“Show me Yours” by Richard Van Camp narrates the promising and apparent upturned in life experienced by Richard, a middle-aged man who at the beginning has experienced a nadir in his life caused by addiction issues and harmful friendships. After a bad night, by mere randomness, he decides to glue a found baby picture of him to his grandparent saint’s necklace and wears it under his shirt. Abruptly, the baby picture necklace becomes a trend in his community and seems to encourage care and positivism around the participants of the furor. Richard, who starts experiencing acceptance and recognition around the locality also reunites with an old love, Shawna, with whom he spends the night and appears to bring more hope to Richard’s situation. At…
The city of Chicago was one of the worst places to be at during the 1960’s. No one had good paying jobs. The town alone was run down on the Southside.…
Every person has been an outsider at one point or another. Many nonfiction writers such as John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Truman Capote, author of In Cold Blood, use outsiders as characters in their stories.These type of characters help the writer to convey the argument they are trying to get across to the reader. In these nonfiction novels, outsiders play a critical role in the communities that they enter.…
Coyotes are known for reeling in chickens. That is what Mendez and other smugglers do to get large amounts of money from desperate illegal immigrants coming into the United States. Tragedies, like the Yuma 14/ Welton 26 occur often. Many deaths go unnoticed and some of those that enter the desert, never return. In the true account The Devils Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea, The Welton 26 faced betrayal, hardship, and the possibility of death with great courage and peserverance.…
Even a great story wouldn’t have a place to go without an outstanding lead character. In the story “Always a Motive”, by Dan Ross, Joe Manetti is a great example of a phenomenal lead. Joe himself could carry this whole story with his believable personality and effective personality. He has a sad person that builds up the deep mood and adds impact to the story as a whole.…
Grassian realized “these people were very sick.”(Maclyn Willigan “What Solitary Confinement Does to the Human Brain”) Researcher Stuart Grassian who interview many men at Walpole State Penitentiary in 1982. she found that the men talked with symptoms “such as hallucinatory tendencies, paranoia, and delirium”( Maclyn Willigan “What Solitary Confinement Does to the Human Brain” ) Grassian characterize them as “SHU Syndrome” this syndrome has symptoms of PTSD, insomnia and uncontrollable feelings of rage and fear.…
The Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological thriller-horror film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel and Mila Kunis. The plot revolved around a production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake ballet by a prestigious New York City company. The written production is required role of a ballerina to play the innocent and fragile White Swan, which the committed dancer, Nina, is a perfect fit for, but she also has to play the role ad the dark and sesual Black Swan, which are changed by the new arrival of Lily. Nina becomes overwhelmed by a feeling of immense pressure when she finds herself competing for the part she's always dreamed of having. This causes her to lose grip on reality and descend into a living nightmare.…
In Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, the protagonist Walter is portrayed as stubborn, childish, and later determined to show his transition into manhood.…
In the novel “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak, the author writes about a young boy named Max who wreaks havoc while wearing a wolf costume. He is told to go to sleep by his mother, and he soon is transported into a jungle. He finds a boat and sails to a land inhabited by ferocious monsters called “Wild Things” where he is crowned king because he is the wildest one of all. He holds an event where his kingdom can go wild, and he soon decides to go home. Despite the Wild Thing’s dismay, he goes home and finds that his mom brought his supper and it was warm. A leader who disciplines…
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” (H. P. Lovecraft). The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is set in a controversial religious part of history that uses strict morals and disquietude to install panic of the unknown. In The Crucible, the reader can see that Abigail is a depraved, vengeful, manipulative, evil minded young girl who uses fear and spite to dictate the world around her. Using her vengeful and nasty, unforgiving past of witnessing her parents getting bashed in the head right next to her pillow helped her form a wall to hurt others before they hurt her. To be above everyone else at all times by using her evil mind, malicious words is how she sees success and safety in herself.…
Love, loyalty, trustworthiness, friendship, and compassion - all these traits describe what is needed to have a healthy and close relationship If a marriage does not have these qualities then there will be conflict and strife. Khaled Hosseini explores this concept in A Thousand Splendid Suns by providing examples of strong and poor marriages.…
Many teenagers go through lots of different relationships and sometimes they get lost during their routes to become an adult. They find it hard to realize what the right thing is and what is being the right way. In the episode My So Called Life, the main character, Angela Chase, goes through many relationships. Angela was a student who did well, and pleased her family and friends around her. However, a change happens, when she meets Rayanne, a new friend, and she starts to act differently. She tries out many things, such as ditching class, dying her hair red or going out on school nights, which she never would have done before and develops a new personality (a bad one). Throughout the story, we see a variety of character traits from Angela. Although Angela is always herself, she hasn’t yet found her true self, her personality that is hiding inside her, and developing her relationships with others.…
Protagonists of a story quickly become favorite characters of countless readers. In The Chosen by Chaim Potok, one of the protagonists is Reuven Malter, the son of David Malter. Along with his father, Reuven Malter is an orthodox Jew. In addition, Reuven has a great friend named Danny Saunders. Danny and Reuven meet at a baseball game between the Orthodox Jews and the Hasidic Jews. Even though other team mates think of Danny and his team as “Murderers,” Reuven decides to not judge them before he notices their character. After Danny injures Reuven during the game, the two become best friends. Reuven Malter shows numerous admiral character traits throughout the book, however, the three most prominent in the story consist of kind, fair, and admirable.…
Grant Wiggins, the protagonist African-American main character in A Lesson Before Dying, has a tone that develops dramatically beginning with his initial malleable attitude, developing into serious intrigue in formerly-charged-to-death inmate, Jefferson. Scout Finch, protagonist Caucasian main character in To Kill a Mockingbird, seems to have generally a consistent spunky and energetic tone throughout the novel, with a coming of age spin. Both characters face their personality and race in effect with their tone.…
“Writers provide glimpses of other worlds giving readers opportunities to reflect on their own world”. To what extended do you agree.…