When Anna’s house was accidentally caught fire trapping her daughter inside she did not hesitate to risk her own life to save her daughter. This shows the Anna is a brave and courageous woman that would do anything for her family.” Outside, my mother stood below my dark window and saw clearly that there was no rescue.” (pg 195) Anna Avalon of “The Flying Avalon’s” is a brave, courag and graceful woman who has lost a love but gained
The insertion of Gemma’s version of Briar Rose throughout “home” emphasise that this story was of great significance to her life. The dialogue in which Gemma tells the story is constantly interrupted as the girls attempt to help her tell the tale. “Which is all times”. This reveals their familiarity with the story, and their love if it. It has bonded them, as Becca proves when she kisses Gemma as the Prince kissed the princess in the tale.
This requires a great deal of courage and boldness to find your way somewhere and you have no idea where it is. But Lily was clever and used the jars of honey that she saw in the general store to lead her to the Boatwright sisters. The journey demonstrates her keen intelligence and strength. Lily’s time at the Boatwright house further
Both having their similarities and differences, they play huge roles in the books “The Hunger games” and “To Kill a Mockingbird”. One could easily see that Scout is the mature girl she is because of her wise father, Atticus Finch. Atticus taught her to be open minded, and to treat every human at the same level. Katniss’ father also played a huge role in the maturity level of Katniss. Since her passed away in a mine explosion, she was forced to look over the family.
Candy is presented by Steinbeck as being very observant in this passage as he says “I seen her give Slim the eye … Curley never seen it,” he shows he has the ability to see things from different angles a fact that is made possible as he is disabled. Candy is also shown to be knowledgeable but mostly judgmental as at the end of the passage he says „well, you look over her misses, and see if she ain‟t a tart,‟ this shows that he is judgmental of Curley‟s wife who he hasn‟t spoken to but has based his view upon look. Steinbeck uses the character of Candy very cleverly to convey important ideas about society at that time. The book is set in 1932 at the time of the great depression and in a time of racism. Candy is described as „stoop
Though the women were unaware of what Sammy had done. His actions were noble and this was also a focal point in the development of the character's growth. Sammy desire to quit his job runs more deeper than that of being the “unsuspected hero” of those women. Yes he did admire the beauty of Queenie, but at the same time its possible to assume that he wanted her lifestyle: All of a sudden I slid right down her voice into her living room. Her father and the other men were standing around in ice-cream coats and bow ties and the women were in sandals picking up herring snacks on toothpicks off a big plate and they were all holding drinks the color of water with olives and sprigs of mint in them.
Tori Paulsen Mrs. Schulte English 10 CP 11 March 2010 Scout Finch is a very stubborn little girl. She is the main character in To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee. In the story, Scout learns about hypocrisy and racism at an early age. She is brave and does things most would not at her age. Scout is intelligent and sees things with a mind that has not been corrupted by others.
While interacting with Miss Maudie, Scout learns that you should always find the positive in bad situations. Scout notices that Miss Maudie was not affected by burning of her house, and gets even more confused when Miss Maudie was glad to “have more room for [her] azaleas” (97). Scout did not understand why Miss Maudie is more concerned about having “the finest yard in Alabama” (97) with a smaller house at first. However, Scout learns that no matter how bad things may get look on the brighter side and see how something positive could come out of it later on. Although Scout and Jem both think Atticus is old and boring, Scout learns and important life lesson, of being courageous and taking on challenges that others wouldn’t from him.
Hester deeply loved Pearl and did not want to lose Pearl’s respect. Hester sewed to make money to support herself and Pearl. In the book Hester changes her mind about her sin she see’s her sin as not sinful but she does regret committing it. She worked hard to give clothes and food to the poor to make the townspeople think the scarlet letter stands for able rather then adultery. Her actions of helping the poor causes the towns people to start to think the “A” stands for angel instead of adultery.
To Kill A Mockingbird 1. I said I would like it very much, which was a lie, but one must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them. (13.20 Scout realized she has to lie sometimes under certain circumstances to be nice. 2. “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.