Character Analysis: Girl Meets World

Have you ever noticed how some people just stand out from the crowd? Like the clouds in the sky and blades of grass, people are all different. “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker has a good example of an interesting, unique character. Maggie is a young girl who is not only physically but also mentally scarred. The way the burning house, her stuck-up sister, and society affects Maggie makes her different from everyone else.

Both Chbosky and Anderson establish the central theme by using conflict. By using conflict, these authors illustrate a coherent concept of how the two main characters, Lia and Charlie, went through a distraught past that has conflicted with them until they find the path of insight within themselves. In Wintergirls, Lia has a conflict, specifically, person vs self, that has to do with her inner turmoil of anorexia. An example of Lia facing this conflict with herself is when she throws out the cereal she is supposed to eat and instead eats, “ten raisins(16) and five almonds(35) and a green bellied pear(121)(=172). The bites crawl down my throat. I eat my vitamins….I wash everybody down with hot water”(Anderson, 10). The way the author format this quote specifically describes Lia’s battle with anorexia, which includes calorie count, for her to eat a certain amount of calories

It is often said that the people one surrounds themselves with can reflect things about themselves, such as their beliefs and ideals. One’s friends and acquaintances can reveal subconscious attractions to people that fulfill their ideals or agree with the things they say, but these relationships can also help one discover their personal philosophies by reinforcing opposing views. Indeed, in J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, the way Holden reacts to and interacts with secondary characters reveal his established philosophies and the values he holds most dear to him.

A character is someone portrayed in a novel, play, or movie that represents an person. An author can create characters in many ways to show the emotional, mental, and physical characteristics of that individual. An author has an infinite amount of choices of how he or she can construct characters. Zadie Smith does just that in “The Girl with Bangs.” In “The Girl with Bangs,” Smith represents the narrator as a normal college student that falls in love with a girl, named Charlotte because of her bangs. This representation sets up a series of conflict when Charlotte’s boyfriend, Maurice, moves and Charlotte hooks up with the narrator. Maurice then moves back months later to find out that she has cheated on him with the narrator and another unknown male. The narrator later finds out that Charlotte has cheated on her with the unknown guy and then was going to choose Maurice over her, which causes a small fight about who should actually have her. This gets resolved when she shaves her head in spite of all three men. Maurice is the only one who still wants her. The narrator has clear motivation about why she wants Charlotte, she is a dynamic character, and she is a round character.

In this clip from “Friday Night Lights,” the coach gives an inspirational, yet emotional speech to his football players about what it means to be perfect. The clip starts off with the coach stating how most of the players are almost finished with their football careers. He tries to play on their emotions by saying, “…most of you have been playing this game for ten years, you got two more quarters and after that most of you will never play this game again, as long as you live.” The coach uses pauses, skill number three, in this part of his speech to give the players a second to really think about what he is saying, and to realize that he is right about this being the last time they will ever play the game. He then goes on the explain what he

The book Stargirl, written by Jerry Spinelli, is about a girl named Stargirl Caraway. Stargirl recently enrolled in a new high school after being previously homeschooled. She was different from the other students in several ways. Stargirl wore different outfits and acted differently from the other kids. She plays her ukulele at lunch and she is nice to everyone despite not receiving the same treatment from the other kids. After amusing behavior at a football game, Stargirl becomes a cheerleader and is the most popular girl in school. However, Stargirl was cheering for the opposing team during basketball season, the student body turned on her. After some time during the school year, the student body accepted Stargirl for who she was after the dance. Throughout the story, Stargirl was treated too harshly by the other students from the first few months of school when everything about her was being judged and through her acceptance, eventual rejection, of her by the students.

In the story St.Lucy's Home For Girls Raised by Wolves there are three main characters. Janette ,who is the oldest but not the wisest. Claudette, the ,middle child who is the wisest out of the three sister and the most out of the three girls. And lastly Mirabella, who is the wild child out of the three sisters and is not even close to wise unlike the others. Throughout the stages Claudette and Janette begin to act more human and are doing most of the things that were expected. But unfortunately Mirabelle is having a rough time with the changes,but she isn't the only one throughout the stages. They all hope to become human and pass the test. But will Mirabella make it ?

In Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden, had many opportunities to learn life lessons but every time his faulty thinking caused him to focus on the problem and not the solution. Whenever Holden looks at situations he negatively overgeneralizes them with a bad attitude rather than learning from it.

Television is a huge part of the daily lives of human beings. The things that people see on screen help them form their own values and opinions about the world around them. Television is also a great source for people to feel represented through fictional characters and events. And for teenagers, it is even more important to find something they can relate to during a period in their life when they are still trying to figure out who they are in society. High school is a place for teenagers to build an idea of what kind of people they want to be in the future, and the decisions they make could affect the rest of their lives. In the television show Freaks and Geeks created by Paul Feig and produced by Feig and Judd Apatow, viewers get to

It portrays a part of our own society. Although there are different opinions I believe that this show has an impact on adolescent and the non-diverse world of a small community and high schools. The show wants to relate to their audience which is teenagers and parents it does so by the connections made throughout the show. It begins with the girls developing a fear of A, a person who threatens them after the disappearance of Alison. As it gets into season 3 Episode 15 the show demonstrates the character

In the movie, ‘Silver linings Playbook’ Pat Solitano is diagnosed with clinical bipolar disorder 1 and struggles with stress-induced manic outbursts. This is revealed by a manic episode where Solitano is seen to almost beat to death a co-worker, who he caught cheating on with is wife. The repercussion of Solitano’s actions results in termination of his job, estrangement from his wife who takes out a restraining order and sees Solitano institutionalized for eight months in a psychiatric hospital.

The film, “Girl Interrupted” directed by James Mangold focuses on the lives of many women who have a psychological disorder. I will focus specifically on Susanna Kaysen, an 18 year old, who struggles with mental health issues during and after high school. Susanna voluntarily admits herself to psychiatric ward after an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide by taking a bottle of vodka with aspirin. Her decision was influenced by a short consultation with a family acquainted psychiatrist, because she is informed that she will only stay a few weeks. Afterall, she was institutionalized for a year and a half. Psychotherapy will attempt to diagnose and treat the disorder or symptoms she experiences, through analyzing psychological theory(s), that best understand her thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. The biosocial theory effectively supports Susanna’s diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), while Behavior Analytic Theory could be applied in the treatment of Susanna’s symptoms and correcting her behavior.

John Hughes's The Breakfast Club is one of film history’s most iconic and renowned movies and is a cornerstone of 1980’s pop-culture. The Breakfast Club showcases five unique high school students who all unfortunately find themselves imprisoned in an all-day Saturday detention. The students go as following: Claire (a pretty girl), Brian (the nerd), John (the bad boy), Andrew (an athlete), and Allison (the strange, goth girl). These students come from very different backgrounds and social settings which proves to spark many conflicts between them as well as with their supervisor Mr. Vernon. But through this conflict they find similarities between themselves, and after spending nine hours locked up together, they find resolution within themselves and with their new friends. Psychology can explain why this happened as well as what caused other events to occur. This paper will examine four different psychological phenomena: stereotypes, conformity/normative social influence, ingroup versus outgroup/superordinate goals, and the various causes of attraction.

In the book Girl, Stolen by April Henry the character I have chosen is also the main character, Griffin he is introduced very early in the book, the character he plays in the story is a dynamic character, and he symbolizes something extra special to the story. Griffin plays a very big role in the main plot of the story and has a lot to do with the main character.

“ As I am now, I am no wife for you”(Ibsen 887) This statement is from Henrik Ibsen’s play, A Doll House, is a play based in 1879, and it sets the tone of the remainder of the story. Ibsen seems to be making a statement that women need to mature and be independent before they have a family of their own. All of the women in this play leave their loved ones behind to gain their independence. Ibsen’s statement and character portrayal helps make Ibsen’s play take on feminist characteristics. Ibsen’s play shows that women must mature and be independent before they are ready to have a family. This is exemplified through Nora, minor characters such as Krogstad’s wife and the Nurse, and Christine. With this being one of the major themes