Holden There are countless ways to interpret the character of Holden Caufield. I think the best word to describe him is protective. Which leads me to the first innermost circle‚ the name Holden in a case. Throughout the book‚ The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger‚ Holden has tried to preserve innocence and the case around his name shows his protective personality. Located in the second circle are for me the two most important symbols about Holden in the book. The first item is Allie’s baseball
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Effie‚ Haymitch and Cinna help Katniss establish herself as a true contender to win the Hunger Games. All of the characters have different jobs in the book. They all also have some kind of relationship with Katniss. They all have ways to help Katniss become a true contender to win the hunger games. In many ways they have different relations with Katniss‚ but also they have some similarities. Some of the ways that they try and help her is by getting sponsors for her‚ training her‚ and also styling
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The multifaceted personality of Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth is a multifaceted character‚ due to her ambition to be queen‚ manipulation of Macbeth and the mental consequences she faces. Ambition to make Macbeth king and herself queen‚ provides insight on Lady Macbeth’s personality. Upon hearing the prophecy of Macbeth to be king‚ her ambition consumes her and she summons the dark spirits to “unsex” her. She believes that in order to carry out the sinful deeds she is about to commit‚ the spirits must
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Charlestown in 1648. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is about a group of teen girls convicted in 1692 Salem‚ Massachusetts for performing spiritual rituals around a fire; Which sparked the Witchcraft trials that Reverend John Hale participated in. My character analysis is on Reverend Hale because his dedication to the witchcraft trials changed‚ he had confidence in John Proctor’s innocence‚ and he regretted signing Rebecca Nurse’s death warrant. There are many examples in The Crucible that portrays Rev
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makes something tragic is when someone is so hurt that they have completely lost hope and can’t overcome the odds because of outside or inside forces. In the book‚ Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ Curley’s Wife shows many signs of being a tragic character. She not only has hopes and dreams of becoming an actress that were crushed‚ but also married a man named Curley‚ who is rude and never acknowledges her. She is unable to talk to anyone else because she is the only woman on the farm and her name
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The character of Atticus Finch Aly Lalji The state of Alabama in the 1930’s was a place filled with racial discrimination and poverty. Atticus Finch was a lawyer of that time. He has two children and a hired house worker. Atticus believes that racial discrimination is wrong and tries to treat every individual equally in reference to his parenting skills. He also tries to alter the distorted perception of the community. Although he is a positive role model for his children‚ ho too has his
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are highly contrasting from one another in terms of their outlook on life and more or less means of continued existence. Therefore my analysis paper consists of the contrast of the main characters. When reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road‚ I couldn’t help being beaten by the contrasts between the two characters that we are set up to follow on their journey. The young boy is innocent‚ hopeful‚ accepting‚ unquestioning and always looks for the shear goodness in another and strives to help the less
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In the novel‚ The Running Dream‚ the character who changes the most is the main character Jessica‚ whom undergoes many significant changes in her mentality after she lost her leg in a traffic accident. Before the accident‚ Jessica was a strong and determined runner. Running was literally her life. She was one of the fastest track runners in her division and it seemed like she was always setting a new record. After the accident Jessica is at an all time low‚ it now takes her five minutes to move
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Throughout The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne establishes the character Pearl as having tenacity and peculiarity in her personality and traits. First‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne exaggerates Pearl’s qualities to establish her as an odd child and a separate person from the Puritan town she lives in. In chapter 7‚ after the governor asks Pearl who created her‚ she answers by saying ‘no one created her rather her mother plucked her from a wild rose bush near the prison.’ Hawthorne follows Pearl’s remark
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Overall in the novel Portrait‚ religion is depicted as an overbearing burden which clouds and heavies the mind and conscious while assuming power over its believers. From early on in his life‚ religion hinders Stephen and his desires. At the beginning of the novel Stephen likes a young girl and thinks of marrying her later in life. His mother finds this completely wrong due to the fact that the girl’s family is Protestant‚ and not Catholic like Stephen’s family. As Stephen grows up‚ especially
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