My Favorite Character

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Novel Monkey Beach By Eden Robinson . Main Character Lisamarie Michelle Hill About : The development of her character Literary Essay Lisa develops as she learns about her culture and beliefs with some challenges along the way . She is a teenage girl in the late 1980‘s , living in a remote town on the kitamaat reserve. First of all , Lisa has grown up learning about herself and culture through the help of her grandmother . Her grandmother teaches her about nature , the different plants and purpose of them . Secondly , Lisa finds out from her grandmother that she has a gift passed down to her from her mothers side . The gift is , Lisa is able to see and hear spirits from the other side . Also , from a young age she has also had a visitor (ghost ) that visits her in her room , she thinks that he only comes to visit when something bad is going to happen . But as Lisa learns about it from her grandmother, she tells her that he can be unpredictable so never believe everything he says or does . Thirdly , Lisa has always felt different like a outsider from others , she never was interested in the same things as other girls were , for example she has not interest in boys . Instead she was labeled d as a “tomboy” . For example , Lisa ends up getting into a fight with a boy , but the irony is she ends up becoming friends with the boy and his friends . Although , Lisa’s personality has led her to never backed down from anything in her life , she has been fearless from a young age , like when they had a tsunami warning and she tried to climb a tree by the ocean to see the big wave coming , if it wasn’t for her uncle getting her down she would of stayed up there . Further more , over time she comes to understand her dreams - visions have a deeper meaning . For example , finding her brother
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