In the novel Everlost, Allie is the main protagonist. She is a strong-willed, goal oriented girl who takes risks living her afterlife in Everlost which shows that any problems she encounters will not stop her from doing what she needs to do. Allie is a bit strong-headed but also very independent although, her choices may never be the best. Her main goal is to find a way out of the limbo world between life and death known as Everlost to “get where you’re meant to go”. Mary Hightower is a self-proclaimed expert that has given herself the status as being the mother of the many children stuck in the afterlife welcoming them with open hands. At the beginning, she seems to be a good character as the story proceeds, she’s shown to be neutral and towards the end she becomes the antagonist. When Nick, Allie, and Lief first encounter Mary she appears to be just a leader to the Afterlights retaining them from harm and making sure their delighted. Allie later notices that Mary is selfish keeping the children in an endless loop and would sacrifice anything to keep them from going in peace and is constantly competing with Nick. Nick aka the “Chocolate Ogre” referred by Mary due to the chocolate on his face that will last for eternity is the second most important character. He is somewhat self-absorbed and emotionless and more of a follower than Allie but is committed to stand up for the people he cares about even if it means going against his rather obvious crush on Mary. He later discovers that Everlost isn’t meant to be lived in for an unending time and makes it his responsibility to free all the children that are no longer needed to be in the limbo. He goes in battle against Mary who she tries to keep all Afterlights to live with her in Everlost and in an endless cycle but his plan is to send all children’s spirts to be at peace and away to where they need to go. Lief is a good-hearted, quirky 11 year old boy who has been living in a burned down forest in Everlost for quite some time and is the first person Nick and Allie meet when they wake up. In an instant Allie decides to call him Lief since he couldn’t remember his own name and was surrounded by the woodland. He follows them throughout the novel and manages to
SUMMARY-In the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini fights as a bombardier in World War II. Louie ends up crashing one of his planes and is forced to face the brutal struggles of the ocean. Finding land after 47 days of being stranded, Louie becomes a prisoner of war to the Japanese. He is beaten, starved, and worked to near death where he learns how to survive anything that is thrown at him. He becomes resilient which is what led him to survive.
Mary was a horrible role model for her two children.She had two sons whose names were Tony and Wes Moore.She partied instead of parenting her children, along with “hiding ” Marijuana in her family's home.On page twenty Mary blatantly lied to her own child’s face.She looked At Wes and said, “Mommy got some bad news about school, and I want to go see some friends
We are introduced to Mary as the pregnant wife of Presbyterian minister Amasa Dempster by Dunstan’s role in the snowball incident. We also learn that everyone in her life, including her husband and son, deserted her during her mental decline save her aunt and Dunstan himself. While all this information gives weight to her functional role in the story we never learn what drove Mary’s early life. Our insight into Mary’s life is limited to Dunstan’s interactions with her during and after the snowball incident, leaving her only somewhat developed as a character. Dunstan’s feeling of responsibility for Mary and her impact on the plot of the story both stem from the aforementioned snowball incident during Dunstan’s adolescence.
Jimmy knows too well the agonies of abandonment. First, when his mother, Cecilia, ran away with Richard to pursue a better lifestyle. Then, due to his father’s, Damacio Baca, alcoholisms and violent behavior; he also had to leave Jimmy behind. In spite of the drawbacks from abandonment to being a maximum security prisoner in Arizona State Prison, Jimmy preserver’s the darkness of prison by overcoming his illiteracy. However Cecilia and Damacio is not as fortunate as their child; Cecilia is shot by Richard after confronting him for a divorce and Damacio chokes to death after he is released from the detox center(Baca 263). Therefore the most significant event in this section of the memoir, A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca is the death of Jimmy’s parents.
The novel, Everwild, written by Neal Shusterman describes the motives of Mary Hightower (otherwise known as the Sky Witch) and Nick (known as the Chocolate Ogre). Mary is determined to put the children of Everlost in a cycling pattern for all eternity. Nick, on the other hand, is trying to get everyone to where they were originally heading (Usually Heaven). This novel describes how they oppose each other and their actions. Meanwhile, Allie is on a trek with Mikey McGill attempting to locate her parents.
I got few points corrected. I have a list of questions for you. Sorry if the questions are repetitive. I tried to retain as much information as I can when you reviewed it with me. I am really pulling my hair out with Martin. Only because it is being budgeted. I don’t know, what is your advice? I know for sure I already went over the budget hours. If I won’t get in trouble, I’ll continued doing what I’m doing and keep asking questions until I get everything right. or is this a Linda Everst’s question?
