“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles” (Christopher Reeve). A hero is not someone who shy’s away from a conflict or someone who is selfish for their own needs. A hero is not reckless, therefor he should not be violent while doing his deeds. A hero is an ordinary human who is wounded but still fighting hard. They never give up. To illustrate what a hero looks like there are some characteristics of a hero and what they should
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Flashbacks play a major part in the novel, Tangerine by Edward Bloor. Paul Fisher, the protagonist, frequently sets the scene as a memory he has from when he was younger, or a flashback. One thing I’ve noticed as a reader is that many of these moments justify or even foreshadow events in the book or Paul’s feelings. From a young age, Paul had not been a huge fan of his older brother, Erik. Always teasing and tormenting him, Erik was constantly the star and center of attention in the Fisher family
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Confessions: The Private School Murder Tandy Angel is the protagonist in this novel. Tandy is a teenage girl who is living a life of wealth. She is a smart girl with long brown hair, but also a girl who has secrets, some of which she doesn’t understand herself. Her personality is rather unusual, probably due to the fact that her parents were demanding, extravagant, controlling, and strange. Tandy alongside her brothers was an overachiever. Everyone in the family was bigger, stronger, faster, smarter
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In Call of the Wild, Jack London incorporates anthropomorphism in his book to emphasize the similarities between animals and humans. He illustrates a theme of survival of the fittest. London defines Buck’s transformation as he became a leader. He describes the connections between the animals in a third person point of view to provide an insight into their feelings. As the narrator asserts, “Buck felt vaguely that there was no depending upon these two men and the woman.”(51) London emphasizes the
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I am reading a book of The Summer OF Bad Ideas by Kiera Stewart\. And it has 304 pages in it. According to a customer review on Amazon, this book will blow your mind i think the intended audience for The Summer Of Bad Ideas is school aged students and up. I say this because there are some very mature situations and words that younger audience may not be ready. The carters are Rae,Taylor,Edith. And they are have a bad summer because when Rae lave out of town for her summer the bus does not come
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Ollie: Ollie is talked about in the beginning of the novel. Ollie is the fish that Melody had when she was little. Ollie is a symbol because Melody is sick of not able to share her thoughts like Ollie gets sick of swimming. According to the text “But suddenly, for no reason I could figure, Ollie dove down to the bottom of his bowl, rushed to the Page 62-65 Trophy: Melody is given a trophy towards the end of the novel. The trophy was a plastic gift from one of her classmates. The trophy is a symbol
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life and adapting to change. Hope and perseverance is another theme tackled in the text and shows that even through the hard times, Michael hopes and is persistent. Within Skellig, freedom is discussed as an important theme interconnecting the characters’ lives. Freedom is portrayed as a motif connecting with birds and wings. In some ways, it connects with the stone motif showing that someone or something is trapped and needs to be set free. In the storyline, Michael learns more about himself and
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learn a lot about the characters through the diction and the way the author presents his/her characters. Whether the author is telling the audience something directly or indirectly, the audience can characterize the characters either way with the information given. Another way that can help out with characterization is with figures of speech.William Shakespeare never uses direct characterization on any of his characters in his play Romeo and Juliet. To find out what a character is like, the reader
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In this book, I noticed there was a lot of interpersonal communication. The main character, Craig Gilner, starts the book off with a communication style much like non-assertive. As the storyline of the book movies along towards the end, he becomes more confident and gradually forms an assertive behavior. He also meets more people that can relate to him, and also how to deal with other people that may have different situations/problems than he has. The story follows Craig as he struggles with depression
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Willy’s wife, Linda, is perhaps the only character who understands and fully supports Willy’s tragic flaw. No matter how extreme his claims are, she always backs him up and she is even described as having “infinite patience” when she is talking to Willy (Miller 99). Next, one can see both of Willy’s
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