclear who his father is. David has a lot at risk, but he’s not a proactive character. Find ways to make David more relatable to the audience. In a comedy, find his comedic beats. David’s character arc is also not well defined.

• What are their outstanding qualities? Does the author give any indication as to how or why the character developed these qualities?

In the beginning of the book A Night Divided, Gerta was physically described as a twelve year old girl with blond hair. She was also described as having round eyes, with a warm brown tone. Her body was athletic and fit although, by the end of the book she had become really skinny almost as if she had been starving.

Though David represents a seemingly common boy at the time, he has several qualities that make him stand out. However, these character traits are never simply told to us. Instead, the implied author uses David’s actions, decisions, and beliefs to

At the age of 5 years old, not only did he began to take showers with his father, but when they went to the beach club, his mother bathed him in the shower in the presence of other naked women. By the age of 6 years old, David noticed the power men had over women, “when a male entered the women’s side of the bathhouse, all the women shrieked”. (Gale Biography). At the age of 7 and 8 years old, he experienced a series of head accidents. First, he was hit by a car and suffered head injuries. A few months later he ran into a wall and again suffered head injuries. Then he was hit in the head with a pipe and received a four inch gash in the forehead. Believing his natural mother died while giving birth to him was the source of intense guilt, and anger inside David. His size and appearance did not help matters. He was larger than most kids his age and not particularly attractive, which he was teased by his classmates. His parents were not social people, and David followed in that path, developing a reputation for being a loner. At the age of 14 years old David became very depressed after his adoptive mother Pearl, died from breast cancer. He viewed his mother’s death as a monster plot designed to destroy him. (Gale Biography). He began to fail in school and began an infatuation with petty larceny and pyromania. He sets fires,