"Anything Goes" is a comedy, romance, and drama filled musical. In this play there are several different characters with their own plots and problems. All the plots later intertwine somehow as the characters interact with each other. The main character, Reno is a stage performer who is the main performer in "The Angels", a group of "evangelist" showgirls. Reno is in love with Billy. Billy is a businessman working for Elisha Whitney. Billy is also in love with a girl named Hope Harcore. Hope is engaged to a wealthy English man named Lord Evelyn, but she secretly loves Billy. Billy is supposed to be in New York doing work after he drops Elisha's passport off, but then he realizes Hope is on the boat. He sneaks onto the boat using an extra passport and ticket from a "pastor" who is actually a famous mobster named Moon Face Martin. He is trying to win Hope over. Reno and Moon are helping Billy stay under cover while getting to Hope. All of these characters interact which each other as they are all on the same boat and all have different purposes. In a turn of events, Reno and Evelyn fall in love. This helps Hope and Billy be able to get married, but Hope's mom, Evangeline, insists Hope marries Evelyn for his money. Elisha ends up receiving a large profit for a deal and Evangeline Harcore changes her mind. A triple marriage ceremony concludes the musical as Hope and Billy, Reno and Evelyn, and Evangeline and Elisha become married couples. This show is filled with plot twists,
The book “Ugly” by Robert Hoge it is a inspiring, true story about, Robert, a boy who grew up in Brisbane, Australia, with a tumor the size of a tennis ball on his face and two deformed legs. Robert had four other brothers and sisters, who were all older. The story is the journey of Robert Hoge and his life with artificial legs and deformed face, and all the challenges he faced along the way.
All refugees, the circumstances notwithstanding, face immense hardship throughout their lives. In time, these hardships give way to new opportunities, dreams, and perspectives, as even in the face of suffering, one always retains their intrinsic self. Kim Ha, the protagonist in Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again, experienced this through her family’s daring escape from war-torn South Vietnam. Consequently, Inside Out and Back Again serves as a fitting title for her story.
The book Beyond The Pale is about Two ordinary people (Travis Wilder and Grace Beckett) who get transported to this new and magic filled world that resembles earths medieval times. With there new found powers they hope to save this new world from its impending doom. (The pale king and his iron heart followers). I choose to write about Grace for my character analysis because I admire her intelligence, her cleverness, and her independent nature. Grace is intelligent because she always had a plan.
Grace has been told for more than half her life that she was crazy. Her mother’s death that she witnesses was an accident, there was no scarred man, and there was nothing she could do to change what had happened. But Grace knew they were wrong. With the help of her friends Noah, Megan and Rosie, she managed to discover that the scarred man was Dominic, the first love of her mother, who was there to kill her mother, but chose instead to stage her death. Grace came down just as Dominic was taking the picture, and picked up the gun that was lying on the floor. Firing blinding, she missed Dominic and shot her mother instead. The traumatic moment of shooting her mother was blocked from Grace’s mind as it was unable to handle what she did. Her family tries to protect her from this, saying it was an accident, trying to get Grace to stop pushing. When pushing too hard, Grace discovers the truth of what happened that night, and what she did, and with the
This leads a responder to think that maybe Mary’s parents were being punished by a higher power of some sort.
In John Updike’s short story “A & P”, a dynamic and round character expresses his subjective attitude towards his views, a plot twist causes him to realize his future. Sammy an opinionated cashier at A & P grocery store does not agree with his Lengel, his manager after he reprimands a particular group of customers at the store. Sammy’s further actions cause him to face the true reality of his future.
Mr. Davit Shanto and I have worked closely together for the past year and a half. During that timespan, Davit has been a self-starter and an industrious contributor to the team endeavors. In addition to having an extraordinary degree of integrity and that type of person that brings out the best in those around him; he is one of those unique character who can both follow directions and take the leadership role, as appropriate. He is one of those individuals where I depended on him if I asked him or put him on projects, that either the task or project will be done by a certain deadline. He is strong in time management and his competence extends above and beyond the skills for which he was initially hired.
In conclusion, Mary never moved beyond the conflict, made progress, or handled the conflict well. She remained the languishing person she was from beginning to the end. Bill did not even recognize her and he never felt the same way. Mary ended up marrying a man she never loved and she named her son Bill. She is still that cheerless person now. Do not be afraid to tell someone something because you may never get the chance to tell them