1. Explore the theme of how Sophie's identity evolves in the novel. The journey to self-discovery is a long and perilous one. Give examples, a few quotes.
2. Danticat writes: “I look to the past, to Haiti...hoping that the extraordinary female story tellers I grew up with. Will choose to tell their story through my voice. For those of us who have a voice must speak to the present and the past. For we may well be Haiti's last surviving breath, eyes, memory." How does the quote relate to the novel and what connections can we make to contemporary times? Danticat’s recollection for the Haiti past can thus also be seen as a yearning for an black past Sophie repeatedly bring to mind when she speak of Guinea as the place where all the women in my
Sophie’s Change Sophie is an American girl with blonde hair who finds herself in a situation which leads her to find love, happiness and freedom from her fears. Not only that, but throughout the book she, as a person has changed. The suburban environment she was in had vanished, and the new, Mexican environment has sprouted a new Sophie altogether. In Red Glass, author Laura Resau describes 16 year old Sophie as an outsider who believes she is an amoeba, but as the book continues she slowly shapes from an amoeba to a girl who doesn’t mind death, germs, or boys.
“I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come,” said Michael Jordan. Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken was about a boy named Louie Zamperini. He started off as a troubled young child, but in his teen years Louies brother Pete helped him find a love for running. He had dreams of being an olympic runner, but his hopes and dreams were crushed when he got drafted into WWII, and eventually got lost at sea and captured by enemy forces. When Louie loses he decides he will suffer through the hard training to get the redemption that he needs.
Nicole Renard was a major part of Heroes from the beginning where she is an innocent girl to being a corrupted character. In the book Nicole was very important, so important in fact that without her there wouldn’t be a story. Nicole is friendly and innocent in the beginning of the book. She then got corrupted and turned into a broken distressed girl who had trouble remembering the tragedy.
Although everything may seem like it fits perfectly, sometimes people just tell you what you want to hear. Ariana’s last two years have been filled with Kaitlynn sob stories about how she was wrongfully committed. After Briana Leigh’s confession her story all fell into place. This lead to Ariana taking a drunk Briana Leigh to a lake and drowning her. Ariana couldn’t believe that she ever thought Kaitlynn had lied to her. Just like always, Ariana formed a plan. This time, her plan was to get Kaitlynn out of Brenda T. so that they could finally move on with their lives like they always daydreamed about. When Kaitlynn finally does get out, they meet at the lake, where Briana Leigh Covington was killed. In this part of the book, Kaitlynn’s walls
Sheila Rae wasn’t afraid of anything. She wasn’t afraid of the dark. She wasn’t afraid of thunder and lightning.
Number 1: Throughout the play Anne has different feelings towards each of her family members. As Anne becomes older in the play some of her feelings also start to change. Towards the beginning of the play Anne feels jealous of her sister Margot and often wishes she could change and be like her. Anne feels that her Mother likes and values Margot more than her. This of course makes Anne jealous and makes Anne more jealous of Margot.
First, we start off with the main character named Sophia, she is in love with a man who not only beats her, but abuses drugs a lot. This man’s name is Nathan and is a bad influence in Sophie’s life. Later, we discover that Nathan is no longer abusive to Sophie, because he kills himself with Cyanide, the same drug used in the Gas chambers at death camps. At first, we see Sophie’s character as just a regular person that has bad taste in men. But, we realize later in the story that she has been hiding her secrets of her past from her friends all this time, which is hinted at, when we discover a blue number tattooed on her arm. We now know she is a concentration camp survivor that not only was abused sexually by Nazi’s, but is not even Jewish at all. She is actually Polish, and was not a labor worker at the camp digging and doing various physical demanding tasks. Sophie’s job at the camps was to translate things for the Nazi’s, which resulted in helping her not die from weather or weakness, like many victims went through. Although she is not involved with the killing of people, she does however still feel guilty because she helped her racist father make Pamphlets for how the Jews were pollutants. She also underwent the tragic event of being separated from her son after being admitted into the camp. Lastly, we see another major character named Stingo, he ends up being Sophie’s
The book “Krik Krak” written by Edwidge Danticat contains a story of Danticat in the past and how could she became a famous author today. She was born Haiti and a survivor who escaped oversea to the United States. Danticat’s past is painful and horrible but it influenced her present. The Haitian politics repressed certain group of women and the fear surrounded them everyday. To find her own freedom and her rights, Danticat got on board then arrived at New York. The racist weighed on her but she didn’t give up on the path that she chose. She learned English and had a dream to become a writer but that also an issue for Danticat. The Haitian writer often killed but it didn’t quench Danticat’s desire to keep their history
In life, we all go through arduous times to complete a mission or goal. Well, here are three individuals who went through it all. Meg Murry was a girl who never gave up, even in the hardest times. Like her, Aengus was a very determined man who wanted to find the girl of his dreams. The other character, Sam McGee, was a man who wanted to be cremated by his friend because of the invincible cold. However, all three were very different, but they all wanted to find one that was lost or get something done for themselves.
The Outsiders Essay – Describe an interesting theme from a text you have studied. Explain why this theme is interesting.
In the Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde creates two completely different identities for two of the main characters, in two entirely different settings. One of the settings takes place in a town in England and the other takes place in Hertfordshire, in the country. I believe that Wilde purposely did that to reflect on the characters that he wanted to portray. When Jack Worthing is in the country, where he resides, he is a well-respected, wealthy man that a lot of depend on. He is a major landowner and Justice of the Peace in Hertfordshire, where he has a country estate. He received his good fortune and respectability from his adopted father. Coming from this, he must know the rules and behaviors of polite society. He is extremely witty
Through portraying the life of a girl in the Victorian era, Margaret Atwood creates a scathing critique of relationships between the sexes which transcends the setting of Alias Grace. By outlining the trials and tribulations of a branded murderess, Atwood displays the dynamics of power in relationships between the male and female sex, along with the prevalence of social class and societal order in all aspects of Marks’ life. The manner in which Grace is formed by her experiences and her actions in retaliation to society’s treatment of women, especially a proclaimed mentally unstable murderess, provide contrast to stereotypical expectations of a Victorian woman. Grace’s wit, intelligence,
Have you ever been “schooled” before? When you are schooled you learn a lesson often from something you did or forgot to do. Many characters in the novel have been schooled, therefore, the title “Schooled” is appropriate for this novel.
Trace three of the following threads through the novel. In two paragraphs for each explain the various literary effects of each of the threads and how each is related to the theme. Use quotations from the novel to support each analysis.
Describe Dounia, and discuss the way that her character develops and changes throughout the novel.