Val's Character Analysis

Wes Moore’s mother Joy tried very hard to make Wes a well rounded person. She made sure Wes go to Riverdale Country school, which was one of the best school in Bronx. Even though Wes didn’t feel like he belonged there. When Wes got into horrible habits such as attending school irregularly. Wes’s mother warned to Wes if he doesn't straighten up, she will send him to military school. Wes knew if he didn’t start to behave there were be consequences. Wes said, “ I knew my mother was considering sending me away, but I never thought she’d actually do it” (Moore 87). Joy made Wes go to Valley Forge because he wasn’t behaving. Valley Forge is what shaped Wes into well rounded person. Joy’s disciplinary attitude is what influenced Wes into good person. Unlike the other Wes’s mother

The witch trials in this play were based on actual events that happened in Salem in 1692. Arthur Miller’s 1953 The Crucible is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials. His reasoning for writing it was because everyone was hysteric about the Soviet Union and communism trying to make its way over to the United States. It was like a modern day witch hunt. In the play, Abigail Williams and a group of girls get caught in the woods. They were dancing and doing other things that puritan’s looked down upon. The girls were caught by Reverend Parris, and soon after his daughter became ‘ill’. The girls then started saying that witches came to them and told them to do bad things. They sent innocent people to hang. After studying Arthur Miller’s

The Vietnam War was a perplexing, unjustified conflict where both historians and the media over-generalized service members’ experiences. They constantly failed to speak for all people with firsthand combat experience and focused solely on the male’s perspective. Lynda Van Devanter, a former member of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps (ANC) and Vietnam veteran was the first woman who educated America on the female’s position during the Vietnam War and systematically destroyed the stereotype of an undamaged, inessential Vietnam nurse. Contrary to popular belief, the Vietnam War distorted the mentality of both men and women who served overseas, according to Devanter. Historians and the media, rather than acknowledging the Vietnam Nurses’ distinct perspective as a key element of the morally ambiguous altercation, they focused solely on male veteran experiences and failed to accurately portray the war. By changing the subject of Vietnam War stories through her forthright memoir, Home Before Morning, Devanter wrote about the fallacious stereotypes nurses

A Lesson Before Dying A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines tells the story of a black man, Jefferson, with unequal rights, being accused of killing a white man. Although, the accusation was far from being right, he is a black man, and blacks were treated unfairly. Throughout the journey of the trial, Jefferson and Grant became very close, and they both learned a lot from each other and the trial. Grant learns the lesson of being a man, because he develops feelings, and becomes humble.

“Welcome to Night Vale…a friendly desert community somewhere in the American Southwest where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful and mysterious lights pass overhead while its citizens pretend to sleep.” (Second Cover). Welcome to Night Vale was co-authored by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. It is set in a town that is exactly like any other town, and at the same time unlike any other town, with quirky neighbours, local radio and community culture. In the novel two characters; Jackie Fierro and Diana Crayton make their way across Night Vale, their home town in hopes of regaining their everyday routine and repairing relationships.

There are many factors that helped Salva survive. One way persistence helped Salva was when he kept going after the rebels stopped him. “A soldier approached Salva and raised his gun”. Another way is when Salva’s uncle died. One more way is when Salva’s friend Marial died by a lion.

When you think of a good life you definitely don’t think of Max Vandenburg. Max was a good Jewish man, he was just on a rough path. In his time staying with the Hubermanns, Max did change into a new person.

