Tobias MacIvey is the first generation’s main character in A Land Remembered. He is thirty years old and has black hair and a black beard. He moved from Georgia to Florida with his wife Emma and his son Zechariah because of the outbreak of the Civil War.The MacIveys have no money and barely have any food. They eat raccoon meant and poke greens for a long while. They make living in the scrub for a while, but when Tobias leaves for a second time, their house gets burned down, and they lose everything. Tobias wouldn’t let his family give up, so they took anything they had left and moved to Kissimmee. Despite their major loss, Tobias gets the family started up again. He builds them a new house. The Indians give the MacIveys a marshtackie and two dogs for their kindness when they accepted the Indians in their time of need. The marshtackie, named Ishmael, and the two dogs, named Nip and Tuck, help out a lot but protecting the house and helping round up cattle. One day, Nip and Tuck spot something in the woods. It is a man. This man’s name is Skillit. Skillit helps the MacIveys out a lot throughout the rest of the story. He helps them round up cattle and he helps Emma with cleaning. Once they got enough cattle, they went to Punta Rassa, and sold eight hundred cattle for thirteen thousand dollars. Tobias gives Skillit five hundred dollars for his hard work around the house. Overall, Tobias is a bold and caring person.…
EDMONTON - Russell Duff Brown. Jr., age 70, passed away on Tuesday, September 12th at his home. He was the son of the late Russell Duff Brown, Sr. and Phyllis Quaife Brown. Russell was a Maintenance Foreman with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.…
Krakauer wrote that Chris McCandless was, "green, and he overestimated his resilience, but was sufficiently skilled to last for sixteen weeks on a little more than his wits and ten pounds of rice"(Krakauer 182). In this quote it seems that Krakauer thought that McCandless was well equipped with his skills, so that made moderately prepared to survive in any situation. I feel that McCandless was rather prepared, yet again he never could have been fully prepared for the unexpected. My opinion is that McCandless was vaguely aware of the struggles that he would encounter in the Alaskan wilderness such as his epiphany that "happiness is only real when shared" was realized when his body was dying of starvation. I believed that he found what he was…
Mark Watney (the main character), in my opinion, would make a very gook friend. First…
Characters change throughout the course of many books. Some may change physically and some may change emotionally. Other characters may change the reader’s thoughts of a character. Dallas Winston can be an example of that. Dallas Winston can be called many things. Some call him a hood, others can call him a hero. Throughout S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, Dallas Winston faces problems that change a reader’s perspective on him.…
Dwayne wade is a 33-year-old NBA basketball star. He only ever played on the Miami Heats team. During the years he had played a lot of things continued to change throughout his career.. After the years he has been on the team, he finally has the role of being a transformative leader.…
a seasonal basketball tournament. Carter discovers the progress reports filled out by the faculty reveal some of the students have been skipping classes and are struggling academically. Coach Carter initiates a lockdown on the gym, banning the team from playing until they improve their grades. Coach Carter is criticized by parents and academic faculty. The school board eventually confronts Carter who justifies his actions, explaining he wants to give his team the opportunity and option to further education so they won't resort to crime. Coach insisted that achieving a sound education is more important for the students than winning basketball games. In my point of view Coach Carters administration staff and basketball parents were disengaged. The parents did not have vision or hope for their kids,…
Jacob Jones, an introvert sophomore, exerts his energy into basketball rather than talking. It is said Jones has three special character traits that not many talented athletes his age have: focus, priorities, and the ability to be humble.…
Everyone wants to protect their friends and families, but many people can never fully achieve it. They’re usually scared away from the consequences or leaving their friends behind for self-interest. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, friends and families are pitted against each other in the midst of witch hysteria. Everyone is betraying and accusing fellow townspeople. Giles Corey, unknowingly put his own wife into jail, is the strongest against this hysteria. Amongst the chaos, Giles Corey becomes the most fearless and righteous man of Salem because of his stubbornness to protect his friends and family, loyalty towards his fellow friends, and love for his family.…
“It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards” (pg 22). This quote perfectly embodies the view Tim O’Brien has on courage, as he eloquently demonstrates in his book The Things They Carried. Although all the characters of this novel display O’Brien’s point of view, the three shining examples of this are Norman Bowker, Jimmy Cross, and Tim O’Brien himself.…
Troy Maxon represents a modern tragic character very well due this is fatal flaw, and downfall by the end of the play. Though he may not meet the requirement of being a character of nobility or of high class, all the other parts of the definition of a tragic character fit him very well. We see throughout the play that his authoritarianist behavior causes him to treat his family in a way that distances him from them. By the end of the story the tragedy ends with Troy dead, and without his family.…
Archetypal tragic heroes are often portrayed in ancient settings with unrealistic situations. In the novella Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton, counters this opinion by crafting a tragic hero that both connects with the archetype and defies the classic setting. The novella takes place in wintery Starkfield Massachusetts, in modern times. Nevertheless, Ethan Frome fits the characteristics of an archetypal tragic hero, as he has a tragic flaw and increased awareness of his situation. Thus, many arguments claiming that Ethan is not a tragic hero can easily be countered with close analysis of Ethan Frome. Thus, Wharton proved that Frome was a tragic hero, despite being placed in a modern, American setting.…
Andrew Cooper retired when he was 65. He’s 86 now. He spent over 40 years building a business and supporting his family. He gave Cooper Construction over to me when he retired. His hair is losing color and now he has wrinkles on his face. I’m his son Rodney and I go to work at Cooper Construction every week and run the business the way dad always did. My wife spends her days taking care of dad. It’s hard for him to do much with Parkinson’s disease. This is his story.…
Although fiction texts are simply narratives, they can also reflect a particular time and place. The novel Jasper Jones written by Craig Silvey follows the character of Charlie, the thirteen year old protagonist, who is forced to rethink his traditional notions of right and wrong, through his friendship with Jasper Jones. The novel highlights Australia’s attitudes towards foreigners and Indigenous people. The small country town held strong beliefs about the value of sport but also the lack of education.…
When you are born, you are thrown into conditions that you don’t have control of, poverty, family issues, war and conflict, these are just some of the things that you have no control over. However, you do have control over one thing, How you respond to these situations. But as you can tell, these situations all bring their own, unique challenges, and there can always be more than one. But one of the hardest situations for most to respond to would be poverty. Poverty brings not only one challenge, but it is very dynamic, and gives birth to a wide array of crippling problems for people Like Wes Moore.…