Character Analysis: Silver By Chris Wooding

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

In the book Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, there is a star hockey player and the mother of a murder. These are labels in the book which many other characters base them on. Matt Royston was a popular hockey star with a smart girlfriend. People loved him as a popular kid or hated him as a bully. Lacy Houghton was a midwife with two sons, regarded as a loving mother only trying her best to juggle her job and family. After the school shooting at Sterling, both of their identities changed. Matt Royston was no longer a bully, but a victim; a great loss. Lacy Houghton became the woman who raised a monster, the failed mother who was the reason children were dead. These characters were labeled by a greater population who didn’t know them personally, solely based on nineteen minutes of their lives.

"...What impact did your father not being there have on your childhood?"(The "Other" Wes Moore -Part I: Fathers and Angels - pg. 4) This question is what connected me to the novel. The "author" Wes began the story of his and the "other " Wes's memories of their fathers. This explains how and why they grew up fatherless. Wes " the author" recalls only have two memories of his father one was when his father had a talk with him after he punched his sister Nikki and the other one was the day his father passed away. The "author" Wes father didn't choose to leave, unlike the "other Wes's father, which he never met until years later. I related to this chapter a lot, I too was raised by a single mother but my story is just a tad different. My family

In the book Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson there is a 13 year old girl by the name of Isabel she is an African American slave fighting for her and her sisters freedom, while the Revolutionary War is happening in New York city in the year of 1776-1777.

In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Younger wants to be a “real man”. His dream is to become successful in business and make his family rich. However, when all his money is stolen, he becomes very pessimistic, abandoning the ideas of morality and dignity. At the end of the play, his son Travis inspires him to value his family’s pride over materialism. Over the course of the play, Walter’s view of manhood changes from someone wealthy and successful to a person who has pride and believes in human dignity.

Over the course of the series I have been following the main character Jacob Portman. I also have taken notes about character development. I have been paying attention to character attributes, interactions, and perceptions. Character attributes are describing the main character like the gender, emotions, physical, personality, and stuff like that. Character interactions are interactions with the environment, themselves, and others. Character perceptions are perceptions with others, themselves, and with the setting/environment. I have taken notes about all of these things and how the character involved throughout the course of the

A separate peace is the first fictional novel written by John Knowles and is known to be his best work. There are many themes that are shown in this novel. One of the themes deal with friendship. In the novel a separate peace Gene and Finny's friendship is known to be falling apart because of jealousy, rivalry, and one-sided trust.

The darkest, gloomiest times can bring out the best in some people, however they usually bring out the worst. Before injury, Finny was thought to be strong willed and having good morals and values. After injury, he is self absorbed and only values the importance of himself. He has no pity for anyone or anything; he just believes that he is worse off.

Fear is a hidden enemy. In the novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles the main character Gene kills his enemy at the end of the book. Was the reality that he killed his best friend,Finny,his enemy or was something more internal his enemy? Gene is afraid of realizing what his true enemy is and how to get rid of that enemy. At the end of the book while being at Devon Gene kills his enemy,the inner impulse and savage inside of him, throughout the the book Gene’s mental thoughts change because of this impulse. Gene changes from thinking that Finny is out to get him, to feeling like he owes Finny, to finally coming to terms with his inner impulse and savage.

What are the characters’ emotions, attitudes, and behaviors? What do these indicate to the reader about the character?

In Lorraine's Hansberry A Raisin In The Sun. Walter wants to make money to support his family. He wants money because he thinks it makes him a “man”. How ever when his money is stolen, Walter’s perceptions of manhood shifts from valuing wealth and power to valuing family and pride.

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a novel that explains the history of a family murder through two characters perspective. Capote unravels each character through the concept of juxtapose, which helps prevail the occurrence of events. Dick, is a very straight forward man that does not care about what others think. Whereas, Perry has a shy, conserved personality that is shown through transitions and details. Juxtapose effects the readers and characters as explained throughout the novel by comparing and contrasting two different characters opinions.Details are shown on every page and are illustrated in every sentence, which gives the reader the image. In Cold Blood represents the development of characters, juxtapose, transitions and details.

In the play “A Raisin in the Sun” written by Lorraine Hansberry, she is able to take us to place to see what it was like for an African American family to survive in the mid-twentieth century. The play details how the main characters are going through an evolving social and economic position, as well as the evolving gender roles. Hansberry uses the characterization of Beneatha, Ruth, and Walter in order to show the expectations and assigned gender roles for the characters in the story. In short, Beneatha is depicted as a woman who is challenging gender norms and expectations upheld by her family, whereas Ruth is seen as an example of a submissive housewife fulfilling her expected duties. Using “A Raisin in the Sun,” as well as “Marxists

In A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, the Younger family is trying to achieve the American Dream, which is “the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American”(cite dictionary.com). The Youngers are a black family living in a poor part of Chicago. They inherit ten thousand dollars because Mama’s husband died. Mama is the matriarch of the Younger family. Each family member has their own idea about how to use this money to fulfill their dreams, and the play uses the decisions of the family members and other characters to show the reader that people’s actions are not always motivated by what they appear to be. Mama wants to use the money to buy a house in a white neighborhood, because she thinks it is a better environment for her family than their current living conditions and will benefit her family. Although there are a number of people in A Raisin in the Sun who appear too want to help the Younger family, Mama shows through her decision to buy the house that she is the only person that is looking out for the best interests of her family.

Goldie is a ruthless killer for hire who loves playing lotto, taking lives, organ harvesting, and women. Death and Karma are chasing her as she runs into an old enemy, deals with betrayal, death of a family member and collecting a debt from people who will connect her to the person she's being searching for all her of life, her daughter, Kendra. An opening introduction to the Love, Lust, & Lotto