She had adopted the name to distance herself emotionally from her bloody work of killing. Arrow was a courageous character, as she put her life in jeopardy to protect the civilians. Arrow became the “defender of hope” when she was told her new task to protect the cellist. At first Arrow became skeptical because she had become tired of the constant killing, but decided the cellist was an important asset to the town and agreed to take the task. Therefore even though Arrow was being hard on herself for the killings, she did what was best for the people around her.
At times she wanted to give up and accept the will of the regime, but her memories and her humanity wouldn't let her. Through the Night chapters, that the readers only perceive her, resisting Gilead’s ideology, which exposes her true self and her own values. It is her only escape from the strict regime. Offred is a mostly passive character, good-hearted but complacent. She inwardly resists the puritanical society, but is not courageous enough to untangle herself from the chains of marginalisation and inequality.
This is proof of repression and oppression in the Iranian culture. The veil has a strong connection not only with Marjane’s life but every woman in Iran.Marjane went the first couple of years in her life not wearing a veil to be forced to wear one during the war. The veil expresses a negative change calling for action. The veil is a symbol brought throughout the whole novel, meaning it’s extremely important, because they didn’t want new cultures brought in by western people. It reveals how freedom was not a priority and that their main priority was to be loyal to Iran, its culture, and its people.
Think Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone, Ellen Barkin in The Big Easy, Shelley Long in Cheers, Gillian Anderson in The X-Files. The CRUSADER: a dedicated fighter, she meets her commitments. No shrinking violet, no distressed damsel, here. This lady is on a mission, and she marches right over anyone in her way. Tenacious and headstrong, she brushes off any opposition to her goal.
Elizabeth I Queen Elizabeth I was a famous leader in British history. She survived a hard and trying reign filled with dilemmas. She was a courageous woman leader who used every bit of her wisdom to overcome all challenges that faced her as Queen. In “Profiles in Power: Elizabeth I” by Christopher Haigh, he examines the questions posed about her leadership and gender. He examines her application of powers and effects of her gender in relation to her leadership.
It’s important to know what these amazing sisters did for their country and how their actions still impact today. These sisters were impacted greatly by the wrongful actions of their harsh leader. So, to secretly opposed against the regime seem like the right thing to do. Minerva led others to plot against the government by forming a secret movement. They was put into prison for this movement, but later on set free, because of international help.
She does this by using Spanish words that people may not understand and by using an unorganized, random structure to confuse the reader. It is clear that Anzaldua was strongly against assimilating into American culture and becoming Americanized; she wants to keep the Chicano culture alive. Her parents, however, wanted her to do things the American way so that she could pursue the American Dream and make something of herself; therefore her parents often scolded her for speaking Spanish in school. Anzaldua’s ideal reader needs to be able to sympathize with her and to have an open mind. In order to make the reader meet these qualifications, Anzaldua tries to confuse and frustrate the reader by using language that is difficult to understand in the form of excerpts from poems, a muddled structure, and confusing
April 04, 2011 Journal for Jordan by Dana Canedy opens different points of view on the decision of Charles having gone to war when his partner Dana had just become pregnant. She has an opinion about his decision as expressed when she says: “He simply could not be sent into battle. It had taken us too long to find each other” (Canedy 105). At the same time she tries to support Charles because she knows how hard he fought for it and how important this mission was for him, as we see in the following sentence uttered by Dana: “I did have political view about war—everyone did, and I could have forced him into debating the issue. But none of that seemed right now.
1st to Die Lindsey Boxer is the main character in the book 1st to Die by James Patterson. One character trait about Lindsey is that she is very brave. A reader would know that Lindsey is brave by the way she goes out and tries to find the murderer. Lindsey is also determined, she is determined because she never gives up. Although Lindsey seems like a tough girl she is also very caring.
We discover a protagonist who, although deeply aware of injustices, is too conscious of her family’s safety to openly speak her mind: “Eventually I understood this would only lead us to more trouble.”(p. 7). At this point in time, Katniss’s fear, engineered by the Capitol, is controlling her. And although Katniss disobeys the rules by escaping the boundaries of District 12 to go hunting, her motivation resides only in her need to feed her family. Her illegal bounty is sold on the black market. Thus, Katniss’s disobedience ultimately serves to gratify the Capitol’s Peacekeepers (“…they’re among our best customers.” (p. 6)), and ironically reinforces the Capitol’s power by emphasizing the divide between the hungry and the well-fed in District 12.