In The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller involves a character named John Proctor, an even-tempered farmer, who cared about how others saw him as. Procter was a married man to Elizabeth Proctor and a father of three as well. Throughout the book, Procter is shown as a man obsessed with his status to protect his name. The following quote says “... there is evidence to suggest that he had a sharp and biting way with hypocrites. He was the kind of man--powerful of body, even-tempered, and not easily led….”, this shows he was the type of a person to unleash his temper with people often, although it was good because he was well known for revealing hypocrisy. This gave him honor in his town and respect by his

In Dickson County, Iowa, a woman named Minnie Wright murdered her husband John Wright by strangling him with a rope around his neck. As Minnie sits in jail waiting for trial, her neighbors, the sheriff and his wife, and the county attorney all investigates the crime scene at her house to develop a better understanding of who killed Mr.Wright and why. Living isolated from everyone else, the Wright’s home looks lonesome, is down in a hollow, and has lonesome looking poplar trees around it. In a result, their house was kept untidy, to dirty towels, dirty pans, jars of fruit busted, and leaving things half way done, Minnie couldn't take care of herself much more as her own home. Taking the role as a house-cleaner,

In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller was based on the Salem, witch trials when the people of the town where accusing each other of witchcraft and those held for questioning would stand trial had a choice to be valor. In Miller’s portrayal of the ghastly, sickening inquiry of witchcraft many people in the 1690’s were people of the township were maintaining guard for their beliefs; while others of the community of Salem were cowards who took the easy out of the accusations they were on trial. The townspeople of Salem are going through a day people are courageous even in a way others could not be or were never suppose to be. Those characters display their courage in the town at the time of need, John Proctor is a selfless man when only stating

June hates Day and will do anything to bring Day to justice. She was completely focused on hunting him down in part one. Day was her most hated enemy. Little does she know that they share a rebellious nature and the will to fight. June wanted to be at the same skill level as Day. She was being rebellious and left Drakes campus to scale a building like Day did. “ [June] had to scale the side of a nineteen-story with a XM-621 gun strapped to [her] back” (13). June wondered of two blocks to do it. “She’d wandered off two blocks off campus to do it” (14). Day is a brave, kind person and he played a major role in her life. She keeps on fighting like Day. She didn’t stop trying to hunt him when she was stabbed. She didn’t stop when there was a dead

The moral compass of virtue rest in social programs of a good paying job, homeownership, and public safety providing security to maximize health and protection of private property. John, a charismatic and pragmatic objectivist has the potential to attract and gravitate businesses to San Bernardino. The virtue of R. Carey Davos showcased boarded buildings, pack and stack housing, the mushroom of marijuana shops, homelessness, low life developers, instrumental in silencing public voice, outsourced the fire department on bend knee, and cheerlead Measure L. The current manager, Mrs. Miller and John Valdivia encompass a moral vision of virtue to secure good paying jobs, homeownership, rental control, and negate the spirit of dependency into independence

Ever since day 1, Thomas and the other Gladers believed WICKED was an evil organization. Sought to kill them all. Throughout the book Thomas’s block on his memory faded. Memories that included the fact that WICKED was good. They had strategically placed each Glader in the Maze as a type of experiment to save humanity. Arrive in the box, almost get killed by fellow Glade members, have a girl, the only girl, show up out of nowhere, lose friends, and nearly die. All obstacles the Gladers faced throughout the novel. After Thomas became a Runner, everything seemed to change. The Gladers became braver, fought back against WICKED, unknowingly advancing further into their experiment. Many died and out came the brave. Diving through the griever hole,

In a drama, dynamic characters undergo changes in behavior, outlook, or attitude. Writer, Arthur Miller displays these changes in character John Proctor. The Crucible takes place in the small town of Salem, which goes through a time of what they believe was a devil takeover. John Proctor is introduced as a quiet yet firm and respected farmer, but by the end of act 4 Proctor is portrayed as courageous, due to him having enough of everyone and everything.

In “The Cask of Amontillado” the main protagonist Montresor is an interesting character. He is much like a small child when the child gets victimized. The child will throw fits and do whatever he or she can to hurt or get revenge on the person inflicting wrong on them. Montresor does the same to Fortunato, for some kind of family affair, in which Montresor lost his social status. Montresor is no fool about killing Fortunato, and he takes his time to make sure that everything will go right. Montresor is clever in ways of getting away with Fortunato’s murder. However, the thought that baffles readers the most is that Montresor feels no remorse, sympathy, or regrets about killing Fortunato. All of these traits make Montresor the compelling